Mitch Little - Texas State Representative-Elect Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm fifty two. Is their time here in Houston's Morning News.
Who will the NEXTUS, next Texas House Speaker be? And
we don't really know. We know it won't be Daved
feelin that much, we do know, but will it be
Cook or Burroughs? Over the weekend, Representative Burroughs made the
claim that he has enough votes to become the next
Texas Speaker of the House. Join us to talk about

(00:21):
Texas State Representative elect former Ken Paxton defense attorney Mitch
Little Mitch, welcome back to the show. Is there a
clear winner here in your mind or is this up
in the air. Absolutely not, There's not a clear winner yet.
If you look at what happens Saturday, Wow, what an
introduction to the Texas House for me. So I'm in

(00:44):
this meeting with all these people who are supposed to
be my colleagues, eighty eight Republicans.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
We get through two rounds of voting. The first round
is forty eight votes for David Cook, forty for Dustin Burroughs.
Second round forty seven for David Cook, forty one for
Dustin Burroughs. We're getting ready to have a third round
of voting and Dustin Burrows and his supporters just they
get up and walk out of the room without explaining themselves.

(01:10):
They don't don't say where they're going, and they just
leave the meeting completely. And so as you get to
the end of the day on Saturday, we're there for
you know, I was there for five hours trying to
vote and get a nominee. And Dustin Burroughs puts on
a press conference saying I've got the votes, the race
for the Texas House is over, and the list his

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list supposedly has more Republicans and Democrats on it, But
as the night rolled on, Republicans start saying, hey, I
never said I was with Dustin Burroughs or on his list.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
This is its madness. Wow, it sounds like madness. It's
it sounds in the case of Dustin Burroughs, it sounds
like there wouldn't maybe be that big of a difference
between a Dustin Bureaus and a Dade feeling or am
not being fair.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
It's there. It's the same regime. It's going to have
the same staffers, it's going to be manned by the
same people. You're gonna probably have the same committee chairs.
You're going to get the same results. The problem is
as as Republicans started falling off Dustin Burrough's list on Saturday,
as the night went on, it became obvious that Dustin

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Burroughs had more Democrats on his list than Republicans. And
so in a Republican majority state, where every statewide office
is held by a Republican, we have a speaker who's
ostensibly going to be installed by a majority of Democrats.
This is uh. This is the old Strauss play, the

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old Joe Strauss play, run again by Dustin Burrows, and
Texans should not put up with it. You should go
online and try to find out if your representative is
on Dustin Burrough's list. This this can't, this can't happen anymore,
all right, So when's the next voote going to take place?

(03:00):
Like Dustin Burroughs took all of his toys and went home,
So when is he coming back? I guess we'll find
out on January fourteenth when he hit the floor. What's
going to happen between now and January fourteenth is both
the race is not over. Both David Cook and Dustin
Burroughs are going to be working the members of the
Texas House trying to find a path to seventy six.

(03:21):
What David Cook started out doing is what we all
should be doing. We should be moving through the House
Republican Caucus and trying to find a winner. That was
the purpose of the vote on Saturday, so that every
Republican in the House would support the winner of the
House Republican Caucus, who is now David Cook. The problem
is we've got too many Republicans in the state who

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are not living up to their word. They're not following
the caucus bylaws, and they're trying to cut deals with
the Dems so that they can maintain and grow their
own personal power.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Okay, this is going to be interesting, to say the least.
Thanks for checking in with us. Match appreciate it. Texas
State Representative elect former Ken Paxton defense attorney. That's mitched Little.
It's five fifty six.