"I only needed eight votes to tie up the speakership vote and send it to a runoff, and they weren't there," Drury said. "To give you an example of how hard it was to find votes, I reached out to my state senator. … I said to her, 'Will you send out a message saying that you support or encourage my run for speaker of the house?' I got a text back: 'I don't feel comfortable getting involved.'"