Briscoe Cain

1. "Rep. Briscoe Cain". txdirectory.com. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
2. "Deer Park cheerleaders chosen, prepare for upcoming season". Houston Chronicle. May 27, 2002. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
3. "Meet Briscoe Cain". briscoecain.com. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
4. Scott, Brandon (December 19, 2015). "City changes stance on BPD officers Bible study". Beaumont Enterprise. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
5. Curtis, Genevieve (January 29, 2016). "Local medical school accused of purchasing fetal tissue from abortions". CBS 4 News. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
6. "Pro Life heroes Indicted by Harris County Grand Jury". Briscoe Cain for State Representative. January 26, 2016. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
7. "Texas 128th District State House Results: Briscoe Cain Wins". The New York Times . December 13, 2016. Retrieved January 12, 2017.
8. Hollis, Matt (January 8, 2017). "District 128's new rep ready for duty". The Baytown Sun. Retrieved January 12, 2017.
9. Svitek, Patrick (June 3, 2016). "Challenger's Win Over Rep. Wayne Smith Stands After Recount". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved January 12, 2017.
10. Matt, Hollis (July 6, 2017). "Baytown council member to take on Cain". The Baytown Sun. Retrieved December 13, 2017. Baytown City Councilman Terry Sain launched his campaign Wednesday for the Texas House District 128 seat held by Briscoe Cain. Sain is a 20-year resident of Baytown but has lived in the area since 1975.
11. Matt, Hollis (December 12, 2017). "Former Baytown councilman drops state House bid". The Baytown Sun. Retrieved December 13, 2017. But on Monday, Sain explained that running in the campaign "wasn't quite as easy of a road as I thought it was going to be."
12. "See the results of the Texas 2018 midterm election here". The Texas Tribune. November 6, 2018. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
13. Fleming, Mark (November 19, 2019). "Councilman launches state House bid". The Baytown Sun. Retrieved February 14, 2020. On Monday, Republican Robert Hoskins announced his candidacy for State Representative District 128, the seat currently held by Briscoe Cain.
14. Scherer, Jasper (February 12, 2020). "Cain backed by GOP House colleagues while challenger wins support of local officials". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved February 14, 2020. Councilman Robert Hoskins, who is running as a moderate alternative to the incumbent lawmaker with the backing of nearly every mayor in the east Harris County district
15. Scherer, Jasper (February 12, 2020). "Cain backed by GOP House colleagues while challenger wins support of local officials". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
16. Pollock, Cassandra (March 3, 2020). "Two Texas House Republicans facing fierce competition in their bids for reelection". Channel 2 KPRC-TV. Retrieved March 9, 2020. Other House incumbents, of course, also faced legitimate primary challenges — and in two of the more high-profile contests, Republican members — Jared Patterson of Frisco and Briscoe Cain of Deer Park — had commanding leads over their opponents.
17. Pollock, Cassandra (March 3, 2020). "Three Texas House members are heading for runoffs". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved March 9, 2020. And in two of the more high-profile contests, Republican members Jared Patterson of Frisco and Briscoe Cain of Deer Park won their races handily Tuesday night.
18. "Texas primary 2020 results: Watch live updates here". The Texas Tribune. March 3, 2020. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
19. "Editorial: Mary Williams". Ballotpedia. November 3, 2020. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
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22. Farzan, Antonia Noori; Epstein, Kayla (September 13, 2019). "'My AR is ready for you,' Texas Republican lawmaker tells Beto O'Rourke over mandatory buybacks". Washington Post. Retrieved January 16, 2020. First elected to the Texas legislature in 2016, Cain was ranked the most conservative lawmaker in the state's House of Representatives the following year . . .
23. Sherer, Jasper (January 14, 2020). "In Harris County, Democratic incumbents draw far more primary challengers than Republicans". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved January 16, 2020. Still, that primary has not attracted a significant amount of attention, perhaps because Cain — by some measures the most conservative Texas House member . . .
24. Taylor, McKenzie (June 6, 2019). "Did Your Representative Become More Liberal or Conservative this Session? Here's a List". The Texan. Retrieved January 16, 2020. For the second session in a row, Jones ranked Rep. Briscoe Cain (R-Deer Park) as the most conservative member of the House.
