Texas Governor Abbott has had enough of his school-choice bills being swatted town. Now, he’s ready for war.
Last year, when around two dozen lawmakers opposed his school voucher bill, he decided to take things into his own hands by handpicking opponents for each of the GOP defiers that didn’t support his bill and flooding those opponents with financial campaign support.
New campaign finance reports show just how expensive the Texas GOP’s ongoing civil war has gotten, with political interest groups such as Texans For Lawsuit Reform doling out more than $6 million in the last month to a mix of incumbents and PACs; and a small group of voucher supporters, state leaders and far-right megadonors separately injecting at least another $8 million into the primaries
Abbott also showed that there were no limits to the lengths he would go personally to support the pro-school voucher…
