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Dan Patrick announces he's running for re-election
« on: January 09, 2017, 09:34:26 pm »

Dan Patrick announces he's running for re-election

by Patrick Svitek  Jan. 9, 2017  11:23 AM 

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick formally announced Monday he's running for re-election, looking to finally quell speculation he's interested in higher office.

“Put it in cement,” Patrick told reporters a day before the start of the 85th legislative session.

Patrick, who’s been beating back such rumors since he took office in 2015, also endorsed Gov. Greg Abbott for re-election. Abbott has not formally announced he is running again but is expected to.

“We are a great team,” Patrick told reporters. “We work well together. We agree 96, 97 percent of the time – I can’t even name the 3 percent we don’t.”

Patrick also announced he raised almost $5 million in the second half of last year and has $13.6 million cash on hand for his re-election race. He is required to report those figures to the Texas Ethics Commission later this month.

Patrick has repeatedly said he plans to run for re-election, but has been dogged by rumors he could challenge Abbott, which were the focus of a recent Associated Press story. Patrick emphatically denied Monday he was interested in taking on Abbott, saying he has "never even thought about it."


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https://www.texastribune.org/2017/01/09/dan-patrick-announces-hes-running-re-election/

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Re: Dan Patrick announces he's running for re-election
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2017, 09:48:20 pm »
  This ethically challenged guy needs to go, Texas can do better.
No government in the 12,000 years of modern mankind history has led its people into anything but the history books with a simple lesson, don't let this happen to you.