Sixth Texas Democrat in DC tests positive for COVID, and boycott isn't going quite as planned
WASHINGTON – With COVID-19 hitting more than 10% of the Texas Democrats who fled Austin to stymie a GOP elections bill, the runaways spent Monday strategizing ways to prod Congress for new voting rights protections without being able to lobby in person.
A sixth member of the Texas House tested positive on Monday, according to state Rep. Rhetta Bowers of Dallas, adding that she and others have brought food to those quarantining in their rooms.
“It definitely is not stopping our work,” she said. “We’re just having to be a whole lot more careful.”
At the White House a few blocks from their hotel hideaway, press secretary Jen Psaki shrugged aside concerns that Vice President Kamala Harris could have caught the coronavirus from the Texans, or may now be putting President Joe Biden at risk. Harris spent an hour with them last Tuesday, three days before one lawmaker developed cold-like symptoms and then tested positive.
Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/07/19/one-week-on-the-lam-texas-dems-get-pep-talk-soldiers-fighting-for-everybody-on-voting-rights/
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Anyone know? 
I hope they, Joe & Kamala are ok!
Ty!
A bit ironic that, in an article about the 6th out of 55 vaccinated individuals testing positive, they are still suggesting that no new precautions need be taken (including none to protect VP Harris who met with at least some members of the deetagion) because the vaccine works so well.
