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Dustin Burrows: “There's 60 Democrats next session and all they need is 16…”

Featuring: Dustin Burrows, Republican | Texas House of Representatives, District 83

Dustin Burrows Shares Hopes For Non-Divisive Speaker And GOP Unity with Chad Hasty

Published November 9, 2017 | Video Starts at 03:55

… and also, I mean, one of the things that, for me, as a conservative from West Texas, that I'm concerned about is this is, you know, what if, you know, There's 60 Democrats next session and all they need is 16 Republicans to go make a deal with, to become one of them, become the next speaker. Well, we might wake up, and that coalition has cut a lot of deals that we don't know about. (03:55–04:05)

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“We're not gonna have a speaker. Jonathan Stickland.”
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“Good for Democrats to block vote and to have secret deals. Bad for Republicans try to get on the same page.”
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“I've got a Democrat opponent as does, you know, Frullo and Arrington and everybody else.”
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