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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Jayme Lozano Carver

This newspaper publisher is challenging her fellow Republicans to do better for rural Texas

Editor’s note: This story contains explicit language.

LUBBOCK — Thirty years ago, Suzanne Bellsnyder was a budding young Republican working in Austin, far from her home in the Texas Panhandle. She was on a mission to push Republicans — the likes of John Cornyn and Greg Abbott — into power.

Now, she’s returned to the Panhandle and is a known hellraiser for the same Republicans she helped elect. Her new mission is simple: advocate for better lives and treatment of rural Texans.

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