[Paleo Conservative]

Please don't delete this thread from "Breaking News". I was a delegate to the 2012 Texas GOP Convention in Fort Worth, Texas. The member of the Nominations Committee in question was from my congressional district, and I voted for her to be on the committee based on an endorsement from a respected member of my county's convention delegation. I am currently in transit south bound on I-35 going home after the convention.

[ichabod1]

bfl

[superfries]

Local paper said the planned walkout on Straus never got to fully develop because they never introduced him and his talk only lasted 2 minutes and he was done.

So are you saying it is a good thing Straus got bounced from the National Convention or were you taken aback by the state delegate’s actions?

[ClearCase_guy]

Hard to say much without more information, but at first blush this seems a little “banana republic” — “I’ve decided that you’re out, because I’ve decided I want to take your place”.

[NonValueAdded]

How about some context? This is a little too inside-politics / local for some of us. That said, drive safe and update us when you get home.

[SatinDoll]

Could you please explain what in Hell the Texas Republicans think they’re doing supporting illegal immigration? The following thread is generating a lot of comments, and few are positive.

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Texas GOP Oks more-lenient immigration platform
AP via The Houston Chronicle ^ | Friday, June 8, 2012 | Will Weissert

Posted on Friday, June 08, 2012 11:02:32 PM by esarlls3

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The Texas Republican Convention has approved a party platform on immigration conceding that mass deportation of illegal immigrants isn’t practical and calling for “common ground” to develop more-realistic strategies.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2893371/posts

[Tennessee Nana]

just 2 Qs

1. Who is Strauss supporting for GOP nominee ???

2. whoo is the woman supporting ???

[Marcella]

book mark

[Candor7]

The RINO faction seems to never give up.There will be hell to pay in Texas.

[deport]

Texas Speaker of the House Joe Straus was deleted from the list of delegates to the 2012 Republican National Convention by a woman on the Nominations Committee who put herself on the list in his place.

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Are you saying Straus was selected by the State Convention and going to the National Convention as a voting member [either district or at large delegate] of the Texas delegation or was he attending in some non voting VIP position?

If he was selected and approved by the state convention as a voting delegate then how did this lady change the convention selection?

[smokingfrog]

Sounds like some justifiable payback to me.

[Free in Texas]

Strauss is a RINO who has worked to oust conservatives through redistricting because his career is much more important that the future of Texas. He has a proven track record of giving away the store to the Dims just to stay in power. He embodies everything that is wrong in Texas politics. Notice his choice for Border & Intergovernmental Affairs Chair (second link). A Dim in charge of the border.

www.kxan.com/dpp/news/politics/gop-lawmakers-attack-speaker-straus

http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/texas-house-of-representatives/house-speaker-joe-straus-names-committees/

[montag813]

Joe Straus is a despicable liberal and traitor. He must be voted out and expelled from the GOP. I support ANY effort to humiliate or exclude him from the Convention.

[CWSNTEXAS]

Joe Strauss is a douche.

[ICCtheWay]

Texas Speaker of the House Straus is not a RINO — he doesn’t rise that high ... Straus is just an out and out DEMOCRAT masquerading as a Republican... Texas Conservative Republicans have had the majority in the Texas House this past legislative session but Straus has BLOCKED 99% of everything Conservatives have tried to pass... Straus should become a delegate for obama