Hoping to see a debate between the candidates for speaker? A group of Tea Party organizations recently posed an identical set of questions to Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, and contender Ken Paxton, R-McKinney. The result is not really a debate, but it might be the closest we get.
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TribBlog: One for Straus
State Rep. Beverly Woolley, R-Houston, threw her support to House Speaker Joe Straus today, putting an important member of former Speaker Tom Craddick’s team on the incumbent’s side.
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State Government
TribBlog: Four for Paxton
Add four East Texas state representatives to Rep. Ken Paxton’s list, bringing the McKinney Republican closer to a dozen-and-a-half votes in his quest for 76. Paxton is challenging Speaker Joe Straus for the top job.
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State Government
TribBlog: Force Play
The next speaker of the Texas House should be chosen by the Republican Caucus instead of the full House, says state Rep. Warren Chisum, and he has prepared a letter with 10 signatures that he says will force a caucus vote.
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TribBlog: The Ingrate
State Rep. Randy Weber, R-Pearland, who today withdrew his pledge of support for House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, was the beneficiary of two fundraisers this month at which a featured guest was … House Speaker Joe Straus.
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Demographics
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
M. Smith and Butrymowicz of the Hechinger Institute on charter schools and public schools making nice in the Valley, Ramsey’s interview with House Speaker candidate Ken Paxton and column on the coming budget carnage, Hu on the Legislature’s disappearing white Democratic women, Grissom on the sheriff who busted Willie Nelson, Hamilton talks higher ed accountability with the chair of the Governor’s Business Council, Aguilar on the arrest of a cartel kingpin, Ramshaw on the explosive growth in the number of adult Texans with diabetes, Philpott on state incentive funding under fire and Galbraith on the greening of Houston: The best of our best from November 29 to December 3, 2010.
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State Government
Ken Paxton: The TT Interview
The Republican state representative from McKinney on why he’s running for speaker, why Joe Straus is “the most controversial Republican elected official … that maybe has ever happened,” the role of outside groups in what has historically been a forum for the most inside of insider politics and whether he thinks he can really win.
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Ken Paxton: The TT Interview (audio)
An interview with state Rep. Ken Paxton, R-McKinney, about his run for speaker of the Texas House.
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State Government
TribBlog: All Politics is Local
Freshman state Rep. Van Taylor, R-Plano, says he’s supporting Ken Paxton’s challenge to incumbent House Speaker Joe Straus.
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TribBlog: Ready for His Closeup
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.
