{"id":189548,"date":"2026-03-04T05:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/189548\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T05:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:17:09","slug":"former-tarrant-county-gop-chair-makes-runoff-as-railroad-commissioner-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/189548\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tarrant County GOP Chair makes runoff as railroad commissioner challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">TARRANT COUNTY, Texas &#8211; Former Tarrant County GOP Chair Bo French has made it to a runoff election with Texas Railroad Commissioner Jim Wright in Tuesday night&#8217;s primary election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Texas Railroad Commissioner primary <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Jim Wright, the defending railroad commissioner, received 31.5% of the vote by the time the race was called by the Associated Press.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Bo French, who recently stepped down as the GOP chair for Tarrant County who&#8217;s seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/tarrant-county-bo-french-poll-dan-patrick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">social media controversy<\/a> in the past year, took 33.3% of the vote by the time the race was called.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The rest of the vote was split between James &#8220;Jim&#8221; Matlock, Katherine Culbert and Hawk Dunlap.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/untitled-1-recovered.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Bo French (Left) and Jim Wright <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Wright and French will face each other again on May 26 to decide the Republican nominee in November. The winner will face state Rep. Jon Rosenthal (D-Houston).<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The Railroad Commission is the state agency that regulates the state\u2019s oil and gas industry.\u00a0The decisions made by the commission reverberate across the economy and the environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"insert-article-type featured-headline\" data-v-3f8abc4c=\"\">\n    Featured\n  <\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/fox4news.com\/news\/texas-primary-2026-live-updates\" target=\"_blank\" data-v-3f8abc4c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LIVE UPDATES: Texas Primary 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-3f8abc4c=\"\">Texas voters headed to the polls today to decide which Democrats and Republicans will represent their political parties in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from the Associate Press and the Texas Tribune.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/elections-2026\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Elections<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TARRANT COUNTY, Texas &#8211; Former Tarrant County GOP Chair Bo French has made it to a runoff election&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,3485,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-189548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-elections-2026","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}