Last night’s victory was dubious at best. Wearing her now-iconic pink tennis shoes, Texas state Senator Wendy Davis’ hours-long filibuster, coupled with protesters’ deafening chants and cheers, managed to?prevent the Senate from voting on Senate Bill 5. But in the early morning of June 26, Lt. Governor David Dewhurst made it clear that Republicans would not give up on the issue of abortion.
It’s been fun, but, uh, see you soon.
“Soon” is sooner than you think. Governor Rick Perry has just ordered that a new special session convene to once again address abortion restrictions, among other issues. And this time, he intends to make sure that the proceedings are not met with the same sort of public outcry as last time.
We will not allow the breakdown of decorum and decency to prevent us from doing what the people of this state hired us to do.
Translation: ‘We will not allow the people to exercise their first amendment rights, nor will we allow true democracy to occur. We will push through this bill restricting women’s reproductive rights whether or not a majority of Texas women wants it.’
We all need to call Wendy Davis’ office and tell her it’s not time to take off her pink shoes just yet.
UPDATE
MoveOn.org has launched a petition addressed to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbot, asking for an investigation to be opened regarding the alteration of official public records. As we reported, the time stamp on SB5 was changed from June 26 to June 25 soon after midnight.
The petition asks for “an official investigation be conducted to determine whether laws were violated during the late evening State Senate session regarding (“SB 5″), on 25-June-2013, and in the early morning hours of 26-June-2013, immediately following the session expiration.”
The petition can be read and signed here. This is definitely not over.
Edited and published by WP
