John Whitmire’s Senate Seat is up for re-election this year. His buddies Dan Patrick and Gregg Abbot wanted to make sure that the seat would still likely fall back to him, so they added white Anglo Democratic Voters during redistricting. Whitmire and the Republicans have been planning for this for several years. If not for that, they knew that the Black community would not be supporting him in the future. Whitmire has relied on the Black community to get elected, time and time again. If he had any decency, he would remove himself from running for mayor.
Black Democrats may make up to 40% of Democratic Primary voters in Senate District 15.