Statewide candidates offer taste of Tea Party in McAllen

[TexasTowelie]

McALLEN — Two Republican candidates for statewide offices trumpeted their conservative credentials and denounced the Obama administration at a joint appearance Tuesday in the Rio Grande Valley, asking for the votes of about a dozen people at an event hosted by the McAllen/Hidalgo County Tea Party.

Wayne Christian, a candidate for state railroad commissioner who previously spent 14 years as Center’s representative in the Texas House before losing a 2012 primary after an unfavorable redistricting, stressed his early ties to the Tea Party movement.

“I’ve been a right-wing extremist and proud of it for a long time,” he said in an East Texas drawl.

Eric Opiela, a rancher and lawyer from southeast of San Antonio running for Texas agriculture commissioner, joined Christian at Rudy's Country Store & Bar-B-Q on Tuesday. He singled out access to water as a particularly important issue for the next agriculture commissioner that would be made more difficult by meddling federal regulations.

More at http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_3607a132-78cd-11e3-9c0b-0019bb30f31a.html .

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[1StrongBlackMan]

1. I don't recall many ...

if any, campaigns for things like agri commissioner, where the candidate mentioned anything about national issues. But then, maybe the media just didn't cover it, if they did.

I think this election season, I'm going to attend some commissioner candidate forums ... just waiting for someone to mention the (President) Obama Administration so I can ask what that has to do with the local/state-wide issues that they can affect.