• Paxton: A True Conservative

    Ranking the Candidates for Speaker

    12 Nov 2010 by / 3 Comments

    Paxton: A True Conservative

    With three men currently to choose from in the Speaker’s race, we in the grassroots need to prepare to rally behind that candidate who will best advance the agenda of liberty and conservatism.  Interestingly, these two pursuits rarely appear in the same legislator.  Instead we get a Warren Chisum who is very socially conservative, but seems to want to spend a lot of our money making other people be socially conservative.  Most famously (and embarrassingly) Representative Chisum managed to make such an issue of fake penises that an independent film has been made about his crusade to outlaw dildos.  However you feel about rubber ding-dongs and their place in our society, I am confident any fiscal conservative would agree that we don’t need to spend any tax money eradicating the blight of pretend penises.

    So with Representative Chisum we get a 2009 rating of 100% from the Heritage Alliance on Social Issues, but the same group gives him a pathetic 73% on Economic Issues and the Young Conservatives of Texas gave him only an overall rating of 76%.  Being three-quarters conservative won’t cut it!  That kind of wishy-washy conservatism is what got us a $20 Billion shortfall in Texas.  We can’t have it both ways, freedom and regulating sex toys for our citizens; small government and the legal framework to monitor the purchase and distribution of plastic genitalia.

    Straus’s record cannot possibly excuse his behavior in the bid for his original Speakership or his more recent debacle of allowing staff to threaten redistricting as retribution for those who fail to support him.  Under Straus we saw more liberal legislation passed than under the last Democratic Speaker and it is well known that he was the Democratic pick, not the conservative choice the first time around.  Nothing in his record can mitigate these circumstances.  He must go.  Support for Straus must not be tolerated by any citizen interested in seeing the size, scope, and price-tag of government shrink.

    But enter Ken Paxton!  Now here is a guy we should get behind.  He’s only been there for seven years which means he may still have retained some perspective.  In his time there he has received 100% ratings from both the Heritage Alliance on Social Issues and Texans for Fiscal Responsibility.  There is a rumor going around that two more hats will be thrown into this ring; all I can say is they’ll have to be pretty good to outshine Ken Paxton in light of the Tea Party’s priorities.



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  • Speaker’s Race Gives Freshmen a Chance to Shine

    12 Nov 2010 by / 1 Comment

    Three men now vie for the House Gavel in Austin: Joe Straus who seeks to continue his reign, Warren Chisum, a 21-year veteran, and Ken Paxton, a relative new-comer elected in 2003.  Paxton has the most conservative record of all, respecting not only family values but liberty as well, an unfortunately rare combination in the RINO-infested Republican party.

    Regardless of who wins the Speaker’s race in Texas, the real battle will be between the People and the Politicos. With the revelation by Representative Bryan Hughes that he had been threatened by one of Straus’s staff, voters are reminded that just because the players have changed doesn’t mean the game will be played any differently. Though support for Straus seems to be falling like a rock, there are many in Austin who will continue to support him whether out of fear or self-interest.

    Support for Straus dwindles despite (or due to) threats

    The eyes of the grassroots are on the incoming Freshmen, many of whom were elected to replace exactly the sort of good ‘ol boy we would expect to vote for Straus. The momentum is clearly in the direction of smaller government, a radical reduction in spending and massive tax reforms. The People are wanting to see some serious guts on display in Austin this session; the kind of guts that tell Washington to go pound sand.

    This race for Speaker may turn out to be more a referendum on who the Tea Parties helped to elect than a referendum on the Speaker. We all know Straus is a disaster who wheedled his way into the seat by collaborating with some RINOs to give the Democrats their pick. What we don’t know is whether these newly elected Freshmen – sent with a clear mandate to destroy politics as usual – will be courageous enough to vote for a Speaker who will allow the radical agenda of restoring liberty to proceed, or will they lose this first skirmish and vote out of fear or expedience?



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