“I’m not saying that would necessarily be the case with James Talarico,” Crockett told CBS News Texas. “What I’m saying is people don’t know. You know exactly what you’re going to get with me.”
Rodríguez Ramos, D-Richardson, also cast doubt on Talarico’s Democratic bona fides because he backed Republican Speaker Dustin Burrows in the race for the gavel in the Texas House last year — a criticism that has since circulated on social media. As the minority in the GOP-dominated Legislature, most House Democrats voted for Burrows as speaker, and Crockett voted for a Republican speaker when she served in the Texas House. Rodríguez Ramos ran a protest campaign for the gavel last year, and ultimately voted for state Rep. David Cook, R-Mansfield, who was the pick of the insurgent right wing.
