By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-06 16:01:05 | Updated at 2024-12-22 21:56:40
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Winning: Anti-Paxton Texas Speaker Abandons Bid for Third Term Amid MAGA Backlash.
The National Pulse ^ | Dec. 6, 2024 | Jack Montgomery
Posted on 12/06/2024 7:53:32 AM PST by fwdude
Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan announced Friday that he is stepping aside in his bid for another term as leader. The move follows months of escalating criticism from MAGA conservatives within his party, who have sought to remove him from power and reshape the House’s leadership.
Phelan, who claimed he had the votes to fend off a challenge from former ally Rep. David Cook, withdrew just a day before the GOP caucus was set to choose its speaker nominee regardless. Infamously, Phelan assisted the failed plot to impeach and remove the Lone Star State’s America First Attorney General, Ken Paxton.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: corruption
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This is HUGE and wonderful news!!!
1 posted on 12/06/2024 7:53:33 AM PST by fwdude
To: fwdude
Phelan survived - with the help of Democrat voters - but almost all of his key allies got picked off. He was NOT going to win the speakership again.
2 posted on 12/06/2024 7:55:14 AM PST by FLT-bird
To: fwdude
Agreed, GOOD TO SEE HIM GO !!!
3 posted on 12/06/2024 7:58:14 AM PST by Pearfect (Ou can't beat the competition lock-)
To: fwdude
...And down goes, Phelan! Phelan is DOWN!!!!
4 posted on 12/06/2024 8:00:10 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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