East Texas Republican Takes on House Speaker
MINEOLA — It was not a Sunday, and he was not standing at a pulpit, but Bryan Hughes was preaching.
Wearing a pinstripe suit and a shiny gold tie, Hughes, a state representative from East Texas, had the full attention of about 20 well-coiffed older women — members of the Mineola Study Club — in Susan Parks’ handsomely decorated living room. The women had asked him to describe his “Aha! moment.”
He recited the story of Joseph from the Old Testament. Joseph’s brothers, jealous that their father loved Joseph best, sold him into slavery. But Joseph rose to prominence after — with God ...
Comments (8)
Proud Texan
So a man that didn't have the courage to even VOTE in the last Speaker's race now thinks he has what it takes to LEAD the House of Representatives. That's quite a leap. If you can't handle the pressure of a vote in the Speaker's race (when there was only one candidate because the other had already dropped out), how in the world could voters expect you to handle the real pressures of leading the House? At least the 13 members who didn't support Straus voted against him and honored their commitment. Looks like MQS and Dick Armey are leading the calf to slaughter and he doesn't even realize it. Luckily Hughes' House district has Senator Eltife because Hughes will be in no position to help to them next session.
gypsy314 ne
About time someone steps up to put this rhino out he has screw Texan's far to long. Brain is a hell of a lot better person because he will not pretend to be someone who he is not.
Proud Texan
Wow. gypsy314 really needs some help with typing and grammar.
hans5162@ix.netcom.com hans
Although I do not support this idea and I have a problem with the current efforts at voter suppression promoted by the Republican Party, I do have to say that Gypsy is a consistently strong reason why we might want to reconsider a literacy test for voters. It shouldn't exclude most voters if we set the bar to something like "able to form letters", though that standard should be sufficient to screen out Gypsy.
David Simpson
Gary Nelson for Speaker!!11!!1!
Hughes is a rhinos?
signed,
gohmert4life
JC DemocratofTejas
Typical tea party hype. Tea party is losing support daily, and Hughes will be left with a room full of well-coiffed older women, of which he sincerely looks like himself.
visule
Did you ever notice that when most left wingers write or speak about something, it rarely has any basis of fact, and is usually just a diatribe of fanciful and repetitious talking points gleaned from MS-PMS News or possibly that narcissistic gasbag...Rachel Maddow?
The old axiom “It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt” is something those on the left — have trouble wrapping their heads around.
Samdavis
Afraid gypsy's needs run a lot deeper than typing and grammar. He or she or it is a bigot not unlike the TEA Party supporters of Hughes.