If rumors circulating are true, legislative Democrats may be planning on breaking the deal tomorrow by offering amendments to an agreed upon bill. How does that break the deal you ask? Here’s how... 1/ https://twitter.com/patrickdmarley/status/1249769644988215297

Both sides negotiate in good faith. Both sides get some of what they want, but not all. Both sides agree to accept that reality. One side (Democrats), decides they don’t like that they didn’t get all of what they want, so they offer amendments, knowing we will reject them. 2/

Now if the other side did that (Republicans), our amendments would be adopted b/c we have majority, & Dems would say that we were breaking the agreed upon deal b/c we changed the bill. If the Dems end up doing this, it is nothing but a blatantly partisan political exercise. 3/

Deals are only as good as word of two sides in any agreement. The idea that leg Democrats may want to have it both ways would be deeply discouraging & certainly would damage good faith negotiations in the future. In an emergency like this, it isn’t the time for petty politics.

I’d ask @GordonHintz and @RepHesselbein to challenge their caucus to respect the deal that both sides came to. Legislative Republicans, even though they didn’t get everything they wanted, have accepted the deal that came out of the good faith negotiations.