State Rep. Jon Rosenthal, a Houston Democrat, has eight years of experience in the Texas House and more than two decades of direct operational experience in the oil and gas industry.

Credit: Courtesy Photo / Jon Rosenthal On May 26, former Tarrant County GOP Chairman Bo French eked out a 1-point victory over incumbent Jim Wright in the Republican runoff for a seat on the state's poorly named oil and gas regulatory agency: the Railroad Commission (RRC).

As the Texas Observer has reported, French, a 56-year-old oil-industry nepo baby, received over half his primary campaign war chest from a political action committee funded by Christian nationalist oil magnate Tim Dunn and historically by hard-right oil baron Farris Wilks.