Beto O'Rourke Trashes Texas Republicans: 'These Motherf**kers Are Panicking' [View all]

[ProudMNDemocrat]

I must hand it to Beto O'Rourke for speaking truth to power. This power grab by Texas Republicans is a National story and people are paying attention. Many, I am to assume, see this as an infringement on their voices and rights to choose who represents them, not the other way around. This cannot bode well for Republicans across the country, as much as they say "Democrats do it too!" in regards to redistricting AFTER a census is taken.

Texas Republicans have called for the arrest of Democrats for leaving the state to deny House Republicans a quorum to gerrymander district lines. Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke didn’t mince words when talking about Texas Republicans’ attempts to create a new redistricting map that would disenfranchise millions of non-white voters.

“These motherfuckers are panicking right now,” O’Rourke said during an interview in New Orleans on Friday for Netroots Nation, a nonprofit organization for progressive activism. Under the new proposed map, President Donald Trump would pick up five more GOP-leaning congressional seats in Texas ahead of the 2026 midterms. The new map would also take voting power away from Latino and Black voters.

“You know that Trump asked Greg Abbott, our governor, to give him five congressional seats in Texas,” O’Rourke explained. “And thick as thieves, he and the Republican state legislature have been busy at work carving up the state. They were gonna vote on these five new districts on Monday, but thank god for Texas Democrats. Fifty-four of them left the state, broke quorum, said ‘To hell with that,’ and defied Donald Trump and stopped this power grab in the state of Texas.”

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