Choosing to flee their state, their jobs, and their constituents, Texas legislative Democrats, holed up in Washington, DC, are crying poverty and asking constituents, or anyone who gives a damn, to send these aging summer campers care packages.
These insubordinate privileged Texas Democrats, in a Tweet from @DallasDemocrats, wrote “Our Dems in DC said they’d appreciate care packages from home. Before 5 PM Tuesday, we’re collecting Dr. Pepper, salsa, hard candy, hair spray, travel toiletries, hand sanitizers, sewing kits, first aid and/or money to pay shipping. TY.” A mailing address followed, but these people do not need any further encouragement. It was bad enough that the runaway Texans were referred to as “freedom fighters.” What an affront to true freedom fighters like protesters in Cuba and Hong Kong.
Such unmitigated gaul to beg their friends, relatives, and constituents to finance their unapproved road trip to DC. They lacked the basic manners to even spell out “thank you.” They need more than a timeout, but they certainly don’t need other people to shell out their hard earned money to support these peevish, hypocritical malcontents.
Hypocritical because while they ran away (or flew away) from their jobs in Austin, demonstrating a real filibuster, once in Washington, they lobbied for the federal filibuster to be eliminated. They ran away like petulant three year olds in an effort to protest bills that support election integrity laws. And let the record show that 75 percent of voters, Democrat, Republican, and Independent support voter photo identification. US Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) has said that Democrats are not opposed to voter ID, although he and many others in his party have called the requirement racist and disenfranchising. For more on the specifics: https://sanfordspeaksout.blogspot.com/2021/07/tx-dems-need-lesson-in-real-sacrifice.html
After repeated requests, even Joe Biden has not met with these wayward Texas Democrats. And it has ruffled the feathers of one specific State Representative - Richard Pena Raymond, who expressed his aggravation to Texas Congressman Lloyd Doggett via the Austin Statesman. “He won’t meet with us on Zoom like this, and I’m trying to be tactful, but I don’t know how else to say it, man. I’m just pissed off at this point. He doesn’t give us the respect the way you have,” Raymond said to Doggett. Perhaps these Texas Democrats have not earned any respect for their churlish behavior.
Proving the adage attributed to American showman P.T. Barnum, “there’s a sucker born every minute,” Robert Francis “Beto” O’ Rourke has given his fellow Democrats $600,000 and blames Biden for not doing what is “required,” knowing the “threat they are under in Texas.” That, plus the obdurate Democrats are still being remunerated their $221 per diem and $600 monthly salary, so they have nothing about which to complain.
Having lived in Alexandria, VA for a number of years, I can attest that Giant, Safeway, Harris Teeter, WalMart, Target, CVS, Walgreens, and various dollar stores carry all of the above requested items for the defiant Democrats’ care packages. So the Texas Democrats can buy their own crap, cut the crap, get back to Texas and actually do their jobs - jobs they wanted by running for office.
Sanford D. Horn is a writer and educator living in Westfield, IN.
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