Oliverson, one of Phelan’s committee chairmen, said the speaker has lost the confidence of the Republican caucus.
State Rep. Tom Oliverson, R-Cypress, presents SB 14, which seeks to ban puberty blockers and hormone therapies for transgender youth, for it's second reading on the House floor at the state Capitol in Austin on May 12, 2023.on Thursday announced a challenge to Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, arguing that Phelan has ceded too much power to the minority of Democrats serving in the chamber.
David Covey, a once little-known but well-funded challenger, forced Phelan into a runoff in House District 21. Worse, Phelan received fewer votes in the first round, and second-place finishers rarely win runoff elections in Texas. He may become the first House Speaker since Rayford Price in 1972 to lose a primary.
Oliverson was unopposed in his own Republican primary, and will face Democrat Brett Robinson, a progressive graduate student at the University of Houston, in the November election. The district is reliably conservative, so Oliverson is likely to win.
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