February 11, 2016      4:58 PM
Battle heats up in race for Texas House seat held by Rep. Dan Flynn
Wallace Hall and Sen. Bob Hall seek to undermine the incumbent; questions arise about the challenger’s resume
Texas House Pensions Committee Chairman Dan Flynn, R-Van, isn’t taking anything for granted as he runs for
reelection against an upstart challenger who recently moved to the district and
has the support of the area’s freshman state senator, Midland oilman Tim Dunn’s political network and UT
Regent Wallace Hall, who has sought
to inject the controversy over his fight with UT Austin into the race.
GOP
primary challenger Bryan Slaton has
argued, among other things, that Flynn unjustly went after Hall when he
co-chaired a select committee that investigated Hall for his unprecedented
demands for university records and for the way he handled confidential student
information.
Flynn
– the affable and very conservative chairman – enjoys the support of many local
leaders, Texas Alliance for Life, Texans
for Life, the NRA, former Sen. Bob Deuell, R-Greenville, and others. Deuell,
it should be noted, actually carried much of Flynn’s district when he lost his reelection
bid in 2014 to Sen. Bob Hall, who is
backing Slaton.
“Bob
Hall is still mad because I endorsed my sitting senator Bob Deuell,"
Flynn said. "That's what this is all about. They can't attack my record. You
know how Ted Cruz says the Constitution
never changes? Well, my voting record never changes.”
By Scott Braddock
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