Yesterday’s report about campaign finance results for key House races was missing details about a number of Democratic candidates’ 8-day-out reports. To be clear, they filed their reports on time, but the contribution and expenditure details were not yet available online. We suspected this was due to the reports’ itemizing micro-contributions received via services such as ActBlue, which they do. For example, Keke Williams’s report itemized more than 17K individual contributions of $10 or less.
For those reports that have since become available, we will revisit the races for which we had incomplete results:
HD54 (Lean Republican): Rep. Brad Buckley (R-Salado) out-raised Democrat Keke Williams, $1.1M to $430K, and has a $200K cash on hand advantage. Buckley’s largest contributors were Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC ($361K), Republican State Leadership Committee ($334K), Associated Republicans of Texas PAC ($124K), Greg Abbott’s campaign ($99K), Leading Texas Forward PAC ($50K) and Texas Leads PAC ($40K).
Williams’s top contributors were Future Now Fund ($85K), Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee ($77K), Planned Parenthood Texas Votes PAC ($36K) and Annies’ List ($21K).
HD67 (Toss Up): In the most expensive race in the period, Rep. Jeff Leach (R-Allen) out-raised Democratic challenger Lorenzo Sanchez, $1.7M to $1.25M. Leach has nearly three times more cash on hand ($411K to $140K). Leach’s largest contributors were Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC ($749K), Republican State Leadership Committee ($457K), Greg Abbott’s campaign ($132K), Leading Texas Forward PAC ($75K), Texas House Republican Caucus PAC ($50K), Texas Assoc. of Realtors TREPAC ($44K), Republican Party of Texas ($40K), Texas Leads PAC ($40K), Associated Republicans of Texas PAC ($30K) and Michael Porter Family Trust ($30K).
Sanchez’s largest contributors included Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee ($364K), Texas Values in Action Coalition PAC ($193K), Future Now Texas Fund ($125K), Flippable Texas Victory Fund ($77K), Sierra Club PAC ($36K) and AFSCME ($25K).
HD93 (Lean Republican): Democratic challenger Lydia Bean out-raised Rep. Matt Krause (R-Fort Worth), $644K to $560K, but he has a narrow lead in cash on hand, $114K to $99K. Krause’s largest contributors were Republican State Leadership Committee ($170K), Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC ($151K) and Greg Abbott’s campaign ($79K).
Bean’s largest contributors were Texas Values in Action Coalition PAC ($141K), Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee ($110K), Flippable Texas Victory Fund ($50K), Future Now Fund Texas ($25K), AFSCME ($20K)
HD94 (Toss Up): Rep. Tony Tinderholt (R-Arlington) out-raised Democrat Alisa Simmons, $525K to $451K, and he holds a $169K to $113K edge in cash on hand. Tinderholt’s largest contributors were Midland oil and gas executive Tim Dunn ($250K), Leading Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC ($97K), Mansfield property management company executive Stephen Lockwood ($50K), Texas Forward PAC ($38K) and Charter Schools Now PAC ($28K).
Simmons’s report was only available in PDF form, all 3,105 pages of it.
HD97 (Lean Republican): Rep. Craig Goldman (R-Fort Worth) out-raised Democratic challenger Elizabeth Beck, $1.2M to $921K, but trails her, $158K to $33K, in cash on hand. Goldman’s largest contributors were Republican State Leadership Committee ($348K), Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC ($212K), Greg Abbott’s campaign ($99K), Republican Party of Texas ($64K), Texas House Republican Caucus PAC ($50K), Texas Leads PAC ($40K), Associated Republicans of Texas PAC ($26K) and Fort Worth executive Lee Bass ($20K).
Beck’s largest contributors were Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee ($341K), Future Now Texas Fund ($110K), Texas Values in Action Coalition PAC ($107K), Flippable Texas Victory Fund ($42K) and Annie’s List ($22K).
