Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) ran to replace Ken Paxton as Texas attorney general but lost in the Republican primary runoff late last month to state Sen. Mayes Middleton. Roy’s defeat was apparently achieved with help from a coalition of green-energy elites desperate to protect the gravy train that he threatened to derail in Congress.
One of the most full-throated celebrations of Roy’s defeat came from the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC — a California-based political outfit committed to punishing lawmakers like Roy who’ve sought to deny federal subsidies to renewable energy giants.
‘This is political warfare.’
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“Good riddance, Chip Roy,” the PAC, which spent $1.7 million to tank the Republican’s campaign, said in a statement on May 26.
“As leaders within the clean energy industry, ITC PAC is proud
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