Jul 19, 2016 | House Race Analyses, Straight-ticket Voting
We continue our exploration of straight-ticket voting trends in competitive or potentially competitive districts by returning to Dallas Co. for a look at HD115. The district is comprised of the Dallas Co. portions of Carrollton and Coppell and portions of Farmers...
Jul 17, 2016 | Campaign Finance
Semiannual campaign finance reports were due Friday, covering either (1) the first six months of the year for candidates who had no primary opponent or (2) the period since the end of the 8-day-out reporting period of either the primary or primary runoff election (or...
Mar 3, 2016 | By the Numbers
Filed under HD102, HD105, HD107, HD108, HD112, HD113, HD114,...
Feb 23, 2016 | Campaign Finance
State and legislative candidates were required to file 8-day-out campaign finance reports yesterday. The full reports are not yet available online, but we’re able to report summary totals for most candidates this morning. In this post, we summarize some of the hottest...
Feb 17, 2016 | By the Numbers
13 Number of state representatives who have returned to the House after missing at least one term since 2000. All but two of those representatives returned in the election cycle immediately following the one they left. At least one former representative has returned...
Feb 11, 2016 | Campaign News
RRC open: Former Sen. Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) endorsed former Rep. Lon Burnam (D-Fort Worth). SC: The San Antonio Express-News endorsed incumbents Debra Lehrmann (SC3), Paul Green (SC5) and Eva Guzman (SC9). SD24 open: Former Comptroller Susan Combs endorsed Dawn...
Feb 11, 2016 | House Race Analyses
Filed under HD115.
Feb 2, 2016 | Campaign Finance
Filed under HD11, HD112, HD113, HD114, HD115, HD12, HD121, HD127, HD128, HD130, HD131, HD134, HD14, HD150, HD17, HD2, HD20, HD27, HD33, HD36, HD4, HD47, HD49, HD5, HD55, HD59, HD60, HD65, HD73, HD75, HD8, HD81, HD84, HD89, HD92, HD94,...
Jan 29, 2016 | Campaign News
SD24 open: The Texas Medical Assoc.’s TEXPAC endorsed both Dawn Buckingham, an eye surgeon, and Rep. Susan King, a surgical nurse. Texas Right to Life PAC endorsed Brent Mayes. HD49 open: The Stonewall Democrats of Austin endorsed Huey Rey Fischer. HD115: The Texas...
Jan 27, 2016 | Campaign News
Texas Medical Assoc.: The Texas Medical Assoc.’s TEXPAC announced its primary endorsements today. While the group predominantly endorsed incumbents, it chose to endorse five challengers: Michael Massengale for SC3 Hugh Shine for HD55 Scott Fisher for HD92 Andrew Piel...
Jan 23, 2016 | Campaign Finance
Filed under HD113, HD114, HD115, HD121, HD128, HD14, HD150, HD17, HD18, HD2, HD47, HD5, HD55, HD58, HD59, HD60, HD7, HD8, HD81, HD84, HD92, HD94,...
Jan 19, 2016 | Campaign News
Texas Assoc. of Realtors: TREPAC announced its primary election endorsements. The group sided mostly with incumbents but endorsed these three challengers: HD4: Former Rep. Lance Gooden over Rep. Stuart Spitzer (R-Kaufman) HD55: Former Rep. Hugh Shine over Rep. Molly...
