In the Texas House Speaker is chosen by ALL members, including the democrats. This is how Phelan got to be the Speaker by rinos and democrats forming a coalition to overwhelm the conservatives. Even though republicans have a near supermajority, there are just enough rinos who join with democrats to get Phelan as Speaker.
However, if he becomes very politically toxic even the rinos might be forced to vote him out.
At the very least conservatives can force the rinos to show their colors before the primaries. We can KNOW who the rinos are that are siding with democrats to keep establishment Phelan in power.
On Nov. 4, 2020, the day after Republicans cemented their control on the Texas Legislature – Beaumont Republican Dade Phelan announced he had the votes to become the next Speaker of the Texas House, in large part because of a block of support from Democratic members.
Speaker Dade Phelan on Wednesday named Democrats as chairmen of nine Texas House committees.
Democrats run the house committees in Texas despite being a super minority in the chamber.
So one thing that happens is that IF he has enough votes anyway, most will got ahead and vote for him because at that point they have to work with him as speaker no matter what.
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Watch the first 10 minutes of the Tucker/Ken interview on X. Paxton lays it up well.
Dems just contact the most dirty Rino, and ask him to come up with 10 names, and bingo he’ll be the speaker, and there’s nothing the patriots can do to stop this in the current system.
The Tx speaker is defacto a Rino/Democrat, and will always be in this system.
In the Texas House Speaker is chosen by ALL members, including the democrats. This is how Phelan got to be the Speaker by rinos and democrats forming a coalition to overwhelm the conservatives. Even though republicans have a near supermajority, there are just enough rinos who join with democrats to get Phelan as Speaker.
However, if he becomes very politically toxic even the rinos might be forced to vote him out.
At the very least conservatives can force the rinos to show their colors before the primaries. We can KNOW who the rinos are that are siding with democrats to keep establishment Phelan in power.
https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/democrats-backed-dade-phelan-for-texas-house-speaker-what-did-they-get-in-return/
And look what he does:
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2023/02/08/texas-house-speaker-dade-phelan-defies-gop-pressure-taps-democrats-to-lead-committees/
Democrats run the house committees in Texas despite being a super minority in the chamber.
So one thing that happens is that IF he has enough votes anyway, most will got ahead and vote for him because at that point they have to work with him as speaker no matter what.
This 👆🏻100% Watch the first 10 minutes of the Tucker/Ken interview on X. Paxton lays it up well.
Dems just contact the most dirty Rino, and ask him to come up with 10 names, and bingo he’ll be the speaker, and there’s nothing the patriots can do to stop this in the current system.
The Tx speaker is defacto a Rino/Democrat, and will always be in this system.