Apr 3, 2016 | House Race Analyses
Liberty attorney Keith Strahan (28%) and Shepherd agribusinessman Ernest Bailes (26%) emerged from the six-person field to succeed retiring Rep. John Otto (R-Dayton). Both candidates wear the conservative mantel, but the runoff is shaping up as another clash between...
Mar 28, 2016 | Campaign News
The Texas Oil & Gas Assoc. Good Government Committee PAC endorsed former Rep. Wayne Christian (R-Center) in the Republican runoff for Railroad Commissioner. Christian faces Richmond real estate investor Gary Gates. The group made no endorsement for the primary. As...
Mar 21, 2016 | Campaign News
BACPAC: The Texas Assoc. of Business’ BACPAC released its endorsements for the primary runoff election: SD1: Rep. Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) SD24: Rep. Susan King (R-Abilene) HD18: Ernest Bailes HD33: Justin Holland HD54: Scott Cosper HD64: Lynn Stucky HD73: Rep. Doug...
Feb 23, 2016 | Campaign Finance
State and legislative candidates were required to file 8-day-out campaign finance reports yesterday. Some of the full reports are now available online, so we will add color commentary to the summary totals where we can. In this post, we summarize the open-seat House...
Feb 9, 2016 | Campaign News
RRC open: The Dallas Morning News endorsed Lance Christian and Lon Burnam for the Republican and Democratic nominations, respectively. SC: The Texas Civil Justice League PAC endorsed incumbents Debra Lehrmann (SC3), Paul Green (SC5) and Eva Guzman (SC9). Texas Right...
Feb 3, 2016 | Campaign News
PRES: Sen. Don Huffines (R-Dallas), who headed Rand Paul’s organization in Texas, is now supporting U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz following Paul’s departure from the presidential race today. Rep. Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock) tweeted that he has endorsed Cruz, and the Texas Tribune...
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...
Jan 18, 2016 | Campaign Finance
Filed under HD1, HD106, HD112, HD114, HD115, HD116, HD117, HD120, HD121, HD126, HD128, HD130, HD131, HD139, HD14. HD92, HD144, HD148, HD149, HD150, HD18, HD2, HD20, HD27, HD33, HD4, HD47, HD49, HD5, HD54, HD55, HD58, HD60, HD64, HD7, HD71, HD73, HD75, HD77, HD8, HD81,...
Jan 7, 2016 | Campaign News
RRC Open: A campaign spokesman said former Rep. Wayne Christian’s campaign is no longer suspended, tweeted the Texas Tribune’s Jim Malewitz. SD1 Open: Texans for Fiscal Responsibility/Empower Texans endorsed Rep. Bryan Hughes. SD24 Open: Former Land...
Dec 22, 2015 | Archived Updates
Tomorrow is the deadline for the parties to certify their lists of candidates. We have received what we believe are the final lists from the Green and Libertarian Parties. We have requested a list of independent candidates who filed their declarations of candidacy...
Aug 26, 2015 | Archived Updates
We emailed this to our subscribers today: Dear Subscriber, Attached please find our latest update (No. 84-29). Highlights include: Abbott sets date for HD118 special election Dueling Senate endorsements for SD1 candidates Brookshire enters crowded HD18 race Lytle...
