Texas Scorecard releases video Texas Heist - Do Democrats Run the Texas House?

 

 

Texas RINO Hunt Has Sights Set at First
on House Speaker and Top Team Leaders

Capitol Inside
August 17, 2023

The GOP's most influential activist on the far right in Texas made his debut as a documentary movie producer on Thursday when the organization that he leads posted a video that identifies a group of Republican state representatives who deep-pocket conservatives plan to target in the 2024 primary election.

The so-called "dirty dozen" that Texas Scorecard chief Michael Quinn Sullivan revealed in the digital piece featured House Speaker Dade Phelan along with 11 Republicans who wield various amount of sway on his leadership team. Sullivan dubbed the video as The Texas Heist / Do Democrats Run the Texas House?

Sullivan explores the question in a series of interviews with a marquee list of Texas conservatives from state GOP Chairman Matt Rinaldi to former Texas House member Jonathan Stickland, True Texas Project CEO Julie McCarty and veteran consultant Luke Macias.

Suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton weighs in on the subject in an exchange with Sullivan as the first statewide official to face a trial in the Texas Senate on impeachment charges in more than a century. All of the targets on the Sullivan list voted to impeach Paxton at the end of a historic debate on the regular session's final weekend in May.

GOP State Reps. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock and Todd Hunter of Corpus Christi are the two most powerful lawmakers on the list that Sullivan's group and allies on the right view as their leading priorities for elimination in what's shaping up be the most aggressive and expensive push yet to take out House Republicans who they see as RINOs. Hunter and Burrows serve as the chairmen of the State Affairs Committee and Calendars Committee respectively.

The initial primary target list for Texas Scorecard and allies on the right includes a trio of Fort Worth Republicans in State Reps. Charlie Geren, Craig Goldman and Stephanie Klick. Goldman leads the Energy Resources Committee as its chairman while Klick chairs the Public Health Committee.

Geren is a Phelan appointee on the House Board of Managers that will present the lower chamber's case for Paxton removal from office when the impeachment trial gets under way on September 6. The House Republicans with bulls eyes on backs includes to more impeachment managers in State Reps. Andrew Murr of Junction and Jeff Leach of Allen.

Murr could rank second behind the speaker himself as the chairman of the General Investigating Committee that conducted an investigation that it kept under wraps before the vote to impeach on May 29. Phelan tapped Murr to be the Board of Managers chairman as expected.

Leach - the Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Committee chair - is one of several targeted representatives in the suburbs on the northern part of the Dallas-Fort Worth area along with State Reps. Justin Holland of Heath and Lynn Stuckey of Sanger. Second-term State Rep. Glenn Rogers of Graford may be the most vulnerable incumbent in the conservatives' sights as a rural lawmaker in a seat that picked up suburban Parker County in the redistricting process in 2021.

State Reps. Jacey Jetton of Sugar Land and Ken King of Canadian are targets for the right as well.

A total of 60 House Republicans voted to give Paxton the boot. Conservatives have several more months for challenger recruiting if they hope to have a dirty five dozen or something substantially larger than the initial crop in the scope for the first-round vote in March.

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