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Texas Republicans have decided that Democrats must agree to be followed around by a police officer 24/7, or they cannot leave the Capitol.
Try telling me this isn't fascism. And watch the excuses, whataboutisms, and false equivalences flow.
Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier from Fort Worth returned to the Texas Capitol on Monday but says she remains locked inside the Capitol because she wouldn't sign a permission slip to be under escort by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The escorts for all House Democrats who left the state of Texas last month — preventing a vote on a GOP-led redistricting effort — are meant as a guarantee that they will return to the House by 10 a.m. Wednesday for the next special session.
CBS News Texas spoke with Collier via Zoom on Monday, and she said the situation is wrong — just like the new Congressional maps she and other Democrats have tried to block from being passed. She also said that, according to DPS, she must stay in the House chambers or inside her office at the Capitol.
CBS News Texas has reached out to DPS for comment.
In a statement, the Texas House Democratic Caucus said the police escorts were the "latest Republican tactic to monitor and control Democratic lawmakers following their successful quorum break."
Collier and dozens of other House Democrats who returned to the Capitol on Monday received a Texas-sized welcome from their supporters as they walked from the rotunda into the House chamber minutes before the House session began around noon.
Try telling me this isn't fascism. And watch the excuses, whataboutisms, and false equivalences flow.
Texas Democrat locked inside Capitol after refusing to sign slip for mandatory escort
Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier from Fort Worth returned to the Texas Capitol on Monday but says she remains locked inside the Capitol because she wouldn't sign a permission slip to be under escort by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The escorts for all House Democrats who left the state of Texas last month — preventing a vote on a GOP-led redistricting effort — are meant as a guarantee that they will return to the House by 10 a.m. Wednesday for the next special session.
CBS News Texas spoke with Collier via Zoom on Monday, and she said the situation is wrong — just like the new Congressional maps she and other Democrats have tried to block from being passed. She also said that, according to DPS, she must stay in the House chambers or inside her office at the Capitol.
CBS News Texas has reached out to DPS for comment.
In a statement, the Texas House Democratic Caucus said the police escorts were the "latest Republican tactic to monitor and control Democratic lawmakers following their successful quorum break."
Collier and dozens of other House Democrats who returned to the Capitol on Monday received a Texas-sized welcome from their supporters as they walked from the rotunda into the House chamber minutes before the House session began around noon.
