ast Thursday I received a cryptic message from a well placed staffer in Speaker Straus' office.
Question: I hear you have a list you're working on, can we talk?
Answer: The only list I have is a grocery list for diapers and baby wipes. I am around if you want to visit.
It turns out the question was a serious one, as the staffer began to tell me about a rumor to oust SO3 from the Chair. I couldn't help but laugh because I thought it was both silly and pretty far from reality. What was funnier was that I was on a short list of folks responsible for gathering the names.
I thought this was the sort of play that was ill conceived by a junior staffer who had one too many at the Cloak Room. I laughed it off and went about my day.
By Monday this issue was way behind me- - it was an old rumor. But many learned about this for the first time yesterday when a conservative website wrote an article confirming there is an orchestrated attempt to remove SO3 (This is why there needs to be a 2 drink limit at the cloak room).
Jim Dunnam and I are the first ones on the record saying it ain't so as reported in Jason Embry's First Reading.
To be clear there is no list. I have not signed, seen or heard of anyone working on this. I am unaware of any overt, covert or osmotic effort to begin one.
Go back to your lives, citizens. Crisis averted.
P.S. Don't take candy from strangers. And don't get your info from a guy that misspells Deep Throat's real name ( Hey genius, it's Mark Felt, not Feldt)
There you go. There is no way a motion to vacate the Speaker of the Texas House happens without leaders like Jim Dunnam or Trey Martinez Fischer. It just can't happen.
I am not saying something isn't brewing, but this emphatic denial casts a very large shadow of doubt on this rumor.
