With six of the fleeing Democratic legislators in Washington DC coming down with covid-19, and criticism mounting, the State party's attempt to detail the special session of the state legislature seems to be faltering.
Former Senate and presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke raised $600,000 for The fugitive legislators, presenting it in the ballroom of the Washington hotel in which they are staying. The political gamble is expected to cost 1.5 million dollars, which Democrats say they are raising privately.
The fleeing Democrats are fundraising Nationwide for their cause, and have reportedly raised more than $250,000.
Meanwhile, Dallas Democrsts were on Twitter this weekend asking people to send "care packages" to the legislators, who remain holed up in their hotel rooms, shunned by national political leaders out of fear of getting Covid-19 from them.
Many of them were pictured on a private chartered jet flying to Washington without wearing face masks.
There is also dissension within the 50 or so legislators, as several of them criticized Democrat Reps. Harold Dutton of Houston and Philip Cortez of San Antonio, who both returned to Texas, ostensibly to "negotiate" on the election Reform Bill with Republicans.
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