• 04/18/2025
• Jennifer Stoddard Hajdu
• Commentary

It is a fair question, considering that hand counting paper ballots in the Republican Primary is the platform that current Chair Allen West ran on in the 2024 Republican Primary.  Yet, since his election, we have not heard one word from him about hand counting paper ballots.  It is the Party’s choice to hand count its own Primary.  We are a little less than a year away from the 2026 Primary, and I have not seen a plan or a resolution to hand count paper ballots in the Primary.  Have you?

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As of today, December 6, 2024, Dade Phelan has withdrawn his bid for another term as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.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

• 11/4/2024
• 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