An Interview With the New Leader of the State GOP
When delegates chose Steve Munisteri over sitting chair Cathie Adams as the next leader of the Republican Party of Texas, it marked the close of a three-way race for chair that was peppered with accusations of dishonesty.
The retired Houston lawyer, elected at the party's convention last weekend, accused Adams of using accounting tricks to make the party’s staggering debt appear lower prior to the vote, a criticism echoed by his fellow challenger, Tom Mechler. Adams, in turn, called her opponents’ claims “a lie that they are just totally making up out of thin air.”
Now, with a ...
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Dave Rausch
Who is considered a "party member"?
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I do hope that you ask the same questions of the Democratic party chair.
Would he/she frown on Democrats hosting fundraisers for Republicans? etc..
Straus and Munisteri have two different jobs. Neither one of them are necessarily doing anything wrong. The party chair should ALWAYS frown on members of his party raising money for members of the other party. The speaker has to do what he thinks is right for the state. Sometimes that means supporting members of the other party. It's not like other states where the speaker puts only his party members in as committee chairs.