| Chisum, Strauss Ready for Texas House Speaker’s Battle |
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| by Tom McGregor | Wed, Nov 3, 2010, 07:35 PM |
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The race for the Texas House speaker is on, a challenger announced yesterday. Nevertheless, the sitting speaker announced he’s got more support than he needs to hold on to his job. According to the Houston Chronicle, “state rep. Warren Chisum, R.-Pampa, called a press conference today to say that he will remain in the race for speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. He said the voters sent a sweeping message on election night.” Before the press conference, Chisum said, “it was a call for a more conservative government, even in the state of Chisum’s announcement came after Speaker Joe Strauss informed the public that he has secured pledges from more than 120 Republican and Democratic members of the 150-member House to keep his job.” Chisum claimed the so-called pledge cards are “a house made of paper.” He added, “the race is not over.” As reported by the Chronicle, “in a press conference minutes after Chisum’s, Strauss gathered with a bi-partisan collection of members supporting him as speaker. He counts 79 of 99 Republicans and 50 Democrats in his corner, he said.” When Strauss was asked about the speaker’s race, he looked around at his supporters, and said, “it looks pretty over to me.” Chisum, wearing Wranglers, also announced at his press conference in his Capitol office that only Republicans should select the next speaker. He proposed permitting the GOP Caucus to make the selection, instead of a mix of Republicans and Democrats, like the one Stauss utilized to ride to victory last session. Chisum said, “Republicans need to act like Republicans.” To read the entire article from the Houston Chronicle, link here: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it 
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written by The Prisoner , November 04, 2010 Strauss is a closet liberal, and Chisum ran his RPT committee in Dallas like a gorilla. A third choice please.....
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written by bigun , November 04, 2010 I agree with Chisum! In fact I'll go further than he did and say that Republicans had better act like Republicans or they will feel the result of failing to do so!
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written by BigDenny , November 05, 2010 As a Republican, I think it is time for some unity as opposed to more division. This is nothing more than a last-ditch effort to bring back the days of heavy-handed rule we saw under Craddick which stymied the Conservative agenda through the politics of personal destruction. Those guys had their turn at leadership and failed. We couldn't get anything accomplished to further our agenda because all those guys cared about was giving the what-for to the people who were against them. Craddick's leadership caused us to loose a dozen seats. Chisum's crowd is tiny and made up of nothing more than Craddick lieutenants who haven't recovered from the change two years ago. Every real conservative I know is standing with the Speaker and not Quinn Sullivan's bunch of yahoos. Don't get me wrong, they've done some good things, but this effort will be a disaster for us Write comment
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