With two months until the filing deadline for the 2020 primary, the Texas GOP is dealing with fewer intra-party fights than usual.
Dennis Bonnen
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Analysis: A haunted House story about Texas speakers and redistricting
Texas House speakers come and go. So do redistricting sessions in the Texas Legislature. And maybe — just maybe — there’s a relationship between those two cycles.
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Analysis: Back on the outs, right where Michael Quinn Sullivan thrives
The conservative Empower Texans leader was out of favor with Republican state leaders at the end of the legislative session. Now he’s on the outs with them in a whole new way.
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to Empower Texans’ Michael Quinn Sullivan: “You are destroying our party”
Patrick and Sullivan, who have long been aligned on issues, traded jabs Tuesday over Sullivan’s allegations against House Speaker Dennis Bonnen.
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Analysis: Texas redistricting is hard enough when politicians trust the mapmakers
Lawmakers get jittery when it’s time to redraw their political maps, and the exercise is based on a mix of power, party, clout, tenure — and trust. That last one is a fleeting quality in the Texas House right now.
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Analysis: For Texas Republicans, one election is no longer enough
Add a word to the Republican vocabulary in Texas: November. After two decades of GOP dominance, the party’s candidates are still winning, but they can’t safely assume that they’ve got an election in the bag after they win the GOP’s March primaries.
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Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen denied Michael Quinn Sullivan’s allegations in a voicemail. Hear what he said.
The message was left on the phone of a member of the Texas House soon after news of a meeting between Michael Quinn Sullivan and Dennis Bonnen surfaced.
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TribCast
TribCast: Speaker saga, school scores and a gubernatorial misstep
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Ross, Jolie, Aliyya and Alex about Texas’ latest school accountability ratings, the ongoing House speaker saga and a gubernatorial fundraising letter that went out the day before the El Paso massacre.
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Analysis: Release the recording already, and show everybody who’s lying
After a month of allegations and denials about a political meeting between a conservative activist, the speaker of the Texas House and a committee chairman, there’s still a missing link: proof. There’s a recording of the meeting, but the activist who taped it won’t share it with the public.
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Analysis: After botching one shot at peace, the Texas GOP establishment tries again
After a month of silence, a state representative tangled in a political misadventure in the Texas Capitol emerged to say he’ll seek reelection with the endorsement of the governor. But the harmony is tentative, and the scandal is still under investigation by the Texas Rangers.
