Brownwood News – Dr. Glenn Rogers, a rancher and veterinarian in Palo Pinto County, announced his plans Thursday, September 26, to seek the Republican nomination for Texas House District 60 in the March 2020 GOP Primary.
The seat is currently held by incumbent Mike Lang, who recently announced his intention not to run for re-election. District 60 includes the counties of Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Eastland, Hood, Palo Pinto, Shackelford, and Stephens. Rogers is the owner and operator of the Holt River Ranch, located outside of Graford, which develops and markets around 800 heifers annually. He said his experience as a rancher and small businessman have prepared him for the challenges ahead.
“As the urban and suburban areas of our state continue to grow at incredible speed, our rural values and way of life are at risk,” said Rogers. “It is vital that we send elected leaders to Austin and Washington who understand the complex needs of rural Texans and who we can depend on to stand up for us. My family has ranched in Palo Pinto County since the 1890s, and I can tell you first-hand that the threats our rural communities face today are as great as we have ever seen before.”
If elected, Rogers said that his legislative priorities will focus on the issues that matter most to the hard-working families of rural Texas – strengthening our local public schools, protecting private property rights and reforming the eminent domain process, defending the 2nd Amendment rights of all Texans, securing our southern border, providing better access to rural health care, and providing real and lasting property tax relief to landowners by addressing our broken school finance system.
