On January 13, 2015, he succeeded state Senator Dan Patrick of Houston, who successfully ran for Lieutenant Governor of Texas.

[1] The Democratic Party and plaintiffs filed suit and requested a temporary restraining order against the Voter Registrar Bettencourt after the 2008 election, asking a Federal Judge to block the counting of 7000+ provisional ballots from the November 2008 election.

All 7000+ provisional ballots were reviewed by Election Officials, and either rejected or accepted and then electronically counted.

[3][4][5] Bettencourt ran for the Texas State Senate in 2014 again enlisted the help of top Republican Strategist Allen Blakemore.

[9] Bettencourt is a conservative talk radio host on KSEV, owned by his predecessor Dan Patrick.