Smitherman currently serves on the commission with two other Republicans, David J. Porter of Lee County, who unseated former commissioner Victor G. Carrillo in the Republican primary in 2010, and Christi Craddick of Austin, who was elected in 2012 to fill the seat formerly held by Elizabeth Ames Jones but held in the preceding interim months by Buddy Garcia of Austin.
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Ken Paxton, Barry Smitherman, and Dan Branch announced their campaigns to seek the Republican nomination to succeed Greg Abbott as Attorney General of Texas.