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Eugene

(62,646 posts)
Fri Dec 22, 2023, 09:20 AM Dec 2023

Texas 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 didn’t like. Here’s 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 Abbott’s 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

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and AG Ken Paxton promised retribution for votes they didn't like. Here's who they are targeting. (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2023 OP
Is that (15 repugs) enough for the good guys to take the House? GreenWave Dec 2023 #1
Not by itself. carpetbagger Dec 2023 #4
and it's likely the small towns will re elect their delegates yellowdogintexas Dec 2023 #5
Surely you don't think Rs will vote for their interests. carpetbagger Dec 2023 #6
Fight, Republicans, fight! Paladin Dec 2023 #2
Retribution? Gee, I wonder where they got that idea? NowsTheTime Dec 2023 #3

carpetbagger

(4,774 posts)
4. Not by itself.
Thu Dec 28, 2023, 05:05 PM
Dec 2023

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

(22,703 posts)
5. and it's likely the small towns will re elect their delegates
Fri Dec 29, 2023, 01:35 PM
Dec 2023

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

(4,774 posts)
6. Surely you don't think Rs will vote for their interests.
Sat Dec 30, 2023, 12:55 AM
Dec 2023

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.

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