Incumbent Stephanie Klick and David Lowe sit down on Lone Star Politics ahead of the runoff election.
A rematch between Rep. Stephanie Klick, R – Fort Worth, and David Lowe from North Richland Hills will play out in the primary runoff on May 28. In March, Klick edged out Lowe by two points, falling just short of the fifty percent plus one vote threshold. She also defeated him in 2022.
Attorney General Paxton has endorsed Lowe after Klick voted with two-thirds of House Republicans to impeach the attorney general. He was acquitted in the Senate and has since been on a “revenge tour.” Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is supporting Lowe, also believing Klick has not governed in a conservative way. A group of grassroots groups like Abolish Abortion Texas and Texas Gun Rights are backing him as well.
The right flank of the Republican Party has put a spotlight on how the Texas House is organized, where the Speaker often gets support from Democratic members and then some Democrats are appointed as committee chairs. That aspect of governing the House is a decades-long tradition and it's one of the key issues with Speaker Dade Phelan’s primary runoff race down in Beaumont. Rep. Klick says she supports Phelan the practice of allowing Democratic some power in the lower chamber.
“I don't believe anybody is above the law," she said, “Timing, I think, could have been better. We could have had more time in the House on that, but by and large, the state constitutional process is different than the process in D.C. We don't have two trials." Lowe and his allies have criticized Klick for a past vote on transgender issues. In a bill sending state money to expand child hospital emergency rooms, there was an amendment from an ultra-conservative lawmaker to ban state money from going to hospitals that do social transition work, that is the non-surgical care like therapy. The amendment was voted down because most lawmakers thought it was random and unrelated to the bill.
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