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Ken Paxton Calls on Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan to Resign After “Debilitating Intoxication”
Liberty Daily ^ | 5/23/23 | J.D. Rucker

Posted on 05/23/2023 4:13:23 PM PDT by CFW

Last Friday, Texas Speaker of the House Dade Phelan appeared to be “drunk gaveling” while presiding over the legislature. It drew attention and condemnation from both sides of the political aisle. As we posted on Rumble:

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has called on Phelan to resign:

After much consideration, it is with profound disappointment that I call on Speaker Dade Phelan to resign at the end of this legislative session. Texans were dismayed to witness his performance presiding over the Texas House in a state of apparent debilitating intoxication. His conduct has negatively impacted the legislative process and constitutes a failure to live up to his duty to the public. Texans were relying on the House to pass critical conservative priorities including protecting the integrity of our elections and preventing Chinese spies from controlling Texas land. His failures as Speaker have created a credibility crisis for all Republican candidates and for our entire Party. While I hope Speaker Phelan will get the help he needs, he has proven himself unworthy of Texans’ trust and incapable of leading the Texas House.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: drunk; housespeaker; paxton; phelan; texas
When I saw this video the other night, I stated that Phelan was either having a serious medical episode, or was extremely intoxicated. Apparently, it was not a medical problem.
1 posted on 05/23/2023 4:13:23 PM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

Foster Brooks reborn!


2 posted on 05/23/2023 4:17:27 PM PDT by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: CFW

Dade Phelan is a worse RINO than the worst RINO in DC. He is holding Texas way back from what it could be politically.


3 posted on 05/23/2023 4:18:29 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: JennysCool

“Debilitating Intoxication”

A euphemism for drunk on his ass.


4 posted on 05/23/2023 4:20:37 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: CFW

That d-bag was smashed


5 posted on 05/23/2023 4:20:53 PM PDT by albie
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To: CFW

That d-bag was smashed


6 posted on 05/23/2023 4:20:54 PM PDT by albie
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To: CFW

Day drinking! Nancy Pelosi approves!


7 posted on 05/23/2023 4:22:18 PM PDT by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: CFW

Guy sounds like Festerman and Brandon had a baby.


8 posted on 05/23/2023 4:26:44 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: CFW

If drunk gaveling was a thing Pelosi would have been gone years ago


9 posted on 05/23/2023 4:27:25 PM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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To: JennysCool

“Dade Phelan”...sounds like the prick in a Lone Ranger episode.


10 posted on 05/23/2023 4:28:40 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: CFW

Not that bad. He was still standing, so not ‘knee walking’ drunk.


11 posted on 05/23/2023 4:50:41 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: CFW

Too many prog repugs side with the dims in this state and we get a drunk prog repug for speaker.


12 posted on 05/23/2023 4:52:48 PM PDT by ChuckHam
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To: CFW

I already assumed that they were all drunk. This is only confirmation.


13 posted on 05/23/2023 4:57:19 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: CFW

I’ll drink to that.


14 posted on 05/23/2023 5:05:18 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: Bonemaker

Dade Phelan is back stabbing rat collaborator he has blocked many good bills by working with the rats and a few Rino’s it would great if they could use this to dump him


15 posted on 05/23/2023 5:30:26 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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I think i could only do congress critter crap while drunk. If i attempted congressing sober i would ridicule the whole but of idiots. Stating “congress shall pass no law.” period.


16 posted on 05/23/2023 5:35:20 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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