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You Texans Need to Call Cindy Burkett

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 16th, 2010 at 01:14 PM  | 

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I received this email earlier today from Matt Brownfield:

I served as Cindy Burkett’s campaign manager for the 2010 election and am currently helping with her transition to Austin. You incorrectly posted yesterday that Representative Elect Burkett has endorsed Joe Straus for speaker. She has yet to back any candidate in the Speaker’s race and has signed no pledge cards. I respectfully request that you retract that statement from your post entitled “Ken Paxton Should be Speaker of Texas’s House.”

I am also interested to know what you used as the basis for your claim that Burkett had endorsed Straus, since she has issued no statements to that effect herself and is not listed on any of the pledge lists.

As I told Matt, before delving into state matters, I rely heavily on our readership in those states to give me the necessary information. More than one of them pointed out Burett is support Strauss, though she is denying it as we can see from this email. I have updated the original post to reflect that she is taking no position.

Consequently, it appears Rep.-Elect Burkett is taking the position of having no position on this and I suggest each and every one of you in Texas call her and encourage her to support Ken Paxton. (Her facebook page is here)

Taking no position at this critical time is certainly a close equivalent to embracing the unacceptable status quo of Joe Straus.

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  • NeoKong

    I could live there.
    People were nice.
    I went to the State Capitol building.
    It was pretty impressive.
    I went to sixth street. I liked it.
    My rental got towed. That sort of sucked. I sucked it up and paid the fine..

    I went to the

    Driskill

    for drinks.
    Pretty cool.
    I ate at

    Fogo de Chao.

    I know this sounds sort of funny for people who live near one
    but we don’t have Sonic burger chains where I live but I parked my car and tried to walk inside.
    I scared the hell out of them.
    They almost called 9-11 for the lunatic trying to rob them.
    “Return to your car sir.”

    I didn’t know.

  • Philip

    I would like to know the date of the election for the Speaker position and the timeframe.

    I tried Legislature site, Handbook of Texas online, Wikipeia, searches on Yahoo.

    Austin can be a truly wonderful place.

  • chbroussard

    I called my state rep Friday to make sure that he would not be voting for Joe Straus. I was told that he would not.

    Then I get this email with a letter from Joe Straus stating the names of those who were endorsing him for speaker, and there was my rep’s name.

    So, I got on the phone again this morning and called him and asked what the heck was going on and why was his name among those endorsing Straus. I was told he had signed *no* pledge to support Straus.

    It appears to me that someone is being a little loosey goosey with the truth here. Is Joe Straus putting out a false list, or are some of our reps not being honest with their constituents. I don’t know the answer right now, but if it turns out to be the latter, there are going to be some really PO’d people in the great State of Texas.

  • graciegirl
  • GreyCloak

    Ken Paxton seems like a nice guy, comes from near here (DFW area), and my former US Representative Dick Armey likes him.

    FYI:

    Y’all need to understand that we only let our State House (Legislature, “Ledge”) meet every other year and they all have full-time jobs elsewhere.

    This year, they’ll be busy, and could use a better Republican Speaker.

    But as Molly Ivens once said:

    “When the Ledge is in session, many a village is missing its idiot.”