Texas Democratic Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa named a former Republican state lawmaker to help lead her transition team and pledged to run a bipartisan administration when she takes office in January.
“We will have a bipartisan transition, and we will have a bipartisan administration and government in Texas,” Hinojosa said at her first press conference since defeating Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Nov. 3.
Hinojosa, a state representative from Austin, will be the first Democrat to serve as Texas governor since Ann Richards left office in 1995.
Former state Rep. Ernest Bailes, a Republican who represented House District 18 in East Texas from 2017 to 2025, will co-chair the transition….