Months after disclosing it existed, hardline conservative activist Michael Quinn Sullivan on Tuesday released his recording of a controversial meeting with Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen and another top GOP member.

The 64-minute recording was posted on the website of WBAP, a talk radio station in Dallas where Sullivan was scheduled to appear Tuesday morning.

Sullivan first disclosed that the meeting happened in late July, saying that Bonnen offered his advocacy group, Empower Texans, media credentials on the House floor if the group targeted 10 Republican members of the Texas House. Bonnen and state Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, pushed back against those allegations, though the speaker later apologized for saying “terrible things” during the meeting and Burrows resigned as chair of the House GOP Caucus. Both Bonnen and Burrows said the point of that June meeting was to convince Sullivan to stop trying to unseat certain Republicans in the primaries.

Sullivan had refused to make the recording of the meeting public for weeks, despite requests from Bonnen, the media and other GOP leaders. Nonetheless, his description of the meeting has unsettled the political order of the 150-member House.

The Texas Tribune was unable to immediately verify whether Sullivan’s recording had been edited. Reporters at the Tribune are listening to Sullivan’s recording and will update this story soon.

Source: Texas Tribune Blue Left News