Congresswoman Shelia Jackson Lee was joined by local leaders announcing their support for H.R. 61
leaders are standing with Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee after she proposed what has become a controversial bill. The group is defending HR-61, which they say would combat white supremacy hate crimes.
"This law that Congresswoman Jackson Lee proposes would put into the books what we all, as a society know to be common sense...When people go out and incite violence when people go out and incite hate, when people go out and tell people to get locked and loaded, to take it into their own hands…the people who defend that do not stand for American values. That is un-American. We stand against that," says Representative Gene Wu.
"You know in this country you’re free to be a racist, say racist things. It may be offensive to you and me but people can do it. So we’re now going to start regulating speech? That’s what she’s doing," says Gary Polland former Harris. County Republican Party Chair.
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