The newest video touting Joe Straus for reelection as Speaker looks like the intro for one of those lifetime achievement statues they give away on the awards shows.
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TribBlog: Paxton Adds Two
Add state Reps. Erwin Cain of Como and James White of Hillister to the list of members backing Ken Paxton, R-McKinney, for speaker of the House.
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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Grissom (with Tedesco of the San Antonio Express-News) on high-speed police chases on the Texas-Mexico border, Hu and Hamilton draw a roadmap through the tangle of the Speaker’s Race, M. Smith on the trouble with electronic supplements to science textbooks, Ramshaw interviews patient privacy advocate Deborah Peel, Aguilar on Cuba and Texas and trade, Hamilton on the latest in biotech from Texas A&M University, Stiles on who’s in the money in Congress, Hu on the controversial renewal of the state lottery contract, yours truly on Tom DeLay’s victory in the face of his conviction on money-laundering charges, and E. Smith with a Thanksgiving cornucopia of TribLive videos: The best of our best from November 22 to 26, 2010.
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Interactive: The Speaker’s Race!
We’ve reached a point in the soap opera known as the House Speaker’s Race at which it’s tough to track all the characters and their connections. To keep his post, current Speaker Joe Straus is actively campaigning for the votes of House members who will elect him — or his replacement — in January. In recent weeks, two of his fellow Republicans have emerged as challengers, and the involvement of sundry outside interests make for an increasingly tangled web. As the House General Investigating and Ethics Committee prepares to hold a hearing today about alleged threats made against one minor player in the drama, we present this handy interactive to help make sense of it all.
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Michael Quinn Sullivan: The TT Interview
The bomb-throwing president of Empower Texas and Texans for Fiscal Responsibility on why Joe Straus hasn’t proved himself as a conservative, why the entry of outside groups like his own into the insiders’ race for speaker is proper and what he’d like to see out of a Texas House with 99 GOP members in it.
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TribBlog: Straus Rebuffs Patrick
State Sen. Dan Patrick issued a release saying he would host a sit-down meeting of the three candidates for speaker in a “neutral” location. But House Speaker Joe Straus’ office says it never agreed to to the meet-up.
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TribBlog: Speaker Candidates on Anti-Semitism
Both GOP challengers to House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, are distancing themselves from activist efforts to emphasize the speaker’s Jewish faith.
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TribBlog: Huckabee Hearts Paxton
Former Arkansas Gov. and current Fox News host Mike Huckabee waded into the speaker’s race today. His pick: state Rep. Ken Paxton, R-McKinney.
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TribBlog: GOP Chairmen for Straus
On the heels of a defection by state Rep. Tan Parker, R-Denton, House GOP chairmen release a letter supporting the re-election of House Speaker Joe Straus.