Harvey Kronberg
Harvey Kronberg
cast defend finance folks forced issues members popular school speaker themselves votes
The speaker forced a lot of members to cast votes on school finance and other issues that were not always popular with the folks back home, and that's what a lot of members were having to defend themselves on during this campaign.
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It takes out a big organizing force. He was really a centerpiece in terms of fundraising, and he was an ideological anchor, and, obviously, as the majority leader in Congress had a major ripple effect on the flow of money to Texas.
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I knew that the folks in D.C. were going to be surprised and some were going to be chagrined. But it's not all that uncommon here in Texas.
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You could have a dramatically different House of Representatives - one that's far more independent of the leadership than currently exists.
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The speaker is weaker today than he was a week ago.