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Offline Elderberry

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North Texas Conservatives Organize to Defeat Dade Phelan
« on: February 17, 2024, 09:16:40 pm »
Texas Scorecard by  Erin Anderson February 16, 2024

Activists are heading to East Texas to help Speaker Phelan’s GOP primary challenger David Covey.



A busload of North Texas conservative activists is heading to the state House district of Speaker Dade Phelan this weekend to campaign for his Republican primary rival David Covey.

The activists are among Republicans from across the state who are working to defeat Phelan in House District 21—which covers Orange, Jasper, and Jefferson counties—to ensure he cannot serve a third term as speaker of the Texas House.

Grassroots Republicans are disgusted with Phelan’s legislative leadership for everything from empowering Democrats with House committee chair positions to overseeing the impeachment of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Last weekend, members of the Republican Party of Texas’ governing body censured Phelan, following earlier censures by the Orange and Jasper County GOP executive committees.

A state party censure strips RPT financial support from Phelan’s campaign and opens the door to the party campaigning against him.

More: https://texasscorecard.com/local/north-texas-conservatives-organize-to-defeat-dade-phelan/

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Re: North Texas Conservatives Organize to Defeat Dade Phelan
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2024, 10:43:29 am »
State Agency Paid Millions in Real Estate Lease to Speaker Phelan’s Company

Phelan charged taxpayers three times what other tenants were paying.

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Tony McDonald, an attorney familiar with state ethics laws, told Texas Scorecard. “Phelan’s control over the budget for HHSC, while he is charging them millions in rent, appears to present a serious conflict of interest.”
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Re: North Texas Conservatives Organize to Defeat Dade Phelan
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2024, 10:50:51 am »
Quote from: Elderberry on February 17, 2024, 09:16:40 pm
Grassroots Republicans are disgusted with Phelan’s legislative leadership for everything from empowering Democrats with House committee chair positions to overseeing the impeachment of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Last weekend, members of the Republican Party of Texas’ governing body censured Phelan, following earlier censures by the Orange and Jasper County GOP executive committees.

A state party censure strips RPT financial support from Phelan’s campaign and opens the door to the party campaigning against him.

There is nothing the GOP Establishment hates more than grassroots Republicans.  Looks like they did it right, putting pressure on the RPT first to block them from backing Phelan.  Too bad the RNC is broke, else they would be figuring out a way to bail out the Texas Speaker.
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Re: North Texas Conservatives Organize to Defeat Dade Phelan
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2024, 12:55:22 pm »
Phelan v. Covey ads are now non-stop, and on any local programming, we are seeing 5-8 an hour.

Never seen anything like this.
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