Career
A businessman,Springer is a former controller of a railcar company. He thereafter was a manager of three companies with a total of more than 1,000 employees. In 2005,he joined his father in business in the financial services industry. [4]
Springer was first elected in 2012 when the incumbent Republican,Rick Hardcastle of Vernon, [5] stepped down after fourteen years in office [6] because of multiple sclerosis. [7] Springer was appointed to the Agriculture and Livestock and the Land and Resource Management committees. [8]
It initially appeared that Springer had lost the 2012 Republican primary election in a heavily rural district,when his chief opponent,Trent McKnight,finished with 49 percent of the vote. [6] [9] However,in the runoff election on July 31,with backing from two eliminated candidates in the primary,Springer topped McKnight,8,434 (56.4 percent) to 6,521 (43.6 percent). [10] Springer was unopposed in the 2012 general election in his heavily Republican district.
Springer noted that McKnight is a former Democrat who had never voted in a Republican primary election until his own race in 2012. The winner in eighteen of the twenty-two counties,McKnight blamed his loss on a high turnout in Cooke County,where there was also a competitive election for sheriff,and low participation in the counties in which McKnight led in the primary,despite the high-profile U.S. Senate primary between David Dewhurst and Ted Cruz. In addition to Cooke,Springer won in neighboring Montague as well as Garza and Floyd counties. [11]
Springer represented the district 68th of the Texas House of Representatives from 2013 to 2021. [12] The district,the second largest in the state in terms of square miles,includes a wide swath of twenty-two counties. [6] [8]
In 2013,Springer joined the large Republican majority in the Texas House in enacting H.B. 2 to restrict abortion. Springer co-sponsored the legislation. [13] The legislation was subsequently struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt . [14]
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