The Magic 8 Ball:
Democrat Candidate Selector Edition
Vice President Kamala Harris is being anointed as the Democrat Presidential Candidate after President Joe Biden’s awkward exit from the race just weeks before the Democrat National Committee Convention. More accurately, Democrat elites and the left-wing media are attempting to sell her to Democrat voter as the savior of the Democrat Party. This is not a subtitle sell, it is very heavy handed. In Democrat-think, such decisions are too important to be left to rank-and-file Democrat voters or even a truly open convention of delegates; a very small group of elites must step in and stage-manage everything for the "good of the Party."
It is a coronation.
The Democrat power brokers forced Biden out. And. Now they are stuck with the worst possible replacement candidate because of their own identity politics that made Kamala Vice President to begin with. As much as they might have wanted to pivot to another candidate, Kamala’s race and gender solidified her safety. BUT, let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
As best as I can figure, it was a decision that appears to be driven by the iconic Magic 8 Ball toy. Primary votes don’t count, only the will of some Democrat elites who asked the Magic 8 Ball, “Who should we nominate?” Shook up the 8 Ball and flipped it over to read, “Answer Unclear. Try Kamala.”
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Since October 9, 2021, Jennifer, Susan and Bill have written regular blog postings on the dallasgop.org website. Since all of their postings are no longer being published on that site by the new DCRP team, we are republishing those posts written by those three authors (all are now members of the DCR United team) to provide continuity. Going forward, new blog postings published after June 15, 2024, will be shown here.
The Race for Texas House Speaker—What Is Next?
- 12/10/2024
- Matthew G. Patrick
- Commentary
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 below), endorsing Cook and reminding the rogue Republicans that a vote for anyone else would be grounds for censure.
Election of Texas Speaker of the House -- UPDATE!
- 12/2/2024
- Matthew G. Patrick
- Commentary
As of today, December 6, 2024, Dade Phelan has withdrawn his bid for another term as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.
Heading into a crucial GOP caucus meeting tomorrow on Saturday, at least two Republicans have emerged as candidates seeking the office.
All eight of our Dallas County SREC Members are in Austin today and tomorrow to attend the 4th Quarter Republican Party of Texas Executive Committee meeting. Of great interest is the hotly contested House of Representatives Speaker race. With the news of current Speaker Dade Phelan withdrawing his candidacy begins a whole new conversation. The Resolutions Committee, of which SREC Susan Fountain is a member, unanimously passed a Resolution to encourage the election of a new Speaker who will not appoint Democrats to critical Committee Chairmanships and promote Republican legislative priorities approved at the May State Republican Convention in San Antonio.
Texas Gets Redder, Again. Now, Let's Make Dallas County Redder!
- 11/12/2024
- Susan Fountain
- Commentary
Democrats have not won a state-wide election in many years, mainly due to statewide conservative rural areas, which offset the 5 largest blue counties. Yet they are vowing to get up again and get to work TODAY to work on turning Texas blue! This is how the Democrats turned Dallas County blue...slowly and surely over the last 25+- years. If nothing else they are very patient. There were some conservative victories. All eight of the Court of Appeals candidates recruited under Jennifer's leadership, including the new Chief Justice of the Fifth Court of Appeals, Justice JJ Koch won, and Republicans now dominate the 13 Panel Court. And Dallas County Republicans managed to keep its two incumbent Texas House Districts, District 108 and District 112, in spite of unprecedented opposition from members of the Dallas County Republican Party. God bless every one of you who put a sign in your yard, block walked for Republicans and helped in any way to get out the vote! We worked hard and put Trump back in, but not in Dallas County. In Dallas County, Democrats swept almost every race.
Punditry and Persiflage
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VP Harris bungles interview with influencer so badly he doesn't air it
- 11/4/2024
- Bill Anderton
- Reporting
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