Forget the hyperlink, let’s put it out here so folks will see it ....
* As Speaker, Straus appointed liberal committee chairs Burt Solomons and Brian McCall who effectively killed all immigration enforcement legislation in the 2009 session. Because the Legislature only meets every two years, this means the ongoing invasion of our state cannot be addressed until 2011 at the earliest.
* Joe Straus is pro-abortion. In fact, his rabbi sits on the board of San Antonio Planned Parenthood. I can tell you what I would do if my pastor supported Planned Parenthood: I would find a new church. Joe Straus clearly lacks the moral compass to be Speaker, the third most powerful office in the state.
* According to Heritage Alliance, in the last legislative session in which he voted, Joe Straus voted with conservatives only 52% of the time, which was the second worst voting record among Republicans. In fact, five Democrats were more conservative than Straus! His claim to be a conservative leader is laughable. He was elected in 2009 because of a coalition of turncoat Republicans and every Democrat in the Texas House.
Straus is a liberal, plain and simple. That’s why he needs to go ... not because he’s Jewish.
I have campaigned HARD to ensure that Joe Straus’s career as speaker ends at one secession and had no idea he was Jewish until today.
If you have to make a deal with the enemy (democrats) to get elected in the first place and then reward them with key committee chairmanships for their support you are not, in my humble opinion, fit to BE speaker regardless of your religion.
My rep is John Davis and I need to make sure he's not supporting this liberal Straus guy.
One was my former rep (R). He lost in the primary.