Barry T. Smitherman

I can see him perfectly.

He was a statewide, I think, a railroad commissioner, Barry Smitherman.

That was his name.

Same deal.

Well, Don Huff finds another profile like that, right? Basically, Dan Patrick...

was kind of the tip of the spear, I think it was 12 years ago, and then behind him came the Don Huffines of the world, the Ken Paxton of the world, and now the Beau French of the world.

Beau French is a railroad commissioner, the Republican nominee for railroad commissioner, and he beat Jim Wright in the primary because here's Jim Wright, another moderate, just kind of go along, get along.

And conservatives, real conservatives who care about outcomes are taking people down, these moderates, left and right.