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The first motion was to put a slate of "Statewide Officials" on the list. The list originally contained the names of our Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller, Land Commissioner, Ag Commissioner, Speaker of the House, and the 3 Railroad Commissioners. My motion was to strike the Speaker of the House from the statewide list on the grounds that he is not elected statewide. I testified that the other 8 officials listed are on my ballot, but the Speaker of the House was not. I also testified respectfully that he is 1 member of a body that has 150 members, and if we put 1 State Rep elected from 1 district on the "statewide" list, we would have to put on every other Republican State Rep or State Senator who wanted to go to National and there would be no room left for the grassroots, who we were elected to represent. I had no power to remove anyone from the list on my own. There was a quorum present of the 36 members of the National Nominations Committee and my motion carried by a vote of 18 to 12 by a proper committee vote.I would also like to offer to you that one of the 12 committee members who was not happy with the outcome of the vote came to me on a break and asked if he were to nominate Joe Straus as a delegate apart from the "Statewide slate", would I vote for him, and I promised I would vote for Straus to be a delegate if he came in under those conditions. That member never nominated Speaker Straus.
The second slate of additions, as is the committee's tradition, was to add to the list the names of anyone on the National Nominations Committee who wanted to go.