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December 8, 2024 4:47 PM
At least three Democratic House members, including one who went on record Sunday, said Rep. Cook has been reaching out to collaborate for weeks if not months
At
least three Texas House Democrats now report that Rep. David
Cook has, for weeks if not months, been reaching out for advice and support
as he figures out his path to holding the gavel in the 2025 session.
One
of those Democrats went on the record about it with Quorum Report
on Sunday.
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December 7, 2024 6:38 PM
In
the scramble over the gavel, Calendars Chairman Dustin Burrows and Rep. David Cook
released lists of supporters tonight that contain a decent amount of the same
names. Burrows had a list with 76 names. Cook’s list included
56.
Here
are the members or incoming freshmen who are on both lists:
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December 7, 2024 6:06 PM
"I distinctly told him I did not want to be on his list," McLaughlin said, putting Chair Burrows at 75 supporters
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December 7, 2024 5:59 PM
The
list is here.
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December 7, 2024 4:54 PM
Says he will release list of supporters later today
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December 7, 2024 4:21 PM
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December 7, 2024 1:49 PM
47 for Cook, 41 for Burrows in the caucus' 2nd vote. Meantime the Democratic Caucus is weighing whether to endorse Burrows as soon as today, per sources
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December 6, 2024 9:09 PM
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December 6, 2024 8:07 AM
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December 5, 2024 10:03 PM
House Democrats have been informed by their leadership that Speaker Phelan will exit the race, per sources tonight; some Republicans point out that Democrats have incredible leverage because the GOP Caucus is so divided ahead of their meeting slated for this weekend
Some
Texas House Republicans are working through the night, it
appears, trying to secure the votes for Calendars Committee Chairman
Dustin Burrows to emerge as a speaker candidate who can strike a deal
with Democrats who are this evening being urged by their leadership to keep
their powder dry for now.
Of
course, that does not mean side deals aren’t happening even now.
Burrows
and former Speaker Dennis Bonnen were said to be hosting some House Republicans
at the very same time that the House Democratic Caucus was being
informed by their leadership that Speaker Dade Phelan plans to withdraw
from the race and the options, for now, are either Burrows or already-declared
candidate Rep. David Cook.
Around
8 pm, some Republican House lawmakers were seen entering the condo complex
where Burrows and Bonnen stay when they’re in Austin. Some of them were:
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December 5, 2024 11:00 AM
Questions arise about a possibly illegitimate process: The caucus has no parliamentarian and no requirement that current, former, or potential speaker candidates must recuse themselves from making rulings as the discussion unfolds
Ahead
of what’s been billed as a pivotal meeting of the Texas House GOP Caucus
slated for Saturday, some Republican lawmakers are increasingly growing uneasy and
privately asking questions about exactly how the process is supposed to work
for endorsing a speaker candidate.
They’re
not getting great answers so far, prompting at least one top Republican
lawmaker to say, “I don’t think this will be resolved this weekend.”
So,
what’s going on here?
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December 5, 2024 10:49 AM
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December 4, 2024 6:31 PM
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December 2, 2024 5:46 PM
Though officially campaigning for Rep. Cook for speaker, Rep. Frank is again telling some GOP colleagues that he is still an option in the race, per multiple Republican House sources
Even
after officially dropping out of the race for speaker and endorsing Rep. David
Cook to hold the gavel, Chairman James Frank is still telling some
of his GOP colleagues that he’s interested in presiding over the Texas House
next session.
That’s
according to multiple Republican sources on Monday.
Though
it may frustrate Little Gov. Dan Patrick, unnamed sources are often the
quickest route to the best attainable version of the truth in Texas government, especially when it comes to a race for speaker.
In such a contest, the conversations of consequence are off the record talks that
occur member to member.
And
once members got back into the groove after the holiday break, rumblings about
what might happen at the upcoming GOP Caucus meeting started to ramp up.
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December 2, 2024 4:31 PM
And yeah this does expire in February
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December 2, 2024 8:33 AM
Even after Texas House leadership made Spiller the point man for last year's immigration crackdown, he says he cannot support Speaker Phelan because of his appointment of Democratic Chairmen
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