The Texas GOP, siding with allegedly corrupt state Attorney General Ken Paxton, is out for revenge against the rebellious faction of the Party who sought to hold Paxton to a modicum of justice for his corrupt acts.
Per the Texas Scorecard, a state news outlet, the Texas State Republican Executive Committee passed a resolution by a 58-2 vote calling for the Speaker of the State House Dade Phelan to step down from his leadership role after Paxton was acquitted on all 16 charges by the state senate. Phelan had already been sanctioned by his county Party organization.
This action comes a day after the same state committee voted to censure Republican state rep Andrew Murr, who led the House Board of Managers investigation. After Paxton was acquitted, Murr seemed to know the writing was on the wall, according to TheTexan.com: “We always knew that a two-thirds vote of the Senate, as required by the Texas Constitution, would be a challenging threshold to meet, especially in light of the millions of dollars that Mr. Paxton’s apologists have spent to influence and intimidate Texas senators and Texas constituents,” Murr said. “Still as chairman of the House Board of Managers, we presented because it demonstrates considerable uncontested, uncontroverted evidence of Mr. Paxton’s corruption.”