VP Kamala Harris to deliver keynote address in Austin

AUSTIN, Texas — Vice President Kamala Harris is because of return to Austin, Texas, because the keynote speaker for the Texas Democratic Social gathering Johnson-Jordan Reception on Oct. 8. With Gov. Greg Abbott’s political transfer of delivering migrants close to Harris’ Washington dwelling on Sept. 15 and Sept. 19, many suspect the VP has a lot to deal with.

Abbott has repeatedly criticized Harris, the Biden administration’s border czar, calling on her to go to the Texas-Mexico border and for the administration to enact harder restrictions there. 

“Our supposed Border Czar, Vice President Kamala Harris, has but to even go to the border to see firsthand the impression of the open border insurance policies she has helped implement, even going as far as to assert the border is ‘safe.’ Texas will proceed sending migrants to sanctuary cities like Washington, D.C. till President Biden and Border Czar Harris step up and do their jobs to safe the border,” Abbott wrote in a Sept. 15 information launch. 

Democrats, in the meantime, are thrilled that Harris is coming to Texas to assist increase celebration funds forward of November elections.

Texas Democratic Social gathering Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa stated, “We’re grateful for all of the work President Biden and Vice President Harris have performed in Washington to ship for hard-working Texans—and we’re equally grateful that they’re so invested in profitable state races in Texas so we are able to reverse the harmful course Greg Abbott and his extremist Republican cronies have plunged our state down.”

The annual JJ reception serves as a remembrance of Texas Democrats, President Lyndon Johnson and Rep. Barbara Jordan, celebrating the legacies they left behind. The occasion can be a way to fund the celebration line’s execution of crucial packages, like vote-by-mail help, voter safety efforts, neighborhood organizing, direct voter contact, and many others.

After the 2020 election, Abbott pushed ahead a regulation that restricted how Texans might submit their ballots, inflicting pressure to underprivileged communities like that of non-English audio system and people with disabilities who want voting help. A federal choose in Texas struck down these measures in Senate Invoice 1 in a June 2022 ruling. Democrats are nonetheless on the protection in serving to underserved communities of shade with voting assets given Texas’ redistricting.

“We couldn’t be extra honored or proud that Vice President Kamala Harris can be becoming a member of us in Austin subsequent month to assist the Texas Democratic Social gathering get out the vote right here in Texas,” stated Texas Democratic Social gathering Vice Chair Shay Wyrick Cathey. “As a Black lady, Vice President Harris is aware of the large assets wanted to battle again in opposition to the behemoth machine working to strip communities of shade of their proper to vote. Funds raised from this 12 months’s JJ Reception could have tidal results on the 2022 midterms right here in Texas—and can assist the ultimate vote rely higher mirror the true will of the folks of Texas.”

The Texas Democratic Social gathering makes use of this occasion to additional assist celebration campaigns in any respect ranges, shield folks’s proper to vote, rack up voter registrations statewide and current information infrastructure to present its celebration the benefit.