AUSTIN — While waiting for an elevator outside the Texas House chamber, Houston Democrat Garnet Coleman leaned back in his wheelchair before trying to explain why he helped deliver to Republicans the quorum they needed to approve a controversial elections bill. As Coleman began to speak, Republican Speaker Dade Phelan darted from his office and gave him the gavel he used …
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August 22, 2021