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January 30, 2018      10:45 AM

HK: Understanding the real stakes in the Abbott-Davis dustup

A hostile takeover of the House by bank-shotting the Speaker’s race, taking a page out of the plaintiff attorney playbook in the 80’s

After reading Editor Scott Braddock’s insightful piece about the RPT bank shot censure of Speaker Joe Straus as little more than an effort to make his financial and personal support of candidates radioactive, it highlighted the pincer effort currently employed by some to intimidate and dominate Republicans in the Texas House. 

Otherwise talented Republicans in the Senate have already surrendered their independence out of fear of the political and rhetorical skills of their presiding officer working in tandem with Midland money and the social networking skills of Empower Texans and other self-proclaimed conservative groups.

It also begins to answer the most commonly asked question in political watering holes last week: “What the hell is Greg Abbott doing in the Sarah Davis race?”

The answer to that reminded me of an old story told by cronies of Bob Bullock years ago. Although the story differs sometimes according to the story-teller, the basic point is instructive.

By Harvey Kronberg

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