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Dade Phelan drops bid for 3rd term

Austin American-Statesman · 3d

Dade Phelan's reluctant relinquishment of Texas House speakership is part of a pattern

Dade Phelan is hardly the only Texas House speaker to limp away from the dais amid a collapse in support from membership.

The Texas Tribune on MSN · 5d

Speaker Dade Phelan abandons bid for third term amid bruising leadership battle

Phelan, a Beaumont Republican, had previously insisted he had enough votes to thwart a challenge from the right led by state Rep. David Cook of Mansfield.

Dallas Morning News · 3d

Dade Phelan’s ouster is bad chapter for a darker Texas GOP

Patrick’s decision that the state Senate would protect Paxton from conviction in an impeachment trial marked a dark turn for the power brokers of the Texas GOP. Phelan appropriately looked at the evidence and chose a path of truth, permitting the assembly of a powerful and successful impeachment case. That’s spelled his political fate.

FOX 7 Austin on MSN5d

Dade Phelan withdraws from Speaker of the Texas House race

There will be a new Texas House Speaker as Dade Phelan announces he will be withdrawing from the race for the job.

4dOpinion

Megadonors are controlling the Speaker vote in Austin

State rep writes that the Texas House Republican Caucus is now largely controlled by megadonors Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks.

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