Dallas tea party leader goes the distance for her cause

AUSTIN – Dallas-area tea party leader Lorie Medina drove over icy roads for five hours on Monday to get to Austin to join about 300 like-minded individuals in showing Republican leaders they want a more conservative House speaker than Rep. Joe Straus. Once there, she joined fellow tea party members from across Texas in a hospitality room of a downtown hotel to plot strategy for their efforts to persuade members of the Republican House caucus to choose Rep. Ken Paxton, R-McKinney, as speaker.
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