Two of Texas’ most prominent right-wing megadonors, known for their efforts to unseat Republican incumbents who fail their conservative purity tests, are funding efforts to unseat nearly 20 GOP state lawmakers in favor of insurgent challengers.
See MoreIn campaign finance reports posted Wednesday by the Texas Ethics Commission, the Dunn- and Wilks-funded PAC reported spending undisclosed amounts to oppose a dozen more Republican incumbents in contested primaries. All 12 of the candidates have also received financial support from Phelan.
The group has leveled the same attack against a number of other Republican candidates in recent weeks, though only five Republicans in the 150-member House voted to bar Democrats from chairmanships. Jared Woodfill, the president of Conservative Republicans of Texas, said GOP voters are feeling emboldened this year by a favorable national landscape, leading to a revival of the primary battles between moderate or establishment candidates and less compromising groups motivated by social causes. He said Hotze’s group has similar interests to the PAC supported by Dunn and Wilks.
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