Miami-Dade Republicans Imitate Texas Democrats – JP
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Doral, Florida — Texas and Florida are reliably red states and Republican bastions, yet some Texas Democrats and Florida Republicans share a shameful tactic: walking out of meetings to break quorum and prevent discussion of topics they would rather suppress.
Texas Democrats Four Years Ago
In July 2021, Texas House Democrats fled the state during a special legislative session to break quorum and block consideration of an election integrity bill. Ironically, it has been Democrat election tampering that made such legislation necessary, including:
1. Democrat political machines in big cities.
2. Jim Crow–era voter suppression.
3. Mail-in ballots sent to outdated voter rolls, harvested by partisan operatives, and counted after Election Day.
At the time, Texas House Democrats proclaimed they would “stand united in our decision to break quorum and refuse to let the Republican-majority legislature force through dangerous legislation that would trample on Texans’ freedom to vote.” Majority rule held no appeal when their electoral manipulations were at stake.
However, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that lawmakers who break quorum are subject to arrest:
“The legal question before this Court concerns only whether the Texas Constitution gives the House of Representatives the authority to physically compel attendance of absent members. We conclude that it does.”
The walkout failed. The election integrity bill passed.
Texas Democrats This Year
Now, in 2025, they are threatening a similar maneuver to block a Congressional redistricting bill. Republicans project they could gain up to five congressional seats by implementing race-neutral redistricting. Notably, it was Southern Democrats who first injected race into redistricting decades ago.
Last week, delegations of Texas Democrat legislators traveled to California to consult with Governor Newsom and to Illinois to meet Governor Pritzker—states where they might flee to once again break quorum.
Such a maneuver would incur $500-per-day fines for each legislator. Undeterred, Democrat Rep. Gina Hinojosa of Austin declared, “I am more than willing to participate in a quorum break.” Democrat Rep. Ron Reynolds of Houston added, “I am ready, willing, and able to get into good trouble by breaking quorum when justice is on the line.”
State Attorney General Ken Paxton, a 2026 gubernatorial candidate, responded forcefully:
“They should be found and arrested no matter where they go… My office stands ready to assist local, state, and federal authorities in hunting down and compelling the attendance of anyone who abandons their office—and their constituents—for cheap political theater.”
We shall see how breaking quorum works out for Texas Democrats this year.
Miami-Dade Republicans Two Years Ago
In March 2023, Republicans in the Miami-Dade Republican Executive Committee (REC) walked out of a meeting to break quorum and stop discussion. The topic? The REC Board’s longstanding violation of a Florida statute requiring all county RECs to make their membership lists public by filing them with county Supervisors of Elections. Miami-Dade REC had failed to comply since approximately 2021.
The REC Board avoided compliance in order to manipulate elections for newly opened District Committeeman and Committeewoman seats. Only the Board knew when such positions opened, and elections were required. Interested alternates were caught unprepared, while the Board quietly campaigned and lined up their own candidates and voters.
This REC noncompliance continued until recently, when the newly elected Supervisor of Elections—credit to her—required them to follow the law.
The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office was notified of the violation but refused to enforce the statute, dismissing the issue as “petty politics.” Notably, the REC did not field a candidate against the incumbent Democrat State Attorney in last year’s election. She has now served for over 32 years.
Ironically, that 2023 REC meeting opened with calls for party unity, reinforced by a clergyman’s prayer.
Yet these calls had no impact. As they say in Chicago: “PUMA = Party Unity My Ass!”
Indeed, unity is the first refuge of scoundrels.
RINOs on Parade
“RINO” (Republican In Name Only) is no mere slur—it describes opportunists who treat politics like a business and adopt whichever party label is convenient. Their tactics—like breaking quorum—are not conservative. They are Bolsheviks.
When Republicans imitate Democrats’ worst habits, they betray the principles they claim to defend.