New GOP State Chair
By Byron LaMasters
Just as Texas Democrats elected a new chair last week, this week, Republicans followed suit and elected a new chair of their own. The AP reports:
A Houston lawyer who says she is committed to increasing the number of minorities who vote Republican in the state was elected Saturday to head the GOP in Texas.
Tina Benkiser, 40, captured a majority of the 63-member state Republican executive committee's votes to replace Susan Weddington as the party's state chairwoman.
Ms. Weddington, appointed chairwoman in 1997, stepped down in October to head a nonprofit organization created by Gov. Rick Perry.
I don't really know anything about her. Does anyone?
Posted by Byron LaMasters at November 3, 2003 01:15 PM
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