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 the hottest primary...
Feb 4, 2016 | Campaign Finance
SD1 open: The Texas Medical Assoc.’s TEXPAC endorsed Rep. Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola). SD19: The San Antonio Express-News endorsed Sen. Carlos Uresti (D-San Antonio). SD24 open: The Texas Medical Assoc.’s TEXPAC endorsed both Dawn Buckingham and Rep. Susan King...
Feb 2, 2016 | Campaign Finance
Candidates with primary opponents were required to file 30-day-out campaign finance reports yesterday. These reports disclose contributions received and expenditures made between January 1 and January 21. Senate highlights include: SD1 open: Rep. Bryan Hughes...
Feb 2, 2016 | Campaign Finance
Filed under SD26.
Jan 29, 2016 | Campaign News
Agreeing more than they disagreed, Sen. Jose Menendez (D-San Antonio) and Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer (D-San Antonio) discussed issues important to seniors this morning at a forum hosted by AARP and moderated by KENS-TV anchor Sarah Lucero. Payday lending proved to be...
Jan 25, 2016 | Campaign News
PRES: Former Gov. Rick Perry endorsed U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz. RRC: The Texas AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education endorsed former Rep. Lon Burnam. SC5: Texas Values Action endorsed challenger Rick Green. SD26: The San Antonio AFL-CIO endorsed Sen. Jose Menendez. HD5...
Jan 9, 2016 | By the Numbers
Filed under HD1, HD11, HD110, HD115, HD118, HD12, HD17, HD4, HD58,...
Jan 6, 2016 | Campaign News
HOSPAC: The Texas Hospital Assoc. PAC recently released its complete list of 2016 endorsements. The PAC endorsed most incumbents, but it also endorsed three challengers: HD4: Former Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Terrell) over Rep. Stuart Spitzer (R-Kaufman) HD92: Scott Fisher...
Jan 5, 2016 | Senate Race Analyses
On February 17, 2015, then-Rep. Jose Menendez (D-San Antonio) completed a stunning comeback by defeating his longtime colleague, Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer (D-San Antonio), 59%-41%, in a special runoff election to claim the unexpired term of former Sen. Leticia Van de...
Dec 13, 2015 | Archived Updates
A few things we wanted to share with you today: The filing deadline is tomorrow at 6 p.m. local time. There are typically some surprises, some last-minute decisions to run and some decisions not to run. We should know much of the slate of Democratic and Republican...
Dec 2, 2015 | Archived Updates
We sent this to our subscribers today: Dear Subscriber, Attached please find our latest update (No. 84-42). Highlights include: Updated list of incumbents with major party challengers who have filed against them Updated list of incumbents who, as far as we can tell,...
