About Travis
A seasoned veteran of Texas politics, Travis Griffin has been working hard for over two decades to get Republican candidates elected on the local, state, and national level. Griffin began his career at the Republican Party of Texas in 1998 and has since worked on numerous campaigns for the Texas House, Texas Senate, U.S. Congress, and statewide offices, as well as several Presidential races. He has also worked 10 legislative sessions of the Texas Legislature, including several as a Chief of Staff in the Texas House.
Over the years, Griffin earned a reputation as a formidable field operative and grassroots mobilizer, frequently being deployed to close the gap and secure victories in critical battleground races. He managed field operations for the Republican Party of Texas, President George W. Bush, and Governor Rick Perry, and has directed several statewide campaigns and political action committees.
After many years in the field, he returned to the Republican Party of Texas to serve as Political Director from 2009—2012 and oversaw the attainment of the historic Republican super majority in the Texas House of Representatives. During this time, Travis also founded the Hands Off Texas! movement to push back against the Obama-Biden and DNC’s efforts to turn Texas blue through large grassroots rallies and Republican volunteer mobilization across the state.
In the twenty-tens, Travis relaunched Griffin & Associates LLC, a public relations firm originally founded by his father in the 1970s. Griffin & Associates had a successful first cycle, including managing the landslide election of George P. Bush for Texas Land Commissioner in 2014 and forming the Innovation & Technology Caucus of the Texas House which Griffin served as Executive Director for many years. Griffin & Associates continues to advise a diverse group of political candidates, elected officials, non-profit organizations, trade associations and issue-advocacy campaigns, as well as businesses with government relations needs. In addition to running his own family business, Travis has recently returned to the Texas Capitol to serve as Chief of Staff for State Representative Cecil Bell, Jr., a staunch conservative from Montgomery County.
A native Texan, Travis grew up in west Houston where he graduated from Stratford High School before moving to Austin to study Government and Business at The University of Texas. It was here that Travis answered a job ad for parttime work at the Republican Party of Texas published in the Daily Texan newspaper. That temporary position launched a career and ignited a lifelong passion and mission to advance the Republican Party and our conservative principles.
Along the way, Travis married his best friend and colleague, Jenny Sykes Griffin, who at the time served as the Organizational Director of the Republican Party of Texas. Jenny went on to be the Executive Director of the Texas Republican County Chairmen’s Association for many years and then succeeded Travis as the Executive Director of the Innovation & Technology Caucus of the Texas House.
The Griffins made their home in southwest Austin for many years, where Travis won his first election as a Travis County Republican Precinct Chairman in the March 2014 Republican Primary. But by 2016, with their family growing bigger and Austin getting weirder, they began their search for the best place in Central Texas to live, work, and raise a family. They found it and made the move to Leander.
Travis and Jenny have lived in Precinct 264 since 2016 at their home in Magnolia Creek and are actively involved with the community and local politics. They have three children, Miller, Madison and McKenzie, two crazy cats named Kylo and Coraline, and attend New Hope First Baptist Church. Travis is a member of the Central Texas Republicans (CTR), the Williamson County Republican Leaders Organization (WCRL), and is an Associate Member of the Leander Area Republican Women (LARW) with his wife.
In the summer of 2020, Travis and Jenny were sitting around their kitchen table discussing how they could show support for the Leander Police Department after the Left launched their national assault on law enforcement. An idea was born, and they launched the We Support Our Leander Police Department yard sign campaign and community group to make sure the officers and staff of the Leander Police Department knew how much they were appreciated for keeping our families and our city safe. Funds were raised from the community to put over one thousand LPD yard signs all around Leander.
Most recently, Travis got elected by his fellow neighbors in Magnolia Creek to serve as Vice President of the Magnolia HOA and is devoted to being a neighbor-friendly representative on the Board of Directors.
Travis has the proven, professional experience in the field, combined with a heart for people and grassroots organizing, that will serve Precinct 264 and the Williamson County GOP well. He also has a stellar record of being deployed to defeat Democrats in critical races when it counted for the win.
Most importantly, Travis Griffin has a successful history of unifying people on all ranges of the Republican spectrum to rally around our shared, core conservative beliefs and focus on our primary mission: to defeat the Democratic Party and their candidates who would advance their failed, liberal policies. And with President Biden’s record and agenda, it’s more important now than ever. But we have to be united and stand strong together.
Travis hopes to unite ALL Republicans and conservatives in our precinct for this mission.