May 6, 2016 | Campaign News
Voter ID: Judge Lawrence Meyers, the lone Democrat currently holding state office, has withdrawn a lawsuit he filed to overturn the Voter ID law. The suit is not related to a federal lawsuit before the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Oral arguments are scheduled...
May 5, 2016 | Campaign News
RRC open: The Gary Gates campaign announced the endorsements of Reps. Dwayne Bohac (R-Houston), Cindy Burkett (R-Sunnyvale), John Cyrier (R-Lockhart), Gilbert Pena (R-Pasadena), John Raney (R-College Station) and Ron Simmons (R-Lewisville). SD24 open: The Dawn...
Apr 25, 2016 | Campaign News
Early Voting: A total of 816 people voted in person today in Bexar Co. for the first day of early voting. More than a quarter of those ballots were cast at the Fair Oaks Ranch City Hall. In Harris Co., 23 people voted in person today in the HD139 special election, but...
Apr 13, 2016 | Campaign News
TREPAC Endorsements: The Texas Assoc. of Realtors TREPAC announced its runoff endorsements: RRC open: Gary Gates SD1 open: Rep. Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) SD24 open: Rep. Susan King (R-Abilene) HD5 open: Cole Hefner HD18 open: Ernest Bailes HD27: Rep. Ron Reynolds...
Mar 23, 2016 | House Race Analyses
Filed under HD5.
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 19, 2016 | Campaign News
Open-seat candidate Philip Hayes has suspended his campaign following the revelation that he did not receive a pair of degrees from Southern Methodist University as he has claimed. The Tyler Morning-Telegraph obtained official documents showing Hayes attended SMU but...
Feb 14, 2016 | Campaign News
PRES: The Beaumont Enterprise endorsed Marco Rubio and Hillary Clinton for their respective party’s primaries. SD1 open: The Tyler Morning Telegraph endorsed Red Brown. SD24 open: The Abilene Reporter-News endorsed Rep. Susan King (R-Abilene). HD5 open: The Tyler...
Feb 2, 2016 | Campaign News
HD5 open: Texas Alliance for Life PAC endorsed Philip Hayes. HD17: Texas Alliance for Life PAC endorsed Rep. John Cyrier (R-Lockhart). HD77 open: The El Paso Municipal Police Officers’ Assoc. endorsed Adolfo Lopez. HD92: The Texas Municipal Police Assoc. endorsed...
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,...
Feb 1, 2016 | Campaign News
RRC: State Tejano Democrats endorsed former Rep. Lon Burnam (D-Fort Worth). SC3: The Dallas Morning News endorsed Justice Debra Lehrmann. Young Conservatives of Texas endorsed challenger Michael Massengale. SC5: Young Conservatives of Texas endorsed challenger Rick...
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,...
