Posted on 11/12/2010 12:18:31 PM PST by MeekOneGOP
Rep. Tan Parker, R-Flower Mound, today will remove his name from Speaker Joe Straus’ list of supporters in the upcoming race for House speaker.
Several House Republicans have announced this week that they no longer support Straus, who is facing challenges from fellow Republicans Ken Paxton of McKinney and Warren Chisum of Pampa.
“After much thought, prayer and reflection on the priorities of my Denton County district and this historic Republican majority, I have decided today to formally withdraw my pledge to Speaker Joe Straus and offer my full support to Representative Ken Paxton,” Parker said. “Speaker Straus and I have enjoyed a very good relationship and he has been kind and gracious to me. This decision is not about Joe Straus; instead, this is about representing my district and being responsive to Texas voters who have provided this historic, once in a generation opportunity.
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
Background:
Tell Your Texas Rep to Oppose Liberal Leadership of Texas’ House!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2625472/posts
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AN OPEN LETTER TO TEXAS HOUSE SPEAKER JOE STRAUS
FROM CONSERVATIVE STATE REPRESENTATIVE LEO BERMAN
http://news.navigator-news.com/component/content/article/6-politics/63-an-open-letter-to-texas-house-speaker-joe-straus-from-conservative-state-representative-leo-berman
Excerpt:
At the beginning of last session you and 10 of your cohort Republicans, RINOS would be the proper term, decided you did not want my good friend Tom Craddick, a solid conservative Speaker, to preside over the session. You met and voted among yourselves as to who would be your Speaker candidate.
It fell upon you since you were the least controversial although you were the one with the least service in the House. You had 11 votes but needed 65 more to make the 76 it takes to elect a Speaker.
You decided to go to the Democrats who eventually gave you the 65 votes to win. What did you give them? You gave them a promise not to bring legislation dealing with ILLEGAL ALIENS, PRO-LIFE ISSUES, or VOTER-ID to the House floor and that is exactly what happened during the session. The Democrats loved that deal because they opposed all three issues vehemently.
When I saw that no bills on illegal aliens were coming out of the State Affairs Committee Chaired by Rep. Burt Solomons, I did notice that Democrats were bringing bills to the floor that would have funneled millions of dollars directly to illegal aliens. I started to amend those bills immediately, with simple words which said, “These benefits are for U.S. citizens only”.
Excuse the term, but the Democrats went “nuts” over my amendments and Joe, you tried to come to their rescue. You came to my desk on the House floor and asked what you can do for me (like hearing one of my bills in Solomon’s committee) to get me to stop amending the Democrats’ bills. I could not believe what I heard from you. I asked you if you took the same oath of office that I did and then requested that you leave my desk quickly before I really got angry.
Finally, you single-handedly killed the Voter –ID Bill, a bill that 96% of Republicans in the 2008 Primary election voted to have considered in the next session.
I can’t see why any Republican would support him for Speaker after what he did last time.
How many does this make? Where do we go from here?
Okay. It appears the representative from “Flower Mound” is a republican.
So... I have to ask... Is the representative from “Dung Heap” a democrat?
Our local conservatives group has already met with George Lavender (R), the rep we supported, and told him in no uncertain terms that we want RINOStraus out as speaker.
If the threats actually were made -- and we find out who made them -- all involved (including Straus, if involved) will face felony charges.
http://conservativespeakermandate.com/alt1
This link from my post yesterday here on FR
(”Tell Your Texas Rep to Oppose Liberal Leadership
of Texas’ House!”)
Sign the petition to tell your Rep to support a CONSERVATIVE for House Speaker. :)
Only RINS’s would support him methinks!
He has his work cut out re keeping the Speaker position now!
Dat S/B “RINO’s”!
Sheesh! :(
How many RINO’s will he need to find if he can get all the Democrats to support him?
Any violations s/b prosecuted for sure!
Let’s see. 99 GOP - 51 ‘Rats
76-51=25
Himself plus 24 more. That would be a hard stretch??
We need to keep the heat on for sure, tho!
Flower Mound is a nice FTW suburb but mind their speed traps on I35. I once got bit at 3:30 am for just 82mph!
I think that is the extent of the town - a PD and a traffic court.
I signed the petition and am contacting my Rep.
The more the better. Straus is a DEMOCRAT and needs to change parties and vote with those who are like him. The more people go to these as possible and “LIKE” and spread the word, that’s so important.
Please go to http://www.freerepublic.com/texas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625331/posts
Super! :^D
bump! bump! bump!
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