A Texas House speaker race. What to do now?

Robert Pratt

I’ve pointed out that there is no honor in the terms San Antonio’s Joe Straus served as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. I’m sure some think this is harsh but if they do, they overlook the underlying fraudulent nature of Straus’ elevation to the post of speaker.

Straus became speaker through a political fraud on every Republican Party Primary voter in Texas and upon every General Election voter who cast their ballot for Republicans in 2008 in opposition to Barack Obama at the top of the ticket and his radical-left followers down-ballot.

Because of the strong turnout performance for Obama, Texas Democrats came very close to retaking the Texas House, winning 74 seats with the Republicans winning 76. The GOP had taken control with the 78th Legislature in 2003.

Straus was one of eleven traitors who conspired with the Democrat caucus to throw-out the Republican speaker Tom Craddick and install themselves in control. That control however required, and has continued to require, the backing of the Democrat caucus keeping the state’s minority party powerful with indirect control over much of the legislative process.

The eleven sellout fake Republicans committed a political fraud upon Texans and have held on to the fraud for decade because of the extreme power held by whomever holds the House gavel.

What to do now that Straus, Cook, and others have been toppled?

There is already a meeting scheduled for 8 November for the House Republican Caucus to consider rules to allow for the GOP nominee for Speaker of the House to be selected within the caucus. We need to push our reps to adopt rules which do this and which bind caucus members to supporting the caucus vote. That would, as Kenric Ward put it at the Texas Monitor, “effectively nullify the role of minority Democrats, who brought Straus to power.”