“Dan Patrick won’t work on real issues. He’s all about culture wars and it’s taken us to a very, very bad place.” CollierForTexas wants to refocus the race on what matters. But can that strategy work in 2022? New from TXO politics reporter by_jmiller:
Patrick’s campaign consultant Allen Blakemore responded with a press release dismissing the endorsements as a “post-Labor Day dinosaur parade” of has-been politicians straining for relevance. But the news seems to have gotten under the lieutenant governor’s skin.
Whitley, who ruled the roost in Tarrant County for 15 years, is also leaving office. The power of the local establishment-Republican faction has increasingly been drowned out by ultra-right-wingers and Christian nationalists in the county’s suburbs. In the GOP primary to replace Whitley, fellow moderate Republican and Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price lost to Tim O’Hare, a conservative backed by Donald Trump and Patrick.
Since his reelection in 2018, Patrick’s ironclad grip on the Texas Senate has intensified. He’s led the charge in passing laws that allow private citizens to put a bounty on anyone suspected of aiding or providing abortion, policing how history and race can be taught and discussed in Texas classrooms, targeting transgender kids’ participation in school sports, and allowing almost all adults to openly carry handguns without a permit.
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