Mainstream success threatens O’Hare’s MAGA radicals
Attack and divide politics have barged into Mansfield, Texas. Hyper-partisan Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare led a “Hate-triot” pep rally in Mansfield last month featuring his hand-picked MAGA mayoral candidate, Julie Short.
Short is an O’Hare acolyte with a shallow record of public service highlighted by a handful of shady real estate deals. The intense partisanship she brings to the mayoral race breaks hard against the tradition of nonpartisan leadership that has served Mansfield well for years.
Short’s association with Tim O’Hare alone reveals an appetite for rancor and division. O’Hare has framed his political identity around confrontation and animosity. He’s turned Tarrant County Commissioner Court meetings into shouting matches with both his colleagues and the public. As a candidate, O’Hare infamously said, “If you’re a Republican and you haven’t been called a racist, then you probably haven’t done a thing.”
Short and O’Hare joined with other out-of-town ideologues and the extremist organization True Texas Project to sponsor the “Hate-triot” rally.
Organized Hate
True Texas Project is headquartered in far north Tarrant County. It has been formally designated as an anti-government hate group by the widely respected Southern Poverty Law Center which tracks and monitors dangerous organizations who foment hate and division based on race and ideology.
True Texas Project has more than earned its designation. The group regularly promotes and/or hosts events featuring speakers who collaborate with white nationalists, Nazi sympathizers, and eugenicists. The group’s CEO, Julie McCarty, and her husband, Fred, regularly spout white supremacist theories, views and rhetoric. The McCartys even defended and rationalized the murder of 23 people in an El Paso Walmart by a racist gunman.
So why are Tim O’Hare and out-of-town extremists sending their “Hate-triot” forces into Mansfield?
Mansfield is Thriving Under Mainstream, Commonsense Leadership
Mansfield, Texas is a thriving city of just over 87,000 people in southeast Tarrant County. It is a sterling example of fair-minded nonpartisan leadership bringing success and quality growth to the local economy to benefit families and their neighborhoods. Mansfield’s current mayor, Pastor Michael Evans, is a rock-solid moderate who has had extraordinary success by not just bridging partisan party lines but ignoring them. And the results are remarkable. Under Mayor Evans, Mansfield has been recognized as outstanding across the board:
- Safest City in Texas
- City Council of the Year
- Best Mid-Sized City to Live In (Southwest USA)
- Best City To Do Business In
- Best Police
- Best Fire/EMT
| O’Hare and Julie Short want to turn the clock back Tim O’Hare has a long history of racial division. Before immigrating to Tarrant County from Dallas County, O’Hare served as Mayor of the small town of Farmers Branch. He ultimately cost the small city over $6.1 million in legal fees and penalties after promoting and adopting overtly racist city statutes. Julie Short has made her animosity to the population make up of Mansfield clear enough as well recently posted “diversity is not our strength.” |
Tim O’Hare and the Hate-triot forces behind him thrive on division, extremism, and conflict. They get ahead by tearing everyone else down. Their move against mainstream success in Mansfield should stand as a dire warning to every community.
