What a relief.  Mike Krusee is really giving up his seat under the thumb on the right hand of speaker Craddick.  Now maybe the poor unfortunate people living in his district can get someone to represent their interests - not the interests of speaker Craddick.  Looks like squeaker Krusee won’t be speaker Krusee anytime soon.  Buh bye.

That must be terrible news to his dimocrat challenger, Diana Maldonado.  Boo hoo hoo.  She won’t have Krusee to kick around anymore.  She’s gonna need a whole lot more than the $4.25 she planned to spend to beat the squeaker.

We don’t know which is more galling - the fact that dimocrats knew about this before republicans did.  And that speaker Craddick released Krusee’s leaving to the press before Krusee finally got around to it.  That’s real constituent service guys.

Rumors abound as to who will jump into the race to succeed squeaker.

Former Round Rock Mayor Nyle Maxwell is reportedly speaker Craddick’s first choice.  Of course he is - he wouldn’t have to give up any of his SOT PAC moolah for Maxwell.  Former RR city council member & losing County Judge candidate Charlie Culpepper is allegedly interested.  Reid Ryan (son of Nolan & Express CEO) is also being touted by some.

Local lobbyists Peggy Venable & Randy Lee are supposedly sniffing the air.  Puhleeze.  Do you really think the speaker can fit another lobbyist up his a** in his hip pocket?  A pox on both of you.

Capitol Staffers Hal Talton of Georgetown and Larry Gonzales of Round Rock are allegedly both interested in joining their bosses on the House floor.

It’s gonna be a lot of fun to watch whoever it is mop the floor with Maldonado. 

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