Episode 3640: Texas House Speaker race is about an idea that is far more important than Burrows or Cook – Pratt on Texas 1/7/2025

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: “Scorched earth,” belittling the Governor and Lt. Governor, and much more keeps coming from the Lubbock House delegation in its tantrum-style effort to gain the Texas House Speaker’s gavel. Beyond the obvious self-serving nature of the effort so far is the issue of the false arguments being offered by most including almost all press coverage. The race is not about Burrows and his Burrowcrat Coalition or David Cook and his backers, it about putting an end to the “most pervasive, long-lasting, and heavily funded divide in the Texas Republican Party.“

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Texas has a new Chief Justice of its Supreme Court and a new member on the court: Gov. Abbott appoints Jimmy Blacklock as Chief Justice and James P. Sullivan as Justice, Place 2.
UT-Austin’s president leaving to become head of SMU.
U.S. Rep. Keith Self files bill in Congress to move Customs and Border Protection’s headquarters to Texas.
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