Dr. Robin Armstrong - RNC Texas, Galveston Commissioners Court, Joins Houston Morning News, July 15th

Episode Transcript

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So who were the winners and losersthe primary runoffs. Dave Feelin, thanks
to help from Democrats, is goingto be perhaps reelected this fall. Certainly
he'll be running this fall. Chancesare good he will win reelection. The
question is will he still be HouseSpeaker after all this is over and done
with, Well the conservative action,are there enough conservatives now to prevent him

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from becoming speaker or there's still enoughDemocrats with a help from a few Rhinos
to get him to be the nextspeaker again. Steve Doath joins US Texas
state representative. What do you makeabout who won in these primary runoffs at
the end of the day, Steve, Jimmy, we did exceedingly well,
it's the biggest turnover and we hada lot of help from the governor,

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but it was the biggest turnover ina primary election that we've had in the
history of Texas within a party.So we turned out, we turned out
fourteen Rhino Republicans and replace them withwas good hardcore conservatives. And these are
in edules that understand that we've gotto fight Democrats, not appease them.

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Yeah, this this whole point,I mean, part part of the factions
of the Republicans, led by thegovernor, trying to take out those who
voted against school choice or who wereon the wrong side of school choice from
from the voters certainly opinions. Therewas also the faction that was backing Ken

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Paxton and the Lieutenant governor, whowere all about retribution for this movement to
impeach him from his office. Sodid you win? Did the state win?
Did the voters of this state Republicanvoters of the state win on both
counts? I think they did,and you know, really share both both

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parts or both factions, if youwill, came together to throw a lot
of these guys out. The frustratingthing. And I was down in Beaumont
on Tuesday night when David Covey lostto Dad Feeling, and it was just
so frus trading because nearly four percentof the people that turned out to vote
were Democrats, and Feeling worked reallyhard to get them to turn out.

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But you know, in response toit, two weeks later, at the
convention in San Antonio, we madea decision down there. It's the biggest
political convention in the United States,bigger than our national convention, and we
made the decision that no more Democratsare going to be voting in our primaries.

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We're going to close our primaries.Probably two dozen other states do this,
they hold close primaries, and we'regoing to do that in Texas.
Now, I thought it was interestingthat Ken Paxton, Theatary General, weighed
in. He basically is saying thatyou will not return if you vote for
Dade Field again. So he's sendinga warning shot to any Republican that would
consider supporting day feeling for House Speaker. Yeah, very clearly. And I

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you know, we've had multiple peoplenow turn out and run against him,
people that supported him last session,people that were committee chairs that have said
no more, we're done with you. All right, I hope that's the
case. Yeah, we don't knowhow many. Will we end up with
another Rhino as speaker is the questionI think on many people's minds. Yeah,

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what do you think about that?That's that's what we fear, we
do. We we fear that we'regoing to wind up with another Democrat uh
picked speaker that that we're you know, you've got sixty four Democrats and twenty
or so Republicans that that pick thatpick that person. But if they do,
they're going to have a mark ontheir back as soon as they as

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soon as they take the gavel.Okay, good to hear from you,
sir, I appreciate it. TexasState Representative Steve Tote