August 16, 2017      10:24 AM

Speaker Straus attends meeting of the Texas House GOP Caucus focused on how he is elected

“If we had held the vote today, Speaker Straus would have been overwhelmingly re-elected,” said a Republican member in attendance

Roughly 80 members of the Texas House Republican Caucus met for about two hours Wednesday morning and talked about the procedures for choosing the Speaker. Speaker Joe Straus was in attendance and only described the talks as positive.

Despite social media posts this morning and over the last week describing the meeting as a referendum on the speaker’s performance, Republicans who were in attendance told Quorum Report that the meeting was, in many ways, a “love fest” for the speaker and “If we had held the vote today, Speaker Straus would have been overwhelmingly re-elected.”

By Scott Braddock

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