25. Wermund, Benjamin; Zelinski, Andrea (September 13, 2019). "Texas Republican lawmaker to Beto O'Rourke: 'My AR is ready for you'". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved January 16, 2020. Cain ranks as the most conservative member of the Texas House . . .
26. Hogue, Andy (December 20, 2019). "Stuck In Line At The DMV? Texas's Most-Conservative Legislator To Helm Committee To Reduce Wait Times". The Hayride. Retrieved January 16, 2020. Cain has the distinction of being the most conservative House member . . .
27. Kampis, Johnny (May 21, 2018). "Critics say Texas universities don't protect free speech". Texas Monitor. Archived from the original on January 16, 2020. Retrieved January 16, 2020. Cain, among the most conservative members of the Legislature . . .
28. Jones, Mark P. (June 29, 2017). "The 2017 Texas House, from left to right". The Texas Tribune. TribTalk. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
29. Jones, Mark (June 4, 2019). "The 2019 Texas House, from right to left". Texas Tribune. TribTalk. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
30. Mark P. Jones, Analysis: The 2023 Texas House, from right to left, Texas Tribune (June 20, 2023).
31. "The Best and Worst Legislators 2017". Texas Monthly. June 20, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2018. When we asked Capitol insiders for Worst list suggestions, his name, almost universally, was the first one mentioned. During one floor debate, when a fellow legislator fell ill with a serious intestinal ailment, Cain objected to the usual procedure of granting the lawmaker an excused absence and called for a record vote. He was the only no vote. But one particular moment, during the budget debate on the House floor, best exemplifies Cain's uninformed and belligerent performance this session.
32. "State Rep. Briscoe Cain Named Recipient of Operation Rescue's 2021 Pro-Life Person of the Year Malachi Award for His Work on the Texas Heartbeat Act". December 16, 2021.
33. "88th Legislature Regular Session - Committee Assignments - Rep. Briscoe Cain". Texas Legislature Online. Committee Assignments. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
34. "87th Legislature Regular Session - Committee Assignments - Rep. Briscoe Cain". Texas Legislature Online. Committee Assignments. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
35. "86th Legislature Regular Session - Committee Assignments - Rep. Briscoe Cain". Texas Legislature Online. Committee Assignments. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
36. "Briscoe Cain, Texas Representative: Email and phone. Salary, biographical details and latest news".
37. "85th Legislature Regular Session - Committee Assignments - Rep. Briscoe Cain". Texas Legislature Online. Committee Assignments. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
38. "Texas Legislature Online – 86 History for HB 1500". Texas Legislature. Archived from the original on February 9, 2019. Retrieved February 9, 2019.
39. Littlefield, Amy (April 5, 2022). "Mastermind of the Texas 'Heartbeat' Statute Has a Radical Mission to Reshape American Law". Reveal. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
40. Roy, Matt (May 10, 2022). "Abortion funds under fire and could face strict new laws during 2023 session". news4sanantonio.com. Retrieved June 15, 2022.
41. Cain, Briscoe (March 18, 2022). "State Representative Briscoe Cain Sends Cease-And-Desist Letters to Abortion Funds in Texas". twitter.com. Retrieved June 15, 2022.
42. Klibanoff, Eleanor (March 29, 2022). "Abortion nonprofits say Texas state Rep. Briscoe Cain defamed them in "cease-and-desist" letter". texastribune.com. Retrieved June 15, 2022.
43. Goldenstein, Taylor (May 5, 2020). "Texas Republican lawmakers Briscoe Cain and Steve Toth get haircuts, defying Abbott's order". HoustonChronicle.com. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
44. "Two Texas lawmakers call for $2.5B in state funds for border wall". February 12, 2019.
45. "Issues". briscoecain.com. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
46. "Gators in the Capitol: Briscoe Cain and Mary Ann Perez". news.uhd.edu. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
47. @BriscoeCain (October 7, 2013). "Yes I mix religion and politics" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
48. Ura, Alexa (February 4, 2021). "Republican who helped Trump campaign challenge Joe Biden's win will lead election work in Texas House". The Texas Tribune.
