SD-22 | This is Why Ennis Should Concede Political Media to Me

I don't think the Ennis Daily News publisher is from around here. Tre Bischof's recent editorial about Brian Birdwell's victory over the political establishment candidate (David Sibley was as establishment as one can get) in the June 22 run-off for Senate District 22 had me shaking my head when I got to this point:
Important to note is that the district's tradition of conservative leadership in Austin seems to have been upheld with Birdwell's election.
Anyone who has followed our senate district in Austin knows that we have never had "tradition of conservative leadership." Outgoing state Sen. Kip Averitt, R-McGregor, was a Democratic-voting Republican ballot holder. He might have sided with true conservatives on a few issues, but overall, the Democrats didn't need to field a candidate because he was a Democrat. McLennan County held power over SD-22 for so long it's hard to figure out what a "conservative" senate district would look like.

The closest state senate district I can think of that is remotely conservative is SD-7, home to Dan Patrick. Want conservative? THAT's conservative. To her credit, Jane Nelson, R-Lewisville, who has a sister that lives in Waxahachie (very nice lady!), was once our state senator. I'd trade Nelson for an Averitt any day, but now that Birdwell is our state senator, we will once and for all have true conservative leadership in Austin, both in the senate and on the State Republican Executive Committee.

The EDN's editorial is like saying House District 10, of which Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, has represented since 1993 (elected in '92), is "conservative." The district itself, yes, but the representative in Austin, no. Definitely not a conservative.