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“I’m not a lawyer, but I am a Texan. I’m disgusted by all this. Tell the lieutenant governor I don’t want the suicide of a single Texan on my hands.”
– House Speaker Joe Straus on receiving an updated version of the anti-LGBTQ “bathroom bill,” as reported by The New Yorker
This article appears in July 7 • 2017.
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