Both candidates would make history. And both play the culture war politics of the Alamo....
Jason Fochtman, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
That’s too bad, because outgoing Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush, whose office oversees the museum and monument to Texas’ most famous battle, long ago abandoned any commitment to history and truth when it comes to the Alamo. As new scholarship has sought to add to a fuller understanding of Texas’ origin story, Bush has joined others in Texas state leadership in attacking the messengers rather than confronting the message.
Tim Westley, 50, says he’ll fight to keep the story of Texas heroes just as has been told for years. For that matter, Westley, the official historian for the Texas GOP, also promises to defend historical monuments throughout Texas from revisionists, and to fight the rising threat of “critical race theory” in Texas schools. What precisely he could do about that as land commissioner is far from clear.
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