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On January 27, 2018, the sixty-two elected members of the Texas State Republican Executive Committee<ref>The sixty-two members do not include state party chairman James Dickey of [[Austin]] and the vice chairman. Therefore the committee has a total of sixty-four members.</ref> voted by just over the required two thirds vote, 44-19, to [[censure]] Straus for the "blocking of much of the [[conservative]] agenda advanced in 2017 by [[Governor]] [[Greg Abbott]]. [[Mark Dorazio]], the interim Bexar County GOP chairman and a member of the state executive committee, said that Straus had subverted the party's platform and kept the state from becoming the conservative "shining city on the hill", as [[Ronald W. Reagan]] often spoke.<ref>Jonathan Tilove, "State GOP executive panel censures Straus: House speaker didn't go along with agenda," ''San Antonio Express-News'', January 28, 2010, p. A6.</ref>  

On January 27, 2018, the sixty-two elected members of the Texas State Republican Executive Committee<ref>The sixty-two members do not include state party chairman James Dickey of [[Austin]] and the vice chairman. Therefore the committee has a total of sixty-four members.</ref> voted by just over the required two thirds vote, 44-19, to [[censure]] Straus for the "blocking of much of the [[conservative]] agenda advanced in 2017 by [[Governor]] [[Greg Abbott]]. [[Mark Dorazio]], the interim Bexar County GOP chairman and a member of the state executive committee, said that Straus had subverted the party's platform and kept the state from becoming the conservative "shining city on the hill", as [[Ronald W. Reagan]] often spoke.<ref>Jonathan Tilove, "State GOP executive panel censures Straus: House speaker didn't go along with agenda," ''San Antonio Express-News'', January 28, 2010, p. A6.</ref>  

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