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Dan Patrick 
Member of the Texas Senate
from the 7th districtIncumbent Assumed office
2007Preceded by Jon Lindsay Personal details Born April 4, 1950 Nationality American Political party Republican Spouse(s) Janetlea Children Ryan, Shane Residence Houston Alma mater University of Maryland, Baltimore County Profession Broadcasting, Businessman Dan Patrick (born Daniel Scott Goeb, 4 April 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a Texas State Senator, broadcaster, author, film producer and conservative radio talk show host on KSEV 700 AM in Houston and on KVCE 1160 AM in Dallas.
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Personal
Patrick’s father Charles Goeb was a former-Marine who was circulation manager for the Baltimore Sun newspaper, while his mother Jean Goeb was a bookkeeper.[1] Patrick was an only child and grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood in East Baltimore, where he sold newspapers on the streets.[2] Patrick attended the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he graduated with a BA degree in English.[2] In college, Dan sold radio advertising and worked as a country music disk jockey.[2] His dream was to host a game show or The Tonight Show.[2]
Patrick’s first marriage to a high school sweetheart ended in divorce.[2] In his second marriage, Patrick married Janet Lea (“Jan”) Rankin in 1975, and they have a son Ryan and daughter Shane.[3] In his spare time Patrick enjoys playing the piano and guitar.[3]
Patrick never liked the sound of his surname (Goeb) and had used the pseudonym "Dan Patrick" for many years in his media career; before running for office he legally changed his name to Dan Patrick.[2]
Radio career
Patrick hosts a daily afternoon show on KSEV radio in Houston, which his company now owns outright after operating it for many years. Patrick's program also appears on KVCE in the Dallas area, which he also owns.
He regularly organizes political events in the Houston area. Patrick's show was once voted the top talk radio show in Texas by the Houston Press Club.[4] Patrick has made many appearances as a conservative commentator on MSNBC, The O'Reilly Factor, Glenn Beck on HNN, and Hannity and Colmes as well as serving as guest host for the Laura Ingraham and Michael Reagan nationally syndicated radio shows.
Prior to hosting his show on KSEV, Patrick was a television broadcaster in Baltimore, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Washington, DC and Houston, where he served as Sports Director on KHOU-TV, and the host of a political talk show on KTBU-TV. He was also managing editor at KPRC 950 AM, now a competitor to KSEV.
Patrick was known for exhibiting attention-grabbing behavior on-air, including the following: painting himself and the room blue in support of the Houston Oilers football team; doing sportscasts wearing an oversized cowboy hat, rising out of a casket, wearing a tuxedo, and singing; and having his vasectomy performed on-air.[2] On Thursday afternoon, October 28, 1993, Patrick drew fire when he referred to the television program of CBS’s Connie Chung – a Chinese American – as “Slanted Eye to Eye” during the Three A.M. Egos talk show.[5] The next morning on Patrick’s Talk’n Sports show, persons called in complaining about his remarks, but Patrick defended himself by referring to his comments as an “innocent ad-lib” and a “play on words.”[6]
On June 1, 2006, Patrick announced the signing of a deal to purchase Highland Park, Texas radio station KMGS AM 1160.[7] The station is now known as KVCE, and broadcasts from studios in the Dallas museum district. KVCE recently upgraded its signal strength to 35,000 Watts to reach all of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. The station can also be heard as far north as the Oklahoma border, south to Corsicana, west to Weatherford and east to Tyler. The station was purchased from First Broadcasting Capital Partners, LLC.
The Texas Senate
Patrick is the Republican senator for the Texas Senate in District 7, joining the political ranks of his frequent on-air targets. Patrick won the March 2006 Republican Primary without a runoff, garnering almost 69% of the vote against three well-financed opponents who were all elected officials. After the Republican Primary, Patrick's Democratic opponent—Felix "Michael" Kubosh—signed an FCC waiver freeing Patrick from having to give Kubosh equal airtime on Patrick's radio station, thus allowing Patrick back on the air for the general election seven months before he otherwise would have been.[8] In May 2006 in the midst of the campaign and two months after signing the FCC waiver, Kubosh became a $580,000 investor in his opponent Patrick’s newly purchased Dallas radio station, KVCE 1160 AM.[8] Patrick won the 2006 fall election by getting 69% of the vote against his opponent/business partner Kubosh.[9]
Patrick was sworn in as a Texas state senator in January 2007.[10] In his first month as a legislator, Patrick filed a bill that would make abortion in Texas illegal should the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade.[11] He filed legislation again in February 2007 to make it illegal to be an illegal immigrant in Texas. Upon passage, the penal code would be amended to define being illegal in Texas as criminal trespass, a Class B misdemeanor.
