A review of Senator Jeff Wentworth’s record on civil justice issues – and especially his record in recent years – makes it clear that he is philosophically aligned with the plaintiffs’ trial bar, a very narrow segment not only of Texas society but of the Texas Bar itself. There is no other way to explain why a Republican Senator would align himself with the handful of plaintiff trial lawyers who fund about 85% of the campaign expenditures for liberal and Democrat candidates in Texas elections. Wentworth’s tort record is essentially equivalent to that of the Senate’s most liberal member, Democrat Rodney Ellis of Houston.

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