Glen Whitley, the Republican Tarrant County judge who has clashed with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in the past, says he will vote for Patrick’s Democratic opponent Mike Collier in November.
Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley, one of Texas’ most prominent Republican local leaders, is backing Lt. Gov.“The one person who I'll support statewide that will get me a little in trouble: Mike Collier for lieutenant governor,” Whitley said on Y’all-itics, a WFAA politics podcast.
Meanwhile, Whitley said Tarrant County jails are housing more than 700 inmates that should be in state custody without additional funding from the state. The COVID-19 pandemic and the inability to make jail transfers contributed to state inmates being held in county jails,“We’re paying 20 million plus a year because the state is not paying anything and yet they're sitting down there talking about all the cash that they've got,” Whitley said.
Whitley said he is backing Collier because of Collier’s experience controlling budgets. Collier, an accountant and auditor from the Houston area, is a self-described.” Collier also worked as a landman for Exxon, which Whitley said indicated the Democratic nominee understood the oil business. The Texas lieutenant governor oversees the state’s 31-member Senate, making him the most powerful elected official in the Texas Legislature. The officeholder can dictate much of the state’s policy by influencing which bills move forward and which ones are halted.
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