Texas Democrats announce new executive director

The Texas Democratic Party announced on Wednesday it has hired a new executive director to lead the beleaguered party months after its candidates were trounced by Republicans up and down the statewide ballot.

San Antonio native Crystal Kay Perkins, 32, most recently served as national field director for Michigan Democrat Mark Schauer, who lost his 2014 gubernatorial bid to Republican Gov. Rick Snyder. She will replace Will Hailer, who resigned as the month after the Nov. 4 election.

Perkins, a Texas State University graduate, has worked on Democratic campaigns across the country, according to a news release the party sent out Wednesday. As Schauer’s national field director, she “led all fundraising operations and raised over $27 million for the campaign in Michigan.”

Before that, Perks “worked in numerous states for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and on campaigns in Texas, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Michigan.”

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