Sep 26, 2016 | Campaign Finance
PRES: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who chairs Donald Trump’s campaign in Texas, announced a “Texas Strategic Advisory Board,” which includes former Gov. Rick Perry as honorary co-chairman and several state and legislative leaders: Agriculture Comm. Sid Miller Railroad Comm....
Sep 20, 2016 | Campaign News
Voter ID: In a statement, AG Ken Paxton said his office “will be filing a petition this week for the U.S. Supreme Court to review” the rulings issued by federal district and circuit court judges modifying the state’s Voter ID law. NFIB Endorsements: The PAC of the...
Sep 19, 2016 | Ads, Campaign News
Voter ID: U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos sided with the Voter ID suit plaintiffs who argued that state election officials were misleading voters about court-ordered remedies to the Voter ID law. She ordered the state to accurately describe the procedures a...
Sep 7, 2016 | Campaign News
Voter ID: “Despite the Remedial Order’s clarity, Texas’s voter education and poll worker training documents depart from it,” claimed the U.S. Dept. of Justice in a motion to enforce the interim remedial order filed today (Wednesday). U.S. District Court Judge Nelda...
Sep 1, 2016 | Campaign News
SD19: The San Antonio Express-News’s Patrick Danner reported that Sen. Carlos Uresti (D-San Antonio) has amended his 2015 personal financial statement to disclose a $40K loan he had received from FourWinds Logistics, a now bankrupt frac sand trading company, in 2014....
Aug 25, 2016 | Campaign News
Federal District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos has set oral arguments for January 24, 2017, to determine whether Texas enacted its Voter ID law with “discriminatory purpose.” In doing so, the court rejected the state’s arguments for why action on the discriminatory...
Aug 22, 2016 | Campaign News
Voter ID: In a filing, the state informed the federal judge overseeing the ongoing Voter ID litigation that it will “seek Supreme Court review of the Fifth Circuit’s opinion.” Further, the state argued that the district court should not go forward with “further...
Aug 10, 2016 | Campaign News
Voter ID: U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos approved the agreement between the state and the plaintiffs behind the Voter ID lawsuits that will permit voters without legally required photo identification to cast votes in the upcoming general election. Meanwhile,...
Aug 3, 2016 | Campaign News
The state and Voter ID suit plaintiffs have jointly proposed a series of remedies for voters lacking required photo identification to participate in the upcoming general election. A voter may utilize an expired photo identification, provided that it expired within the...
Jul 30, 2016 | Campaign News
A panel of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down North Carolina’s “Voter ID” law on Friday and ruled that the state acted with racially discriminatory intent when it designed the identification requirement and other voting restrictions. The court did...
Jul 25, 2016 | Campaign News
HD120 open: A total of 46 people voted in person today in the HD120 special runoff election between independent Laura Thompson and Democrat Lou Miller. The total does not include ballots by mail, of which there are likely to be significantly more than ballots cast in...
Jul 23, 2016 | Campaign News
A federal judge has approved a deal between the Voter ID plaintiffs and the state to permit voters without legally required photo identification to cast ballots in the HD120 special runoff election. A voter lacking proper ID can provide a valid voter registration...
