Nov 25, 2019 | Campaign News
Filing for the 2020 primary elections and nominating conventions continues through December 9. We expect this holiday week to be a fairly quiet one, and many party offices will be closed beginning Wednesday. Our Crib Sheets have the latest information of who has...
Nov 20, 2019 | Campaign News
Filing for the 2020 election continues through December 9. Our Crib Sheets have up-to-date filing status of the candidates we are tracking. At least 289 candidates have already filed, and likely many more have done so. We are seeing far less information from county...
Nov 11, 2019 | Campaign News
Filing for the 2020 election is underway. We typically do not list candidates who have filed in these reports unless we have not previously mentioned him or her. Our Crib Sheets have up-to-date filing status of the candidates we are tracking. At least 96 candidates...
Oct 16, 2019 | Campaign Finance
Federal officeholders and candidates were required to file quarterly campaign finance reports today (Tuesday). Our Crib Sheets have been updated with the latest numbers. SEN: U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R) out-raised the collective Democratic field, $3.2M to $2.8M, and he...
Oct 8, 2019 | Campaign News
Note: Jeff will be in the Big Bend region for the next week, so updates may be less frequent until he returns. SD22: Granbury resident Robert Vick established a campaign committee for a potential challenge of Sen. Brian Birdwell (R-Granbury) as a Democrat. He is the...
Sep 22, 2019 | Campaign News
HD76 open: Lisa Tamayo, a legislative aide to the retiring Sen. Jose Rodriguez (D-El Paso) and a former aide of Rep. Cesar Blanco (D-El Paso), established a campaign committee for a potential run for Blanco’s seat, which he is vacating to run for Rodriguez’s seat....
Sep 10, 2019 | Campaign News
SD4: Porter oil and gas project manager Jay Stittleburg established a campaign committee for a potential challenge of Sen. Brandon Creighton (R-Conroe) as a Democrat. Stittleburg ran unsuccessfully for Montgomery County Judge in 2018, losing to then-Rep. Mark Keough...
Aug 29, 2019 | Campaign News
SC7: Gov. Greg Abbott (R) endorsed Justice Jeff Boyd (R) for re-election. HD28 special: Katy intelligence and polygraph business owner Gary Hale filed for the seat being vacated by Rep. John Zerwas (R-Richmond) as a Republican. He joins Houston anesthesiologist Anna...
Jul 30, 2019 | Campaign News
U.S. Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Midland) has announced a press conference in Midland tomorrow (Wednesday) at 1:30 p.m. CDT, at which he is expected to announce he will retire. Conaway is serving his seventh term. Nationally, he would be the fifth Republican retiring so far...
Jul 29, 2019 | Campaign News
SD12: Sen. Jane Nelson (R-Flower Mound) confirmed she would seek re-election in a fundraising appeal to supporters. Her official kick-off event is scheduled for October 10. HD41: Rep. Bobby Guerra (D-Mission) announced he would seek re-election to a fifth term. HD66:...
Jul 23, 2019 | Campaign News
HD67: Frisco attorney Rocio Gosewehr Hernandez established a campaign committee for a potential challenge of Rep. Jeff Leach (R-Allen), likely as a Democrat. She is at least the fifth Democrat to take a formal step toward challenging Leach. See our Crib Sheets for the...
Jul 15, 2019 | Campaign Finance
Today (Monday), federal officeholders and candidates were required to file July quarterly reports, which disclose contributions received and expenditures made between April 1 and June 30. We have updated our Crib Sheets to reflect the new numbers, although some are...
