{"id":9534,"date":"2025-08-12T16:10:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/texas-house-speaker-sets-up-tip-line-so-people-can-snitch-on-quorum-breaking-democrats\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T16:10:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:10:04","slug":"texas-house-speaker-sets-up-tip-line-so-people-can-snitch-on-quorum-breaking-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/texas-house-speaker-sets-up-tip-line-so-people-can-snitch-on-quorum-breaking-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas House Speaker sets up tip line so people can snitch on quorum-breaking Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        With the Texas House&#8217;s quorum break now in its second week, Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, is ramping up the GOP&#8217;s intimidation tactics to force Democrats back to the capitol for a vote on redistricting. Burrows said Monday that Department of Public Safety officers have been dispatched to the homes of Democratic lawmakers throughout Texas \u2014 which might explain why San Antonio State Rep. Josey Garcia over the weekend alleged that plainclothes officers were staking out her home. Burrows has also unveiled a toll-free tip line so concerned citizens can reveal the whereabouts of the quorum-breaking Democrats, though in most cases, the errant lawmakers&#8217; whereabouts are known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Texas House&#8217;s quorum break now in its second week, Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, is ramping up the GOP&#8217;s intimidation tactics to force Democrats back to the capitol for a vote on redistricting. Burrows said Monday that Department of Public Safety officers have been dispatched to the homes of Democratic lawmakers throughout Texas \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}