Feb 6, 2018 | Campaign Finance
State candidates with primary opponents were required to file 30-day-out campaign finance reports on Monday. These are normally accessible online early the next morning, but today they were not available until late afternoon. We are in the process of going through the...
Feb 2, 2018 | Campaign Finance, House Race Analyses
Freshman Rep. Lynn Stucky (R-Sanger) narrowly out-raised primary challenger Mark Roy, $109K to $85K, during the last six months of 2017. Added to the $14K he raised at the end of June, Stucky has a nearly $40K lead in total contributions for the election cycle to...
Jan 24, 2018 | Campaign News
LTGOV: The campaign of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) released its first television ad, which focuses on boarder security and sanctuary cities. “Big city liberals want open borders,” Patrick said in the ad, “But I won’t back down.” Also, the Texas Oil & Gas Assoc. PAC...
Jan 21, 2018 | Campaign News
AFL-CIO COPE Endorsements: Delegates to the Texas AFL-CIO COPE convention in Austin voted to endorse former Dallas Co. Sheriff Lupe Valdez. She and Andrew White appeared at the convention over the weekend. The union also endorsed Mike Collier (LTGOV), Justin Nelson...
Jan 15, 2018 | Campaign News
Updated Jan. 18 with new information on one of the new filed candidates. The filing period for local offices on the May 5 uniform election ballot begins Wednesday and runs until February 16. Sixty of the state’s 100 most populous cities have at least one office up for...
Sep 27, 2017 | Campaign News
HD54: At Billy Bob’s Burgers in Killeen, Salado veterinarian and former Killeen ISD trustee Brad Buckley announced he would challenge Rep. Scott Cosper (R-Killeen) in the Republican primary. We previously reported that Buckley had formed a campaign committee for the...
Sep 26, 2017 | Campaign News
Redistricting: The U.S. Supreme Court denied plaintiffs’ request for an expedited hearing schedule to resolve the stay it issued on rulings invalidating several congressional and state House districts. SD2: The Texas Medical Assoc. TEXPAC endorsed Rep. Cindy Burkett...
Sep 24, 2017 | Campaign News
HD64: Sanger retired Marine Corps colonel and Republican precinct chair Mark Roy established a campaign committee for a potential primary challenge of Rep. Lynn Stucky (R-Sanger). CD11: Odessa school bus driver Eric Brandon Pfalzgraf established a campaign committee...
Sep 17, 2017 | Campaign News
GOV: Arlington resident Edward Lee Nash formed a campaign committee for a potential challenge of Gov. Greg Abbott (R). We were unable to determine his occupation and political affiliation definitively. HD10: Seven Points resident Matt Savino formed a campaign...
Jul 7, 2017 | Campaign News
Redistricting: A week-long trial over the state’s congressional and House districts adopted in 2013 begins Monday before a three-judge federal panel in San Antonio. GOV: Dallas street rapper and marijuana legalization activist Yvette “Will Rap 4 Weed” Gbalazeh filed...
Jun 27, 2017 | Campaign News
HD2: Royse City financial services businessman and 2016 Republican primary candidate Bryan Slaton is asking for endorsements via social media for another race against Rep. Dan Flynn (R-Van), who won last year’s primary, 51%-49%. HD14: Bryan resident and Democratic...
Nov 27, 2016 | Straight-ticket Voting
Denton Co. voters cast a record number of straight-ticket Republican and straight-ticket Democratic votes in this year’s general election, and Republicans retained 94% of their countywide straight-ticket vote advantage. Two Texas House districts got a little redder,...
