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Mark Ramsey Endorses Jon Bouché for HD 16
September 10, 2025 | Media Inquiries: jon@bouchefortexas.com
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TX - Mark Ramsey has endorsed Jon Bouché for House District 16.
Mark S. Ramsey, P.E., has a proven record of effective representation at all levels over several decades. He is formerly a four-term elected State Republican Executive Committee (SREC) representative of Texas Senate District 7 (North Harris County). In December 2020, Ramsey was one of 38 Texas Members of the U.S. Electoral College, where he successfully authored and passed an historic Resolution condemning the U.S. Supreme Court’s lack of action relating to the November election fraud.
Ramsey is the only person in the history of the Republican Party of Texas to chair all three of the major state convention committees—Platform and Resolutions, Legislative Priorities, and most recently Rules. He is a former Chief of Staff for a legislator in Austin. He has also served on the Texas Education Agency (TEA) engineering curriculum committee and was invited by the Texas Sunset Commission to report on the TEA when it was up for review. Several of his recommendations led to language in proposed legislation.
In 2022, Ramsey was elected as a Director of the North Harris County Regional Water Authority (NHCRWA), defeating a 23-year incumbent by a 3:1 margin. The NHCRWA serves about 800,000 people, with about half actually getting part of their water from the NCHRWA. He previously served as President of their Board of Directors, with a laser focus on stopping the unsustainable rise in water rates in North Harris County while preserving quantities and quality of water available to residents. Since taking office, the board has saved ratepayers around $250,000,000.
Ramsey is a registered professional engineer, holding numerous U.S. and international patents, and has helped clients on six continents. He was named an Exxon “Distinguished Instructor,” and Texas Tech named him a “Distinguished Engineer,” an award for lifetime achievements that less than 1% of alumni ever receive. He and his wife, Pauline, have been married for more than 44 years, and have three grown children and five grandchildren. They worship at WoodsEdge Community Church.
“Mark Ramsey is a stalwart conservative who I have known for several years and worked with on the Rules Committee at the 2024 Texas GOP convention,” Bouché said. “I am proud to have his endorsement!”
Jon Bouché Sends Letter to Texas GOP Chairman Addressing Dysfunction in the Texas House
August 25, 2025 | Media Inquiries: jon@bouchefortexas.com
On Friday, Jon Bouché sent a letter to Texas GOP Chairman, Abraham George, offering a solution to the abuse of power by the Texas House Speaker that continues to derail the House year after year.
“The Speaker should serve the body, not control it,” Bouché states in the letter.
“The future of Texas is at stake. Now is the time for decisive action, and I intend to stand strong and fight for change if elected to the Texas House.”
Click here to read the letter.
Texas GOP To Sue State Over Open Primaries Citing Legislative Inaction
June 13, 2025 | Media Inquiries: jon@bouchefortexas.com
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TX - According to a confidential source within the leadership of the Republican Party of Texas, the Texas GOP will be filing a lawsuit against the state over its failure during the 89th Legislative Session to transition to a closed primary system. The lawsuit will argue that the current open primary structure — which allows voters unaffiliated with the Republican Party to participate in its candidate selection process — violates the party’s constitutional right of freedom of association.
At the heart of the issue is a critique of the 89th Texas Legislative Session, during which Republican leaders saw that the efforts to close the primary system were systematically derailed in the Texas House as every bill introduced that would have shifted Texas to a closed primary model was either blocked in the House Calendars Committee or denied a hearing altogether. Despite bills being filed in the House to close the primary such as House Bill 934 and House Bill 951, not a single piece of legislation on the matter from the House or Senate reached the floor for debate.
“It is not simply legislative neglect, it’s blatant obstructionism by Speaker Burrows and his crew in Austin,” said Jon Bouché, Vice Chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Party and a candidate for Texas House District 16. “The grassroots of our party have made it overwhelmingly clear that they want a closed primary system. When lawmakers ignore that mandate and refuse to even allow a public discussion, it leaves the party with no choice but to turn to the courts.”
Texas remains one of the few states with a semi-open primary, where voters do not have to register with a party to vote in its primary election. GOP members argue that this system allows Democrats and unaffiliated voters to influence Republican candidate selection, diluting the will of conservative voters and contributing to an ideological drift within the party.
A lawsuit will frame this issue as a constitutional one, citing Supreme Court rulings that political parties have the right to determine how they associate and select their nominees. By failing to implement a closed primary, the Texas GOP will be arguing, the state is interfering with those rights.
GOP members and political analysts across Texas note the irony of despite having overwhelming Republican House and Senate majorities in Austin — and leadership who claim to be aligned with conservative values — they failed miserably in delivering on what has become a central demand of the party’s grassroots base for years.
This lawsuit is as much a shot across the bow of Texas Republican legislators as it is a legal action against the state. By filing this lawsuit, the party is sending a clear message: get serious about party control, or we’ll take matters into our own hands.
In May of 2024 at their convention in San Antonio, the Texas GOP changed the party rules to close the primary and was anticipating that Republican legislators, who hold an overwhelming majority in the Texas House and Senate, would pass legislation supporting their actions but that did not happen.
When the case is filed, it is likely to stir debate not only over the legality of the open primary system but also over internal rifts within the Texas GOP itself — between establishment figures and a growing faction determined to reshape the party’s electoral mechanics. Republican voters should pay very close attention to the so called “republicans” who fight to keep the primary open so that Democrats can cross over and vote against Conservatives in Texas.
Whether the courts will ultimately side with the GOP remains to be seen, but one thing is clear: the battle over who gets to choose Republican nominees in Texas is far from over.