One of the Texas Democrats who fled the state aboard a private jet alongside at least a dozen maskless colleagues addressed the controversy in a series of Twitter messages on July 19.
Texas state Rep. Gene Wu, one of the Democrats who left the state to block the passage of a Republican-led election reform bill, explained that the group “got sloppy” and that those who later contracted the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus should serve as a reminder for the rest of the American public to mask up indoors.
