Feb 27, 2019 | Campaign News
A federal judge has temporarily barred counties from sending “notices of examination letters” to individuals on a list of potential non-citizens registered to vote supplied by the Secretary of State’s office. “Perfectly legal naturalized Americans were burdened with...
Feb 24, 2019 | Campaign News
HD125 special: Gov. Greg Abbott (R) ordered a March 12 special runoff election to fill the unexpired term of former Rep. Justin Rodriguez (D-San Antonio), who resigned to take an appointment to the Bexar Co. Commissioners Court. Republican Fred Rangel (38%) faces...
Feb 21, 2019 | Campaign News
SC8: Gov. Greg Abbott (R) appointed former appellate justice Brett Busby to the seat on the Supreme Court vacated by former Justice Phil Johnson, whose November resignation took effect at the end of 2018. Busby lost his 2018 re-election bid to the 14th Court of...
Feb 20, 2019 | Campaign News
HD64: Denton resident Angela Brewer established a campaign committee for a potential challenge of Rep. Lynn Stucky (R-Sanger). We were unable to identify her conclusively. HD134: Houston attorney and law professor Ann Johnson re-established a campaign committee for a...
Feb 19, 2019 | Campaign News
The federal hearing on the Secretary of State’s efforts to identify possible non-citizen voter registrations will continue tomorrow (Wednesday). During today’s hearing, an attorney representing the state said several county officials – not the state – may have...
Feb 18, 2019 | Campaign News
HD145 special: Former candidates Oscar Del Toro (3%), Elia de la Garza (3%) and Alfred Moreno (1%) endorsed Melissa Noriega for the runoff. Secretary of State: The San Antonio Express-News called on Secretary of State David Whitley to withdraw from the confirmation...
Feb 14, 2019 | Campaign News
In a letter sent to all legislators, Secretary of State David Whitley apologized for the way his office handled an investigation into non-citizens potentially being registered to vote. “After close consultation with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), the...
Feb 11, 2019 | Campaign News
HD125 special: Tomorrow (Tuesday) is Election Day. Five candidates are seeking to succeed former Rep. and current Bexar Co. Comm. Justin Rodriguez (D-San Antonio). We’ll have live coverage at https://txelects.wpengine.com/live/ beginning at 7 p.m. CST. Meanwhile, U.S....
Feb 7, 2019 | Campaign News
In his confirmation hearing today (Thursday), Secretary of State David Whitley defended his office’s decision to question the citizenship of 95K registered voters knowing the data was likely flawed. Counties were supplied lists of registered voters flagged using Dept....
Feb 6, 2019 | Campaign News
HD125 special: Former San Antonio council member Ray Lopez’s late-filed campaign finance reports shows he raised $93K and spent $49K between January 1 and February 2. Lopez has $44K on hand. His largest contributors were: $5,000 – San Antonio energy executive William...
Feb 5, 2019 | Campaign News
HD125 special: Through today (Monday), the eighth day of early voting, a total of 1,835 people have voted in person, amounting to around 1.8% of registered voters. Because Bexar Co. does not release ballot-by-mail totals until Election Day, turnout is likely above 2%...
Jan 25, 2019 | Campaign News
Approximately 95K registered voters may be non-citizens, and around 58K of those individuals have voted in at least one election since 1996, according to an analysis conducted by the Secretary of State’s office. It is unclear how many of the 95K are actually...
