{"id":46961,"date":"2025-11-12T21:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/46961\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:17:08","slug":"tarrant-county-gop-chair-bo-french-launches-campaign-for-texas-railroad-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/46961\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarrant County GOP Chair Bo French launches campaign for Texas Railroad Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN \u2014 Tarrant County GOP chair Bo French <\/a>on Wednesday launched his campaign to serve on the Texas Railroad Commission, the state agency that oversees the state\u2019s oil and gas industry. <\/p>\n

French is running against Jim Wright, who serves as the chairman of the commission, and who is seeking a second term after he was elected in 2020. The Republican primary will be held on March 3, 2026. <\/p>\n

The Texas Railroad Commission has three commissioners who serve six-year terms. The seats rotate in elections every 2 years. <\/p>\n

Wright\u2019s campaign did not respond to an email seeking comment Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n

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In the social media post announcing his decision to run, French said that \u201cthis will be the best way that I can defend Texas, stop the Islamic invasion, and defeat the left.\u201d <\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear how exactly serving as railroad commissioner would allow French to stop people who are Muslim from living in Texas. <\/p>\n

French did not respond to a phone call and did not immediately provide answers to a list of questions texted to him. <\/p>\n

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French has made news in recent months for incendiary and racist social media posts. Over the summer, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called on him to resign after French posted a social media poll asking whether Muslims or Jews posed the \u201cbiggest threat to America.\u201d <\/p>\n

French, who has served as the Tarrant County GOP chair since the fall of 2023, did not resign following the criticism, but he did delete the poll and later said in a social media post saying he regretted posting it. <\/p>\n

Patrick\u2019s political consultant, Allen Blakemore, did not respond to an email seeking comment on French\u2019s campaign. <\/p>\n

State Rep. Jon Rosenthal of Houston is the only Democrat candidate to announce their run ahead of the March 2026 primaries. <\/p>\n

Rosenthal said in a statement that Texans are tired of \u201cloud voices spreading hate and division while ignoring the real issues.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m in this race to keep our lights on in the next severe storm, to lower our energy costs, and to protect our communities,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN \u2014 Tarrant County GOP chair Bo French on Wednesday launched his campaign to serve on the Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1864,409,287,27,29,293,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-46961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-dan-patrick","9":"tag-election","10":"tag-politics","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-legislature","14":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46961","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=46961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}