Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas Texans for Lawsuit Reform (TLR) announced its vigorous support of State Rep. James White in his re-election campaign. Rep. White is a U.S. Army veteran taught and coached at Woodville High School for 10 years and is an East Texas cattleman. Whites Republican primary opponent is Rep. Mike Tuffy Hamilton. The Legislatures redistricting map (as well as the San Antonio court map) pairs Hamilton with Rep. Allan Ritter. Hamilton however has chosen to move into Whites district to challenge him.
White is a principled conservative and a person of integrity says TLR. He impressively defeated Democratic incumbent Jim McReynolds in 2010 by a 58 to 42 margin.
While TLR has supported Hamilton in the past in each of the last two legislative sessions he has cast critically important votes in favor of the personal injury trial lawyers and against the job-creating business community of our Texas says TLR. In 2009 Hamilton was one of a handful of Republican House Members to vote yes on a bill that the trial lawyers introduced to reverse the well-reasoned Entergy decision by the Texas Supreme Court.
If Hamilton had voted with the vast majority of House Republicans rather than with the trial lawyers and their House allies on that bill the pro-business position would have prevailed. Fortunately the bill was killed in the Senate.
In 2011 Rep. Hamilton was one of only two Republicans in the House of Representatives to vote against an important reform to the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA). The bill was strongly supported by the Republican leadership while trial lawyer Steve Mostyn was the leading opponent of the bill.
Mostyn who has made 10s of millions of dollars in fees in hurricane lawsuits personally spent over $10 million dollars on behalf of liberal candidates in the 2010 election cycle as part of his on-going efforts to attack free enterprise policies in Texas.
White is philosophically aligned with TLR and the business community on civil justice issues the group said while announcing its support. He is running in the district in which he has been living and continues to live whereas Hamilton has moved into the district to challenge White.
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas Texans for Lawsuit Reform (TLR) announced its vigorous support of State Rep. James White in his re-election campaign. Rep. White is a U.S. Army veteran taught and coached at Woodville High School for 10 years and is an East Texas cattleman. Whites Republican primary opponent is Rep. Mike Tuffy Hamilton. The Legislatures redistricting map (as well as the San Antonio court map) pairs Hamilton with Rep. Allan Ritter. Hamilton however has chosen to move into Whites district to challenge him.
White is a principled conservative and a person of integrity says TLR. He impressively defeated Democratic incumbent Jim McReynolds in 2010 by a 58 to 42 margin.
While TLR has supported Hamilton in the past in each of the last two legislative sessions he has cast critically important votes in favor of the personal injury trial lawyers and against the job-creating business community of our Texas says TLR. In 2009 Hamilton was one of a handful of Republican House Members to vote yes on a bill that the trial lawyers introduced to reverse the well-reasoned Entergy decision by the Texas Supreme Court.
If Hamilton had voted with the vast majority of House Republicans rather than with the trial lawyers and their House allies on that bill the pro-business position would have prevailed. Fortunately the bill was killed in the Senate.
In 2011 Rep. Hamilton was one of only two Republicans in the House of Representatives to vote against an important reform to the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA). The bill was strongly supported by the Republican leadership while trial lawyer Steve Mostyn was the leading opponent of the bill.
Mostyn who has made 10s of millions of dollars in fees in hurricane lawsuits personally spent over $10 million dollars on behalf of liberal candidates in the 2010 election cycle as part of his on-going efforts to attack free enterprise policies in Texas.
White is philosophically aligned with TLR and the business community on civil justice issues the group said while announcing its support. He is running in the district in which he has been living and continues to live whereas Hamilton has moved into the district to challenge White.
