September 25, 2017      2:33 PM

Could we see a real race for speaker

Rep. Phil King is a different kind of challenger but the internal politics of the House appear to remain firmly with Straus

With Rep. Phil King formally announcing his challenge to incumbent Speaker Joe Straus, the Texas political world just got a lot more interesting. In many respects King has the same button down, modulated, unflappable demeanor and self-confidence exhibited by the incumbent.

And after all, the last potentially serious challenge to an incumbent Speaker was then-Rep. Brian McCall challenging incumbent Tom Craddick, often described as tyrannical by even his own early very conservative allies such as Robert Talton of Houston and Mike Krusee of Round Rock who ultimately joined the resistance.

Straus has thus far had multiple challenges, but none were serious.

By Harvey Kronberg

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