Sam Harless State Rep District 126

The 2026 Houston Live Stock @RODEOHOUSTON Show set the record straight on another bizarre personal action by Judge @LinaHidalgoTX. This whole "Rodeo-gate" is foolishness and reckless behavior unbefitting the elected County Judge of the Nation's 3rd largest county. She should resign period! Repeatedly asking for $9k of tickets, then blaming others for her own bad behavior in writing is simple unconscionable. I think the public agrees this is NOT about "Women", "Hispanics", "White men", or any other charge Judge Lina made! Its about a person not mature enough to listen to the word: NO in the 1st place... PS if anyone asks, of the number of rodeo tickets requested by Senator Bettencourt, the answer is ZERO. #txlege

UPDATE | Rodeo officials now say Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo was told before the show that she wouldn't be allowed on the ground level, or chute seating. Hidalgo’s leadership position has also been revoked -> khou.com/article/news/l…

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Happiest birthday to you

Thank you for having me.

🗳️ Today, October 6, is the LAST DAY to register to vote in Texas! Texans will head to the polls this Nov. to decide on multiple statewide constitutional amendments, including major property tax relief measures: 💼 Prop 9: To raise business personal property exemption (BPP) from $2.5K → $125K. 🏠 Prop 11: To raise the 65+/disabled exemption from $10K → $60K, when combined with Prop 13, the school district exemption for seniors and disabled Texans will total $200K! 🏡 Prop 13: To Raise the general homestead exemption from $100K → $140K. If you haven’t registered yet, there’s still time! ✅ Apply online at VoteTexas.gov ✅ Mail in your registration form ✅ Or visit your local county voter registrar’s office today. 📅 Early Voting: Oct. 21 – Nov. 1 📅 Election Day: Tuesday, Nov. 5 Make sure your voice is heard, and get #VoteReady to shape Texas’ future! @VoteTexas #txlege

So sad we can’t have differences without killing each other

This @KleinISD statement👇 recognizes the obvious, any senseless and unacceptable remarks on social media about a murder assassination, by an employee, will result in termination. Those who are involved with the education of all our Texas students must be held to this standard. #txed @SamHarless126 @TheJMcG

As the Senate author of SB 10, Property Tax Relief, I wouldn't have thought to do this county analysis of the 2024 Trump/Biden Presidential vote unless you had posted on it at @lukemaciastx claiming Biden's Texas vote was higher than Trump's in SB 10's bracketed 51 counties. It wasn't...Trump’s was higher, of course! (See my chart) First, this is 2025 Census data and 2024 official Secretary of State results. Whatever data source used in the post is immediately in error as Biden's total vote in all Texas Counties was only 4.835 Million per the Texas Secretary of State site, yet the total posted Biden 2024 vote in your X of just the 75k population Texas county votes was more at 4.895 Million votes! NOTE: That's 60k higher than Biden got in all 254 counties in this state, and that's simply not possible! The attached chart of the actual 51 SB 10 counties vote numbers show President Trump at 5.154 million votes, and Biden at only 4.505 million. In fact, President Trump went on to win the entire state with 6.393 million votes, about 1.56 million more than Biden's actual 2024 vote total! Secondly, you can logic check this simply by the fact that remaining smaller counties had a winning margin of roughly 910k votes for President Trump, but that's not his whole margin of victory of 1.56 million. If the President had somehow lost the larger counties by 202k as you claimed below, then his margin of victory would have been ONLY 708k statewide, less than half what our ever popular President @realdonaldtrump actually received!! The reason SB 10 used a population bracket of 75k is that it is the PTAD defintion of a smaller taxing unit, and it is what was substituted into SB 10, plus it's where a large supermajority of Texas Taxpayers property tax accounts are found! #txlege.

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@texasgirlnyc Out of curiosity, why would you think I would not want to punish them? When they broke quorum, I drove up from Houston to the Capitol every day, trying to establish a quorum and this isn’t the first time they did this. If anyone is irritated by them, it’s the members who stayed.

@AndyHopperTX @GregAbbott_TX Don’t see @SamHarless126 on that list. Guess he has not figured out that his buddies at Champions Golf Club are not going to be enough to re-elect him. Voted for Burrows. Voted against punishing Dems who fled and cost us money. The list goes on.