During his maiden legislative session, Patrick passed three Senate bills, the fewest number of Senate bills passed among the five freshmen senators.[12] The other four freshmen Senators—Glenn Hegar (32 Senate bills passed), Kirk Watson (15 Senate bills passed), Robert Nichols (14 Senate bills passed), and Carlos Uresti (12 bills passed) – had previous government experience in other capacities.[13]
W. Gardner Selby, editor of the Austin American-Statesman’s PolitiFact Texas, listed Senator Patrick as third among the top 10 Republican political influencers in Texas (Texas Influencers, August 2010). Senator Patrick is also listed in TEXAS MONTHLY (Power Company, February 2011) as one of the state’s most powerful players.
Political activism
Patrick joined with restaurateur Edd Hendee and former local tax official Paul Bettencourt, both on-air hosts on Patrick's station, to form Citizens Lowering Our Unfair Taxes (CLOUT), a political organization that was originally formed to push for lower property taxes in Texas. Other political causes initiated by Patrick include a boycott of Bill Maher's television show Politically Incorrect over controversial statements made by the comedian following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.[14] Patrick is also frequently at odds with the Houston Chronicle and announced a boycott of that newspaper in April 2004.[15]
Patrick was interviewed extensively on ABC's 20/20 segment "The Age of Consent: When Young Love Is a Sex Crime," defending his position favoring very tough Texas statutory rape laws. "While it seems unfair, he was 19, she was 15," says Patrick, "That's the price you pay. Even if you end up getting married."[16]
Patrick has endorsed Rick Perry, incumbent Republican governor of Texas, for the 2010 election.[17]
On January 27, 2011 on his radio show, Patrick defended his proposed 20% cuts to Texas education funding by saying that anything but engineering and medical research is "research nobody cares about" which he "will get rid of." [18]
Film career
In November 2008, Patrick completed work as Executive Producer on a one hour documentary entitled "The Heart of Texas Movie" link title. The movie was released in Houston theaters and on DVD.
Works
- Patrick, Dan (2002). The Second Most Important Book You Will Ever Read: A Personal Challenge to Read the Bible, Publisher: Thomas Nelson, Inc., ISBN 0-7852-6286-5
- The Heart of Texas Movie. link title Dan Patrick, Executive Producer. 2009 Plaid Shirt Pictures and Media Tech, Inc.
Election History
Most recent election
2006
Texas general election, 2006: Senate District 7[19] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Republican Dan Patrick 118,067 69.19 Democratic F. Michael Kubosh 52,586 30.81 Majority 65,481 38.37 Turnout 170,653 Republican hold Republican primary, 2006: Senate District 7[20] Candidate Votes % ±% Mark Ellis 2,545 6.07 Peggy Hamric 6,900 16.45 Joe Nixon 3,629 8.65 ✓ Dan Patrick 28,860 68.82 Turnout 41,934 See also
- The Heart of Texas
References
- ^ Swartz, Mimi. "Here Comes Trouble," Texas Monthly, 2007 January. p. 195-6.
- ^ a b c d e f g Swartz, Mimi. "Here Comes Trouble," Texas Monthly, 2007 January. p. 196.
- ^ a b http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/members/dist7/dist7.htm
- ^ "Dan Patrick". http://www.aimpress.com/patrick.htm. Retrieved 2006-12-28. "Patrick has been one of Houston's top talk show hosts for over 14 years, and was recently named Number 1 talk show host in Texas, by the Houston Press Club."
