I found an interesting article on the Dallas Morning News website titled North Texas law makers have eye on speaker’s job. The article explains that Dallas legislators believe that they could improve their success at the Capital by electing a House speaker from North Texas in 2009. The idea is that a speaker from North Texas would mean more seats on committees that control major legislation and more state money sent to the Dallas area.


The article goes on to explain that there are three major candidates who may be able to depose current speaker Tom Craddick. They are Jim Pitts of Waxahachie, Brian McCall of Plano, and Jim Keffer of Eastland. They are all Republicans. The article makes clear that it will be difficult to unseat Tom Craddick unless his opposition can rally behind a single candidate.


http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/092107dntexdelegation.344214e.html