For Immediate Release
March 22, 2022
Republican Party of Bexar County Chairman, John Austin, announced a program to be held at party headquarters on Wednesday evening, March 23. Activist Amy Hedtke, who has opposed bonds throughout Texas, will deliver a presentation on why voters should oppose both the 1.2- billion-dollar city bond and the $992,000,000 Northside ISD bond.
In addition to the two constitutional amendments on the May 7 ballot, Bexar County will have several local city council and school board elections, as well as voting on large bonds. Chairman John Austin said, “As I have told the media already, I’m voting against these bonds and asking my friends and supporters to do the same. This is a bad time for many families, and local government may have to scale back some plans until the economy improves.”
Austin continued, “Prominent proponents of the bond, like our mayor, won’t tell voters that existing debt, according to the state Comptroller, is over $6000 for every resident of the county – much higher than Harris County and our per capita income in Bexar is about $25,000 a year.
Dallas and Fort Worth have half this much debt per capita, and the only city that has a comparable level of debt is Austin, where per capita income is over $40,000 a year.”
As Bexar GOP Chairman I have the legal responsibility to conduct a Primary Election so Republican voters can select our nominees. And I encourage our voters to participate and affect the outcome of those measures on the May 7 ballot,” said Austin. “I’m speaking out against the bonds just as we did against Proposition B last year. Fighting these bond issues, fighting Proposition B and hosting the property tax training last year are not typical Party business, but they are issues that most Republicans can unite around.”
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KSAT.com: 4 Republicans, 1 Democrat vie for party’s nomination in March primary in Texas House District 122
Winner in November General Election will succeed Republican Lyle Larson who has held seat since 2010
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Five potential successors are lining up for the reliably Republican House seat in District 122, which covers parts of northern Bexar County.
After serving in the Texas House for more than a decade, Rep. Lyle Larson (R-San Antonio) has decided not to seek reelection.
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Texas Public Radio: Trish DeBerry and Nathan Buchanan face off in GOP primary for Bexar County Judge
Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff announced in October he would not seek reelection for a sixth term in 2022, so the race is on to replace him with seven GOP and Democratic candidates in the running.
Just two candidates are on the Republican primary ballot: Trish DeBerry and Nathan Buchanan.
To read the rest of the story story. Click here https://www.tpr.org/podcast/the-source/2022-02-21/trish-deberry-and-nathan-buchanan-face-off-in-gop-primary-for-bexar-county-judge
Republican Party of Texas Files Amicus Brief Supporting Attorney General’s Authority to Prosecute Election Fraud
Austin, TX, Release: January 19, 2021 — For Immediate Release
The Republican Party of Texas (RPT) filed an Amicus Brief in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals asking the court to grant a rehearing of the Stephens v. State case, in which the court rendered an opinion stripping the Texas Attorney General of his long-standing statutory authority to prosecute election law violations including election fraud.
With its opinion, the Court of Criminal Appeals broke with over a century of Texas Supreme Court precedent and reversed an appellate court’s bipartisan decision upholding the Attorney General’s authority to prosecute election fraud. The Texas Legislature further emphasized that authority most recently in Senate Bill 1, the election integrity bill. This opinion circumvents the work of the Texas Legislature and affects the security, fairness, and integrity of elections in Texas.
The brief filed by the RPT states, in part,
“In 1951, the Texas Legislature assigned the right to originate criminal prosecutions for election violations to the Attorney General. This right to prosecute did not usurp the authority of Article V prosecutors. Instead, the law emphasized the state’s desire to maintain lawful elections. In 2021, the Texas Legislature revised Texas election laws in response to public concern about election integrity and included the Attorney General as the enforcement centerpiece in the Election Integrity Protection Act of 2021.
Now, in one stroke, this Court has discarded over a century of Texas jurisprudence and carefully crafted legislation that upholds and accentuates the authority of the Attorney General to ‘perform such other duties as may be required by law.’ Tex. Const. art. IV, § 22.”
