‘An extremely powerful state agency’: Three candidates vie for Texas railroad commissioner – Houston Public Media

‘An extremely powerful state agency’: Three candidates vie for Texas railroad commissioner  Houston Public Media

The race has drawn national attention, after Republican nominee Bo French faced backlash for his social media posts. To embed this piece of audio in your site, please use this code: After the University of Texas defeated Ohio State's football team last month, UT's athletics department posted a video that included students of color celebrating in the Texas crowd. Republican Bo French, who's running for the Railroad Commission of Texas, took a screenshot. He posted to X, saying the photo was evidence that "foreigners" were displacing Americans. The post quickly drew condemnation from some Republicans. Among them, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and Karl Rove, a former advisor to President George W.

Bush. Soon after, French defended his remarks during an appearance on the Mark Davis Show, a conservative radio program based out of the Dallas area. "DEI was discriminating against deserving people, so that these liberal bureaucrat administrators at University of Texas and places like that could select their preferred groups of people," he said. "Well, that is what is racism." After French's remarks, a usually obscure, but important race for Texas railroad commissioner rose to national prominence. He's received backlash for other controversial social media remarks too — for example, asking whether Jews or Muslims were the bigger threat to America. But the Texas railroad commissioners don't oversee immigration