{"id":3128,"date":"2025-08-04T17:57:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3128"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:57:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:57:57","slug":"bribery-charges-abbott-tees-off-on-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3128","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bribery Charges\u2019: Abbott Tees Off On Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Democrats Flee Texas to Block Vote<\/strong><br>Over 50 Texas House Democrats flew to Chicago to block a redistricting vote by denying a quorum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GOP plan could add five Republican seats, which Democrats call a \u201cracist mid-decade redistricting scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abbott Threatens Legal Action<\/strong><br>Governor Greg Abbott condemned the move: \u201cReal Texans don\u2019t flee from a battle.\u201d He warned that if Democrats don\u2019t return by Monday at 3 p.m., they could face removal or criminal charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Possible Felony Charges<\/strong><br>Abbott claimed accepting help to pay fines could \u201cviolate bribery laws.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> He said, \u201cI think they face a possibility of facing bribery charges, which is a second-degree felony in Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Democrats Respond<\/strong><br>The Texas House Democratic Caucus answered Abbott\u2019s threats with a simple message: \u201cCome and take it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Attorney General Ken Paxton said the lawmakers \u201cshould be found and arrested no matter where they go.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Flee Texas to Block VoteOver 50 Texas House Democrats flew to Chicago to block a redistricting vote by denying a quorum. The GOP plan could add five Republican seats, which Democrats call a \u201cracist mid-decade redistricting scheme.\u201d Abbott Threatens Legal ActionGovernor Greg Abbott condemned the move: \u201cReal Texans don\u2019t flee from a battle.\u201d He&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}