DALLAS COUNTY REPUBLICANS UNITED PAC BLOG:

The Race for Texas House Speaker—What Is Next?

As we reported last week, the House Republican caucus met to select their candidate for Speaker while we were in the middle of our SREC meeting.

What happened:

Caucus convened with all 88 members present.

First 2 votes were split, with Rep. David Cook in the lead but without a majority.

Caucus recessed, whereupon 2 dozen + members that were supporting Rep. Burrows left, in hopes of undermine the vote or possibly break quorum (didn’t happen).

Caucus voted and confirmed Cook as the official candidate.

Burrows announced, shortly after the caucus vote, that he was the ‘speaker elect’ (no such thing) with endorsements from 38 Republicans and 38 Democrats. This was false. Several of the Republican members he listed had endorsed Cook, others he listed without permission, and several of the Democrats declined having given him permission to list their names. Is someone that flat out lies like this the kind of person we want as Speaker?!?

BOTH of our Dallas Republican representatives were in the group that left the caucus and have endorsed Burrows.

If Reps. Button and Meyers vote for Burrows in the official Speaker election on January 14th, they will be in violation of caucus rules.

The SREC approved a 2nd resolution on this issue (see the full blog), endorsing Cook and reminding the rogue Republicans that a vote for anyone else would be grounds for censure.

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