Jan 4, 2017 | Campaign News
HD46 special: Travis Co. Democratic Party Chair Vincent Harding announced he would not seek the seat being vacated by Rep. Dawnna Dukes (D-Austin). Attorney and former Austin council member Sheryl Cole, medical management consultant and Manor ISD trustee Ana Cortez,...
Dec 7, 2016 | Campaign News
RRC: Comm. Christi Craddick was elected chair of the Railroad Commission of Texas by her peers, Comm. Ryan Sitton and outgoing Comm. David Porter, for a two-year term. By tradition, the gavel rotates among the sitting commissioners. First elected in 2012, she is up...
Nov 28, 2016 | Straight-ticket Voting
Nearly 40K more Travis Co. residents cast straight-ticket Democratic votes this year than in 2012, and Democrats pushed their advantage in straight-ticket voting to at least 14K in five of the six state House districts and at least 21K in three of them. Republicans...
Nov 14, 2016 | Campaign News, Legislation
HD46: Republican Gabe Nila, who received 19% of the vote in the general election, said he intends to be a candidate for the 2017 special election that will be necessitated by Rep. Dawnna Dukes’s (D-Austin) expected resignation on January 10. He joins at two others who...
Nov 1, 2016 | Campaign Finance
Eight-day-out campaign finance reports were due yesterday for state and legislative candidates (and some local candidates) with general election opponents. The reports cover contributions received and expenditures made between September 29 and October 29. From this...
Oct 20, 2016 | Campaign News
Early voting in person begins Monday. MPACT: The Texas Assoc. of Manufacturers MPACT announced its endorsement of 29 incumbent legislators and open-seat candidates of the current incumbent’s party. All endorsed candidates were Republicans except for Sen. Chuy Hinojosa...
Oct 12, 2016 | Campaign Finance
We previously covered the 30-day-out reports for most competitive and potentially competitive House races. Since we published it, we became aware of a mistake with HD144. We erroneously used Rep. Gilbert Peña’s (R-Pasadena) July semiannual report in our...
Apr 17, 2016 | By the Numbers
17,637 Vote advantage every Democrat running in HD46 had in 2012 thanks to straight-ticket voting. The Austin American-Statesman and other media outlets reported that the Travis Co. District Attorney has opened a criminal investigation of Rep. Dawnna Dukes’ (D-Austin)...
Dec 15, 2015 | Archived Updates
A couple of things we wanted to share with you today: We found a previously unreported primary challenger for Rep. Jessica Farrar (D-Houston) in Dave Wilson. We found a previously unreported general election challenger for Rep. Dawnna Dukes (D-Austin) in Gabriel Nila....
