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Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm
what was it they were trying to avoid?
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.. "redistricting" ..
..it's my recollection they were claiming their absence made it "illegal" for the legislature to take a vote on pending legislation! There is (was) at law at the time that they could be arrested (by the Texas Rangers) and brought to the Capital building when the legislature was in session, but went to Oklahoma to claim the Rangers lacked jurisdiction ... to arrest them.
Those fleeing the State were not ... errr.... "historians"!