August 16, 2019      5:03 PM

New York Times: A Texas-Size Political Scandal Threatens Powerful House Speaker

After rumblings earlier this week that the RNC is unhappy about the situation and awkward moments at ALEC in Austin, the story goes national: "Except there was a tape..."

The story plays dramatically in the pages of the Times:

AUSTIN — In Texas, they’re calling it the case of “The Speaker and the Creeper.”

The political imbroglio started last month, when Michael Quinn Sullivan, a conservative pit-bull who routinely antagonizes establishment politicians, accused the Republican House Speaker, Dennis Bonnen, of offering his organization coveted House media credentials if it would work to defeat 10 incumbent House members from Mr. Bonnen’s own party.

Mr. Bonnen denied it, and the bombshell was initially greeted with some skepticism. Why would one of the state’s top politicians court a back-room deal — to undermine his own bench — with a man Texas Monthly recently described as “one of the biggest snakes in Texas politics?”

Except there was a tape….

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