Texas House Democrat Switches to Republican Party: 'Many of Us Are Waking Up'

Texas State Rep. Ryan Guillen, a long-term Democrat, is exchanging over to the Republican Party, declaring that "a large number of us are awakening to the way that the upsides of those in Washington, DC, are not our qualities, not theShow more

Upsides of most Texans."

Flanked by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and House Speaker Dade Phelan , Gullien made the declaration on Monday.

"Companions, something is occurring in South Texas, and a considerable lot of us are awakening to the way that the upsides of those in Washington, D.C., are not our qualities, not the upsides of most Texans," Guillen said.

"The philosophy of undermining the police, of annihilating the oil and gas industry and the confusion at our boundary is awful for those of us who live here in South Texas," he proceeded.

While Guillen ran as a Democrat all through the majority of his political vocation, the Republican Party of Texas noticed that he has gone through his almost twenty years in the Texas Legislature as a "favorable to Life advocate, including votes in favor of the 2021 Heartbeat Law, the 2013 20-week early termination boycott, and the 2011 ultrasound image law." He had additionally been evaluated the "least liberal Democrat in the House," as the Texas Tribune noted.

Welcome to the party of opportunity, opportunity and flourishing Ryan Guillen. As Dems move additionally left, they're

Abandoning.....

Posted by Greg Abbott on Monday,

November 15, 2021

Per the Republican Party of Texas:

He likewise has a solid record of Second Amendment support, joint-writing the milestone 2021 Constitutional Carry law. Rep. Guillen's decision to join the GOP follows a month and a half of conversation with RPT Chairman

Matt Rinaldi, who presented with Guillen in the Texas House from 2015 to 2019.

Executive Matt Rinaldi added that he is "glad to invite Guillen to the Republican Party.

"I'm certain Republicans in Austin and his constituents in the Rio Grande Valley will greet him wholeheartedly," he said:

Following the current month's Republican triumphs in Virginia and in Texas HD118, this is one more illustration of how the expanding radicalism of the Democratic Party has estranged Texans who care about more modest government, solid families, safe networks and the insurance of the unborn. Those individuals host a home in our gathering.

Conservative State Leadership Committee's Dee Duncan straightforwardly highlighted Republican John Lujan's bombshell triumph in the House District 118, a boundary locale, this month "in a region with a greater part Hispanic populace." That, he said, "currently demonstrated that Texans are tired of the disappointments of Democratic initiative and Ryan Guillen's party switch makes that reality even more understood":

The present Democrat pioneers are so centered around assuaging their periphery left base by putting educators' associations in front of guardians, pushing communist duty and spending plans, and battling for open boundary arrangements, that even chosen authorities in their own party can't uphold their extreme plan any longer. We invite Representative Guillen to the Republican Party with great enthusiasm and anticipate working with him as he cooperates with the Republican greater part to convey answers for individuals of his region.

"This has been the most exceedingly awful kept mystery at the Capitol," Abbott said of Guillen's switch.

"Everybody has realized that Ryan Guillen is actually a Republican who is connected to some unacceptable name. Ryan: we're happy you at last let out the unadulterated truth."

The news harmonizes with previous delegate and bombed official up-and-comer Beto O'Rourke reporting his gubernatorial bid in the Lone Star State on Monday: