Texas State Sen. Middleton to Newsmax: ‘Runaway Democrats’ Should Be Fired

Texas Republican State Senator Mayes Middleton told Newsmax that Democratic state lawmakers who have fled the state to block a congressional redistricting plan should be fired.

Middleton told National Report on Friday that, “Real Texans have to show up for work. And we know what the consequences are when you don’t. You get fired.”

That, he said, is what should happen to Texas Democratic state lawmakers who abandoned their state in protest of the Republican managed congressional redistricting effort. “So these runaway Democrats that have quit on their state, they’ve quit on their constitutional duties. They’ve quit on everything.”