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Texas Sleaze at its best: ‘Goodfellas’ Controversy: Dan Patrick Links Lawmakers’ Bank Ties to Texas Speaker Race
Texas Scorecard ^ | 1/12/2025 | BRANDON WALTENS

Posted on 01/13/2025 6:14:37 AM PST by ma_che62

On Sunday evening, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick unleashed a fiery critique on social media, accusing five key figures—Dade Phelan, Dennis Bonnen, Greg Bonnen (Dennis’ brother and a current House member), Dustin Burrows, and Cody Harris—of running the Texas House like a “personal business” through a revolving door of leadership positions and shared financial interests.

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KEYWORDS: brandonwaltens; codyharris; dadephelan; danpatrick; dennisbonnen; dudphallus; dustinburrows; goodfellas; gregbonnen; johncornyn; kenpaxton; patrick; phelan; speaker; texas
Texas sleeze at its most typical...taking page after page out of Huey Long's (Louisiana) book.
1 posted on 01/13/2025 6:14:37 AM PST by ma_che62
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To: ma_che62

Phelan is gone, isn’t he?


2 posted on 01/13/2025 6:20:51 AM PST by lurk (u)
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To: lurk

He is currently a sitting Texas House member with help of conspiring democrats and turncoat republicans.


3 posted on 01/13/2025 6:33:46 AM PST by desertsolitaire ( Lee Harvey Oswald and the Bands final performance)
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To: ma_che62

Patrick rammed into Texas politics as a big-time outsider, ready to SHAKE UP AUSTIN.

Needless to say, the very highly cultured and staid Republican Establishment there assumed he’d be put in his place, meaning sent off to a corner and essentially disappear from the real bosses and then disappear for good in the next Primary.

Well, it didn’t quite work out that way, and now Patrick is the most powerful politician in Austin (the Governor is #2 here), so things are quite interesting with him around and I wouldn’t be surprised to see his name floated for 2028.


4 posted on 01/13/2025 6:35:02 AM PST by BobL
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To: BobL

I’d prefer he take out John Cornyn.


5 posted on 01/13/2025 6:45:29 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: BobL

Amen... Patrick is doing a good job.


6 posted on 01/13/2025 6:55:19 AM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

I’d prefer he take out John Cornyn.

AG Ken Paxton is up in early polls against Cornyn


7 posted on 01/13/2025 6:59:45 AM PST by wardamneagle
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To: wardamneagle

Either Paxton or Patrick works for me.


8 posted on 01/13/2025 7:03:01 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Night Hides Not

Why does it smell like the RINO Bush machine is involved with the House speaker
to put their RINO in to assign Democrats to head committees to thwart Republican votes ?


9 posted on 01/13/2025 7:10:28 AM PST by wardamneagle
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To: wardamneagle

Last gasp for the Bushies? Trying desperately to stay relevant?


10 posted on 01/13/2025 7:18:20 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: ma_che62

Godspeed Mr Patrick


11 posted on 01/13/2025 8:14:30 AM PST by youngidiot (Race is irrelevant to everyone except the racists )
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To: Night Hides Not

Last gasp for the Bushies? Trying desperately to stay relevant?

Calling Karl Rove......calling Karl Rove.......


12 posted on 01/13/2025 8:15:18 AM PST by wardamneagle
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To: wardamneagle

Ol’ Karl is definitely irrelevant!


13 posted on 01/13/2025 9:18:18 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: ma_che62

Texas scorecard isn’t Conservative
That group is hated.
It’s why we can’t get stuff done.


14 posted on 01/13/2025 9:43:19 AM PST by 1ScrappyArmyMom
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To: 1ScrappyArmyMom

thanks for that info !


15 posted on 01/13/2025 9:56:28 AM PST by wardamneagle
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To: Night Hides Not

The last gasp of the Bushies happened when Ken Paxton defeated the Bushies from impeaching Paxton last year.

Go to YouTube and search for Tony Buzbee’s closing argument. No wonder he one of the top 2-3 trial lawyers in the country.


16 posted on 01/13/2025 12:12:59 PM PST by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: 1ScrappyArmyMom

Hard to imagine a group writing more conservative stuff than these...check them out.

https://texasscorecard.com/news/


17 posted on 01/13/2025 1:47:21 PM PST by ma_che62 (Bring back "Fat Shaming" and the obesity epidemic will disappear)
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