Amy Fennell, Republican candidate for Texas House District 60, has announced she is leaving the race. Fennell said her decision to withdraw from the campaign against incumbent Mike Olcott came after consideration and conversation with her family and supporters.
“I entered this race for one reason: the betterment of House District 60,” Fennell said. “My campaign was built around practical, solution-oriented priorities—strengthening our water infrastructure, improving transportation, promoting responsible economic development, ensuring public safety, and protecting public school funding. Those issues remain critically important, and my commitment to this community has not changed.”
However, Fennell explained that her decision was driven by a fundamental shift in the political environment surrounding the race.
“Historically, the Republican Party stood for independence, integrity, and accountability,” Fennell said. “It was the party of limited government, local control, and leaders who answered to their communities—not to national political figures and shadowy mega-donors. Over the past several weeks, I have come to realize that this is no longer the case.”
Fennell said the party’s “growing emphasis on personal loyalty over principle” was irreconcilable with her values.
“The same party that claims to fight to protect women’s spaces has been willing to excuse or minimize a president’s well-documented history of sexual misconduct. I have daughters — I cannot reconcile the party’s contradictions, and I will not be silent about them,” she said. “I will not be part of a party where loyalty comes before all, even at the expense of Constitutional requirements, just and righteous decisions, and fiscally conservative policies.”
Fennell said she will remain true to her belief in conservative principles of limited and accountable government, “and I will continue to love and serve my neighbors—regardless of how they vote,” Fennell said. “I am an independent Texas woman, and I pray that, in the end, love and decency will prevail.”
Fennell said she was sincerely thankful for the people who put trust in her and who volunteered to support the effort.
“Advocating for House District 60 has been an honor,” she said.
“I will continue to care deeply about the future of District 60 and our state,” she said. “My independent spirit will not bend to the whims of any morally bankrupt individual. I am Texan. I am American. I am Christian. I will continue to live with a heart that values others above myself, as called by Christ, and I will remain an independent Texas woman who bends a knee to no man.”
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