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Texans are estimated to have spent $6.5 billion on beer, wine, and liquor in 2021 and 2022. How does that compare to their spending on politics? Find out in the Number of the Day…

But first, here is the Texas Minute for Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022.

– Michael Quinn Sullivan 

“If you don’t vote for Beto, I’m gonna punch you in yo’ face.”

• That’s what a longtime Democrat campaign consultant to a Central Texas school board member posted to social media this week. Sydnie Henry has the story.
   
• Longtime readers won’t be surprised to learn the consultant works for Tiffanie Harrison of the scandal-plagued Round Rock Independent School District. Jaquita Wilson wants voters to “get they a** down to the polls” and “vote for Tiffanie.”
      
• Such is the classiness of Democrat candidates and consultants in Texas…

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H-E-B CEO Endorses Democrat For Land Commissioner

• While the Texas-based grocery store chain H-E-B positions itself as a down-home conservative family institution, the company’s CEO is anything but. As Soli Rice reports, Charles Butt – the billionaire heir of the grocery store founded by earlier generations of his family – has pushed a leftist agenda in his stores and with the company’s profits.
      
• Most recently, Butt has endorsed the far-left Democrat candidate for land commissioner, Jay Kleberg.
   
• Earlier this year, Texas Scorecard reported that H-E-B sponsored OutYouth, an Austin organization that offers “gender identity” counseling to teens, as well as a disturbing drag show for kids in Austin. The company quietly removed their name from marketing materials after Scorecard’s reporting.

Christmas-Themed, Kid-Targeted Drag Show Heading To Amarillo

• Later this month, an “all-ages” Christmas-themed drag show tour will make its first stop in Texas, at Amarillo’s taxpayer-funded Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts. Katy Drollinger reports the show is slated for venues in El Paso, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas.
     
• Even as the show targets children, promotional materials promise that the Christmas-themed show is “guaranteed to get you in the naughty holiday spirit.” 
       
• U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), who represents Amarillo in Congress, is calling for the event’s cancellation. “This is SICK. Children SHOULD NOT be allowed to attend events like this. This needs to be SHUT DOWN immediately!”

Dallas Voters Can ‘Write Out’ Judge

• A key judicial race in Dallas County has no party nominees on the November ballot—a unique situation that has created an opening for Republicans to write in a conservative and rid the bench of a Democrat notorious for supporting the medical mutilation of gender-confused minors. Erin Anderson has the details.
      
• The situation arose when the Democrat incumbent, Mary Brown, was forced to file as a write-in candidate after she was disqualified from the Democrat primary. She had failed to submit enough valid signatures on a required petition.
     
• Meanwhile, the Dallas County Republican Party failed to recruit a candidate during the regular primary filing season in late 2021 – not knowing, of course, Brown would be disqualified.
      
• Brown is the judge in the nationally known custody fight documented in “Saving James.” She granted custody of Jeff Younger’s twin boys to Younger’s ex-wife, the boys’ stepmother, who had begun treating one of the boys (James) like a girl when he was a toddler. The judge also allowed James’ stepmother to put the boy on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones that would chemically castrate him, without his father’s consent.
        
• Republicans are rallying around a write-in candidate of their own: Earl Jackson, a board-certified family law specialist with more than 25 years of experience.
     
• A third write-in candidate – family law attorney Michelle McKinney – doesn’t proclaim a party affiliation, but her Facebook page features photos with Democrat candidates, including Beto O’Rourke.

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The districts displayed here should reflect those recently redrawn by the Legislature. Though the new lines do not take representational effect until 2023, they will appear on the 2022 ballot. Please note that your incumbent legislator and/or district numbers may have changed.