Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock) is now speaker of the Texas House after a year-long, bruising internal fight between House members as well as the freshmen soon to join their ranks.
The race for speaker became something to a degree it never was before: a very public flagellation under a sun-bright spotlight. A near-constant barrage of slings and arrows was thrown about in an effort to browbeat one side or the other.
