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Empower Texans was a conservative advocacy group in Texas that was active from 2006 to 2020. [ 2][ 3] It was affiliated with Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, which was later spun off into its own organization. Empower Texans was based in Austin with operations in Dallas, Houston, and Midland. [ 4]
Empower Texans fizzled after a recording was released in 2019 of a meeting between former House Speaker Dennis Bonnen and conservative activist Michael Quinn Sullivan in which Bonnen encouraged ...
In the mid to late 2000s, their primary influence came from Dunn through a handful of groups — the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility and Empower Texans — that ...
Wallace L. Hall Jr. Wallace L. Hall Jr. is an American investor who served a controversial six-year term as a member of the University of Texas System Board of Regents. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Hall was appointed in February 2011 by Governor Rick Perry, and was replaced in February 2017. [ 4][ 5] Hall's appointment came in the midst of a struggle over the ...
In the recording, Bonnen offered Empower Texans press credentials that would allow them on the floor of the Texas House during the 2021 legislative session. In exchange, Bonnen wanted Empower Texans to target certain Republican representatives in the next primary election for defeat while not criticizing certain other Republicans. [33]
Leininger has also been involved with Texans for Governmental Integrity. [4] [11] [12] He supported Thomas R. Phillips' campaign for Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court and made significant donations to George W. Bush when he was governor of Texas), former Governor Rick Perry, and the state Republican Party. [4] [11] [12] [13] [14]
Political party. Republican. Education. Rhodes College (BA) Texas Tech University, Lubbock (MBA, JD) Dustin Ray Burrows (born November 14, 1978) is an attorney and businessman in Lubbock, Texas, who is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 83. He has represented the 83rd district since January 2015.
Texas Sheet Cake. There's a reason why sheet cakes are our go-to easy dessert here at Delish. They're big enough to feed a crowd, simple to throw together, and require very little decorating. One ...