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Rep. Dustin Burrows Elected Speaker of the Texas House on Second Round of Voting
The Texan ^ | 1/14/24 | Brad Johnson

Posted on 01/14/2025 2:07:05 PM PST by cotton1706

Burrows’ effective governing coalition is 36 Republicans and 49 Democrats — and is the first time a speaker was elected in the official vote with a minority of his own party behind him in recent memory.

(Excerpt) Read more at thetexan.news ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: assistantdemocrat; elections; rino; rinotexans; speaker; texas
Democrats and pantywaist "Republicans" (just like in Ohio in 2023) join together to keep a moderate "Republican" as Speaker.

He'll be another Dade Phelan or Joe Straus, that is, another John Boehner or Paul Ryan.

1 posted on 01/14/2025 2:07:05 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Very disappointing news out of Austin today.


2 posted on 01/14/2025 2:08:47 PM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: cotton1706

Ridiculous!


3 posted on 01/14/2025 2:16:03 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead
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To: Dan in Wichita

Dade Phelan 2.0.


4 posted on 01/14/2025 2:16:15 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Dan in Wichita

Most disappointing.


5 posted on 01/14/2025 2:22:27 PM PST by OKSooner ("I'd be safe and warm, if I was in LA..." Mama Cass Elliott, 1966)
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To: cotton1706

This is a disaster


6 posted on 01/14/2025 2:26:55 PM PST by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
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To: cotton1706

7 posted on 01/14/2025 2:28:17 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cotton1706

WTF??? Remind me why did they elect those clowns?


8 posted on 01/14/2025 2:39:31 PM PST by eclectic (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: cotton1706

Oh, crap!


9 posted on 01/14/2025 2:42:31 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: eclectic

Stop electing “republicans” that let democrats run the dang show!


10 posted on 01/14/2025 2:45:06 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: cotton1706

Texas has an invasive RINO species problem


11 posted on 01/14/2025 2:52:24 PM PST by Sparticus (Primary the Tuesday group!)
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To: Sparticus

Bush loyalists


12 posted on 01/14/2025 2:52:48 PM PST by 38special (The government is ruining our country!)
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To: cotton1706

Sounds like conservatives need to go super-local in the precincts.


13 posted on 01/14/2025 3:15:46 PM PST by lurk (u)
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To: cotton1706

This continues to demonstrate that in Texas many democrats pose as Republicans to get elected, and then revert to form immediately. At the national level, think Cornyn.

Very disappointed in unengaged voters to allow this. Fortunately, my Representative did vote for Cook but a lot of good it ended up doing. I don’t particularly like him, and voted against him in the Primary, but at least on this vote, he voted properly.


14 posted on 01/14/2025 3:21:59 PM PST by rigelkentaurus
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Lots of them will be primaried.

Count on it. Texas Republicans are tired of being played.

They primaried a fair number last time.


15 posted on 01/14/2025 3:28:08 PM PST by marktwain
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To: cotton1706

Gotta keep primarying and taking out RINOs. Keep doing it until everybody understands doing this ends your political career.


16 posted on 01/14/2025 3:41:03 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: marktwain

“ Lots of them will be primaried.”
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And the Speaker vote identified THOSE WHO NEED TO BE PRIMARIED OUT.


17 posted on 01/14/2025 4:38:01 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: cotton1706

Smh…


18 posted on 01/14/2025 6:04:33 PM PST by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: smokingfrog

https://x.com/MichaelBerrySho/status/1879338564426854881


19 posted on 01/14/2025 6:51:21 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: cotton1706

Very, very, very DISAPPOINTING!!


20 posted on 01/14/2025 9:07:05 PM PST by bantam
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