Residency-nonconforming Senator Hagenbuch Refusing to Pay Up in Showergate Case
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The most revolting thing in the Texas Legislature keeps getting worse, and countless Republicans seem ready to endorse it until their hands are caught in the proverbial cookie batter.
The first Texas Senator who broke the glass ceiling of being constitutionally bound to only run in the district where he lives has successfully defended himself against a lawsuit seeking to block his election. After providing no evidence that he ever lived in the multi-tenant medical office building 2800 Shoreline Drive in Denton, Hagenbuch’s legal team says he still won’t pay the plaintiff’s legal fees
We have followed Senator Brent Hagenbuch’s unprecedented finagling into power since early 2024, when it first came to light that he listed a shared office building in a business park as his residence on official paperwork in an effort to qualify for a Texas Senate district where he did not actually live.
(Editor’s note: I wanted to describe this as an “unprecedented finaglement into power,” as it really captures the essence of weird in the brazenness of Hagenbuch’s claims. Apparently, however, finaglement is not a word, and although it describes this situation perfectly, I ended up reverting to the gerund form of the verb which can function as a noun in this context.”
This was all funny at first, and we monitored the situation thinking, “surely someone can’t just blow off the constitution and just get elected.”
We covered it in a very factual and neutral way, like David Cook’s race for Speaker.
But then he just got elected, and nobody did anything, and here we are.
Last week, his lawyers dropped the latest update in the saga where a current Texas Senator claims he literally lived inside an office building, and definitely did not simply lie on the elections forms when he filed to run for office.
The very believable story was not expanded on in the latest motion by Hagenbuch’s lawyers, presenting it as established fact that Hagenbuch slept, kept his stuff, and “conducts day-to-today activities.”
You can read the latest motion by Senator Hagenbuch’s lawyers here:
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