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TribBlog: New GOP Group "a Little Undemocratic"?

Karen Hughes, a communications advisor to Speaker Joe Straus, told our TribLive audience this morning that it was "a little undemocratic" of the newly formed Independent Conservative Republicans of Texas not to invite every Republican in the House and Senate to join.

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April 15, 2010. Karen Hughes speaks in Austin, TX.
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Longtime George W. Bushie Karen Hughes, now advising Joe Straus on communications matters while she serves as global vice chair of the Burson-Marsteller P.R. firm, told our TribLive audience this morning that while the Speaker is supportive of the newly formed Independent Conservative Republicans of Texas, it was "a little undemocratic" of the group not to invite every Republican in the House and Senate to join:

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