{"id":51795,"date":"2025-08-04T20:39:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T20:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=51795"},"modified":"2025-08-04T20:39:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T20:39:55","slug":"showdown-texas-democrats-refuse-to-return-by-deadline-as-gov-abbott-threatens-to-remove-them-from-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=51795","title":{"rendered":"SHOWDOWN: Texas Democrats Refuse to Return by Deadline as Gov Abbott Threatens to Remove Them From Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Texas Democrats are refusing to return by Governor Abbott\u2019s 3 pm.<\/p>\n

On Sunday evening, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) threatened <\/a>to remove from office Democrat lawmakers who fled to Illinois to block GOP Congressional redistricting.<\/p>\n

Texas Democrats fled <\/a>the state to block the Republicans in the legislature from holding a special session and to block a redistricting vote on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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The Texas Democrats reportedly fled to Illinois to break quorum to block the Texas House from holding a vote in a special session.<\/p>\n

The new congressional map will add five GOP House seats.<\/p>\n

Governor Abbott is not messing around.<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrats hatched a deliberate plan not to show up for work, for the specific purpose of abdicating the duties of their office and thwarting the chamber\u2019s business. That amounts to an abandonment or forfeiture of an elected state office,\u201d Abbot said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Governor Abbott confirmed <\/a>that Texas House Democrats who remain absent and refuse to vote on the newly proposed GOP-backed congressional map could be prosecuted for second\u2011degree felony bribery estimates, or see their seats forcibly vacated and special elections called.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, very simply, it would be bribery if any lawmaker took money to perform\u2014or to refuse to perform\u2014an act in the legislature. And the reports are these legislators have been both\u2026 they sought money, and they offered money to skip the vote, to leave the legislature, to take a legislative act. That would be bribery. And so, the facts will have to come out. But I think, based upon comments made by legislators themselves, they face a possibility of facing bribery charges, which is a second-degree felony in the state of Texas,\u201d Abbott told Fox News host Dana Perino.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s one way to cure that, and that is: if they get back to the state of Texas and make quorum today at a hearing that we have at three o\u2019clock, they can cure themselves of any quid pro quo that would subject them to potential bribery charges,\u201d Abbott said.<\/p>\n

The Texas Democrats are still in Illinois and reportedly holding a press conference this evening.<\/p>\n

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BREAKING: Texas House Democrats will NOT be returning by Gov. Abbott\u2019s 3pm CT deadline<\/p>\n

They\u2019re attempting to BLOCK the new U.S. House Maps by fleeing the state.<\/p>\n

Time to move to VACATE THEIR OFFICES, Gov. Abbott! They\u2019ve ABANDONED their seats pic.twitter.com\/hVkMVVa59F<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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