Houston-area Republicans are furious with H-E-B, Charles Butt

The Texas Republican Party faces a potentially delicate problem when it holds its convention in San Antonio next month, and one of them concerns a widely popular grocery store. 

Houston-area Republicans don’t like H-E-B Chairman Charles Butt over and will have a chance to make their case during the GOP convention. How this will impact the convention is unclear, but hardliners are looking for a fight. 

According to these hardliners, the 86-year-old Butt has been anti-Republican, and since H-E-B collects food stamps, that’s also bad. The crux of the fight is over Butt’s backing of candidates opposed to school vouchers. They also suggest he’s backing mail-in ballots, accusing him of supporting voter fraud.  They also accuse Butt of supporting LGBTQ+ issues.

The San Antonio Express-News and Houston Chronicle editorialized that the action was meaningless and distracting. The resolution the GOP would consider ends with this line: 

“Be it resolved that we call on all Republican Party candidates and elected officials to denounce and reject any endorsement, campaign contribution, or association with Charles Butt, his affiliated PACs and organizations, including Raise Your Hand Texas and the Charles Butt Public Education PAC, and his taxpayer-funded lobbying partners, HillCo Partners.”