Since his turn to politics in the mid-90’s, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has never strayed far from the core issues that drive base voters to the polls. And this year is no exception. His campaign released a new statewide ad today:
Listen for the themes. And note that he also hitches his wagon to Gov. Abbott quite skillfully.
He is also gaining a lot of free media on FoxNews. Here he is discussing the recent election of Republican Pete Flores to the Texas Senate:
While his opponent focuses on generic themes that might appeal to moderate voters, Patrick drives home the core differences between the base voters. Looking at his opponent’s race from the outside, it appears that he is taking his party’s base voters for granted and counting on moderate independents to make up the difference. My question would be, what is going to motivate the Democratic base? Are all of the Democratic candidates counting on a Beto surge? I suppose it could happen and I do get a sense that voters in Harris County are engaged with Beto but Texas is a big state. And depending on a campaign that wants to demolish the Second Amendment seems a stretch to me. I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
Mainstream says
I am skeptical of the value of a campaign slogan demonizing California. In urban Harris County, I have a number of co-workers and neighbors who have moved here after college in California or Massachusetts or Illinois, and have a positive view of those states and their experience while living there, and certain features of how government worked there. (Of course, they are uninformed about the fiscal disasters awaiting those places.) The slogan may resonate with Texan-born and more rural voters, but I fear it sounds shrill or worse, is viewed as a dog-whistle appeal, by my young newcomer neighbors and co-workers.
Howie Katz says
After college, the graduates who have been filled full of crap by their far-left professors, will most likely vote for Democrats.
And in Harris County, the Abbott and Patrick campaigns will ring hollow because the county is now overwhelmingly Democratic .
Reader says
Dan Patrick’s bathroom crusade killed any hope for common sense conservative policies on a host of issues, including property tax reform. The legislative session was a train wreck last year. Collier seems pretty business conservative actually and I will vote for him. If he goes left, Texas voters will vote him out at the next opportunity. Not much risk there.
DanMan says
What is the linkage of property taxes to keeping men out of women’s restrooms? btw we have had a NCAA regional and a super bowl since that vote that was 60-40 against gender anarchy shows whoever put that vote up knew what they were doing.
Evan Lowe says
Property taxes are out of control. Recapture robs my ISD, and indirectly me, of 35% of the taxes I pay to the ISD.
Patrick has done nothing to fix either.
Texas produces 4.6 million barrels of oil per day. More than all but 3 countries. Somewhere between $15-19 billion from oil royalty and taxes will pour into the Texas coffers in 2018 alone, most ever. Even more in 2019. Yet no relief from property taxes or Recapture.
He promised to fix it. But bills never even made it out of committee.
Pathetic.
I wish to remain anonymous says
Amen!
I wish to remain anonymous says
If Texas turns blue in the near future you can blame “I am going to cap property tax at 3%” Dan Patrick Goeb.
DanMan says
He has been attempting to lower the annual INCREASE in property taxes. That he has had to withstand a very liberal republican speaker of the house in Joe Struas that is a political mirror image of the republican senator (Fred Hill) that did all he could to humiliate a busload of Houstonians over their attempts to get said limit written into state law is an actual fact you ignore.
Mick says
So he promises to lower the annual increase in property taxes – if only we elect him state senator. So he gets elected state senator and fails to accomplish it. Then he says he can do it THIS time – if only we elect him lieutenant governor. So he gets elected lieutenant governor and fails to accomplish it again. So now he promises he’ll get it done THIS time – if only we RE-elect him lieutenant governor.
And we’re supposed to believe him yet again?
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
DanMan says
I think we’re somewhere past 30 or so if you think he’s the one holding up his own initiative
Foolme says
Does Patrick even have an opponent?
I wish to remain anonymous says
When we elected a republican majority way back when and the country still moved left my friends here said they got drunk with power, now Patrick doesn’t deliver ANYTHING so we should graduate him to higher office. Hes a raging opportunist that is only climbing the ladder and could care less about us.
You have to deliver conservative principles to show the masses that our way works and they haven’t bar TRUMP, which got me ridiculed in my county when I told them who I was voting for. They got on the Trump train at the very end.
Pat Bryan says
Yes, Dan has an opponent. Mike Collier is a happy warrior. He is an accountant, something that Dan Patrick fears.
Dan runs on fear. He spreads fear. Dan Patrick is a hate-filled bigot who wants to incite fear in you.
Mike Collier wants to debate Dan. Dan refuses, saying “All of Texas knows where I stand.”
Dan stands in fear of Mike Collier. Dan fears facing Mike Collier in debate. Mike Collier knows how to pay for schools. Dan Patrick does not want to rock the yachts of his fatcat buddies because he is scared of them too.
Mostly Dan Patrick is scared to face his greatest fear, Mike Collier, the Accountant.