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Warren Darrel Chisum (born July 4, 1938) is a conservative Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from the Panhandle city of Pampa, a community of some 20,000 people and the seat of Gray County, Texas. His service began in January 1989. A key lieutenant of former Speaker Thomas Russell "Tom" Craddick, Sr., of Midland, Chisum chaired the budget-writing House Appropriations Committee from 2007 to 2009. In addition to his own Gray County, Chisum represented a sizable geographic area of eighteen other Panhandle or West Texas counties in House District 88: Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth, Donley, Hall, Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lamb, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Parmer, Roberts, Swisher, and Wheeler. From 1989 to 1993, Chisum represented District 84, which then included his Gray County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Legislative Reference Library of Texas: Warren Chisum )〕 ==2012 Railroad Commission race== Chisum did not seek renomination to the House in the Republican primary held on May 29, 2012. Instead he ran for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, the position held on an interim basis by Buddy Garcia and vacated in February 2012 by the elected commissioner, Elizabeth Ames Jones of San Antonio. Jones ran unsuccessfully for the Texas Senate, District 25 seat against fellow Republican Jeff Wentworth, the long-term incumbent in that position. Wentworth was himself unseated by a third candidate, Donna Campbell, a conservative physician from New Braunfels in the July 31 runoff election.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2012 Republican Party Runoff Results )〕 With 27 percent of the vote collected in the primary, Chisum entered the July 31 runoff against Christi Craddick, an attorney based in Austin who specializes in water, tax issues, electric deregulation, petroleum, natural gas, and environmental policy.〔 Craddick led the primary field of six candidates with nearly 36 percent of the vote.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Republican primary election returns, May 29, 2012 )〕 Craddick is the daughter of State Representative Tom Craddick of Midland, the preceding Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and previously a Chisum ally. Chisum questioned Tom Craddick's donation of $300,000 to his daughter in that Christi Craddick had said her father was not "involved" in the railroad commissioner race.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Enrique Rangel, "Warren Chisum accuses Christi Craddick of hiding dad's involvement in Railroad Commissioner race," July 14, 2012 )〕 The ''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal'' described Chisum's prospects as "uphill" considering that Craddick raised three times the campaign contributions of Chisum. She reported to the Texas Ethics Commission more than $1 million in contributions compared to Chisum's $375,000. Much of Craddick's contributions come from Midland. Chisum remained competitive in the race by tapping into more than $600,000 that he raised during his legislative years. Craddick was backed by such wealthy donors as the physician-turned-entrepreneur James R. Leininger and the since deceased homebuilder Bob J. Perry of Houston, no relation to Governor Rick Perry. Chisum was endorsed by Roland Sledge of Houston, the fifth-placed candidate who polled nearly 9 percent of the primary vote.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Enrique Rangel, "Chisum faces uphill battle for new seat" )〕 Craddick easily prevailed in the runoff, having received 589,211 votes (59.8 percent) to Chisum's 396,858 ballots (40.2 percent).〔 Christi Craddick then defeated the Democrat Dale Henry of Lampasas in the November 6 general election. She immediately claimed the seat to succeed interim commissioner Buddy Garcia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Warren Chisum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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