{"id":7702,"date":"2010-11-11T12:22:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T17:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7702"},"modified":"2010-11-11T12:22:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T17:22:23","slug":"conservatives-aim-to-retake-texas-house-speakership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7702\/conservatives-aim-to-retake-texas-house-speakership\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives Aim to Retake Texas House Speakership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a former staff member in the Texas House of Representatives, I have an interest in news that the chamber may be headed for conservative leadership.\u00a0 This morning, Rep. Ken Paxton (R-McKinney) <a href=\"http:\/\/trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com\/archives\/2010\/11\/collin-county-paxton-joins-the.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced his bid to unseat current Speaker Joe Straus<\/a> (R-San Antonio).\u00a0 If successful, Paxton would be the third Republican Speaker in under three years, since Straus ascended to power by beating former Speaker (and my old boss) Tom Craddick (R-Midland) in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>What does an intra-party fight in one of the reddest states in America mean for citizens outside the Lone Star State?\u00a0 Plenty.<\/p>\n<p>Texas is already the exemplar of low-tax, low-regulation state government.\u00a0 Moreover, because the legislature only meets for 140 days every two years, Texas government has not had a chance to weigh in legislatively on issues like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/news\/election\/azelections\/articles\/2010\/11\/01\/20101101arizona-immigration-law-federal-court-ruling01-ON.html \" target=\"_blank\">Arizona\u2019s approach to illegal immigration<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704271804575405343289441082.html \" target=\"_blank\">Virginia\u2019s response to block implementation of ObamaCare<\/a>.\u00a0 With the kick-off of the legislative session next January, a more conservative Republican House majority will be able to make some <a href=\"http:\/\/nation.foxnews.com\/arizona-immigration-law\/2010\/11\/10\/texas-goes-arizona-style-immigration-law \" target=\"_blank\">big statements<\/a> about the power of the 10<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment in our federal system.<\/p>\n<p>That is, if the House is run by a true conservative.\u00a0 Stay tuned\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a former staff member in the Texas House of Representatives, I have an interest in news that the chamber may be headed for conservative leadership.\u00a0 This morning, Rep. Ken Paxton (R-McKinney) announced his bid to unseat current Speaker Joe Straus (R-San Antonio).\u00a0 If successful, Paxton would be the third Republican Speaker in under three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[846,928,514,2058,2057,2055,35,1452,71,839,561,2059,2056],"class_list":["post-7702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-arizona","tag-conservative","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-joe-straus","tag-ken-paxton","tag-legislature","tag-obamacare","tag-sb-1070","tag-taxes","tag-tenth-amendment","tag-texas","tag-tom-craddick","tag-viriginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7705,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions\/7705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}