Pete Sessions wants Bill Flores' seat. Flores has other ideas.
When retiring U.S. Rep. Bill Flores heard that former Rep. Pete Sessions was thinking about moving to Waco and running to succeed him, Flores surveyed 50 or 60 local leaders to see what they thought so he could advise Sessions.
Sessions, a fellow Republican who lost his bid for a 12th term last year in a trending blue U.S. House district in the Dallas area, is planning to announce his candidacy Thursday afternoon with a press conference at the McLennan County GOP office in Waco. He never called Flores to tell him he was running or ask him what he thought.
If he had, he would have gotten an earful.
“The feedback I got was overwhelmingly negative,” said Flores, who previously served as chairman of the influential Republican Study Committee in the House.
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