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  On 12/9/2024 at 2:22 PM, CardinalBacker said:

Congratulations, SETX..... you just cut your own nuts off and handed them to Paxton and his cronies.  But you did it for the good of the party, so I guess it's okay.  

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What did Phelan do that makes you want him to stay as the Speaker? I really don't care if he won the speakership again or not, I'm just wondering what your take is.

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  On 12/9/2024 at 3:55 PM, SmashMouth said:

What did Phelan do that makes you want him to stay as the Speaker? I really don't care if he won the speakership again or not, I'm just wondering what your take is.

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He and some of the other Democrats might be perturbed about missing some possible committee chairman positions.

 With the ongoing fight over the next speaker, we might end up with a Phelan clone. 

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  On 12/9/2024 at 3:30 PM, tvc184 said:

🤣🤣🤣

Maybe we want Paxton and his cronies.

 What has Phelan brought to SE Texas? 

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Drive from BC to Orange on 87 and see if you can see anything new going on around there. Drive from Beaumont to Louisiana and see if there is any highway construction going on.  Look at the GLO grants that have been sent to our area in the last 4 years. Look up the amount of grants sent our way on the criminal justice system. 

 

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Ok, Geniuses.... a few months ago the Speaker was the most powerful person in the House and had to be stopped.  Now that he's gone and SETX as a whole will be on the back burner, y'all are going "oh, well... what can the speaker do anyway?"

If the speaker was so powerless, why were y'all so anxious to see him removed?

Have fun watching our priorities get ignored. 

Posted
  On 12/9/2024 at 7:39 PM, CardinalBacker said:

Ok, Geniuses.... a few months ago the Speaker was the most powerful person in the House and had to be stopped.  Now that he's gone and SETX as a whole will be on the back burner, y'all are going "oh, well... what can the speaker do anyway?"

If the speaker was so powerless, why were y'all so anxious to see him removed?

Have fun watching our priorities get ignored. 

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Are we going to get our cheeks clapped here in SE Texas?

Posted
  On 12/9/2024 at 7:39 PM, CardinalBacker said:

Ok, Geniuses.... a few months ago the Speaker was the most powerful person in the House and had to be stopped.  Now that he's gone and SETX as a whole will be on the back burner, y'all are going "oh, well... what can the speaker do anyway?"

If the speaker was so powerless, why were y'all so anxious to see him removed?

Have fun watching our priorities get ignored. 

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Straw Man, yet again.

Who has said that the speaker is “so powerless”? 

Out of the 254 counties in Texas, most are ignored if they have the speaker?

 Your predictions haven’t been very accurate lately but who knows, maybe your prognosticating has improved. 

Posted
  On 12/9/2024 at 10:51 PM, mat said:

CB, what did SETX have to do with Phelan stepping down?

For those of you that wonder what Phelan has done? Go to about the 11:30 mark on the podcast interview.

This is the hidden content, please

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Absolutely nothing but it makes for another great straw man. 

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It’s kind of interesting that all of the money that was spent on him from outside sources (I think over a million dollars for basically a local election) was to get him to win the Speaker seat again. That much money and influence didn’t come from people because of a safe Republican seat  

Covey’s big push (also with a lot of money behind him) as far as voters were concerned was to keep Phelan from repeating as Speaker.

Although Covey didn’t win, the people who wanted Phelan out were in effect able to keep him from being the Speaker. Not directly but all of the ruckus that was raised almost surely had an effect on the Speaker race and him dropping out. 

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