Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and AG Ken Paxton promised retribution for votes they didn't like. Here's who they are targeting.

[Eugene]

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

[GreenWave]

1. Is that (15 repugs) enough for the good guys to take the House?

[carpetbagger]

4. Not by itself.

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]

5. and it's likely the small towns will re elect their delegates

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]

6. Surely you don't think Rs will vote for their interests.

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]

2. Fight, Republicans, fight!

Take no prisoners.

[NowsTheTime]

3. Retribution? Gee, I wonder where they got that idea?