LUFKIN (AP) \u2014 Five Angelina County elected officials have switched from the Democratic to Republican Party.<\/p>\n
The Lufkin Daily News reported Friday that the district clerk, county clerk, tax assessor\/collector, Precinct 1 commissioner and Precinct 3 constable all announced the switch in a signed statement released by the local GOP. The five said that the Democratic Party “no longer reflects our values and our conservative principles \u2014 it moved, we have not.”<\/p>\n
The decision comes just two months after the GOP swept every contested race on the East Texas county’s ballot.<\/p>\n
County Democratic Party Chairman Jim Wark said all five should resign and run again as Republicans. He said none informed him in advance of the party switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LUFKIN (AP) \u2014 Five Angelina County elected officials have switched from the Democratic to Republican Party. The Lufkin Daily News reported Friday that the district clerk, county clerk, tax assessor\/collector, Precinct 1 commissioner and Precinct 3 constable all announced the switch in a signed statement released by the local GOP. The five said that the … Continue reading Angelina County Officials Change Parties<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 03:10:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63549"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63753,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63549\/revisions\/63753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}