http://www.statesman.com/metrostate/content/metro/stories/02/20craddick.htmlWas Craddick's role about being speaker or electing Republicans?
Speaker Tom Craddick met with a small group of corporate donors to Texans for a Republican Majority at a Washington, D.C., breakfast just a month before the 2002 election and Craddick's elevation to leader of the Texas House of Representatives.
Two GOP consultants had been planning the D.C. affair for two months, including an early meeting in Austin where they urged Craddick to participate in the fund-raiser in the nation's capital, according to documents that likely will be submitted as evidence in an upcoming civil trial involving the 2002 fund-raising efforts.
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Good summary at Off the Kuff here
http://offthekuff.com/mt/And you can read the whole story here without signing in to the AAS
http://www.cleanuptexaspolitics.com/scandalblogSonia