Fresh Faces of the Texas Legislature
*Correction appended.
Twenty-nine Texans who weren't in the state Legislature last session will take their seats as new members of the Texas House and Senate in January. All but three of them are Republicans. Some of them are filling seats left vacant by representatives and senators who pursued statewide offices in one of the most open fields Texas has seen in years, and others are replacing people they challenged in either the primaries or the general election.
Explore the list of fresh faces below to learn about the new lawmakers. In addition to the newbies listed here, the Texas ...
Comments (23)
Mike Decuir via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Love seeing all of those fresh Republican faces. Ready to lead.
Jesse L Mabus via Texas Tribune on Facebook
white, clean, and against the peeps.
Kirk Beard via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Lead where?
Martin Woodward via Texas Tribune on Facebook
With only a few exceptions, this could be a preview of the "worst legislators" list.
Bill Blackmon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
lead back to a past that never existed. Go Tea Party Go!
Cheryl Gardner Barnett via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What we see here are the people who will succumb to Greed and Corruption within months....
Cheryl Gardner Barnett via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Tea Partiers are the worst....in the beginning, it was all about changing Washington. When they arrived, they changed their tune very quickly and had their hands out with the rest of them.
Erik von Holstein-Rathlou via Texas Tribune on Facebook
God bless Texas!
Jesse L Mabus via Texas Tribune on Facebook
libertarianism is a politics of selfishness. this is the grand ol' dixie party of villany and greed wrapped in a flag and having the crosses carry their water. dangerous to the republic. bankrupt economic policy, suicidal foreign policy, and determined to make an 'idiocracy' of the united states.
Donna Haschke via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This group doesn't represent the ethnic diversity of TX. I see all white except for Rep. Celia Israel. Sad.
Jim Wier via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Our new legislator says we don't have a revenue problem, even though we don't have enough money for roads, much less paving all of them.
Mark Coomes via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What's up with all the white men?
Lockie Baugh via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Just what we need, 26 new white republicans :(
Terry Martin via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Fascinating that so many on this thread are so focused on the race/ethnicity of these people.
Tina Pustizzi Meschko via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Awesome job!
Michael Claxton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Yes Terry Martin, that's the party of compassion and diversity speaking
Alexandra Bonifield via Texas Tribune on Facebook
No, thank you.
Jay Cavazos via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Diversity, yay
Joe Kilfeather via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Konni Burton !!!!!
Jesse L Mabus via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Rob a small portion of the populace voted in the mid-terms, in Texas and nationally. the results in Travis county tell a very different story than the one you are laughing at, as they do in other areas (fracking ban, gun control, minimum wage increases, legalization) ... while the red team sucks up to the oligarchs and desperately tries to hold modernity off till they move into rest homes. enjoy your laugh while it lasts.
Jesse L Mabus via Texas Tribune on Facebook
as a multi-generational Texan whose family are and have been democrats (with few exceptions since that actor made way for the religious right to destroy the republican party) your line about moving somewhere else shows your lack of any kind of historical perspective of texas politics and your use of "socialism" as a slur shows your lack of understanding of political theory and its place in the history of this country. keep trying McCarthy.
Jesse L Mabus via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Troll
Jesse L Mabus via Texas Tribune on Facebook
20% of the electorate, hardly a landslide, mandate, or honest expression of the electorate. like I said earlier, my friends voted in Travis county and the election results are very different from the fox-induced ignorance and fear holding sway in other areas of the state. good day to you too.