AUSTIN—Texans for Lawsuit Reform President Lee Parsley released the following statement regarding the so-called documentary produced by Texas Scorecard:

“TLR typically doesn’t engage with its detractors, preferring instead to focus on electing principled conservatives to the Legislature, statewide offices and the courts, and on enacting laws that are good for all Texans. But this latest campaign by Texas Scorecard and its affiliated entities to smear the successful legacy of this organization, its founders and its leadership, has crossed the line from criticism to reckless vendetta, unhindered by truth or facts.

The only organized conspiracy to destroy good conservative governance in Texas is being waged by this destructive faction, whose business model depends on stoking and maintaining chaos in Republican politics. Texas voters saw this every day during the Republican primaries in their mailboxes, on the airwaves and on the internet.

When this faction is not outright lying, they are purposefully misleading voters about the conservative wins delivered by Republican legislators, including in their so-called documentary. But no one should trust people who unapologetically cavorted with a Neo-Nazi, called Gov. Abbott “spineless,” and looked the other way when their hand-picked legislator plied a 19-year-old intern with alcohol so he could have sex with her, then drove her to get the morning after pill. After wreaking havoc with their scorched-earth tactics in Republican primaries year after year, they refuse to defend conservative candidates against liberal Democrats in November, are absent at the Capitol when Republicans are doing the hard work of governing, and do nothing to help conservative Republican judges against their liberal Democrat opponents.

Those are the facts Republican voters deserve to know.

For 30 years, TLRPAC has constructively engaged in the political process, helping elect principled conservatives whose policy decisions have created the eighth largest economy in the world, protected personal freedom, and given families and job creators the opportunity to thrive. TLRPAC is often the strongest force helping conservatives fend off liberal attacks in General Elections, and always leads the way in electing rule-of-law Republican judges. No other organization in the state comes close to TLR’s three-decade record of supporting conservative governance in Texas. And that is where we will continue to focus through November.”

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