{"id":52852,"date":"2022-09-08T01:16:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T01:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52852"},"modified":"2022-09-08T01:16:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T01:16:37","slug":"way-to-go-sen-seliger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52852","title":{"rendered":"Way to go, Sen. Seliger!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am going to say something good about a friend of mine who happens to be serving his final term as a Texas state senator.<\/p>\n

Kel Seliger, an Amarillo Republican, has just endorsed a Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, sticking his finger in the eye of the incumbent Republican who — as has been reported many times — has earned Seliger’s scorn.<\/p>\n

This news gives me hope that there might be more Republicans ready to toss aside the Texas Senate’s presiding officer in favor of an individual who can do a better job of working across the aisle than Patrick has been able to do.<\/p>\n

Texas Lieutenant Governor’s race: Republicans Kel Seliger and Glen Whitley endorse Democrat Mike Collier for November’s election – ABC13 Houston<\/a><\/p>\n

The Democratic candidate is Mike Collier, who ran against Patrick four years ago. This past weekend, Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley, who also is not seeking re-election this year, declared he is going to support Collier over Patrick.<\/p>\n

Hey, I don’t begrudge either of these fellows for waiting until they became lame ducks before tossing Patrick under the proverbial bus.<\/p>\n

Seliger detests Patrick. The feeling is mutual. Seliger also detests the founders of Empower Texans, the right-wing political action committee that backs Patrick. Seliger detests Seliger because the Amarillo lawmaker hasn’t been sufficiently loyal to Patrick’s archconservative legislative agenda.<\/p>\n

Seliger also had the bad form of uttering a snarky comment about a key Patrick aide. Patrick got his revenge by stripping Seliger of his committee chairmanships and relegating his committee assignments to back-row panels about which few of us know.<\/p>\n

I am going to hope that Sen. Seliger — a fellow I have known since the moment I set foot on the Caprock in early 1995 — can find the time to campaign for Collier and speak from the gut about the nastiness that Dan Patrick embodies.<\/p>\n

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