[He] was the one who started a chain of events that led to DeLay stepping down as house majority leader. He filed the ethics complaint. |
Even though we have a democratically controlled House, we have committee chairmen from both political parties in the Texas House of Representatives. |
I do not dismiss Merritt's allegation out of hand. |
I knew that the folks in D.C. were going to be surprised and some were going to be chagrined. But it's not all that uncommon here in Texas. |
If you look at polling out there, the governor does much better among traditional Republican primary voters than he does among general population voters. |
It takes out a big organizing force. He was really a centerpiece in terms of fundraising, and he was an ideological anchor, and, obviously, as the majority leader in Congress had a major ripple effect on the flow of money to Texas. |
Republicans in particular were startled at how involved parents were, not traditional primary voters but parents who are pro public schools. |
Republicans, like Democrats, are not enamored by scandal-ridden candidates. |
That's absolutely correct. The district is traditionally a Republican district and it would take something unusual to shift them out of that column. A scandal-ridden congressman is the major hope for Lampson. |
The speaker forced a lot of members to cast votes on school finance and other issues that were not always popular with the folks back home, and that's what a lot of members were having to defend themselves on during this campaign. |
The speaker is weaker today than he was a week ago. |
This has nothing to do with children or education. This is purely to solve a technicality in the law, where we have inadvertently created a statewide property tax. |
What we're seeing right now is kind of a groundswell, for lack of a better word, of pro-education candidates challenging Republicans. |
When Bush was sworn in the second time as governor, his father is standing behind him, and as he turns after taking the oath of office, he walks past his father's outstretched arms to Bullock, who truly was his practical political mentor, and he embraces Bullock first. |
You could have a dramatically different House of Representatives - one that's far more independent of the leadership than currently exists. |