Senator leaves sick bed to vote (A Democrat, of course)

Source: Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau
May 16, 2007, 1:30AM

Senator leaves sick bed to vote
Uresti is there just long enough to help block debate on voter ID bill

By GARY SCHARRER
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau
Sen. Carlos Uresti, D-San Antonio, right,
ill with flu symptoms, leaves the floor
after his vote helped block consideration
on the voter identification bill during
the session in the Texas Senate on Tuesday.
Harry Cabluck: AP
AUSTIN — Sen. Carlos Uresti, D-San Antonio, stayed in bed Tuesday morning — dizzy, nauseated, feverish and chilled from a nasty case of the flu — until he got an urgent call to run over to the Senate floor.
Uresti ran, sprinting up the Capitol steps to reach the chamber just seconds before his name was called, thwarting Republicans trying to rush through a controversial voter identification bill.
And then Uresti hurried off to the Senate lounge — to vomit.
Moments before the dramatic entrance, a verbal skirmish had erupted between Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and the Senate's senior member, Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston. When Whitmire cursed, Dewhurst threatened to evict him.
The tension followed Republican efforts to require photo or other forms of identification as a prerequisite to voting.

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