that their vote doesn t matter. to continue to gerrymander and to continue to try to make districts that aren t competitive. and they ve done that systemically over time. what we have to do is go back to those voters all across the valley. in harris county, in dallas, all across this state. and talk to people about why their vote does matter. there are specific races that they can t gerrymander. at the county level. at the mayoral level. we need to win those local elections. continue to turn more and more of those counties blue. and over time we can actually have an impact statewide and have some elections that we can win and start to change the state. when you say go talk to those voters, what does that mean in terms of investments, in terms of resources, in terms of the kind of operation you re trying to mount? it needs to be texas size. we have to go everywhere. we have to go to rural areas go how, though? holding meetings? knocking on people s doors in what s your effort?
terms this week by the supreme court and how the fight to preserve voting rights in the country moves forward from here on out. well, the thing that i m doing to preserve voting rights moving this point forward is i filed a suit in texas, in corpus christi, to make sure this law is never implemented. as you stated earlier, this law was found to be discriminatory. the fact just because section 4 was struck down that you would move to make a law that a court has found to be discriminatory is absolutely nonsense. and it sends the wrong message about texas. we are a great state and and don t want to send a message to businesses and companies and people that are moving to the state of texas in records, mostly latino and african-american, that discrimination is okay. we need to stop. i believe this law, this voter i.d. law passed by republicans, when i was still in the legislature in 2011, that it s discriminatory and violates section 2. do you think texas still
rachel, thanks for having me. watching a new york city tv show talk about texas politics in this moment in abortion and rick perry politics, what are we missing? what are we misunderstanding about texas politics? look, i think what we saw this week was three things that have been really going on in texas for a long time. one, if you look at that gallery, if you look at those people that are there, you see a ground swell of support. and these folks are all across the state. 254 counties. and they have been organizing for a long time. i think you see a huge group of folks that are ready to go. the second thing that you saw is there s a great bench of democratic folks, wendy davis, obviously, senator davis, her colleagues in the senate. when you look at some of the mayors across the state of texas, when you look at some of the congressmen and women you had on your show earlier tonight.
we re seeing news like this in arkansas, in ohio, in montana, in north dakota, in michigan, in wyoming. all these places you wouldn t necessarily expect it, but it s happening at a homegrown grassroots level. this is now a state-by-state fight in every state for the right to marry. just as it is a state-by-state fight in every state for the right to vote. yesterday in texas, a democratic congressman sued the state of texas over the voter i.d. law that until a few days ago was too racist for the federal government to let it go forward. he is now asking the court to block that law again. joining us now is marc veasey, congressman from ft. worth, texas. he s a new plaintiff in veasey v. texas, texas governor rick perry. congressman, thank you very much for being here. it s nice to have you here. thank you, rachel, for having me on the show. your overall reaction to the idea of the voting rights act, damage done on civil rights
1-woman stand against the texas republican abortion ban that would close more than 80% of the women s health clinics that provide abortions in the state. thousands of people streaming through the texas state capitol to cheer senator davis on. a big portion of the country inside and outside of texas just glued to that story this week. and the story got even more incredible today. we will have more on that coming up in the show in a couple minutes. on that same subject, in two other states right now, bills have just gone through the legislature and are on their way to two other states republican governors for them to decide what to do with them. that was the scene at the ohio statehouse today in columbus. protesters yelling line item veto, line item veto! the only way surprise brand new last minute adopted in secret antiabortion law can be stopped is if they re line item vetoed by ohio governor john kasich. these are not regular antiabortion bills in ohio.