sikacz wrote: Thu Feb 24, 2022 12:00 pm
One of abbott’s primary challengers is essentially calling him a liberal socialist! LoL. Twisted politics and propaganda. It seems anyone can be tarred and feathered with labels.
You would be mentioning Don Huffines by chance. He is further rightwing than any of the other candidates.
Huffines remained politically active after losing his Senate re-election campaign. He was critical of Governor Greg Abbott's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically lockdowns, and spoke at numerous far-right rallies calling for the reopening of the state.[14]
On May 10, 2021, Huffines announced that he would challenge Abbott in the 2022 Republican primary for governor of Texas.[15] As a candidate, Huffines has warned of a Communist invasion of Californians moving to Texas and has advocated to bring prayer back to schools and dared "the Supreme Court to come to Texas to enforce the separation of church and state."[16]
In August 2021, Huffines accused Abbott of using tax dollars to "advocate for transgender ideology". Huffines was referring to two pages on the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services' (DFPS) website that contained resources for LGBTQ youths, including a suicide hotline. The pages were removed from the site within hours.[17]
In November 2021, Huffines publicly criticized a children's book-reading event at a public library in Denton, Texas, incorrectly referring to it as "transgender storytime". This led to the library receiving violent threats and cancelling the event. In response, a mother of a transgender child organized a new event at a different location, which was attended by hundreds.[18][19]
In January 2022, Huffines declined to fire a staffer who had previously worked for far-right conspiracy website InfoWars and who had ties to the white nationalist movement; in a statement, Huffines said that his campaign would not engage in "cancel culture".[20][21]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Huffi ... _candidacy
He would be further right than Stephen Miller or Sebastian Gorka.