State Rep. Shawn Thierry switches to GOP, says Democratic Party has “lost its way”

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• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  State Rep. Shawn Thierry, a Houston Democrat who was defeated in her primary earlier this year, announced Friday she is switching to the Republican Party.

  A number of prominent Houston Democrats lined up behind Simmons for her primary challenge, including some of Thierry’s current and former colleagues in the Texas House — an unusually public show of repudiation from an incumbent’s own party.

  Thierry’s term will expire before the Legislature reconvenes in Austin for its next regular session in January, however, and Simmons is heavily favored to win the solidly Democratic seat in November.

  She didn’t switch parties. She was forcibly removed by her own party.

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  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Her decision has meaning because she’s still in office and she’ll run for re-election as a Republican (although she’ll probably lose).

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  • barsquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They really buried the lede on that one.

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• echo@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So she switched because she’s a bigot and got called out for it. She can’t reasonably say the Dem party has lost its way. All that she can say is that she never should have called herself a Dem in the first place.

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  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Democratic party didn’t always have the same attitude towards transgender issues that it does now, but Thierry has only been in office since 2017 so her views would have been old-fashioned for a Democrat (but maybe not a Texas Democrat?) even then.

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• Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Rip bozo 🤡

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