| | '''Mark Evan Dorazio''' (born January 4, 1959)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/mark-dorazio/e183709701456|title=Mark E. Dorazio|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=January 22, 2018}}</ref> is a [[business]]man from [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], who is the former chairman of the [[Republican Party]] in Bexar County. He assumed the position in December 2017, when the incumbent [[Robert Stovall]] resigned to run in the March 6, 2018, primary for the District 21 seat being vacated by the long-term Republican incumbent [[Lamar Smith]]. | | '''Mark Evan Dorazio''' (born January 4, 1959)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/mark-dorazio/e183709701456|title=Mark E. Dorazio|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=January 22, 2018}}</ref> is a [[business]]man from [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], who is the former chairman of the [[Republican Party]] in Bexar County. He assumed the position in December 2017, when the incumbent [[Robert Stovall]] resigned to run in the March 6, 2018, primary for the District 21 seat being vacated by the long-term Republican incumbent [[Lamar Smith]]. |
| | Dorazio is also one of the sixty-two elected members of the Texas State Republican Executive Committee, a panel which voted by a two-thirds majority, 44-19, on January 27, 2018, to censure outgoing Texas House Speaker [[Joe Straus]] of San Antonio for Straus' blocking of much of the [[conservative]] agenda advanced in 2017 by [[Governor]] [[Greg Abbott]]. Dorazio said in the executive committee deliberations that Straus had subverted the party's platform and kept the state from becoming the conservative "shining city on the hill".<ref>Jonathan Tilove, "State GOP executive panel censures Straus: House speaker didn't go along with agenda," ''San Antonio Express-News'', January 28, 2010, p. A6.</ref> | | Dorazio is also one of the sixty-two elected members of the Texas State Republican Executive Committee, a panel which voted by a two-thirds majority, 44-19, on January 27, 2018, to censure outgoing Texas House Speaker [[Joe Straus]] of San Antonio for Straus' blocking of much of the [[conservative]] agenda advanced in 2017 by [[Governor]] [[Greg Abbott]]. Dorazio said in the executive committee deliberations that Straus had subverted the party's platform and kept the state from becoming the conservative "shining city on the hill".<ref>Jonathan Tilove, "State GOP executive panel censures Straus: House speaker didn't go along with agenda," ''San Antonio Express-News'', January 28, 2010, p. A6.</ref> |
| | Dorazio is one of four Republican candidates in the Republican primary scheduled for March 1, 2022, for the open District 122 seat in the Texas House of Representatives.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Mark_Dorazio|title=Mark Dorazio|publisher=Ballotpedia|accessdate=January 4, 2022}}</ref> | | Dorazio is one of four Republican candidates in the Republican primary scheduled for March 1, 2022, for the open District 122 seat in the Texas House of Representatives.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Mark_Dorazio|title=Mark Dorazio|publisher=Ballotpedia|accessdate=January 4, 2022}}</ref> |