Doing my due diligence research for candidates in Texas' Lt. Governor race

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Seeing things I've never seen before:
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/election/voter-guide/article314638356.html
 
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Enjoyed reading the post at the link.

My take:

- Dan Patrick
Looked him up on Wikipedia. Would not get my vote. Don't like him or his politics.

- Tim Mabry
Claims he was "called by God." That statement alone would make me look for a different candidate.

- Esala Wueschner
Exit stage left. Read it for yourself.

- Perla Muñoz Hopkins
If I lived in Texas this person would get my vote. Not because I think she is the best candidate but because she is the least harmful and seems to be the sanest.
 
FYI - the Lt. Governor is the most powerful state office in Texas (more powerful than the Governor). That position drives the legislative agenda. Pretty much nothing gets done in Austin (State capital) without the Lt. Gov's blessing.

Also - Texas is very "red". It's hard to win a statewide position in Texas if you aren't a Republican and wearing Christian religion on your sleeve (even if it is just for show).
 
Interesting. The governor is Constitutionally weak, I knew that; but didn't know the LtGov position had so much relative power.

The Hopkins woman may sound sane, but look at her academic credentials. Weather Technologies? And a degree in Psychology. She advertises her ethnic background (obviously Hispanic) in her stylized presentation of her name; so she's looking for the ethnic-tokenism voters.

Not a good look for the Republican party.

Nor are the others, frankly. Dannie Patrick has been the incumbent; and while Texas is far from perfect now, it's being run far better than most other states. A lot of the changes within, are coming from demographics - Californians' flight to Austin; the porous border.

Staying the course is not attractive; but in this situation, it may be the best choice.

Wueschner, if that is his name - sounds like it came out of a bowl of alphabet soup - looks like some jihadi who figured, in Texas, the Republican Party is the only way to climb. Mabry? I have no problem with religious people, but when someone tells me he's "called by God" and shows relatively little academic achievement and no civic involvement related to decision-making or management...no. I don't think so. Let him get a seat on his city council and see how he works within a government structure.

FWIW, this is one reason why I was so abhorred at the idea of Dennis Kucinich running for President. He was a rubber-stamp DemocRat in a gerrymandered Ohio district; but when he was mayor of Cleveland - a decision-making post, at a critical time - he fulfilled his duties like a CLOWN. Even as a young Democrat sympathizer, I wanted none of that in Congress or the White House.

He was proposed as a serious candidate, almost-certainly, by the shadowy puppetmasters - Globalists, probably - who knew he'd be easy to manipulate.

Mabry, who is young and with little achievement, sounds the same.
 
... Mabry, who is young and with little achievement, sounds the same.

I mean, he "defended the Alamo in June 2025". That's gotta count for something!

Edit: He's referring to assisting the National Guard against an anti-ICE protest.
 
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