Instead, Lang said Wednesday, he will run to become a Hood County commissioner.
Cassandra Pollock
Cassandra Pollock was a state politics reporter for the Tribune. She joined the Tribune full-time in June 2017 after a fellowship during the 85th Texas Legislature. Pollock spent her first two years at the Trib as an engagement reporter, which meant her name likely landed in your inbox every weekday morning with “The Brief,” a newsletter on all things Texas politics and public policy. Pollock is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism. Pollock left The Texas Tribune in 2021.
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to Empower Texans’ Michael Quinn Sullivan: “You are destroying our party”
Patrick and Sullivan, who have long been aligned on issues, traded jabs Tuesday over Sullivan’s allegations against House Speaker Dennis Bonnen.
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Sen. José Rodríguez, an El Paso Democrat, announces his retirement
Rodríguez, who was first elected in 2010 to represent Senate District 29, said he will retire from the Senate at the end of this term in January 2021.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott suggests improving voluntary background checks for person-to-person gun sales
Abbott stopped short of saying the Legislature should make the background checks mandatory.
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Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen denied Michael Quinn Sullivan’s allegations in a voicemail. Hear what he said.
The message was left on the phone of a member of the Texas House soon after news of a meeting between Michael Quinn Sullivan and Dennis Bonnen surfaced.
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Gov. Greg Abbott issues eight executive orders aimed at stopping potential mass shooters
The orders focus largely on improving reporting channels when members of the public or law enforcement agencies worry that a person might become violent.
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Texas House Democrats ask Gov. Greg Abbott to call a special session after two mass shootings
Members of the House minority say they want to consider legislation “closing the background check loopholes” and “banning the sale of high-capacity magazines.”
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Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen asks lawmakers to study strengthening laws that keep firearms from felons
“Words alone will not deliver the bold solutions Texas needs in order to defeat the violence that has become far too commonplace in our state,” Bonnen said in a statement Wednesday announcing his charges for a select House committee.
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State Rep. Dustin Burrows calls for release of secret recording of meeting with Michael Quinn Sullivan
Burrows said he hasn’t been contacted by the Texas Rangers about his meeting with Sullivan and House Speaker Dennis Bonnen, but said “there was nothing illegal done.”
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How a secretly recorded Dennis Bonnen-Michael Quinn Sullivan meeting could raise the stakes for the 2020 elections
Democrats hoping to flip the Texas House are touting the controversy surrounding the meeting as a sign of Republican dysfunction.