a late-night walkout. joining me now, texas state representative senfronia thompson, and natasha brown. and dean, the dean, democrat, caucus dean thomas, i want to talk first, the occam's razor answer to why this is happening is a guy named allen west, who i know well. i covered him in florida. he is kookoo for cocoa puffs. he wanted to march with bayonets because barack obama was elected president. he's now potentially running for governor against your governor, is that why they're rolling out this full blue plate spec of insane bills? >> i wondered why they really wrote this out at all because the bill failed last month. and usually when we have a bill that fails, we move forward to the next session of the legislature. so we don't know why we're really here.