{"id":56591,"date":"2024-02-18T00:02:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T00:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56591"},"modified":"2024-02-18T00:02:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T00:02:59","slug":"north-texas-gripped-by-gop-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56591","title":{"rendered":"North Texas gripped by GOP ‘disease’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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North Texas Republicans politicians appear to be suffering from the malady that has gripped the national Republican Party in the era of the 45th POTUS.<\/p>\n

If they vote a certain way, or if they oppose certain high-profile pols, they become victims of the “primary disease” that spawns opponents within their own party.<\/p>\n

I want to single out a couple of North Texas legislators who are fighting this intraparty squabble: Candy Noble and Jeff Leach.<\/p>\n

Noble represents little ol’ me and my neighbors in Princeton. She has drawn fire from within her own party. Her “sin’? She voted to impeach Paxton. She has been accused — incredibly, I must add — for wanting to bring “Sharia law” into Texas public education classrooms. What … the … hell?<\/em><\/p>\n

I put my mitts on a Noble campaign flier that declares she “fought for<\/em>\u00a0cutting property taxes, parental involvement in education, better health care options and securing our southern border.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Wow! Radical stuff, eh? Her MAGA foes, though, say she favors Muslim interests over, um, Christian interests. They want to start a religious tussle within the party? Not a good look. Abraham George, a former Collin County GOP chair, is running against Noble in the primary.<\/p>\n

Leach is a Republican legislator who this past year took part in the impeachment trial of GOP Attorney General Ken Paxton. He voted to impeach the AG and then served as a prosecutor in the Senate trial that ended up with Paxton’s acquittal.<\/p>\n

Paxton then vowed to go after all the Republicans who stood against him … the jerk! A primary opponent emerged to run against Leach, who continues to tout his conservative bona fides. And they’re real.<\/p>\n

Daren Meis is the MAGA candidate opposing Leach. He is a former Allen city councilman who didn’t bother to take part in the Dallas Morning News interview process with the candidates.<\/p>\n

So many of these Republican challengers are campaigning on hatred for those who stand on principle. As the DMN said in its editorial endorsement of Leach’s primary bid:<\/p>\n

“We don\u2019t think most Republicans take them seriously. But we hope this sort of politicking does cause voters to reflect on just how bad things have gotten in their party.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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