HD108 (Likely Democratic): Rep. Morgan Meyer (R-Dallas) out-raised Democratic challenger Joanna Cattanach, $701K to $672K (corrected reports increased this from $516K), and he has a $212K to $141K advantage in cash on hand. Meyer’s largest contributors were Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC ($322K), Associated Republicans of Texas PAC ($117K), Republican State Leadership Committee ($47K), Michael Porter Family Trust ($30K), Texas House Republican Caucus PAC ($25K) and Leading Texas Forward PAC ($20K).
Cattanach’s corrected detailed report, which included $156K in additional contributions was not yet available. The largest contributors in her initial 8-day-out report were Texas Values in Action Coalition PAC ($82K), Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee ($75K), Future Now PAC ($50K) . We suspect some or all of the originally unreported contributions were in-kind, likely from the HDCC, from which her original report contained none, and/or Texas Values in Action Coalition.
HD112 (Toss Up): The second most expensive House seat in the period saw Rep. Angie Chen Button (R-Garland) out-raised challenger Brandy Chambers, $1.5M to $1.0M, and she leads the Democrat, $415K to $134K, in cash on hand. Button’s largest contributors were Texans for Lawsuit Reform ($468K), Republican State Leadership Committee ($340K), Associated Republicans of Texas PAC ($221K), Leading Texas Forward PAC ($100K), Greg Abbott’s campaign ($70K), Texas Assoc. of Realtors TREPAC ($56K), Texas Leads PAC ($40K), Texas House Republican Caucus PAC ($25K), Charter Schools Now PAC ($24K) and Doss rancher Michael Porter ($20K).
Chambers’s 3,793-page detailed report was available only in PDF form.
HD121 (Lean Republican): Rep. Steve Allison (R-San Antonio) out-raised Democratic challenger Celina Montoya, $1.7M to $748K, but he narrowly trails her, $187K to $146K, in cash on hand. Allison’s largest contributors were Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC ($504K), Republican State Leadership Committee ($370K), Associated Republicans of Texas PAC ($262K), Greg Abbott’s campaign ($117K), Leading Texas Forward PAC ($75K), Texas Assoc. of Realtors TREPAC ($42K), Texas House Republican Caucus ($25K) and Doss rancher Michael Porter ($25K).
Montoya’s largest contributors were Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee ($333K), Flippable Texas Victory and Federal Funds ($70K) and Annie’s List ($21K).
HD126 (Lean Republican): Rep. Sam Harless (R-Spring) nearly doubled up Democratic challenger Natali Hurtado, $1M to $532K, and he has nearly $350K more on hand. Harless’s largest contributors were Republican State Leadership Committee ($475K), Greg Abbott’s campaign ($79K), Leading Texas Forward PAC ($77K), Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC ($53K) Associated Republicans of Texas PAC ($52K), Texas Leads PAC ($40K) and Texas House Republican Caucus PAC ($25K).
Hurtado’s largest contributors were Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee ($95K), First Tuesday PAC ($50K) and Future Now Fund ($25K).
HD134 (Lean Democratic): Democratic challenger Ann Johnson out-raised Rep. Sarah Davis (R-Houston), $697K to $405K, a surprisingly low total for the incumbent relative to others in competitive seats. Davis has the edge in cash on hand, $191K to $139K. Davis’s largest contributors were Greg Abbott’s campaign ($79K), The C Club PAC ($37K) and Associated Republicans of Texas PAC ($22K).
Johnson’s largest contributors were Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee ($312K), First Tuesday PAC ($50K), Future Now Fund ($35K), AFSCME ($25K)
HD138 open (Lean Democratic): Republican nominee Lacey Hull out-raised Democrat Akilah Bacy, $1.1M to $780K. Bacy has a narrow $154K to $137K edge in cash on hand. Hull’s largest contributors were Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC ($441K), Republican State Leadership Committee ($337K), Associated Republicans of Texas PAC ($172K), Houston Realty Business Coalition PAC ($39K), Texas House Republican Caucus PAC ($35K), Charter Schools Now PAC ($26K) and Texas Leads PAC ($25K).
Bacy’s largest contributors were Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee ($267K), Texans for Insurance Reform PAC ($62K), First Tuesday PAC ($50K), Sierra Club PAC ($33K) and Future Now Fund ($25K).
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