I think we figured out who the breakaway Republican is... Seliger.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick pulls Sen. Kel Seliger’s chairmanship after Seliger suggested Patrick aide kiss his “back end”
Seliger lost his chair of HIgher Education, and actually isn't on the committee at all anymore, but was made the chair of some new agriculture committee, which obviously isn't near as important. Based on telling Goeb's senior advisor to kiss his ass.. he isn't chair of the new committee either. Without Seliger's vote, and I'm pretty sure he isn't going to get it easily, they have to play nice with the Democrats to get any bills passed.
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Edit, and as I said earlier:
This actually could hurt Goeb some. He'll spin it as the Democrats not wanting to go along with his plans blah blah, but yeah, he's gonna have a much tougher time getting bullshit through the Senate this session. Poor Danny. Wish I could go spit on your office again.