• 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 14^th, they will be in violation of caucus rules.

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

• 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As of today, December 6, 2024, Dade Phelan has withdrawn his bid for another term as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.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.

• 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.

• 11/4/2024
• Bill Anderton
• Reporting

See Fox News Article

• 11/4/2024
• Bill Anderton
• Reporting

See https://www.foxnews.com/politics/georgia-absentee-ballot-ruling-provides-legal-victory-rnc-eve-election

• 10/29/2024
• Bill Anderton
• Reporting

See: https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-calls-trump-supporters-garbage-during-harris-campaign-call-vp-calls-unity-ellipse-rally