August 16, 2017      10:24 AM
Speaker Straus attends meeting of the Texas House GOP Caucus focused on how he is elected
“If we had held the vote today, Speaker Straus would have been overwhelmingly re-elected,” said a Republican member in attendance
Roughly
80 members of the Texas House Republican Caucus met for about two hours Wednesday
morning and talked about the procedures for choosing the Speaker. Speaker Joe Straus
was in attendance and only described the talks as positive.
Despite
social media posts this morning and over the last week describing the meeting
as a referendum on the speaker’s performance, Republicans who were in attendance
told Quorum
Report that the meeting was, in many ways, a “love fest” for the
speaker and “If we had held the vote today, Speaker Straus would have been
overwhelmingly re-elected.”
By Scott Braddock
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