INSULT TO INJURY
Lone returning Texas state senator
faces punishment from GOP

So Whitmire does what the Republicans want and returns to Austin. Here's how they repay him:

Whitmire originally planned to hold his news conference in the Lieutenant Governor's Press Conference Room. But a resolution passed by Senate Republicans last month barred him from using that room until he paid $57,000 in fines for breaking the Senate's quorum.

"It's a sad day when a senator can't use the press room," Whitmire said.

Indeed.

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