Insiders on the Speaker Race and the 2/3rds Rule
Most of our insiders — 92.6 percent — think Joe Straus will still be the speaker after January 11, but they don't sound confident that a Republican supermajority will bring peace and harmony to the Pink Building.
Only a dozen of this week's 163 respondents think there will be a new speaker, and their choices varied between Warren Chisum, who's declared, Larry Taylor, who hasn't, and "someone else." Tom Craddick got a vote, and so did Dan Branch, a Straus supporter. Neither has indicated any interest in being speaker in 2011.
Almost as big a majority — 87 ...
Comments (6)
Rosemary Edwards via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Very small sample.
Shirley Blackstock Megason via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I am PRAYing they are *wrong*!!! SAY NO TO JOE!!!
Tyler Norris via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Same insiders were predicting 5 or 6 Republican pickups in the Legislature before the session. They're all so clever.
Michelle Smith via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Liberal meda! who believes?
Michelle Smith via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This is the way they and their democratic buds would like to swing it. FOR SURE!! They called them all to do this poll.
Rick Donaldson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Austin Samples.
Can't blame them for sampling in their own neck of the woods.
Look at how the numbers eventually turned out in the Nov.2nd elections.
They had way different results than what really turned out !