Runaway Texas House Democrat Rep. Ann Johnson is a real peach. She responded to claims that the representatives were abandoning their jobs by fleeing to Illinois to postpone a vote by saying that Sen. Ted Cruz's escorting his daughter to Cancun during an ice storm was real abandonment, as was "slashing health care" and "defunding private schools."

As we reported earlier, Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier, who posted staged photos of herself sleeping at her desk rather than be escorted out so she wouldn't run away again, compared the Democrats' abandoning their jobs and fleeing the state to slaves fleeing their masters, or Jews fleeing the Nazis.

Collier wasn't the only one to pull the race card on the House floor. Johnson declared that the whole redistricting effort in Texas was all about racism and went on a rant about how her father was white and she came from privilege.

The Texas Democrats themselves posted that snippet, so you know they thought it was powerful stuff.

Illinois was not the state to flee to to protest gerrymandering.

Collier took care of that one. We're not sure which representative spoke first.

That's a good question. They've even managed to make climate change racist.