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In 1996, Siebert was named "National Legislator of the Year" by the National Republican Legislators Association.<ref name=talhi>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718154610/http://www.talhi.com/about.php|title=TALHI Team: Bill Siebert|publisher=Texas Association of Life and Health Insurers|accessdate=April 4, 2020}}</ref> Though he had been unopposed for the Republican legislative nomination in 1998, Siebert was handily unseated in 2000 in the primary election by Elizabeth Ames Jones, later a member of the Texas Railroad Commission appointed by [[Governor]] [[Rick Perry]]. Siebert's work as a lobbyist while also serving in the legislature was denounced in the campaign by ''The San Antonio Express-News,'' which urged voters to "clean house and dump [Siebert], the local GOP's biggest embarrassment."<ref>Morgan Smith, "Primary Races Tend to Be Bloody," ''The Texas Tribune,'' November 3, 2009.</ref> The 2000 primary results were 8,053 (66.4 percent) for Jones and 4,082 (33.6 percent) for Siebert.<ref>Texas Secretary of State, Election Returns, March 14, 2000.</ref>

In 1996, Siebert was named "National Legislator of the Year" by the National Republican Legislators Association.<ref name=talhi>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718154610/http://www.talhi.com/about.php|title=TALHI Team: Bill Siebert|publisher=Texas Association of Life and Health Insurers|accessdate=April 4, 2020}}</ref> Though he had been unopposed for the Republican legislative nomination in 1998, Siebert was handily unseated in 2000 in the primary election by Elizabeth Ames Jones, later a member of the Texas Railroad Commission appointed by [[Governor]] [[Rick Perry]]. Siebert's work as a lobbyist while also serving in the legislature was denounced in the campaign by ''The San Antonio Express-News,'' which urged voters to "clean house and dump [Siebert], the local GOP's biggest embarrassment."<ref>Morgan Smith, "Primary Races Tend to Be Bloody," ''The Texas Tribune,'' November 3, 2009.</ref> The 2000 primary results were 8,053 (66.4 percent) for Jones and 4,082 (33.6 percent) for Siebert.<ref>Texas Secretary of State, Election Returns, March 14, 2000.</ref>

In 2002, Siebert considered running for Texas's 23rd congressional district seat in the United States House of Representatives but deferred to the incumbent Republican Henry Bonilla, who ran again successfully for Congress in 2002 and 2004.<ref>Texas Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 5, 2002, and November 2, 2004.</ref> Meanwhile, the District 121 House seat is now held by Republican [[Steve Allison]], who in 2019 succeeded former Representative and House [[Speaker]] [[Joe Straus]], a Moderate Republican from San Antonio.

In 2002, Siebert considered running for Texas's 23rd congressional district seat but deferred to the then incumbent Republican, Henry Bonilla, who ran again successfully for Congress in 2002 and 2004.<ref>Texas Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 5, 2002, and November 2, 2004.</ref> Meanwhile, the District 121 House seat is now held by Republican [[Steve Allison]], who in 2019 succeeded former Representative and House [[Speaker]] [[Joe Straus]], a [[Moderate Republican]] from San Antonio.