Wednesday, August 13, 2025

The Texas Hotline for Democratic Lawbreakers?

 Tonight I saw a meme that said you could report the location of Democratic members of the Texas legislature who have left the state.  The number is 1-866-786-5972.  Being the intrepid blog reporter that I am, I called the number.  A guy answered the phone immediately and said something about it being the number to report crimes or law-breaking, and that making false reports would be breaking the law.  

I asked him if you could report missing Democratic legislators on this line, and he repeated the same thing and said that if I did not have a crime to report, the call would be terminated.  He then repeated the first message.  I didn’t record the call.  


I then asked him if he (it?) were a robot.  He began to repeat the message about terminating the call, and I think there may have been a threat of prosecution involved.  At that point I hung up.  


If I do not post tomorrow night, you know the Texas Rangers traced the call and were here to take me away.  In the meantime, the Texas legislator I am  hiding in the attic is demanding a Dr. Pepper and a Frito pie.

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