Gene Wu, Representative Maze Middleton, Representative Middleton discussed on Houston Matters
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I am. I would be proud. I would be honored. I would be to be arrested and go to jail to fight for texans right to vote and is not a joke. It is not be trying to boss her. I would be honored to be imprisoned in order to protect texans right to vote. This is not a game for a lot of us in the minority community. This is life and death if we are silenced. If we cannot can no longer express our opinion have our right to vote We were invisible to the rest of society. We're invisible to the government. They can firmly ignore us and it just treat us like dirt as they want to do. I guess technically. I should point out that you would not be imprisoned but sent back to the house floor unless you characterize that as imprisonment and i guess that's a statement that's not. We'll do governments discovering says when they catch us they're going calls and keep us And so i can only take as meaning imprisonment How were they are however they wanna frame age if they wanna come get me come. Get me If the arrest me summit west me it would be my honest representative. Gene wu is houston area democrat He represents district one thirty seven in the texas house representative. Louis thank you very much. Absolutely thank you. And we'll continue to fight protections rights and with us now as galveston area republican state. Representative maze middleton. He represents the texas twenty-third district in the state house. Representative middleton good morning. good morning. Thank you for having me on absolutely What were you hoping to accomplish. Most this special session before. Democrats walked out so we had a lot of critical items on the special session. Call you know fixing the teacher retirement system providing a thirteen check our retired teachers Addressing out of control rising property taxes. You know people are literally being taxed out of their home. We need to get that under control and provide meaningful relief. Securing our border Protecting public safety by helping stop violent from being released from.