Wharton County's state representative wants the Texas Speaker of the House to resign.
“I would hope he resigns. That’s the honorable thing to do, at minimum resign as speaker,” Phil Stephenson, R-Wharton, said Tuesday after listening to a tape recording of a meeting between Michael Quinn Sullivan of Empower Texans and Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen and House Republican Caucus Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, on June 12.
During the session, Sullivan said he was asked, and refused, to help undermine the re-election campaigns of Stephenson and nine other Republican state reps. after Bonnen left the room.
Bonnen later denied the allegation.
“The thing, it’s exactly as Michael Quinn Sullivan said,” Stephenson told the newspaper.
He and the other nine representatives are now trying to get a private meeting with the Speaker of the House.
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(Wharton Journal-Spectator)