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Vincent Perez: “In 2021, there was a quorum break over a different issue. It…”

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 12:05

So in the early 2000s, there was an effort to redistrict Texas. And then, and after the 2010 census, there was, there was another four that was controversial. And then In 2021, there was a quorum break over a different issue. It wasn't over redistricting, but over another voting law. that Republicans were trying to make it much more difficult for people in Texas to vote. And so some Democrats left 2021, I, I, I wasn't part of the legislature. (12:05–12:13)

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Asserts that a quorum break in 2021 was over a voting law, not redistricting.

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