Recent additions: Jimmy Don Aycock Fred Brown Rick Hardcastle Larry Taylor I count 35 Republicans with Straus. That is three short of 38–half the Republican caucus–which is the over/under for having a good defensive posture against Craddick and the wingnuts. Aycock Branch F. Brown Button Cook Darby J. Davis Driver Eissler Elkins Geren Hamilton Hardcastle Harless Hilderbran Hunter Jones Keffer Kuempel Madden McCall Merritt D. Miller S. Miller Orr Otto Patrick Phillips Pitts W. Smith T. Smith Solomons Taylor