Just under a year after being ordered by a judge to resign from his position as Bandera County Republican Party Chair, Conrad Striegl has been convicted by a judge of multiple Class A misdemeanors.
According to court documents, Striegl entered a plea of no contest to charges of altering and falsifying records on the Texas Secretary of State’s website, as well as seven counts of misleading use of an office title.
The Secretary of State case involved Striegl’s removal of Becky Gring from the state’s County GOP leadership database and replacing her with John Mata. Gring had been on the ballot and was elected unopposed.
The charges of misleading use of an office title relate to Striegl’s use of “re-elect” in his 2024 campaign materials, even though he was not the incumbent.
Striegl was convicted of multiple Class A misdemeanor charges and ordered to pay fines for each offense.
In a separate case, Striegl and former party treasurer Cari Renee Leith both entered a “no contest” plea in September 2023 to charges of fraudulent document execution.
The charges were based on a complaint from then-chair Lynn Haueter, who alleged she had been illegally removed from a party bank account based on a document submitted to Wells Fargo’s Bandera branch.
Following their no contest pleas, Striegl and Leith were ordered to resign their positions.
Striegl later ran to reclaim his seat but lost to Mark Miller, who received over 70 percent of the vote—a decisive victory in a highly attended primary election.
