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Vincent Perez: “For the first time in Texas history, you're going to have a…”

Featuring: Vincent Perez, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 77

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Texas Redistricting: Breaking Quorum to Protect Voting Rights with Rep Vince Perez

Published | Video Starts at 21:14

You have a small group of government leaders that draw these lines to their benefit so that you can continue to have the small group of leaders in government. And For the first time in Texas history, you're going to have a Texas government that isn't responsive to the entire state of Texas. It's responsible to a small group, and it's increasingly becoming one small, smaller racial group. That's what's happening under these maps. (21:14–21:21)

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Asserts that the Texas government is becoming less representative of the entire state.

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