soul of the Republican Party." Stickland used a legislative procedure called "chubbing" to prevent the consideration of over 200 bills by the Texas House, effectively killing the bills, in what Texas media referred to as the "Mothers Day Massacre." 2018 reelection Stickland retained his state House seat in the general election held on November 6, 2018. With 29,697 (49.8 percent), he defeated his Democratic opponent, Steve Riddell, who polled 28,251 votes (47.4 percent). Libertarian Party choice, Eric P. Espinoza, received 1,641 votes (2.8 percent). 2019 legislative session Stickland was the author of a bill to ban red light cameras in Texas. The bill passed both the House and the Senate. Governor Greg Abbott signed the bill into law on June 1, 2019. At the end of the 2019 legislative session, when Texas Monthly published its perennial Best and Worst Legislators list, they gave Stickland the "first-ever Cockroach Award" and wrote that they were "enshrining the term for a lawmaker who accomplishes nothing but always manages to show up in the worst possible way." The reasons given for the newly created award included a "needless" Twitter fight between Stickland and a prominent vaccine researcher, in which Stickland called vaccines "sorcery" before saying he was only objecting to government-mandated vaccines, and Stickland's verbal sparring with other representatives who resurrected Governor Greg Abbott's signature $100 million plan for high school mental health services after Stickland used a procedural maneuver to kill it. Personal life Stickland and his wife, Krissy, met in church. The couple has two daughters. References External links Campaign website Jonathan Stickland at Texas Tribune 1983 births Living people Republican Party members of the Texas House of Representatives People from Plano, Texas People from Fort Worth, Texas Businesspeople from Texas Baptists from Texas 21st-century American politicians