Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins sues to thwart Republicans' hopes to unseat him

Local Republicans have hit a roadblock in their bid to unseat Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins in November.

Jenkins, a Democrat, filed a lawsuit Thursday to bar the Dallas County Republican Party from replacing its nominee for county judge on the November ballot after the original nominee dropped out in July.

Listed as defendants are local GOP chairwoman Missy Shorey, Dallas County elections administrator Toni Pippins-Poole and Brian Hutcheson, a local justice of the peace who was selected by Republicans to replace former Rowlett Mayor Todd Gottel as their candidate for county judge.

Gottel cited family and business as the reasons for his withdrawal in July. He was appointed precinct chair in order to give the party a valid reason to remove him as a candidate for county judge.

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