{"id":612785,"date":"2021-08-05T13:06:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T17:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=612785"},"modified":"2021-08-05T13:06:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T17:06:29","slug":"two-dems-who-fled-texas-now-on-vacation-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-dems-who-fled-texas-now-on-vacation-in-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Dems Who Fled Texas Now on Vacation in Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwo-dems-who-fled-texas-now-on-vacation-in-portugal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=612785&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.435114503817\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">VP Kamala Harris said Dems showed &#8216;extraordinary courage&#8217; blocking Republican-backed voting reform<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/texas-losers-on-plane-736x552-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/texas-losers-on-plane-e1626797113312.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/texas-losers-on-plane-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/texas-losers-on-plane-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/texas-losers-on-plane-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/texas-losers-on-plane-112x85.jpg 112w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/texas-losers-on-plane-1400x1050.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/texas-losers-on-plane-655x491.jpg 655w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/texas-losers-on-plane-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/texas-losers-on-plane-800x600.jpg 800w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tTexas Democrats who fled the state for Washington, D.C.\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/cole-carnick\/\" title=\"Posts by Cole Carnick\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Cole Carnick<\/a> \u2022 August 5, 2021 1:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"68.209492635025\">\n<p>Two Texas Democrats who fled their state for Washington, D.C., to deny a quorum on voting reform legislation are on vacation in Portugal, according to the <em>Texas Monthly<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">&#8220;Can confirm <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">[state representative Julie Johnson (D.)] <\/span>and her wife &amp; [state representative Jessica Gonz\u00e1lez (D.)] and her fianc\u00e9 are in Portugal for a vacation they had been planning, with non-refundable tickets, for a year-and-a-half,&#8221; <em>Monthly<\/em> reporter Jonathan Tilove <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JTiloveTX\/status\/1422680017679568900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> on Tuesday. &#8220;Still participating in caucus meetings via ZOOM.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson and Gonz\u00e1lez were among more than 50 state House Democrats who chartered private planes to the nation&#8217;s capital last month to prevent a vote on a Republican-backed voting reform bill. National Democrats praised the state lawmakers for denying a vote on the legislation, which would require ID for mail-in voting and ban unsolicited mail-in ballots. Vice President Kamala Harris, who met with the Texas delegation, said the Democrats demonstrated &#8220;extraordinary courage and commitment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gonz\u00e1lez on Tuesday told the <em>San Antonio Express-News <\/em>that &#8220;no one has shown proof&#8221; she and Johnson are on vacation and said the report was a &#8220;rumor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson and Gonz\u00e1lez&#8217;s vacation is only the latest controversy for the Texas Democrats. Several members of the cohort tested positive for COVID-19 after flying maskless to Washington and reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/super-spreaders-pelosis-office-blames-texas-dems-for-covid-outbreak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spread<\/a> the virus to members of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s (D., Calif.) staff. The lawmakers defied federal law by flying without masks, a violation that could incur up to $1.75 million in fines, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/unmasked-texas-dems-defy-biden\/\">reported<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>Republican governor Greg Abbott (R.) vowed to arrest the Democrats upon their return to Texas to force a vote on the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will be cabined inside the Texas capitol until they get their job done,&#8221; Abbott said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats VP Kamala Harris said Dems showed &#8216;extraordinary courage&#8217; blocking Republican-backed voting reform  Texas Democrats who fled the state for Washington, D.C.  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