Texas Political News for the Week of 11/9
Texans for Lawsuit Reform hasn't officially picked a candidate in the race between state Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio, and Elizabeth Ames Jones, the Texas Railroad Commissioner who jumped out of the U.S. Senate race and into Wentworth's primary this week. It will be a surprise if they go with the incumbent, though. Wentworth has locked down a solid list of endorsements, including House Speaker Joe Straus (who succeeded Ames Jones in that House seat), U.S. Reps. Lamar Smith and Francisco "Quico" Canseco, and state Reps. Lyle Larson, Doug Miller and Paul Workman, whose districts overlap ...
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Healthy Texan
Let's not forget the bag of funds the trial lawyers gave Wentworth at the last minute against Shields to save their one GOP vote against tort reform. While he calls himself a conservative he is far from it.
It will be nice to finally have a choice in SD 25. Wentworth will lose and will follow up the loss with some scathing resume comparisons and openly complaining that his constituents are dumb and don't know what they are doing.
That's how he rolls.