Swinford previously headed the Texas House Agriculture and Livestock Committee. An advocate of rural development, Swinford was first elected to the Texas House in 1990. The Panhandle is a heavily Republican section of Texas: only one Democrat in the Texas House, Joseph P. Heflin of Crosbyton, represented West Texas in the chamber, and he was unseated in 2010 by the Republican [[Jim Landtroop]]. | Swinford previously headed the Texas House Agriculture and Livestock Committee. An advocate of rural development, Swinford was first elected to the Texas House in 1990. The Panhandle is a heavily Republican section of Texas: only one Democrat in the Texas House, Joseph P. Heflin of Crosbyton, represented West Texas in the chamber, and he was unseated in 2010 by the Republican [[Jim Landtroop]]. |