Tarrant County commissioners are allowing a leftist organization to use taxpayer-funded buildings in the county to register people to vote.
Rather than commissioners holding a vote on the request from Battleground Texas Engagement Fund to use county facilities, Commissioner Alisa Simmons proposed an amendment to the “Tarrant County Facilities Use Policy.” The amendment permits county-certified volunteer deputy registrars to utilize the facilities as long as they conduct business during normal public access hours.
“Multiple VDRs of the same or different organizations are permitted in a common County public access facility, so long as the general conditions required by Section III(H) in the form of fire, safety, and capacity requirements are met, as determined by the building’s Facilities representative,” reads the amendment.
The amendment passed in a 3-1 vote, with Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare as the only dissenting vote.
Based on the passage of the amendment, the need for commissioners to approve the request was mooted because it allowed the organization to use taxpayer-funded buildings.
Battleground Texas Engagement Fund has a stated position of wanting to turn Texas blue and is now allowed to use Tarrant County facilities to register people to vote.
“We would like to have temporary access to your facilities to register voters. We all are non-intrusive, non-partisan and very polite. We will abide by all of your facility ordinances as you instruct,” reads the group’s request.
Yet, despite their claim that they are nonpartisan, the organization’s website tells a different story.
Under the “About Us” tab on its website, the group states that Republicans are failing Texas communities.
Texans in every corner of the state – from Amarillo to Brownsville and El Paso to Beaumont – are standing up to say that they’re tired of not being heard, tired of not being represented in Austin and in Washington, D.C., and tired of the same Republican playbook which is failing our communities and ignoring the needs of countless Texans.
One of its programs, “Tx-Flip: Texas Future Leadership Program,” states that those serving in the capitol are “mostly white and male” and says they are committed to “electing more Texans of color.”
Additionally, the organization’s engagement fund signed on to a letter calling on Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson to help voters cast their ballots by mail and encourage curbside voting.
Prior to the court allowing the group to use its facilities, Tarrant County GOP Chair Bo French posted to X, warning of the request.
“The radicals @BGTX want to register voters in taxpayer-funded buildings in @TarrantCountyTX. Unacceptable!” wrote French. “Our local Republicans must stop this madness. We have to keep Tarrant red this November if we want to save Texas from Democrats.”
Battleground Texas is now allowed to set up in the main lobby of Tarrant County’s Northeast courthouse and the five subcourthouses.
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