we don t accept that and there needs to be a path forward. the president sees his role is someone who can speak for the need for moving forward on voting rights legislation. president speech comes as most of the democrats in the texas house of representatives have fled texas and flown to washington, leaving texas. leaving their legislative chamber without a quorum was the last best thing they thought they could do to preserve voting rights there and try to defeat the republican voter suppression bill. they last walked out, you will recall, back in may. last night they landed in washington will they planned a lobby of democrats in the senate to pass a voting rights law. in fact some of those in the party of these committed texas democrats might shame them into showing a little spine. one other place would be go where we can actually seek some relief? we re still working on behalf of the state of texas. this isn t a vacation
Editor’s note:
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Storytelling runs through Dale Lotreck’s blood.
The Santa Fe-based writer continues to evolve within the literary world, although one thing has remained the same – his honesty.
It was decades ago that Lotreck sat down at his IBM Selectric II to write his debut novel, “Ruby Leaving Texas.” This was a machine that had no correction feature, as corrections
Dale Lotreck in the documentary “Whiteboy Back to the Wall 1988-2018”). (Courtesy of Erin Whitelaw)
were manually inserted. His goal was to write a page a day.