San Antonio Texas House Rep. Josey Garcia claims plainclothes agents intimidating her family

Texas House Rep. Josey Garcia, whose district includes part of San Antonio, alleged this weekend that plainclothes agents showed up unexpectedly at her home to intimidate her family while she’s out of state breaking quorum.

“4 Men NOT in uniform. 4 unmarked vehicles,” Garcia posted cryptically to Facebook on Sunday.

“Where? Why,” a follower asked, to which the state rep replied “My house to terrify my special needs children. They know I’m not in the state.” Garcia further expressed concern for her two adult sons with autism in a News 4 interview.

“Their intention is definitely to hunt us down, put us in handcuffs, and force us back to the capital,” Garcia told News4 San Antonio.

Garcia is still in Illinois as Democrats attempt to run down the clock on this special session of the Texas Legislature in hopes to avoid implementing the GOP’s mid-decade redistricting scheme.

In comments online and to News4, Garcia didn’t identify what law-enforcement agency she believes the agents who purportedly visited her house represent. However, in a live video on Facebook Sunday morning, she said she’s being “hunted.”

“The truth is that I’m being hunted because I’m a Democrat,” Garcia said. “I’m being hunted by my own government, by Texas Gov. Abbott, by Speaker of the House Duston Burrows, by the FBI. Why? For not breaking the Constitution.”

Garcia’s claims of official intimidation at her home come as a judge over the weekend granted a temporary restraining order against Beto O’Rourke’s fundraising organization Powered By People. The restraining order follows Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s allegations of bribery over O’Rourke’s organization serving as the primary funder of the democrats’ quorum break expenses. These include the $500 fine each is incurring for every day quorum is not reached, as well as their hotel stays.

“Any Democrat coward breaking the law by taking a Beto Bribe will be held accountable,” Paxton said in an official statement on his website Wednesday.

The Current reached out to the FBI, San Antonio Police Department and Bexar County Police Department to seek confirmation on the presence of unmarked cars and plainclothes agents at Garcia’s residence. It got no immediate response by press time.

“Never in my life would I have thought that I would be hunted down for not committing a crime,” Garcia, a veteran, said in the live video. “When I tell you that I felt safer as an advisor to the Iraqi military than I do in my own state of Texas, that’s the truth.”

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