A Texas judge has stopped funding former American representative Beto O’Rurke and his political action committee from funding the Democratic State MPs who left Texas to support the Republican. Redistribution scheme This five GOP can add Congress seats.
Temporary Preventive Order is an initial win for Texas Attorney General Kane Paxon, which Lawsed on O’Rurke’s PAC – run by people – for economically supported Democrats who fled the state in the last weekend. The Texas House failed to reach a quorum again on Friday, preventing MPs from voting on the map of the new Congress, as the GOP officials floated with the office excluding the Democrats absent from the office or demanding arrest.
The order of Tarant County Judge Megan Fahi has operated by people to use political funds to pay for dozens of Texas MLAs living in Illinois, California and other states. The group also cannot raise money for those purposes.
This order will remain in effect for two weeks, until Fhi decides to expand it. He set a hearing for August 19.
Money raising allegations and lawsuit details
Pasteton accused MPs of a group of misleading money and bribery by covering travel and housing expenses, who traveled to Illinois and other blue states to deprive Republican to a quorum.
The lawsuit claims that O’Rurke and the people operated by the people misled the donors by urging political contributions, who were reportedly used for private expenses, including private jet travel and luxury housing.
Pasteon said in a statement, “People who bribed Beto bribes who were banqueting runways democrats have been officially stopped.” “Like people (O’Rurke) believe that Texas can be purchased. Today, I stopped their misleading financial impact plan that tried to cheat donors and reduce our constitutional process. He asked me to come and take, ‘So I did.”
O’Rourke pushed back with countercoot
O’Rurke replied with a countersuit, accusing Pasteon of trying to silence and disintegrate one of the country’s largest voter registration organizations.
“They want to create examples from those who fight so that other people will not,” O’Rurke said Message on X“Paxon is trying to operate by people, one of the country’s largest voter registration organizations, as our volunteers fight for voting rights and free elections … The kind of work that the work threatens to capture Pasteon, Trump and Abbott is on power in Texas.”
Focus on organizing volunteers in Texas to register people-run voters, to raise democratic-furious voters and support Democratic candidates. O’Rurke pointed to the group’s efforts during the 2021 winter storm, stating that the volunteers made more than a million calls to connect the seniors to the warming centers and bought about $ 1 million in the emergency supply.
“Now Pasteon filed a preventive order to try to get us out of the fight,” O’Rurke said. “He wants to silence me and prevent me from leading this organization. He wants to prevent us from fighting Tram’s five Congress seats, which he needs to hang in power.”
Despite the legal shock, O’Rurke said he plans to speak at a rally in Fort Worth on Saturday.
“I am not going anywhere,” he said.
Different suits target Democratic MPs
In addition, on Friday, Paxton filed a separate case against 13 Democratic MPs, in which the Texas Supreme Court asked to declare its seats vacant to leave the state during a special legislative session.