OH MY GOD
GOP votes to fine absent Democrats

From today's Houston Chronicle:

AUSTIN -- Republican senators remaining in Texas voted today to fine the 11 self-exiled Democrats who are holed up in a New Mexico hotel for each day they are absent from a second special session on redistricting.

Without objection, the Republicans and one Democratic senator approved a resolution to fine the lawmakers starting at $1,000 a day, and the fine would double for each day they miss the session. The fine is not to exceed $5,000 a day.

Senators took the vote as the Democrats mark their 16th day in Albuquerque in protest over congressional redistricting.

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Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, called the proposed fine a poll tax.

"I won't pay it," he said.

So the Republicans failed to get the Texas Supreme Court to force the Democrats to come back to Austin, so they're... fining them?!?!? Man, oh, man, what an enormous sense of entitlement the GOP has.

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