49. Multiple sources:
    • Ura, Alexa (May 7, 2021). "Texas GOP's voting restrictions bill could be rewritten behind closed doors after final House passage". The Texas Tribune. But both the original SB 7 and the original provisions of HB 6 were opposed by civil rights groups who raised the prospect that the legislation violates federal safeguards for voters of color. Republicans' efforts to further restrict voting in the state come as their presidential margins of victory continue to thin and Democrats drive up their votes in diverse urban centers and growing suburban communities.
    • Ura, Alexa (March 22, 2021). "Texas Republicans begin pursuing new voting restrictions as they work to protect their hold on power". The Texas Tribune. Senate Bill 7 is part of a broader package of proposals to constrain local initiatives widening voter access in urban areas, made up largely by people of color, that favor Democrats.
    • "New GOP-led voting restrictions move forward in Texas". CBS News/AP. April 1, 2021. The bill is one of two major voting packages in Texas that mirrors a nationwide campaign by Republicans after former President Donald Trump made false claims about election fraud. Voting rights groups say the measures would disproportionately impact racial and ethnic minority voters.
    • Wines, Michael (April 1, 2021). "Texas lawmakers advance a bill that would make voting more difficult, drawing comparisons to Georgia". The New York Times. Critics of the Senate bill said most of its provisions were less about making voting secure than about making it harder, particularly for urban voters and minority voters, two groups that tend to vote for Democrats.
    • Barragán, James (April 1, 2021). "In overnight vote, Texas Senate passes bill that would make it harder to vote". Dallas Morning News. [President of the Texas Civil Rights Project] said many of the bill's provisions would disproportionately affect voters of color. The extended voting hours in Harris County, for example, were mostly used by voters of color. Fifty-six percent of voters who cast ballots in late night hours were Black, Hispanic or Asian, according to the Texas Civil Rights Project.
    • Coronado, Acacia (May 30, 2021). "EXPLAINER: How Texas Republicans aim to make voting harder". Associated Press. Advocates say the changes would disproportionately affect minorities and people with disabilities.
    • Gardner, Amy (May 30, 2021). "How the new Texas voting bill would create hurdles for voters of color". Washington Post. While Senate Bill 7 would have wide-ranging effects on voters across the state, it includes specific language that critics say would disproportionately affect people of color — particularly those who live in under-resourced and urban communities.
    • Jasper Scherer; Zach Despart (May 1, 2021). "GOP bills target Harris County's efforts to expand voting. Here's how that played out in the 2020 election". Houston Chronicle. Voting rights experts say the bills — which include measures that would apply only to the state's most populous counties, all of which are predominantly nonwhite — would discriminate against voters of color.
    • Nick Corasaniti (April 24, 2021). "Republicans Target Voter Access in Texas Cities, but Not Rural Areas". New York Times. The Republican focus on diverse urban areas, voting activists say, evokes the state's history of racially discriminatory voting laws — including poll taxes and "white primary" laws during the Jim Crow era — that essentially excluded Black voters from the electoral process. Most of Harris County's early voters were white, according to a study by the Texas Civil Rights Project, a nonprofit group. But the majority of those who used drive-through or 24-hour voting — the early voting methods the Republican bills would prohibit — were people of color, the group found.
    • Paul J. Weber (April 15, 2021). "Houston's expanded voting becomes target of GOP restrictions". The effort is one of the clearest examples of how the GOP's nationwide campaign to tighten voting laws can target Democrats, even as they insist the measures are not partisan. With Americans increasingly sorted into liberal urban areas and conservative rural ones, geography can be an effective proxy for partisanship. Proposals tailored to cities or that take population into account are bound to have a greater impact on Democratic voters.; The county exemplifies the GOP's slipping grip on fast-changing Texas. In 2004, former President George W. Bush, who is from Texas, easily won Harris County and Republicans ran every major countywide office. But recent years have been routs for Democrats, whose wins now extend down the ballot to local judicial races.
50. Montgomery, Dave; Corasaniti, Nick (May 12, 2021). "Exchange Over 'Purity' of Vote Puts Texas G.O.P. Firebrand in Spotlight". The New York Times.
