Kendall County Republicans will have a new face and a familiar one on their November ballot in the race to see who will represent them at the Capitol in Austin next year.
District 25 Sen. Donna Campbell easily advanced to the November ballot as she outpolled challenger Channon Cain. With 99 percent of the statewide polling places reporting, Campbell earned 79.4 percent of the district vote while Cain ended up with 20.6 percent.
Senate District 25 serves all of Kendall and Comal counties and portions of Bexar, Guadalupe, Hays and Travis counties.
In Kendall County, Campbell was supported by 73.3 percent of Republican voters, gaining 5,735 votes. Cain got 2,091 votes for 26.7 percent.
Campbell, a board-certified emergency room physician from New Braunfels, first was elected to the Texas Senate in District 25 in 2012.
She will face Democrat Robert Walsh in November. Walsh was unopposed on the ballot.
Campbell currently serves as the chair of the Senate Nominations Committee and previously served as chair of Senate Veteran Affairs, Border Security and Military Installations for the previous four consecutive legislative sessions. She also has served on five other Senate committees which include Senate Finance, Business and Commerce and Senate Health and Human Services.
During this past legislative session, she was elected by her colleagues in the Senate as president pro tempore. Should the governor and lieutenant governor be out of the state, Campbell will honorably step in and serve as governor of Texas, information states.
House District 19
There will be a GOP runoff to determine who will face Democrat Pam Baggett in December.
Four candidates were vying for the Republican nomination in the newly formed House District 19, which groups Kendall, Gillespie, Blanco and Burnet counties and the far western part of Travis County.
Ellen Troxclair earned the most votes overall and in Kendall County. Her 12,324 total votes were 38.25 percent of the total cast. In Kendall County, she earned 2,937 votes, or 37.74 percent. Closely behind was Justin Berry, who was picked on 11,395 ballots overall for 35.37 percent. In Kendall County, he received 31.62 percent of the vote, or 2,461 ballots.
“I’m honored to have earned the trust and support of voters across Kendall County and House District 19 after planting first in the primary,” Troxclair told The Star. “The fight is not over, and the need for honest, accountable leaders is more pressing than ever. With my proven conservative record and my plan to secure the border now, significantly lower our property taxes and preserve the Hill Country’s values, I stand ready to win the runoff and hit the ground running as an effective leader for Kendall County.”
The other two in the House 19 race were Nubia Devine and Perla Hopkins. They received 21.81 and 4.57 percent of the overall vote, respectively. In the county, the percentages were 25.41 and 5.23.
A candidate must receive more than 50 percent of the vote to prevent a runoff. If that does not happen, the top two square off again on May 24 to see who wins the nomination.
Whoever is seated in November will replace Kyle Biederman, the current District 73 representative. Last year, Biedermann decided not to seek another term, and redistricting split his current district into House 19 and 73. District 73 now covers Comal and Hays counties.
Biedermann could have filed in either district.
Troxclair said she is a proven conservative who while serving on the Austin City Council “followed through” on campaign promises to lower property taxes by passing homestead exemption, fight against “radical leftist efforts” to use taxpayer dollars to fund Planned Parenthood and benefits for illegal immigrants and expose “frivolous government spending” and advocated for increased accountability for taxpayers.
Berry’s website states he is “a police officer, not a politician.”
A 13-year senior police officer, he said he works to protect families and build safer communities, adding he understands the impact safe neighborhoods have on the economy, schools and quality of life.
Berry lists his priorities as safe neighborhoods, strong public and higher education, free market economy and defending constitutional rights.
He also said he wants to secure the Texas border, is 100 percent pro-life and has Christian family values. As far as issues, his website mentioned supporting law enforcement, lowering property taxes, supporting Texas schools and fighting vaccine mandates.
Baggett was unopposed on the Democratic ballot.
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