“There’s an awful lot of people in Texas who would rather not vote for Dan Patrick,” said Mike Collier, who’s been a Democrat for nearly a decade.“My job is to make sure they get to know me.” Via TexasTribune.
of Amarillo, both of whom are leaving office after this year. In explaining their decisions, Whitley cited Collier’s career as an accountant, when the candidate largely considered himself a Republican, and Seliger specifically pointed to Collier’s previous affiliation with the GOP.
And Collier’s efforts are not over. During a visit to the Dallas area this week, Collier said he planned to visit with three Republican county judges to talk about his campaign. So should voters expect to see more GOP endorsements for his campaign? Collier said that the recent GOP support has taken years to manifest. This is his third campaign for statewide office and in each of those races he tried to reach out to Republican voters. Those efforts have gotten his foot in the door with voters and elected officials who do not traditionally support Democrats, and Collier said it’s his campaign’s job to try to convince them to support his underdog run against a Republican incumbent.
“There’s gonna be an awful lot of people that really hate the partisan war and will gravitate towards this campaign specifically because it takes on not a partisan feel, but a policy feel,” he said. “Mike Collier versus Dan Patrick, who do you trust to fix the grid? Who do you trust to solve the property tax problem? Who do you trust to fund schools? All the things that Texans are worried about. It doesn’t feel like a D versus R contest.
“I think one of the things he realized is that, ‘Damn, everyone really wanted the same thing, eh?’” Willies recalled. “He was able to see on his own that a lot of this division we see in the state and the country wasn’t real. He was like, ‘Hey, the other side wants that, too.’ He doesn’t come from the position of being party-based.”
“The hard Right of the Republican Party had grown so rigid and uncompromising that ordinary people, like me, we’re just going to have to walk out,” Collier wrote.Two statewide campaigns later — comptroller in 2014 and lieutenant governor in 2018 — Collier’s partisan affiliation is not in doubt. In between the campaigns, he further burnished his Democratic resume by serving as finance chair for the state party and an adviser to President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign in Texas.
The most serious threat appeared to come from Matthew Dowd, the Republican-turned-Democrat cable news commentator and former strategist for GOP President George W. Bush. Collier moved quickly to try to disqualify Dowd with Democrats, releasing an acidic statement on his campaign launch that welcomed him “back to the Democratic Party” and highlighting his Republican history on the campaign trail.
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