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On the recordMay 14, 2003
I am deeply offended, and I think Texans and Americans should be deeply offended, that Texas House Republicans have compared these Texas legislators who are standing up for the important American principle that citizens should have a voice in developing their future, that they have been compared to terrorists in Iraq. It was Texas legislators who put together playing cards, laughing all the way in the last several days, with the faces of Texas-elected representatives on those cards, mimicking, they knew absolutely well, mimicking the cards that had the faces of Saddam Hussein's terrorists, rapists, thugs and mass murderers. I find it offensive in our American democracy and Texas democracy that Texas Republican legislators would stoop that low in this process.
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John Bel Edwards
Democratic · Louisiana

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Addressing the comparison of Texas legislators to terrorists by Texas House Republicans.

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