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Briscoe Cain
Cain in 2017
Member of the Texas House of Representatives
from the 128th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 10, 2017
Preceded byWayne Smith
Personal details
Born (1984-12-09) December 9, 1984 (age 40)
Webster, Texas, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Children5
Residence(s)Deer Park, Texas, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Houston-Downtown (BA)
South Texas College of Law (JD)
OccupationLawyer
Websitewww.briscoecain.com

Briscoe Cain (born December 9, 1984)[1] is an American attorney and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 128.

Early life and education

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Briscoe grew up in Deer Park, Texas, a suburb of Houston located in Harris County. At Deer Park High School, he was on the varsity cheerleading squad.[2] He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Houston-Downtown and a J.D. from South Texas College of Law.[3]

Political career

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In December 2015, Cain successfully defended the religious rights of Beaumont police officers when the city banned them from having Bible study during lunch breaks.[4] In 2016, Cain obtained via a FOIA request invoices sent by a California bioscience company to four Texas medical schools. From these invoices he claimed the Texas schools were using tax dollars to purchase aborted fetal tissue, since Planned Parenthood was known to give fetuses to the California company. In a statement, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso said that it strictly followed federal and state guidelines.[5] Cain is the Texas legal counsel to Operation Rescue.[6]

Electoral history

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In the 2016 Republican runoff election, Cain defeated seven-term incumbent Wayne Smith by 23 votes. In the 2016 general election, Cain defeated Libertarian candidate Ken Lowder.[7][8][9] Cain ran unopposed in the Republican primary election held on March 6, 2018. On July 5, 2017, Terry Sain of Baytown, Texas announced that he would be running against Cain in the 2018 Republican primary.[10] However, just before the December 11, 2017, deadline to file for a place on the primary ballot, Sain announced that he was no longer going to challenge Cain. Citing the difficulties of running a campaign as a reason he dropped out of the race, Sain told The Baytown Sun that running in the campaign "wasn't quite as easy of a road as I thought it was going to be."[11]

In the November 6, 2018, general election Cain ran unopposed.[12]

On November 18, 2019, Robert Hoskins of Baytown, Texas announced he would be running against Cain in the 2020 Republican primary.[13] Hoskins, considered a moderate Republican, is a member of the Baytown City Council and a former member of the Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District board of trustees.[14][15] The race between Cain and Hoskins was considered to be one of the more high-profile primary contests during the 2020 Texas Republican primary.[16] On March 3, 2020, Cain defeated Hoskins in the Republican primary election, when Cain received 11,752 votes (79.32 percent) to Hoskins' 3,064 votes (20.68 percent).[17][18] Cain defeated Democrat Mary Williams in the 2020 general election for District 128 representative.[19]

Cain ran unopposed in the Republican primary election held on March 1, 2022.[20] In the November 8, 2022, general election Cain defeated Democrat Chuck Crews with 70.5 percent of the vote.[21]

Voting record and interest group ratings

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Since being elected in 2016, Cain has consistently ranked as one of the most conservative members of the Texas House.[22][23][24][25][26][27] The annual analysis of Texas legislators' voting records by Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy found Cain to be the most conservative member of the Texas House in 2017,[28] and 2019,[29] and the second-most conservative in 2023 (after Jared Patterson).[30]

Cain was named one of "The Worst Legislators of 2017" by Texas Monthly, describing him as "uninformed and ignorant" and stating "When we asked Capitol insiders for Worst list suggestions, [Briscoe Cain], almost universally, was the first one mentioned".[31]

Cain was named Recipient of Operation Rescue's 2021 Pro-Life Person of the Year Malachi Award for his work on the Texas Heartbeat Act.[32]

Committee assignments

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  • 88th Legislative Session[33]
    • Chairman, Agriculture & Livestock
    • Insurance
  • 87th Legislative Session[34]
    • Chairman, Elections
    • Business & Industry
  • 86th Legislative Session[35][36]
    • Chairman, Select Committee on Driver's License Issuance & Renewal
    • Elections
    • International Relations & Economic Development
    • Resolutions Calendars
  • 85th Legislative Session[37]
    • Defense & Veterans' Affairs
    • Juvenile Justice & Family Issues

Political positions

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Abortion

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Cain is ardently anti-abortion and authored an early version of Texas's six-week abortion ban, also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act.[38]

Cain has also targeted abortion funds in Texas and threatened them with criminal prosecution for their violations of Texas's pre–Roe v. Wade abortion statutes.[39][40] On March 18, 2022, Cain sent cease-and-desist letters to every abortion fund in Texas, demanding that they immediately stop paying for abortions performed in Texas or face criminal prosecution.[41] Abortion funds in Texas have refused to halt their activities in response to Cain's letter, and Cain has promised to introduce legislation that will ensure that Texas abortion funds and their donors are prosecuted for each abortion that they have assisted or paid for in the state of Texas.[42]

COVID-19 pandemic

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Cain defied Governor Greg Abbott's closure of businesses by getting a haircut.[43] Cain also served as an attorney for Shelley Luther, the Dallas Salon owner who was jailed for opening her hair salon in violation of an order related to the COVID-19 pandemic.[44][45]

