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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Patrick Svitek

Dan Patrick targets rural Texas in media-shy bus tour

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, up for reelection in November, started a bus tour of mostly rural Texas in late August, making stops in small towns all over the state. Advance work announcing the visits has been local at best, bypassing the statewide press corps.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, up for reelection in November, started a bus tour of mostly rural Texas in late August, making stops in small towns all over the state. (Credit: Dan Patrick campaign website)

On one weekday morning in late August, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s campaign had an announcement to make: After laying low throughout the summer, he was ramping up his reelection effort with a statewide bus tour, with plans to make 131 stops.

Not only had it already started — it kicked off the day before in a bus befitting a touring musician with Patrick’s silver hair and smiling face wrapped across the outside of the vehicle — but his campaign would not say where exactly he was going.

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