Yesterday County Examiner brought to light a pay-to-play GOP endorsement slate arriving in the mailboxes of thousands of Harris County, Texas -area Republican primary voters. This blog highlighted the problematic recommendation that Harris County, Texas-area GOP primary voters put former Judge James Lombardino back on the bench, only this time put him on the bench as Justice, 1st Court of Appeals, District Place 5.
You can read about it here.
Today, County Examiner highlights a SECOND problematic recommendation; only this time that voters in Texas House District 138 mark their mail-in ballot or pull the lever for questionable candidate Josh Flynn.
Mr Woodfill, as we revealed yesterday, self-identified as the President, Conservative Republicans of Harris County--the very entity behind the endorsement mailer.
Where on this mailer has Mr. Woodfill disclosed to the voters he represented Josh Flynn in a civil court case? Is that little tidbit of information shown on this mailer? Conflict of interest, much?
For now, a court injunction prevents Paul Simpson, Chair of the Harris County Republican Party, from removing Flynn's name from the ballot.
Should Flynn win the March GOP primary and go on to the November general election, I expect Texas Democrats will hammer Texas Republicans over their choice of Flynn and pursue getting his name taken off the November 2020 ballot over this very issue, meaning Texas Republicans could conceivably LOSE this State Representative race to whoever gets the Democratic nod.
So have Steve Hotze and Jared Woodfill endorsed Flynn teeing up a Republican WIN in this race in November or endorsed Flynn setting up Republicans to LOSE this race in November?
