Posted on 03/06/2024 2:28:13 AM PST by cotton1706
The shockwaves rippled up and down the ballot as incumbent state House members, judges and other state leaders were forced into runoffs or defeated outright.
Texas voters on Tuesday handed more power to the insurgent wing of the Republican Party in an expensive and vengeful primary election, punishing GOP lawmakers, judges and a House speaker who defied hard-right state leaders and their supporters in recent years.
The shockwaves rippled up and down the ballot. Most notably, Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, was forced into a runoff with a well-funded challenger, David Covey, after being targeted by ultra-conservative donors and activists, who faulted the second-term speaker for declining to stop the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton last May.
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"What a HORRIBLE night it has become for the corny establishment in Austin,” Michael Quinn Sullivan, publisher of the ultra-conservative Texas Scorecard, wrote on X as the returns came in.
Abbott said in a statement that the election “sent an unmistakable message” that Republican primary voters are in favor of school choice and vowed to continue helping those candidates as they continue their trek to Austin.
“When school choice opponents lost every argument on policy, they resigned to campaign lies—but they couldn’t fool Texas voters,” Abbott said.
Six Texas House Republicans who fought Abbott’s attempt to create a school voucher program in Texas lost their primaries to pro-voucher candidates, while another four were forced into runoffs to defend their rural districts.
Voters also ejected three Republican judges from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s highest criminal court, including Chief Justice Sharon Keller, who garnered less than 40% of the vote. Paxton sought to oust the three judges after they ruled in 2021 that his office didn’t have the power to unilaterally prosecute voter fraud.
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Watch the language they’re using folks. This is a critical historical inflection point, IMO. They’re using very critical language to make it seem like these changes are bad or are an omen. I’m still of the belief that something’s in the works. This sort of language was popular in many autocratic societies prior to big “purges.” The media is fanning flames.
insurgent
vengeful
hard-right
ultra-conservative
Nope. No bias here. /s
insurgent wing, vengeful primary election, hard-right state leaders, targeted by ultra-conservative, What a HORRIBLE night, publisher of the ultra-conservative Texas Scorecard, sought to oust the three judges
“...the Republican Party in an expensive and vengeful primary election...”
About time. I know the Lord says, “Vengeance is mine”, but maybe He appreciates a little help along the way.
Not the Bee.
Marxist
globalist
radical leftists
collectivists
Never see these....
Good. Texas doesn't need three Raffenspergers on their judicial bench.
The corny establishment?
“Rabble rousers”
lol
I’m just gleefully waiting until we’re called “ rebels”.
Starring John “Cornhole” Cornyn
Darn it. I thought Phelan had lost outright. This RINO drunkard needs to thrown out on his backside in the runoff.
I second the motion. I’ll proudly wear that label just as my ancestors did in 1776 and 1861.
Taking out the traitorous grifting class of Republicans is right wing insurgency that shocks the People who they have been betraying?
The only shock is that they have gotten awy with it for so long.
“ I’m still of the belief that something’s in the works. This sort of language was popular in many autocratic …”
You speak as if Paxton doesn’t know what to do with a victory. These people tried to defeat him and throw him in jail while in office only a year ago
They’re losing. Decisively. They’re out. By voters.
It wasn’t vengeful. It was defensive by offense toward people who tried to force out tge good guys by lawfare
Why take up liberals’ language?
Sic semper tyrannis never goes outta style.
Another Karen, living up to her name.
That’s because speaking truth is considered treason in an empire of lies.
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