Yesterday, about 50 Democrat district representatives went mass awol from the current session of the Texas House Of Reps. They're doing it to disrupt the session process, to foil legislation that will establish redistricting, which they disagree with because they would apparently lose some seats or something like that. They left Austin, and most went across the border to Oklahoma, where they were later found eating at Denny's. Some went to New Mexico. Texas wants to arrest them and bring them back to Austin, but I heard that Oklahoma and NM aren't letting that happen.

I hate that kind of shit.

Actually, they were found at a Holiday Inn:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/2003-05-13-texas-lawmakers_x.htm

They got the idea from the "Killer Bees" incident which occured 24 years ago.

"They're legislative terrorists and their leaving today is a weapon of mass obstruction, blocking hundreds of pieces of legislation," Republican Rep. Dan Branch said Monday.

state Republican chair Susan Weddington, borrowing from the "most wanted Iraqi" cards, announced she had playing cards featuring the missing legislators.

Typical spin bullshit designed to sway public opinion. How crass and tactless to compare politicians taking a stand on an issue to Iraqi criminals and terrorists.