Slow Train Coming

By Kleinheider Posted on May 2, 2008 at 9:04 am

Andy Sher gets the money quote from House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh after his decision that Rep. Bill Dunn was out of order was overruled by a vote of the full General Assembly.

“If we can’t stick together on that (a subsequent procedural vote), we may just as well let Mumpower start presiding,” the powerful speaker told fellow Democrats at a hastily convened party caucus meeting, referring to Minority Leader Jason Mumpower, R-Bristol.

Adding insult to injury, of course, was the later admission by Dunn that he was, in fact, out of order. Five Democrats voted with Dunn and the Republicans resulting in the historic overrule.

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Tags: abortion, Bill Dunn, Boss Hogg, David Fowler, Enemy of Freedom, Gary Moore, Gary Odom, General Assembly, Jason Mumpower, Jimmy Naifeh, Naifeh's Rules Of Order, parlimentary procedure, SJR 127, state house  

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