Thousand Year Craddick
Is there any way to get rid of Speaker Craddick? Craddick doesn't think so.
By Richard Whittaker, 5:02PM, Sat. May 26, 2007
According to Speaker Tom Craddick Saturday morning, those that seek his removal are getting in the way of running the state as its founders intended.
Craddick's press secretary, Alexis DeLee, churned out a press release that simply excoriated his detractors for distracting him from "the important business of state."
Craddick then issued an amended House Journal entry that called the attempts to remove him unconstitutional and that basically he wasn't going anywhere, and no one can make him.
Partisanship? Unconstitutional challenges by democratically elected representatives? How many pages from the current presidential administration's playbook has he copied? Let's just see if he can claim that, by mounting their challenge over Memorial Day weekend, they are not supporting the troops.
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