| There is a certain point at which keeping track of the new pledges will be pointless but so long as there are people that think there is a speaker's race still going on, we'd be remiss not to post the latest additions.
There were the original 85 pledges and they will be rewarded more than most. Then Turner (D), Guillen (D), and Button (R) added their support to make 88.
Then overnight there was Rep. Mike "Tuffy" Hamilton (R) and Patricia Harless (R) for 90.
And 6 more have been released for a total of 96 publicly listed. Kronberg says 98 but he's either double counting 2 votes or those two haven't been released yet. We're checking that out.
Republicans
Rep. Rob Orr (withdrew support from Smithee)
Joe Driver
Wayne Smith
John Davis
Harvey Hildebran
Democrats
Al Edwards
That leaves Democrat Harold Dutton as the only Democrat who has not pledged to Straus. |
