Lt. Gov.-elect Dan Patrick, during his victory speech in Houston Tuesday (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
Lt. Gov.-elect Dan Patrick has named his long-time aide Logan Spence as head of his transition team, which will include Dallas insurance executive Roy Bailey.
“After 15 months of arduous campaigning, the hard work has only begun,” Patrick said in a statement.
He said Bailey, who signed on last fall as one of his top campaign money men, “will bring his business acumen and perspective to the transition team.”
Dallas businessman Roy Bailey (2002 photo by Richard Michael Pruitt/Staff photographer)
The team “will help me carry our conservative vision to the lieutenant governor’s office in January,” Patrick said.
Patrick, now a state senator from Houston, quickly ticked off his priorities of border security, property tax cuts and “making our schools the best in the country.”
Houston GOP campaign guru Allen Blakemore, who was chief strategist for Patrick’s first statewide race, will assist the effort, along with San Francisco GOP media consultant Bob Wickers and Texans for Lawsuit Reform publicist Sherry Sylvester, Patrick said.
He said people interested in working for him in the lieutenant governor’s office can apply here for jobs. That’s part of Patrick’s new website, www.PatrickTransition.com.