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The Texas Department of Public Safety is asking the public for assistance in locating 53 Texas legislators who have disappeared. Anyone who has information regarding the current whereabouts of the legislators listed below is asked to call 1-800-525-5555.

Under the Texas Constitution, the majority of members present in session in the House can vote to compel the presence of enough members to make a quorum. Members of the House did so this morning and directed the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House and the DPS to locate the absent members and bring them back to Austin.

DPS troopers and investigators are searching for the absent legislators.

Following on the tail of Colorado's own Karl Rove inspired GOP-friendly redistricting comes a similar attempt by the GOP controlled Texas legislature. The Democrat's aren't taking it though. They're preventing the quorum required for a vote on the plan by hiding out en masse in a Oklahoma motel just across the border. The Texas Rangers are looking for them. More coverage at Political Wire.