The battle for speaker of the Texas House is still ongoing. This is the current situation.
Now that Speaker Dade Phelan is no longer running, Republican state representatives Dustin Burrows and David Cook will compete. Although Dade Phelan has withdrawn his attempt to continue leading the Texas House, the campaign for speaker is still very much alive. Two Republicans have emerged as the front-runners for his successor going into Saturday’s pivotal GOP caucus meeting, and they are both going in quite different directions. Mansfield state representative David Cook, who has been […]