Not sure if you were intending this for me or the OP, but I think OP's inclusion of these headlines you bring up was to illustrate that conservatives have been gaining power in parts of Texas and, like his post title implies, the left is trying to keep this loss of their power from continuing. Apparently this Pete A dude, being attacked by MSM, ran on fiscal conservativism to win a city council seat (according to OP) so it's likening what has happened in those two other areas to a conservative takeover of the reins of power. (As mentioned in my above comment, I haven't been convinced Pete A is a conservative).