The race for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission is getting some long-overdue attention—for all the wrong reasons. One of three seats on the Commission, which oversees oil and gas extraction rather than the railroads in its name, is up for grabs, and the campaigns have been rife with political theater.
Republicans Tom Slocum, Sarah Stogner and Dawayne Tipton, and Democrat Luke Warford are running against incumbent Wayne Christian, a gospel singer and financial advisor turned politician. A fourth Republican, Marvin Summers, was also in the running. But on February 8, he died while on the campaign trail in Midland in a car crash with a tanker truck.
The latest stunt comes from Stogner, an oil and gas attorney from West Texas. As early voting got underway in the state’s primary elections last week, Stogner, known as “theunicornlawyer” on TikTok, posted a video of herself wearing nothing more than a cowboy hat, boots, underwear, and nipple pasties while perched atop an oil pump jack. As of now, the video has 135,000 views. If that isn’t enough to get your attention, the fight for the Commission seat is riddled with corruption.
