and the white house on a saturday afternoon the president took time out of his day to talk about texas and senate bill 7 as being un-american. quite frankly, he fired us up. he led fire in the belly of the men and women i served with in the texas house and we huddled in a room behind closed doors, african-american senior democrats, hispanic senior democrats to pi members and we hugged it out and got emotional. we decided if that s what it took to bring the attention to the country, we will work member by member and aisle by aisle to make sure we had enough votes willing to walk out, and we did. would you have done it if the president had not tweeted or put out that statement that he did? you know, this is the tool that s always been in our arsenal and i think this has always been part of the discussion as early as april. quite frankly, when we needed a shot in the arm, the president did give it to us. so that is the attention and it told us the national importance of what was h