RollCall: Updated: 7:48 p.m. | Majority Whip Steve Scalise is telling members he has the race to be majority leader locked up — as long as there is a race to be majority leader.
Scalise held a roughly 15-minute conference call with committed supporters Sunday night to tell them he is well beyond having a majority of the conference behind him.
A source with knowledge of the whip operation told CQ Roll Call on Sunday the Louisiana Republican has more than 140 committed votes, while — by Scalise’s count — his only announced opponent, Budget Chairman Tom Price, has just over 50 members firmly supporting him. Scalise’s operation estimates there are roughly 50 members still undecided.
“The winning number is 124,” the source told CQ Roll Call, “and Scalise is well past it. He has an opportunity to absolutely run away with this.”
Of course, Scalise’s whip counts are based on just him and Price being in the race. And withrumors that Speaker John A. Boehner could delay the prospective down-ballot races until Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., wins behind closed doors in conference — and is confirmed on the floor — Scalise’s supposedly solid support might not matter. more here
I really don’t know anything about Scalise, but Tom Price is a solid conservative and a fighter.
And what’s even better the votes didn’t cost him all that much.
Right, he will still have plenty of money left over to redecorate and furnish his new office and take his family and friends on a few golf trips to Scotland!
Liberty Score gives him a conservative score of “c”
https://www.conservativereview.com/Members/S/412261
We could do better or worse
With McCarthy and Scalise, nothing will change. These idiots just can’t learn their lesson. We need them to step aside and let a conservative take it to Obama. Some of these clowns are not leaders. Vote them all out. They promised us and they broke that trust with the American people.
Scalise may be as Untrustable as McCarthey.