Craddick has endorsed the Republican incumbents in a sad and sly way to show he's not part of the Leininger campaign to oust the anti-voucher moderate Republicans. While he continues to work behind the scenes to support what Leininger is doing with his challenge to the five incumbents, he's publicly stating he endorses them. Take the statement where he said he supported incumbents and then got super-pissed when their campaigns released statements thanking him for his support.
Once again he comes out with a strongly endorse Charlie Geren. Whit this kind of friends, who needs enemies. Now it's a game of watching Craddick trying to hold on to the Speaker's chair. Same shit, different day.
See...but if he comes out and endorses them (he did this for Casteel, too), can they really vote against him for Speaker?
I still think that if the school finance plan starts to derail again, Craddick is just going to stick it to Perry, let whatever the Reps want pass, and try to retain his own Chair. After all, there's no interest like self-interest.