After Burrows win, GOP fallout begins

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Fallout from Rep. Dustin Burrows’ speaker election has already begun. Minutes after the Lubbock Republican was elected, Republican Party of Texas Chair Abraham George indicated that Burrows supporters could soon be censured by the party — a move that, under new party rules, would bar them from appearing on a primary ballot for two years. The party indicated as much late last year, after Burrows announced that he had enough bipartisan support to win the speakership, though it's likely that any attempt to bar lawmakers from primary ballots would face legal challenges.

The potential censures would add to party acrimony that’s only intensified in the lead up to the speaker election. Earlier this month, Rep. Cody Harris, a Burrows supporter, alleged in an ethics complaint that George had violated bribery rules by threatening to run negative ads in the districts of lawmakers who backed Burrows.

George’s comments came as supporters of Rep. David Cook, R-Mansfield, vowed to punish those who voted against him during the next primary elections. “This is our House,” they chanted from the Capitol steps.

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Paxton, a top state Republican leader who had traveled the state urging people to pressure their lawmakers to vote for Cook, criticized Burrows for winning the speaker’s gavel with Democrat support and for going against Cook who had been the House Republican Caucus’ endorsed nominee. He called on Burrows to prove his conservative bona fides and warned that he would keep fighting to “reform the Texas House.”

“It is now important that Speaker Burrows and his leadership team pass every conservative legislative priority in a timely manner to make our state more secure and more prosperous,” he said. “That is what Texas Republicans expect.”

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, an archconservative who presides over the Senate, was also critical of Burrows’ reliance on Democrat votes to win the speaker’s race. He said he expected Burrows to help the House pass legislation supported by social conservatives including: school vouchers, banning cities and counties from hiring lobbyists to advocate for them in Austin, bail reform, election integrity bills, putting the Ten Commandments in school classrooms, banning the teaching of Critical Race Theory in the state’s colleges and universities and banning people from countries that are adversaries of the United States from owning land in Texas.

“Each of these bills will be passed again by the Texas Senate,” Patrick said in a statement. “The voters will hold our new speaker accountable to keep his promise of being the most conservative speaker in Texas history.”

Burrows’ win is likely to further inflame tensions between some factions of the Texas GOP that have been at war with one another since Paxton’s impeachment and acquittal in 2023. The acrimony only worsened in the lead up to Tuesday’s vote, as Republican Party of Texas leaders vowed to censure lawmakers who supported Burrows, prompting one lawmaker to file an ethical complaint accusing party chair Abraham George of bribery.

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Texas MAGA is threatening to censure and primary GOP reps who supported Burrows, too. Is this their Achilles heel?

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1. Clearing the pathway for purity crazies...............

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2. Texas is going thru a MAGA purge no different than the one going on at the federal level.

More rabid, more extreme, Republicans eating their own with threats of primaries.