Grandson of George H.W. Bush joins GOP primary for swingy Texas House seat
TX-22, TX-07: Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls and Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star CEO Pierce Bush each announced over the weekend that they would run in the Republican primary to succeed retiring GOP Rep. Pete Olson in this competitive seat in the southern Houston suburbs, which lurched from voting 62-37 for Mitt Romney in 2012 to just 52-44 for Trump in 2016.
Pierce Bush, who hails from Texas’ most prominent political family. The Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star CEO is the grandson of former President George H.W. Bush, and his uncles include the noted Dallas-based painter George W. Bush.
Pierce Bush currently lives outside the seat but says he’ll move there, telling the Texas Tribune, “What I realized is the 22nd District in almost every single way represents what's best about our state and our country.” However, it took Bush quite some time to reach this revelation. Back in April, Bush expressed interest in running against freshman Democratic Rep. Lizzie Fletcher in the 7th District, which includes much of the turf that his grandfather represented from 1967 to 1971.
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