Posted on 11/11/2010 12:31:48 AM PST by ConservativeTeacherInTraining
He got to be Speaker in the last session when the Republicans only had a 3-seat majority. The Texas House, stupidly allows the minority party to cast votes for Speaker, so he got a bunch of Democrat votes.
Now that the Conservatives have such a LARGE majority, we’re all working to see he’s ousted.
It is also interesting that Straus refused to answer questions on the VoteSmart.org “Political Courage Test” - http://www.votesmart.org/npat.php?can_id=49917
He was asked repeatedly by Vote Smart, national media, and prominent political leaders.
House General Investigating and Ethics Committee Chairman Chuck Hopson will have a hearing on the charges brought forth by Bryan Hughes on Nov. 22nd or 23rd, the first day the full Committee can meet.
So the stink is about the hot the fan. Straus better get himself a scotch guard suit, he’s gonna need one soon.
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Please go here and read the WHOLE letter !!!
AN OPEN LETTER TO TEXAS HOUSE SPEAKER JOE STRAUS
FROM CONSERVATIVE STATE REPRESENTATIVE LEO BERMAN
http://news.navigator-news.com/component/content/article/6-politics/63-an-open-letter-to-texas-house-speaker-joe-straus-from-conservative-state-representative-leo-berman
Excerpt:
At the beginning of last session you and 10 of your cohort Republicans, RINOS would be the proper term, decided you did not want my good friend Tom Craddick, a solid conservative Speaker, to preside over the session. You met and voted among yourselves as to who would be your Speaker candidate.
It fell upon you since you were the least controversial although you were the one with the least service in the House. You had 11 votes but needed 65 more to make the 76 it takes to elect a Speaker.
You decided to go to the Democrats who eventually gave you the 65 votes to win. What did you give them? You gave them a promise not to bring legislation dealing with ILLEGAL ALIENS, PRO-LIFE ISSUES, or VOTER-ID to the House floor and that is exactly what happened during the session. The Democrats loved that deal because they opposed all three issues vehemently.
When I saw that no bills on illegal aliens were coming out of the State Affairs Committee Chaired by Rep. Burt Solomons, I did notice that Democrats were bringing bills to the floor that would have funneled millions of dollars directly to illegal aliens. I started to amend those bills immediately, with simple words which said, “These benefits are for U.S. citizens only”.
Excuse the term, but the Democrats went “nuts” over my amendments and Joe, you tried to come to their rescue. You came to my desk on the House floor and asked what you can do for me (like hearing one of my bills in Solomon’s committee) to get me to stop amending the Democrats’ bills. I could not believe what I heard from you. I asked you if you took the same oath of office that I did and then requested that you leave my desk quickly before I really got angry.
Finally, you single-handedly killed the Voter –ID Bill, a bill that 96% of Republicans in the 2008 Primary election voted to have considered in the next session.
I love that MR. Straus sent to Rep. Leo Berman, cited in an open letter that former Texas GOP Chariman Cathy Adams wrote to the Texas GOP Blog, quoting MR. Straus as saying “The election is over, the grass roots movement needs to sit down and shut up”. Oh I HOPE MR. Straus runs his mouth like that some more, cause he’s about to get the grass roots effort RIGHT IN HIS FACE! Jack booted dirty money thug RINO, should deport him from Texas, send him to Illinois or New Jersey, he’d fit right in there.
THANK YOU! Really apprecaite your help with this! :)
You bet! :)
Bump and more evidence of why Straus must go!
http://dallasteaparty.org/userdata/dallasteaparty/Straus_Leadership_Team.pdf
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