Today, 31 Republican House Reps signed a letter asking @GregAbbott_TX to call a 3rd Special Session in order to consider redistricting the Texas House of Representatives.

@PattyALoera I too am a property owner, pay property taxes and inflated insurance. I hate it as well and fight every day against it.

@realmitchlittle Texans are sick of politicians fighting harder for "non-profits", Hollywood and big Corporations for tax exemptions. Homeowners are drowning in property/ school tax, homeowners ins, auto ins, health ins and sales tax. How about fighting for the every day taxpayer.@SamHarless126

Fascinating day in the legislature. I saw someone post (lie) that HB 23 by Sam Harless is going to raise property taxes. The bill literally just codifies the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo’s property tax exemption. Their property is already treated as exempt from tax, so this is no change. That’s because we generally don’t tax nonprofits for obvious reasons. No money changed hands on the bill. Zero. I have seen others post that SB 10 raises property taxes and that the amendments destroy its impact. Well, joke’s on you: The impact it had was mostly negative to begin with. The bill as written stood to save the average homeowner in my hometown (Lewisville, TX) a total of $10.99 annually in property tax. No, that’s not a misprint. Meanwhile, cities, towns, and counties would need to hold a costly election to get the voters to permit them to increase basic public safety services like police, fire, and EMS just to keep up with growth. The various amendments and deviation from our liturgy sent the entire chamber into a tizzy. This was, after all, a “highly negotiated bill.” The legislature’s sin is that we strain at the gnat and swallow the camel. No one seems to want to address the elephant in the room: The bulk of your property taxes are for school district maintenance and operations and debt service. Until we clamp down on these items and address them head-on, we are kidding ourselves. Ask yourself why we aren’t.

Thank you Rep.MitchLittle. Some people can’t help themselves

Thank you Commissioner Ramsey, good news

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🚨Fundraising Filibuster TERMINATED in the Texas Senate in advance of HB 4 passage, the Redistricting bill, 18–11! 🗳️ Yesterday, Democratic Senate Caucus Chair Carol Alvarado engaged in what could only be described as active fundraising in the Capitol prior to an attempted filibuster on the Senate floor. At approx. 3 p.m., the @CarolforTexas campaign released an email asking her supporters to watch her filibuster and donate, ⏩💸 claiming that somehow “MAGA was after” her, despite the fact that the future filibuster hadn’t even occurred yet! The whole purpose of the email was to “rush donations” to her campaign and in an enormous breach of Senate tradition and possible illegality, it was also accompanied by a series of short videos of her all around the Senate chamber to “Stand with Carol” and watch her filibuster. 📩 The overall problem is that Sen. Alvarado is turning the entire Senate chamber, Senate gallery, staff, and other Senate members into props for an active political fundraiser at the Capitol. As a former Republican Caucus Chair myself, I have never seen anything like this in the decade I spent in the Texas Senate. This may skirt the law somehow, but there’s no way that all the people involved could have known or given their permission to be part of an active fundraiser. Lt. Gov. @DanPatrick laid out the facts to the entire Senate membership from the dais. The reaction was swift! Sen. @electcharles called for the previous question, terminating the fundraising filibuster before it started, ⛔ and Republican Caucus Chair @TanParkerTX released a letter condemning it, signed by his membership. I will file a bill Tuesday to stop any political fundraising 🚫💵 by legislative and executive branch officeholders during a special session. Public policy must come first and never active political fundraising filibuster games during Senate proceedings. #txlege

@Tettelestai @BoFrenchTX Yes I have been showing up the whole time. It’s our duty

@BoFrenchTX Well @SamHarless126 is my rep. Is there a way to see if he’s been showing up? I’ll be happy to make my community aware of what he’s been up to during all this

@AbbottCampaign @GregAbbott_TX Thank you, Governor! #txlege

Governor @GregAbbott_TX endorses Rep. @SamHarless126 for re-election to House District 126. Rep. Harless is a proven conservative. He’s helped secure our border, defend our values, and delivered conservative results. Let’s keep Texas, Texas by re-electing Sam Harless.