If you can call that singing
Texas Democrats, having fled their state in order to prevent the legislature from assembling a quorum and thus considering …
If you can call that singing Texas Democrats, having fled their state in order to prevent the legislature from assembling a quorum and thus considering election reforms, broke into song as they spoke to reporters on Tuesday, singing (if one could legitimately call it that), “We will overcome. We will overcome. We will overcome. Someday. Deep in our hearts, I do believe, we shall overcome someday.” Texas House Democrats just broke into song during a press conference on Capitol Hill. pic.twitter.com/h9lMfa4tHN Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 13, 2021 Apparently the Democrats wanted to liken their fleeing from Texas and their defiance of the Texas legislature as something in the manner of the civil rights movement, as the song “We Shall Overcome” has been regarded as an anthem of that movement. Texas Democrat Rep. Lloyd Doggett effused, “These courageous colleagues chose not to be accomplices by sitting at their desks and being steamrollered in Austin.
