{"id":53671,"date":"2022-12-05T17:48:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T17:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53671"},"modified":"2022-12-05T18:21:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T18:21:31","slug":"dade-phelan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53671","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisanship is best for Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Dade Phelan has survived a challenge to his role as speaker of the Texas House of Representatives \u2026 and for that I am glad he did.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because the challenge came from a fellow Republican who doesn\u2019t much cotton to the way Phelan doles out House committee chairmanships. You see, Phelan \u2014 a Beaumont Republican \u2014 handed chairmanships to some of those dreaded Democrats with whom he serves in the Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>The insurgency came from Rep. Tony Tinderholt, a Tarrant County Republican, who sought to replace Phelan as speaker. The final vote was 78 to 6.<\/p>\n<p>Phelan\u2019s bipartisan handling of the speakership is not unlike so many of the individuals who preceded him. Speakers Joe Straus, Dennis Bonnen and Tom Craddick all handed chairman\u2019s gavels to Democrats. The most recent Democratic speaker, Pete Laney, also was generous in sharing power with Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Texas Tribune:\u00a0<em>In response to the vote Saturday, Tinderholt said on Twitter he is \u201cundeterred in my fight to ensure we have strong conservative leadership this session\u201d and added that he will \u201clook forward to the floor vote on the first day of session.\u201d The 88th Texas Legislature begins meeting on Jan. 10.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/texastribune.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow ugc noopener\">Texas House Republican Caucus endorses Dade Phelan for speaker | The Texas Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The endorsement by the Republican legislative caucus only strengthens Phelan\u2019s hand as the entire Legislature will vote next month to select the next speaker. Phelan needs 76 votes and the GOP endorsement would seemingly ensure Phelan has them.<\/p>\n<p>Phelan merely is following a tradition set long ago in a legislative body that works best when Democrats and Republicans can find common ground on legislation that works for all Texans. Sharing some of the power in the manner Phelan has chosen is a step toward achieving that legislative success.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow ugc noopener\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dade Phelan has survived a challenge to his role as speaker of the Texas House of Representatives \u2026 and for that I am glad he did. Why? Because the challenge came from a fellow Republican who doesn\u2019t much cotton to the way Phelan doles out House committee chairmanships. You see, Phelan \u2014 a Beaumont Republican &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53671\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bipartisanship is best for Texas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[4622,4653,4728],"class_list":["post-53671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-state-news","tag-texas-gop","tag-texas-legislature","tag-texas-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53672,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53671\/revisions\/53672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}