Establishment Republican Lynn Stucky is No Longer Fit to Represent Texas HD64

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Mar 1, 2024

Since entering the race for Texas State House District 64, Andy Hopper has spent the past 7.5 months talking to thousands of voters on their doorsteps. Many frank conversations were had about the state of HD 64, Texas politics, and the US as a whole. 

Hopper ran to address the many concerns Texans have about the future of the American Republic and whether the Texas state government will actually stand against tyrannical measures coming from the federal government. 

Hopper cited the Biden regime’s open borders policies, the federal takeover of elections, the rollout of Central Bank Digital Currencies, and the surging cost of living and stagnant wages against the backdrop of rising appraisals and property taxes as other factors that motivated him to throw his hat in the political ring.

The candidate for HD 64 believes that Texans desire a representative who will fight the good fight and not yield one inch of ground to the ruling class in defending our constitutional rights. Moreover, he believes that Texans are sick and tired of the “business as usual” politics of Austin and want a representative who will tell it like it is at the state capitol. 

For Hopper, HD 64’s incumbent representative, Lynn Stucky, has clearly failed to represent the will of his voters and is openly misleading them on certain issues.

For example, Lynn Stucky claimed that the Wise County GOP’s censure was “rejected” by the Republican Party of Texas. For reference, on November 9, 2023, the Wise County Republican Party overwhelmingly voted to censure Stucky for failing to uphold the principles and legislative priorities of the Republican Party of Texas.

Shortly afterward, Stucky posted a graphic on social media asserting that the censure was “rejected” by the Republican Party of Texas (RPT). He pushed the envelope even further by dropping mailers in neighborhoods across the district featuring the same message.

Stucky proclaimed on X: 

A few #facts missing from @TheTexanNews:

I put out a statement on the forum on Sunday: https://shorturl.at/msDHV

A Dem is running in HD64.

RPT rejected Wise GOP’s censure resolution for lacking merit.

My opponents failed to attend a forum last night in Denton. 

#txlege

The fact is that the resolution was never rejected. Right after posting this graphic, Scott Bowen, a State Republican Executive Committee (SREC) representative for Senate District (SD) 6 and the chairman of the RPT Resolutions committee responded with the following: 

This is not accurate. I’m the chair of the RPT resolutions committee and you’re probably referring to my comments in the meeting describing the Wise County resolution. The SREC has not voted to accept or reject censure, nor did we (either in committee or in full assembly) ever find that anything in the resolution was false.

Rule 44 has unique and stringent requirements for what sorts of violations can be considered by the SREC due to party rules, and committee members did not move it forward due to concerns about applicability of the violations to those criteria, but the resolution was never ‘rejected.’

Naomi Narvaiz (SREC, SD25), who is also a member of the Resolutions Committee, also criticized Stucky’s assertion:

With all due respect…this is not true. As a member of the resolutions committee, It is still in committee. Not dead. However, the @WiseCountyGOP censure was well taken by our committee #BitcoinETF #txgop #txlege #srec

On top of that, Stucky denies ever voting to increase his pension benefits. While participating in a candidate “speed-dating” event at Texas Strong Republican Women in Denton on January 10, 2024, Lynn Stucky declared that he did not vote in favor of increasing his own pension: 

Completely untrue lie. Ask any of the judges. What we did is try to help raise the judges’ pension but it did not include the pension raise for anybody in the legislature.

Lynn Stucky actually pulled the lever for HB 438 and HB 2779, both pieces of legislation that would have adjusted legislators’ pension benefits to account for inflation. Democrat State Representative Tracy King amended HB2779 on the floor to establish a system for raising elected officials’ pensions to adjust for inflation, and Stucky voted for the amended version of this bill. Before the passage of this bill, grassroots watchdog organization Texas for Fiscal Responsibility (TFR) issued public warnings about HB438, and 10 Republican elected officials voted against this pay increase. TFR provided a breakdown of HB 438 and its many flaws here. 

Stucky also denied voting to impeach America First Attorney General Ken Paxton. During a podcast that played on December 11, 2023, Stucky manifested his discontent with a billboard in Decatur which exposed his decision to join 61 Democrats in voting to impeach Ken Paxton. He stated: 

And let’s take, you know, the billboard in Decatur where it says Lynn Stucky and 60 Democrats impeached Ken Paxton. I mean, If you know anything about being a representative, you know that’s not even possible, cause that’s not true.

The fact of the matter is that Stucky did join 61 Democrats to impeach Paxton. In the waning days of the 88th Regular Legislative session (May 27, 2023), Stucky teamed up with 59 other Republicans to vote to impeach Paxton. This marked the first time the Texas State House impeached an elected official in over a century. The Senate ended up acquitting Paxton on all charges.  

Stucky also boasted about voting for a property tax relief package of $18 billion, which he described as the “largest tax cut in history.” During a speech he gave at the Robson Ranch Conservative Club on August 23, 2023, Stucky proclaimed, “It was $18.3B no matter how [we] slice it. It was 18.3, and there will be people who argue that it wasn’t the biggest. But I 100% will–I’m not going to sit here and argue the little points. This was the biggest tax cut ever.”

However, grassroots research found that the property tax cut was $12.7 billion, not $18 billion. Hopper’s campaign revealed that this relief package was slightly more than half of the largest tax cut which was passed 15 years ago and was over $20 billion in 2024 dollars. $5.3 billion of the $18 billion package was relief that was passed back in 2019. This was included in the figure to inflate voters’ perception of the relief.

Stucky’s judgment should absolutely be questioned when it’s unclear if he is actually aware of the content of the legislation that he is voting on and what kind of impact it will have at the end of the day. 

Voters of Texas HD 64 need an elected official who’s on top of all of these things and is principled to boot. 

Stucky is simply not that guy. For that reason, on March 5, voters must relieve Lynn Stucky of the burden of holding higher office and elect Andy Hopper instead.

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