Texas Republicans hearing about a 15% COVID hospitalization rate.
Texas Republicans hearing about a 0.0001% voter fraud rate.
Republican leaders thought mandating masks and winterizing power plants were overreactions to rare occurrences, but now they’ll risk disenfranchising millions of Texans to address voter fraud that’s virtually nonexistent.
According to the House Chronicle, indicted Texas AG @KenPaxtonTX spent 22,000 hours looking for voter fraud and only found 16 cases of false addresses on registration forms.
Out of 17M registered voters in Texas.
Texans don’t commit voter fraud. Literally less than 1 in 1,000,000.
Texans are more likely to...
Be struck by lightning (1 in 500,000)
Win an Olympic medal (1 in 662,000)
Get hit by an asteroid (1 in 700,000)
This is a solution in search of a problem.
Unless the problem is too many Democrats voting.
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When I was a public school teacher, I struggled to make ends meet.
My coworkers drove Ubers at night and sold their blood plasma for extra money.
Today I filed a bill mandating a minimum salary of $70,000 for every teacher in Texas. #txlege
Our teachers have endured a global pandemic, an economic collapse, and a deadly winter storm.
They held our communities together through these historic crises.
Teachers had our backs. Now we must have theirs.
Last session, my colleagues and I passed House Bill 3, which gave almost every Texas teacher a long overdue raise. Unfortunately it was only a $3k bump on average.
In the span of two months, @tedcruz put his own self-interest over the interests of his country, his state, his daughters, and his poodle. (1/6)
@tedcruz and I are both Christians. In our faith tradition, we follow a barefoot rabbi who taught us that being a leader means being a servant. It means putting others before yourself. It means prioritizing “the least of these.” (2/6)
@tedcruz forgot those teachings when he boarded that plane.
But selfishness isn’t just a flaw in Ted Cruz; it’s a flaw in our system. (3/6)
Older policy-makers at the local, state, & federal level bring invaluable experience and wisdom to the work.
We just want young folks at the table too. The biggest problems we face—from educational inequity to economic inequality to climate change—uniquely impact our generation.