Tarrant County Elected Officials Announce Endorsement for Republican Congressional Candidate Beth Van Duyne

FORT WORTH (WBAPKLIF)- Many Tarrant County Leaders Announce their endorsement for Republican Congressional Candidate Beth Van Duyne to serve the 24th district of North Texas.

Tarrant County Judge, Glen Whitley; Tarrant County Clerk, Tom Wilder; Tarrant County Commissioner, Pct. 3, Gary Fickes; Fort Worth Mayor, Betsy Price; Arlington Mayor, Jeff Williams; Southlake Mayor, Laura Hill; and Bedford Mayor, Jim Griffin backed Van Duyne during a press conference Thursday afternoon. Van Duyne said having served as the former Mayor of Irving, she understands what citizens need and will continue to improve the quality of life here. “As a mayor and HUD director Beth knows how to get things done…She isn’t going to let partisan politics get in the way shes going to go to Washington to take care of business because she was trained that way, you can’t wait on things…they have to happen in your cities,” said Fort Worth Mayor Price.

Van Duyne talked about how popular North Texas has become, with population and job growth with more businesses wanting to invest here. “I don’t want people to come in from New York and San Francisco and Chicago and tell North Texans how to get things done, we know how to get things done and that’s why the rest of the country wants to be here,” she said.

She talked about Tarrant County Leaders as a whole and what they have done for their respective cities. “Southlake with it’s safety initiatives for schools, Bedford with what its doing to bring economic development to “small town” Texas, Fort Worth with Veteran Homeless Programs…these are where solutions are being built,” she said. “These are the folks who know how to get things done and I’m proud to have their support.”

About Beth Van Duyne: Beth left home at the age of seventeen and put herself through college – graduating Magna Cum Laude from Cornell University. After returning to North Texas to start a family, she became a tremendous leader who was not afraid to take on corruption in government. As the first woman elected to be Mayor of Irving, Texas, Beth enacted critical reforms that helped Irving grow and become more responsible to the people of the city: successfully removed a corrupt government structure that was wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars; passed tax reform following the 2008 recession to help property owners keep more of what they earn; enacted a formal arrangement between local law enforcement and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to remove thousands of criminal aliens; and led the city to be the 5^th safest in the entire country and one of the fastest growing for new job creation.