Tweet fight is on!
Police labor associations can be kingmakers in Texas politics, electing mayors and now and then, a Tarrant County state senator. At 30, state Rep. Jonathan Stickland of Bedford has taken an unusual political approach to police groups. To him, they’re “union thugs.”
In one of the more entertaining Twitter exchanges lately, Stickland took a cyberswing at two statewide police groups, calling them thugs because of their endorsement of Fort Worth Democrat Libby Willis to succeed state Sen. Wendy Davis in Texas Senate District 10. That wasn’t a surprise. Willis is the daughter-in-law of former state senator and state Rep. Doyle Willis, author of the state civil-service law and a constant campaigner for police and fire benefits and pensions.