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It’s 2023. It wasn’t a hard vote.

You just can’t make this stuff up. The Texas State Republican Executive Committee (SREC) members declined to ban associations with the PAC Defend Texas Liberty by a close vote of 32-29. I wonder how CCISD Trustee Scott Bowen voted.

The Texas Tribune sums up the vote:

Two months after a prominent conservative activist and fundraiser was caught hosting white supremacist Nick Fuentes, leaders of the Republican Party of Texas have voted against barring the party from associating with known Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers.

This shouldn’t have been a hard vote. The leader of Defend Texas Liberty was caught meeting with known nazi sympathizer Nick Fuentes and exposed their associations with other white supremacist organizations and individuals. But the executive committee pulled out every excuse they could think of, much like they did when defending George Santos, Donald Trump, Ken Paxton and others. The Speaker of the House, Dale Phelan tweeted:

Despicable. @TexasGOP/SREC can’t even bring themselves to denounce neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers or cut ties with their top donor who brought them to the dance. There is a moral, anti-Semitic rot festering

As noted earlier, CCISD Trustee Scott Bowen also has some uncomfortable ties to the individuals The Texas Tribune reported on. I’ll find out how he voted.

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