Biting the Hand That Votes for You

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TEXAS RURAL REPORTER

The Texas GOP depends on rural voters to win in November— but uses party rules to punish their legislators By Suzanne Bellsnyder, Texas Rural Reporter This past weekend, the Texas Republican Party held a meeting that told rural Texans everything we need to know about who’s really running things. The so-called “grassroots” censure campaign against Republican lawmakers wasn’t a homegrown uprising of…