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Related: About this forumTexas Gov. Greg Abbott and AG Ken Paxton promised retribution for votes they didn't like. Here's who they are targeting.
Source: Texas Tribune
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and AG Ken Paxton promised retribution for votes they didnt like. Heres who they are targeting.
Paxton has been seeking revenge on fellow Republicans who voted to impeach him earlier this year. Similarly, Abbott is looking to unseat GOP House members who voted against school vouchers.
BY CARLA ASTUDILLO AND PATRICK SVITEK
DEC. 21, 2023
5 AM CENTRAL
The Texas primary season promises more drama than usual as Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton seek revenge against dozens of fellow Republicans in the state House.
Paxton is working to defeat the House Republicans who voted to impeach him in May on abuse-of-office charges. The Senate acquitted him after a trial in September.
Abbott, meanwhile, wants to unseat the House Republicans who thwarted his yearlong crusade for school vouchers, which would allow parents to use taxpayer dollars to help pay for private school costs.
Both of them have their work cut out for them. Sixty House Republicans voted to impeach Paxton, while Abbott is focused on a narrower group of 21 who voted last month to strip a voucher proposal out of a broad education bill.
Some of the Republicans in their crosshairs are retiring, but most are running for reelection. The filing deadline was Dec. 11.
Among those seeking another term, 15 House Republicans are on the wrong side of both Paxton and Abbott because they voted both to impeach Paxton and to block Abbotts voucher program.
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Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/21/texas-house-republicans-paxton-abbott/
Alternate link: https://news.yahoo.com/texas-gov-greg-abbott-ag-110000617.html
GreenWave
(8,879 posts)carpetbagger
(4,627 posts)A majority of them are in very safe districts, including my outgoing R state rep (Murr). The biggest R objections to vouchers were from small towns
yellowdogintexas
(22,648 posts)or put intense pressure on whomever is elected to defeat vouchers
Those rural counties do not want vouchers, they don't have private schools and very few people have the income to make up the difference between the voucher and school tuition if there are private schools. They get how much this will harm their school systems.
carpetbagger
(4,627 posts)My state rep said he'll spend more time with the family. The frontrunner doesn't like public schools, although his biggest complaint is that they are like prisons where only government officials are armed.
Paladin
(28,717 posts)Take no prisoners.