Texas House Speaker offers Democrats free plane ride home to return to state
Texas Tribune
Updated:
July 15, 2021 4:25 pm
House Speaker Dade Phelan behind the dias on July 13, 2021.
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The push to bring fugitive Texas Democrats back to Austin could be reaching new heights.
House Speaker Dade Phelan said Thursday that he will charter a plane Saturday from Washington, D.C., to Austin to retrieve the Democrats who fled to the nation’s capital to avoid voting on an elections bill that they say would restrict voting rights.
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