Posted on 05/31/2024 7:02:27 PM PDT by cotton1706
A group of 46 Republican House members and nominees pledged Friday to only back a speaker next session who commits to ending the tradition of appointing Democratic committee chairs — a move that narrows the path to the gavel for House Speaker Dade Phelan, who has vowed to continue the longstanding practice.
To be elected speaker, a House member must secure 76 votes, a majority of the 150-seat chamber. Democrats control 64 seats, meaning a speaker hopeful could theoretically win with full Democratic support and around a dozen of the 86 Republicans. To prevent this scenario, Phelan’s rivals have called for speaker candidates to reach a majority by only soliciting GOP support.
That was already a remote possibility for Phelan, a Beaumont Republican who has been a lightning rod for the GOP’s ultraconservative wing since he backed the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton last spring. The House is set to include more than 20 GOP members next session who have explicitly vowed to oppose Phelan.
But Phelan still hoped to build a winning coalition that included a majority of House Republicans, even if he also leaned on some Democratic support. With Friday’s pledges, Phelan can now secure a GOP majority only by abandoning one of the most powerful olive branches available to secure Democratic backing.
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The TT is not fit for TP.
Bookmark.
Still stunned he won the runoff
Still stunned he won the runoff“
The rats crossed over and saved him bank it. He is a rat mole.
Well crossovers are allowed because RINOS thrive in Texas
Cross Over voting is a way to dilute the power of other voters you are not aligned with politically. Thus, we have a snake like Phelan. I do not understand why any party be it Democrat or Republican allows this.
I hope Phelan, if he wins the speaker-ship, is as drunk as he was a few month ago when presiding over the house. He is a disgrace. In the days of old in Austin, the formality of voting occurred on the House and Senate floor. The real deals was cut down at the Driskill Hotel on Brazos Street. Money, favors, lovely ladies and influence was the coin of the realm. Little has changed except it is no longer at the Driskill.
In answer to the Rice Prof....yeah the Republicans would indeed find it harder to pass anything for the next two years. Then the voters would slaughter the backstabbing RINOs who delivered a Democrat controlled House even though the voters had elected a Republican majority, and that would be the end of RINO backstabbing for good.
That’s the part you forgot to mention.
No doubt
Democrats have effectively controlled the Texas house for decades. It is a little known secret even amongst Texans. We really need to put a stop to this.
Ending crossover voting in primaries would dramatically change the politics of Texas.
If the Republicans were really conservative, they’d expel him from the party. He wants full democrat support, let him get it as a democrat.
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