51. Knowles, Hannah (May 9, 2021). "A Texas bill drew ire for saying it would preserve 'purity of the ballot box.' Here's the phrase's history". Washington Post. Retrieved May 29, 2021. The word "purity" has a long and racist legacy in the South, historians said. "Purity of the ballot box" is more obscure — several scholars said they were not aware of it being used for discrimination, and it was enshrined in the Texas Constitution of 1876, which did not bar Black people from voting. To others, though, it conjures century-old justifications for excluding Black voters and rules that have disproportionately kept minorities from casting ballots.
52. Gardner, Amy (May 29, 2021). "Texas Republicans finalize bill that would enact stiff new voting rules that made it easier to overturn election results". Washington Post. Cain, the chief House sponsor of one of the voting bills this year, proposed financial penalties against entities that publicly threaten "any adverse action against this state" in protest of election legislation.
53. Gardner, Amy (April 22, 2021). "As the voting-rights fight moves to Texas, defiant Republicans test the resolve of corporations that oppose restrictions". Washington Post. And on Wednesday, state Rep. Briscoe Cain (R), the chief sponsor of one of the voting bills, proposed financial penalties against entities that publicly threaten "any adverse action against this state" in protest against election legislation.
54. "Texas counties reject unprecedented numbers of mail ballots ahead of March 1 primary under restrictive new law". Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved February 14, 2022.
55. Johnson, Brad. The Back Mic: Legislators Opposed to Democratic Chairs Listed, Rep. Moody Quells DA Appointment Rumors, House Rules Discussed, The Texan, December 9, 2022.
56. "Protesters at TSU prevent state representative's speech". KHOU11news. October 10, 2017. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
57. "House budget amendments seek to ignite controversial topics". The Texas Tribune. April 3, 2017. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
58. Caron, Paul L. (October 10, 2017). "Protesters Force Cancellation Of Speech By State Representative At Federalist Society Event At Thurgood Marshall Law School". TaxProf Blog. Retrieved December 29, 2017. The Federalist Society chapter president said that while the Society is a law school organization under the Student Bar Association, it was not registered with the main campus's student government association, but that he would register it if asked to. Dallas Morning News
59. "'Racist' vs. 'thuggish': Canceled GOP speech at Houston HBCU turns into war of words | Higher Education". Dallas News. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
60. Morris, Angela (October 20, 2017). "At Law Schools, Rowdy Protests Provide Teachable Moments". Connecticut Law Tribune . Retrieved December 29, 2017.
61. "Texas State Rep. Cain: 'Stephen Hawking now knows the truth about how the universe was actually made' - AOL News". Aol.com. March 15, 2018. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
62. Kennedy, Bud (June 22, 2018). "'I think it's funny': Republican prankster booted from Texas Democratic convention". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
63. Hancock, Jamie; Milburn, Forrest (June 23, 2018). "Republicans prank Texas Democrats with 'gun-free safe space' signs at their convention". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
64. Zelinski, Andrea (June 23, 2018). "Republicans prank, troll Democrats at state convention". The Houston Chronicle. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
65. Gstalter, Morgan (September 13, 2019). "Twitter takes down Texas GOP lawmaker's AR tweet about O'Rourke". The Hill. Retrieved September 13, 2019.
66. Cobler, Nicole (January 31, 2020). "After Twitter suspension, Briscoe Cain shares offending post again". Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
67. Abrahams, Tom (September 14, 2019). "Texas lawmaker on 'AR' tweet to Beto: It was not a threat". ABC 13. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
68. "Power Players: Rep. Briscoe Cain" . Retrieved March 6, 2021.
69. McGaughy, Lauren (April 25, 2019). "Texas lawmaker reveals he has Asperger's during Autism Awareness Month speech". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved September 14, 2019.
70. Fikac, Peggy (September 10, 2017). "State lawmakers on the front lines of Harvey response". San Antonio Express-News . Retrieved January 19, 2018.

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• Briscoe Cain at the Texas Tribune

Briscoe Cain
Cain in 2017
Member of the TexasHouseofRepresentatives from the 128th district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 10, 2017

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