- ^ “Patrick says Chung line was an ‘innocent ad-lib’,” Houston Chronicle, October 30, 1993; Swartz, Mimi. "Here Comes Trouble," Texas Monthly, 2007 January. p. 197.
- ^ “Patrick says Chung line was an ‘innocent ad-lib’,” Houston Chronicle, October 30, 1993; Quan, Gordon. “Remark is Demeaning,” Houston Chronicle, November 2, 1993.
- ^ Mack, Kristen (2006-06-22). "Alvarado looks in Dallas for Latino legal support". Houston Chronicle. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/mack/3994763.html. Retrieved 2006-12-28.
- ^ a b Swartz, Mimi. "Here Comes Trouble," Texas Monthly, 2007 January. p. 200.
- ^ "2006 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). http://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist.exe. Retrieved 2006-12-23.
- ^ Texas Senate website -- http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/members/dist7/dist7.htm.
- ^ LifeNew.com
- ^ Texas Senate website -- http://www.legis.state.tx.us/Reports/Report.aspx?ID=author&LegSess=80R&code=A1430.
- ^ Texas Senate website -- http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/Members.htm.
- ^ "Beyond City Limits: Dan Patrick, Fairness Isn't Enough for Dan", Austin Chronicle, April 12, 2007.
- ^ Abrahams, Tom. "Radio talk show host launches boycott against local newspaper", ABC-TV 13 Houston, April 9, 2004.
- ^ Stossel, John; Gena Binkley and Andrew G. Sullivan (2008-03-07). "The Age of Consent: When Young Love Is a Sex Crime". ABC News (ABCNews Internet Ventures). http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=4400537. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
- ^ http://www.star-telegram.com/news/columnists/bud_kennedy/story/1506661.html
- ^ "The Dan Patrick Show", radio broadcast, January 28th, 2011
- ^ "2006 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). http://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist.exe. Retrieved 2006-12-23.
- ^ "2006 Republican Party Primary Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). http://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist.exe. Retrieved 2006-12-23.
External links
- Senator Dan Patrick official Texas Senate site
- Dan Patrick campaign site
- Biography, voting record, and interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
- Current Bills Sponsored at StateSurge.com
- Campaign contributions at the National Institute for Money in State Politics
- The Voice of Texas Foundation Dan Patrick for Texas Governor PAC
- Texas Observer article, "Party Crasher"
- Texas Monthly article, "Here Comes Trouble"
- Rice Thresher article, "Shock-jock senator tunes out left, turns off right"
- Official Biography on the Texas Senate website.
- CLOUT Patrick's political organization.
- Lone Star Times, Weblog launched by Patrick, but no longer owned by or formally affiliated with him.
- Chronically Biased, a website critical of the Houston Chronicle maintained by Patrick until 2005
- The Heart of Texas, a website devoted to Patrick's 2009 documentary movie.
Texas Senate Preceded by
Jon LindsayTexas State Senator
from District 7 (Houston)
2007 – presentIncumbent Members of the Texas State Senate 82nd Legislature (2011)
President of the Senate: David Dewhurst (R) • President pro Tempore: Steve Ogden (R)- Kevin Eltife (R)
- Bob Deuell (R)
- Robert Nichols (R)
- Tommy Williams (R)
- Steve Ogden (R)
- Mario Gallegos, Jr. (D)
- Dan Patrick (R)
- Florence Shapiro (R)
- Chris Harris (R)
- Wendy Davis (D)
- Mike Jackson (R)
- Jane Nelson (R)
- Rodney Ellis (D)
- Kirk Watson (D)
- John Whitmire (D)
- John Carona (R)
- Joan Huffman (R)
- Glenn Hegar (R)
- Carlos I. Uresti (D)
- Juan Hinojosa (D)
- Judith Zaffirini (D)
- Brian Birdwell (R)
- Royce West (D)
- Troy Fraser (R)
- Jeff Wentworth (R)
- Leticia R. Van de Putte (D)
- Eddie Lucio, Jr. (D)
- Robert L. Duncan (R)
- Jose Rodriguez (D)
- Craig Estes (R)
- Kel Seliger (R)
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