Texas Democrats cheered their derailment of a restrictive voting bill, while warning of the continued threat of the legislation that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has promised to bring back during a planned special session
"Today is a great day, but I can't help but feeling bitter, disappointed, hurt," Texas state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, a San Antonio Democrat, told CNN on Monday.Democrats walked off the state House floor late Sunday night, leaving majority Republicans without the quorum they needed to approve the bill before a midnight deadline.
"Martinez Fischer recounted how the decision to break quorum came to be in light of an emotionally intense Sunday afternoon meeting with African American, Latino and Asian American Pacific Islander lawmakers, followed by an evening whipping votes among their fellow Democrats."We hit a tipping point, and senior members -- African Americans, Latinos who have been in this situation before -- said, 'The time is now,'"he said.
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