A Republican Texas House member has filed a complaint alleging that the Republican Party of Texas Chair, Abraham George, violated ethics rules by threatening to send mailers to target primary challengers and censuring Republicans who don't support the party's speaker candidate. The complaint has sparked further division within the already tense Texas Republican Party.
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“While the constitutionality of amended Rule 44 is doubtful,” Harris wrote, “the rule in conjunction with the respondent’s threatening rhetoric amount to a violation” of the Texas government code’s section on legislative bribery.
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