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  • 5 months ago
During a press briefing on Monday, Speaker of the New York State Assembly Carl Heastie (D-NY) warned Texas Republicans over their proposed redistricting.
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00:00So thank you governor and thank you to our great colleagues from the great
00:06state of Texas you know I'm a fan of something big in Texas you know everybody
00:12knows I'm one of the bigger Cowboy fans but but today I'm I'm a I'm a we're not
00:18gonna go there you cannot say that sitting next to me I'm a Bills fan as
00:23long as they don't would play against the Cowboys but uh but but really but
00:28we're here for you know a serious you know moment in time and you know all
00:34things are connected you know Democrats and and some of the editorial boards of
00:40some of the very newspapers who are here keep telling us to play fair and it's
00:46very difficult to say play fair when your opponents are playing dirty and using
00:50every tool in their tool shed toolbox to kind of undermine democracy since this
01:00guy's been sworn in there's no respect for the Constitution there's no respect for
01:05people and this what's happening in Texas is just another prime example and what
01:11we're proposing that maybe what we bring before the voters in 2027 hope not to have
01:18to use it but sometimes the best way to get a bully to stop being a bully is to
01:24remind them that they they could also be bullied so perhaps the the Republican
01:29members of Congress here in New York could say to their Republican colleagues in
01:33Texas hey slow down on this because this can also affect us we'd like the world to
01:40play fair democracy should be fair but what we're learning and again we're only you
01:47know God help us eight months into this horror movie of of this presidency
01:53administration is that big disgusting bill that they're trying to fool people
01:59that thinks is good it's just nothing more but just another giveaway to the to
02:04the richest of the rich in this country and so they're trying to fool us by saying
02:09well we're gonna go on with gerrymander and take out Democrats and and you'll hear
02:16from you know my good colleague a representative Jones will tell you the
02:21legis the members of Congress that are under attack and who they're looking to
02:27get rid of it's just unfair it's sickening like I said it's really like
02:31being in a bad movie of just a hostile takeover of what is supposed to be the
02:36greatest country in in this in this world so sad that we have to be here but I
02:43say to all of you all of the press here your editorial boards keep asking us to
02:48be fair and play fair and I think that's the wrong thing to ask us to do so with
02:56that I'm gonna turn over to my colleague the the leader of the the Democrats in
03:02the in the Texas House a representative
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