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Medina County GOP Calls for Unity in Texas House
The local Republican party is calling upon lawmakers to unite behind State Rep. David Cook for speaker of the House.
Klein ISD Substitute Teacher Charged After Watching Pornography in Class
A judge denied the Harris County District Attorney’s request to prohibit Kenneth Hartley from contacting any minor as a condition of bond.
Republican Party of Texas Resolution Calls for Criminalizing Gender Identity Fraud
The RPT resolution states those identifying as a different gender commit “identify fraud.”
Chinese Companies Buy Tarrant Oil, Lobby Texas Lawmakers
The companies—tied to the Chinese Communist Party—are extracting oil all over the state, with 34 wells in Tarrant County.
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HD 44 Special Election
With all the commotion surrounding the fight for a more conservative Texas House Speaker, it seems as if the special election to fill the late-State Representative Edmund Kuempel’s seat in HD 44 has been greatly overlooked. Texas Republicans have been busy celebrating...
Did Chuck Hopson Break The Law?
When the General Investigating & Ethics Committee met to hear allegations a member of Speaker Joe Straus' leadership team threatened to use redistricting as retribution against other lawmakers, Chairman Chuck Hopson didn't ask the accused to testify oath. And that...
Not So Fast
The biggest argument in defense of Speaker Joe Straus is that under Tom Craddick, Republicans lost many seats in the Texas House, but under Straus we gained 22 seats. While this is true, I don’t think the two are related at all. Texans elected 22 new conservatives to...
Whitewash in the Works?
When it comes to protecting their own, the Texas House General Investigating Committee has no peer. The chairman of the committee says he will have a closed-door meeting Tuesday morning to determine whether a fellow legislator, and leadership ally, made illegal...
Framing the Speaker race
We’re in the frontier with this speaker’s race. Nobody knows what we’ll find. Nobody’s been here before. With the removal of the law that forbade citizen engagement in the race, all of us have front row seats to the new system. Speaker Straus...
Speaking Historically
Two years is an eternity in politics, which might explain the forgetfulness surrounding the speakership. In November 2008, there were nine members of the Texas House vying to be Speaker. And not one of them was named Joe Straus. In fact, State Rep. Joe Straus was...
Straus prevaricates for convenience, loses credibility
“I’m a lifelong Republican and I am conservative..." said Texas House Speaker to the Abilene Reporter News when in the Big Country shoring up support with representative Susan King for his upcoming race for re-election as Speaker. I think Joe Straus is a nice guy, a...
Coordination Through Elimination?
State Rep. Fred Brown has put a target on the Higher Education Coordinating Board, with legislation to abolish the agency. The Bryan lawmaker says the board should go so education can be better coordinated. Others aren't so sure. Mr. Brown (R-Bryan) was one of the...
New Faces of the Texas GOP
Included in the GOP wave that swept Texas Democrats back to being even more irrelevant than they already were, were five Latino Republicans and two black Republicans. Let that sink in for a minute. Yes, nearly one-third of the newly elected Republican state...