{"id":462093,"date":"2026-10-10T10:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T10:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/462093\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T10:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T10:48:16","slug":"texas-house-district-94-election-recommendation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/462093\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas House District 94 election recommendation"},"content":{"rendered":"

State Rep. Tony Tinderholt of House District 94<\/a> is taking a run at Tarrant County Commissioner Alisa Simmons’ seat. Simmons\u2019 district was redrawn to favor a Republican, and she is now trying to unseat County Judge Tim O\u2019Hare. In this game of electoral musical chairs, two candidates are vying to take Tinderholt\u2019s place.<\/p>\n

On the Republican side, business owner Cheryl Bean<\/a> is touting her party\u2019s record on affordability and fiscal conservatism. On the Democratic side, marketing executive Katie O\u2019Brien Duzan told us she\u2019s focused first on her district and that she isn\u2019t \u201ca culture wars person.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

In this race, we recommend O\u2019Brien Duzan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

District 94 encompasses parts of Hurst, Bedford, Arlington and Euless. Its borders were redrawn in 2021. Tinderholt has won by a comfortable margin in two general elections since then.<\/p>\n

In an effort to flip the district blue, O\u2019Brien Duzan, 44, said she has been knocking on doors, asking people in District 94 what their priorities are. She said most are chiefly concerned about affordability and public education.\u00a0<\/p>\n

O\u2019Brien Duzan favors reforms to the commercial property tax appeals system so that \u201clarge corporations can’t game their appraisals down while homeowners absorb the difference,\u201d she wrote in the Voter Guide. She wants to ease the burden on local property taxes by raising the basic allotment for schools using the state\u2019s surplus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

O\u2019Brien Duzan said she is against an expansion of the state\u2019s voucher-like Education Savings Account program that pays private school tuition for some Texas students. On teacher pay-for-performance, though, she broke slightly from what we usually hear from her party. O\u2019Brien Duzan said she thought the program could be beneficial, though reserved judgement since it is still early in implementation across the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bean, 69, did not fill out our Voter Guide questionnaire but participated in an interview. She described her pitch to voters: Republicans have voted to reduce property taxes. Her party has brought competitiveness to the education market with ESAs and raised pay for teachers, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bean aligns with conservative ideas we support, but we expect she would represent District 94 as a lockstep vote with the style-over-substance Texas GOP. And on Shariah and the influence of Islam, Bean pointed to a problem but did not speak to any specific legislative solutions to it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSome are coming, whether it’s Shariah law or something else, to do harm and to fundamentally change and disrupt what America believes,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bean struck us as personable and good-natured. However, we think O\u2019Brien Duzan offered stronger, more nuanced answers and we recommend voters choose her.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State Rep. Tony Tinderholt of House District 94 is taking a run at Tarrant County Commissioner Alisa Simmons’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-462093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462093","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=462093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}