The Republican Speaker is taking the procedural position that restricting chairs to the majority party as every other state and congress does is using state resources for “political purposes” and is illegal. This baseless & absurd ruling was made solely to protect Democrat power.
If you are Republican and you were not speaking loudly against this then why are you even in office?
BTW, we still have a 2021 record vote on Democrat chairs. All the Speaker did was hang out to dry his supporters who wanted to change their vote before the next primary, & freshmen are now on record supporting a speaker who supports sharing leadership with Democrats.

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