Immigration

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Cain is an outspoken supporter of the enforcement of immigration laws (particularly in relation to the U.S-Mexico border).[14][46] His campaign website states that he believes "that increased border security is critical for increasing job opportunities for Americans and decreasing crime and taxes on Texas families".[47]

Christianity

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Briscoe, a non-denominational Christian, cited his faith as his biggest source of inspiration in life as part of a 2017 interview with UHD News.[48] Cain has additionally gone on record to state, "Yes I mix religion and politics."[49] He has pledged as part of his 2020 campaign platform to protect the "guarantee of religious liberty", as well as "ensure that traditional Christian values are restored and strengthened."[47]

Voting rights

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Briscoe Cain assisted President Trump's attempts to overturn the election results of 2020 United States presidential election following his re-election loss by using baseless claims of voter fraud.[50] In February 2021, Republican Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan appointed Cain as the chair of the Texas House Elections Committee.[50] The following bills that Cain co-sponsored were accused by Democrats and Voting and Civil Rights groups as restricting voting access.[51] Cain defended the proposed restrictions as necessary to maintain the "purity of the ballot box".[52][53] After some business in Texas opposed the legislation, Cain proposed financial penalties to any business protesting the new proposed voter restrictions.[54][55]

After the legislation had been implemented, mail-in ballots were rejected at record numbers for not filling out forms correctly as specified by the new regulations.[56]

Other positions

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Cain supports a ban on Democrats being given committee chairmanships as long as the Republicans hold the majority of seats in the Texas House.[57]

Controversies

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Texas Southern University protest

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On October 10, 2017, protesters at Texas Southern University (TSU) prevented Cain from speaking at a Federalist Society event on campus.[58] Cain was invited by the president of TSU's Federalist Society student chapter to speak to students at the traditionally black university. He planned to talk about the Texas Legislature's most recent special session. During that session Cain proposed an amendment to a budget bill which would prevent the state of Texas from paying for sex reassignment surgery and hormone therapy for inmates in prison, and he voted in favor of a proposed "bathroom bill".[59] Protesters claimed that Cain "has ties to the Alt-Right and is anti-LGBT" and drowned out Cain's attempts to speak. They were removed; as Cain began to speak again the school's president ordered the protesters be brought back in and canceled the event, saying the Federalist Society chapter was an unregistered student group and the event was "unapproved".[58][60] Cain said in a statement that the talk had been scheduled for months, and that he was "brought into a room in which the administration had specifically requested the talk occur. Then Black Lives Matter came in and bullied the administration into ending the event."[58] James Douglas, the interim dean of TSU's Thurgood Marshall School of Law, said the event had been cleared with him and that he was investigating the incident. He said, "We have a process here in the law school, and they went through our process. The speaker had a First Amendment right to be heard by the students that invited him." A student who had helped organize the protest said that "[w]ith his First Amendment right to espouse hate comes our First Amendment right" to protest.[61][62][58] Cain, a partner at a law firm where he practices First Amendment law, said he intended to sue the school and its president for infringing upon his First Amendment rights.[62]

Stephen Hawking tweet

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On March 14, 2018, Cain tweeted about the death of prominent physicist Stephen Hawking. In his tweet, he stated "Stephen Hawking now knows the truth about how the universe was actually made. My condolences to his family." The tweet was largely perceived to be insensitive and was criticized by legislators on both sides of the aisle.[63]

Texas Democratic Convention prank

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On June 22, 2018, Cain and three other men snuck into the Texas Democratic Party's state convention being held at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth, Texas, where Cain and three other men handed out 100 yard signs which read, "This home is a gun-free safe space" to convention attendees.[64][65] Eventually, convention goers recognized who Cain was, and he and the others involved were forced to leave.[66] When asked about the stunt, Cain said he distributed the signs as "irony" and stated, "It's amazing how many people took one and thanked us. They said they would put it in front of their house. I think it's funny. Nobody should put this in front of their house."[66][64]

Threats against Beto O'Rourke

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In September 2019, Cain threatened Beto O'Rourke after O'Rourke called for gun control measures. Cain said, "My AR is ready for you Robert Francis [O'Rourke's first and middle name]."[67] O'Rourke labeled the tweet a "death threat", and replied to Cain with a tweet reading, "Clearly, you shouldn't own an AR-15 — and neither should anyone else". Cain responded with a tweet, "You're a child Robert Francis."[45]

Twitter gave Cain 12 hours to remove the post. After he did not, the company removed Cain's "My AR is ready for you" tweet, saying it was against the site's policy against violent threats.[67][45][68] Cain was suspended from Twitter for 141 days.

On January 31, 2020, the day the social media company lifted its suspension of Cain's Twitter account, Cain tweeted a screenshot of the interaction between him and O'Rourke writing, "But seriously @twitter, y'all banned me for this."[45]

Personal life

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Cain is married with five children, all boys and all named for Texas counties.[69] He is a nondenominational Christian.[48]

On April 25, 2019, during a Texas House session to recognize Autism Awareness Month, he stated that he has been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, and struggles maintaining eye contact as a result.[70]

He serves with the rank of captain in the Texas State Guard.[71]

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    • 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.
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