Comments on: Lone Star Rumblings: So Goes the Party http://demockracy.com/as-goes-the-electorate-so-goes-the-party/ Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:23:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Scott Unzicker http://demockracy.com/as-goes-the-electorate-so-goes-the-party/comment-page-1/#comment-503 Scott Unzicker Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:42:03 +0000 http://demockracy.com/?p=3160#comment-503 Update: Tom Craddick has officially bowed out of the race for Texas Speaker of the House. In short: a group of house Republicans dubbed the ABC (Anyone But Craddick) group got together and, with the backing of a large number of house Democrats, mustered enough pledged votes to front Rep. Joe Straus R-San Antonio as their candidate for speaker. They published that list of pledged votes on the evening of Sunday, January 4th. Craddick's reelection as speaker was contingent upon the backing of several of the Democrats on that list. When he figured out he just didn't have the votes to win, he backed out. This created a vacuum for a candidate for the speakership that would please the former Craddick-philes. In a hurried dinner meeting late Sunday, they came up with Amarillo Rep. John Smithee as their man. Here's where it gets interesting: Will some or all of the Republicans and/or Democrats that jumped Craddick's ship now come back over to the Smithee camp now that Craddick is out of the way? Nobody knows. The plot thickens. Update: Tom Craddick has officially bowed out of the race for Texas Speaker of the House. In short: a group of house Republicans dubbed the ABC (Anyone But Craddick) group got together and, with the backing of a large number of house Democrats, mustered enough pledged votes to front Rep. Joe Straus R-San Antonio as their candidate for speaker. They published that list of pledged votes on the evening of Sunday, January 4th. Craddick’s reelection as speaker was contingent upon the backing of several of the Democrats on that list. When he figured out he just didn’t have the votes to win, he backed out. This created a vacuum for a candidate for the speakership that would please the former Craddick-philes. In a hurried dinner meeting late Sunday, they came up with Amarillo Rep. John Smithee as their man.

Here’s where it gets interesting: Will some or all of the Republicans and/or Democrats that jumped Craddick’s ship now come back over to the Smithee camp now that Craddick is out of the way? Nobody knows.

The plot thickens.

]]> By: Scott Unzicker http://demockracy.com/as-goes-the-electorate-so-goes-the-party/comment-page-1/#comment-453 Scott Unzicker Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:53:25 +0000 http://demockracy.com/?p=3160#comment-453 Just in case anyone is interested in the latest info relating to this story, I'll post some numbers that just came in, and put up a select quote. I'll keep this very short: General election voters have a 67% favorable rating of Hutchison to Perry's 51%. Republican primary voters like Hutchison at 55% favorable to Perry's 31%. This information comes from a poll by Voter Consumer Research, Inc. paid for by Hutchison's "exploratory committee." If you want a .pdf of it, let me know. Finally, former Texas GOP chair, Tom Pauken, said to the Dallas Morning News "They've made a mess of things in Washington in the last eight years. Now they're going to come home to Texas and tell us how to fix the Republican Party in our state?" Just in case anyone is interested in the latest info relating to this story, I’ll post some numbers that just came in, and put up a select quote. I’ll keep this very short: General election voters have a 67% favorable rating of Hutchison to Perry’s 51%. Republican primary voters like Hutchison at 55% favorable to Perry’s 31%. This information comes from a poll by Voter Consumer Research, Inc. paid for by Hutchison’s “exploratory committee.” If you want a .pdf of it, let me know. Finally, former Texas GOP chair, Tom Pauken, said to the Dallas Morning News “They’ve made a mess of things in Washington in the last eight years. Now they’re going to come home to Texas and tell us how to fix the Republican Party in our state?”

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