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Jon Rosenthal Heads Toward Victory in Texas Railroad Commission Race, the First Dem to Hold the Role in 32 Years
Rosenthal won on a campaign centered on lower energy costs and tighter oversight as voters faced record gasoline prices, officials said.
- On Tuesday, Texas voters elected Democrat Jon Rosenthal to the three-member Texas Railroad Commission, marking the first Democratic victory for the state's oil and gas regulator since 1990.
- Rosenthal, a Houston-area state representative and former oil and gas engineer, defeated Republican Bo French with 52.8% of the vote against French's 45.5%, with Libertarian Arthur DiBianca receiving 1.8%.
- French's campaign faced backlash in September after sharing a photograph of South Asian students, with critics questioning his association of students' ethnicity with citizenship status.
- High-Profile Republicans distanced themselves from the nominee; U.S. Sen. John Cornyn condemned the remarks as 'intolerance,' while former strategist Karl Rove described French as a 'bigot' during an Austin event.
- Rosenthal campaigned on plugging abandoned wells and increasing transparency in the Texas Railroad Commission, which manages oil and gas production despite its name suggesting railroad regulation.
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Not only the victory of Talarico in the Senate and Hinojosa in the position of governor. Jon Rosenthal won a seat in the Texas Railroad Commission: it is the first time in 36 years that a Democrat enters the powerful authority that regulates the oil and gas industry. No ideological war on fossils: "I'm at Drill, Baby, Drill" Democrat, he says. But he has his program, and it is not that of Republicans
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