Colonel Wilson Sets the Record Straight

As your state representative, Stan Kitzman has delivered major conservative achievements for Texans: protecting children from radical gender modification, banning Critical Race Theory and DEI, restricting pornography, keeping boys out of girls’ sports in schools, defending election integrity, combatting Sharia Law in Texas, lowering property taxes, strengthening the border, and expanding educational opportunities for all Texas students.

When I was first elected to the Texas House of Representatives, no one believed so much could be accomplished so efficiently. But Representative Kitzman has been a driving force in making this happen.

Unfortunately, certain factions within the Republican Party want to prevent you from hearing about these accomplishments in order to profit as the Party tears itself apart.

Voters have been inundated with misleading commercials, mail pieces, and emails from Texans United for a Conservative Majority (TUCM), falsely claiming Representative Kitzman—a decorated combat infantryman who fought ISIS in Iraq during three separate deployments—supports radical Islam and abusive gender ideology.

As someone who has been in the same fight as Representative Kitzman, in Iraq and now on the House Floor, I need to set the record straight before you cast your ballot in the March 3 primary election.

TUCM is part of Pale Horse Strategies—also operating under West Fort Worth Management, LLC—a group of so-called “conservative” activists from Fort Worth who attempted to cover up former Representative Bryan Slaton’s predatory sexual behavior and held strategy meetings with self-proclaimed neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes as Hamas attacked Israel.

They eagerly lie to disguise their own moral failures. But facts are facts, and voters deserve to hear the truth from someone present when these important issues were debated in the Texas House.

As a first-term representative in 2023, Representative Kitzman led on landmark legislation banning child gender modification surgeries in Texas.

But while lawmakers like Representative Kitzman were working diligently to pass legislation protecting Texas children, TUCM-backed legislators were plotting to manipulate the legislative process and smear those not under their control.

House Bill 1898, a bill to provide mental health grants to children’s hospitals, went through the House Public Health Committee and eventually to the House Floor for a vote. However, Representative Tony Tinderholt devised a “gotcha” on this bill, offering a last-minute amendment to prevent those grants from being used to aid in the social transitioning of minors.

While a worthwhile idea, the actual amendment failed for many reasons. At that point in the legislative process, it would have taken 100 votes to amend the bill, requiring approval from Democrats who were adamantly opposed to the idea.

Had he been operating in good faith, Representative Tinderholt could have proposed the amendment much earlier in the process, while the bill was still in the committee he served on. Then it would have only required six votes to amend the bill.

When this critical bill came to the House Floor for its first of two votes by the entire House membership, Representative Tinderholt again decided not to propose the amendment.At this point, it would have needed 76 votes to be added—more than in committee, but a number achievable with only Republican votes.

When the bill came up for its final vote on the House Floor, only then did Representative Tinderholt propose the amendment he had written moments before. The legislative process is one Representative Tinderholt is closely familiar with, having served as a lawmaker for well over a decade.

This chain of events implies the motivation was to use the amendment as a bludgeon in the next Republican primary, absent the context or facts.

The actual anti-transitioning bill, Senate Bill 14, has now been law in Texas for two years.

This session, Representative Kitzman led efforts to define gender by biological sex at birth. He helped pass SB 12 to keep radical transgender ideology out of Texas classrooms. Representative Kitzman also voted for the law that keeps men out of women’s sports.

Stan Kitzman is a man of his word.

The accusation that Representative Kitzman supports the Islamification of Texas is blatantly false. The Texas House voted on several bills this session that contradict this claim, including SB 17, blocking hostile foreign adversaries from buying Texas land. Representative Kitzman approved legislation halting religious segregation projects like the EPIC city in North Texas. Representative Kitzman also supported a law making it a felony in our state to enforce Sharia law or any foreign law.

Your state representative, Stan Kitzman, was at the front of the charge of the many conservative achievements the Texas House delivered. Claiming otherwise is attempting to fracture conservatives and destroy the momentum we’ve gained in order to greedily fundraise on fear and suspicion.

Finally, the following State Representatives have cosigned this letter: David Spiller; Lacey Hull; James Frank; Jared Patterson; Will Metcalf; Matt Shaheen; Brook Landgraff; Jeff Leach; Brad Buckley; Cody Harris; Greg Bonnen; Cole Hefner.