![]() IN-DEPTH: Despite lack of state income tax, most Texans pay more in taxes than Californians, data shows They’re a major source of revenue for local governments, funding schools, roads, police departments and other public entities. Texas, lacking an income tax, has some of the highest property taxes in the country. Plus, the lieutenant governor has “demonized local elected officials and tried to blame us for the skyrocketing property taxes,” he said. Meanwhile, in a radio interview Tuesday, Whitley said the state Legislature has been “more and more divided” since Patrick was elected to the state Senate in 2006. But “my inclination is to do a full endorsement and do some activities in the part of Texas that I've represented for 18 years,” he said. “Right now, the Texas Senate simply has Dan Patrick running things the way he wants to, and it's been a huge mistake.”Īsked whether he would endorse and campaign for Collier in the coming weeks, Seliger said he hasn’t made any decisions yet. “With a Republican majority, which we will most certainly have in the Texas Senate, and a Democratic lieutenant governor - they’ll find a way to work together, but it’s going to be along a conservative path, because the Texas Senate will allow nothing else,” he said. But Seliger said the GOP-led Senate would prevent Collier from moving Texas too far to the left. Collier touted that in a recent advertisement running across deep-red West Texas, declaring: “I know a lot of good Texas Republicans, and Dan Patrick ain’t one of them.”Ĭollier is campaigning on his support for mainstream Democratic ideals, including abortion access and efforts to fight climate change. Seliger said he considers Collier a conservative and noted that the candidate previously identified as a Republican. ![]() Patrick’s support for school vouchers and opposition to local control has harmed rural Texas, Seliger said, and the lieutenant governor runs the 31-member state Senate “with threats and with punishments.” Seliger said he voted for Patrick in both of his previous runs for lieutenant governor, but he now believes Patrick has misused the power of his office. ![]() ![]() TEXAS TAKE: Get political headlines from across the state sent directly to your inbox “Knowing voters reject their big government spending schemes, Whitley and Seliger are desperately searching for relevance in an age when voters hold political leaders accountable to stand up for Texas principles.” “The post-Labor Day Dinosaur parade has begun,” Patrick political strategist Allen Blakemore said Tuesday afternoon. That year, Patrick beat Collier by nearly 5 percentage points. Seliger, who has also long quarreled with Patrick and is not seeking re-election, said the lieutenant governor “has largely forsaken rural Texas.”Ĭollier welcomed the support, saying in a Tuesday statement that “we are building a coalition across the state and across the aisle.” The Democrat is no stranger to courting Republicans - in 2018, during his first run against Patrick, then-Harris County Judge Ed Emmett endorsed Collier for the state’s No. Kel Seliger of Amarillo announced that he would vote for Collier in November, as first reported by the Quorum Report. PATRICK PROFILE: Dan Patrick’s rise from right-wing outcast to GOP shot-caller charts the shift in Texas politics ![]()
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