Category Archives: Election 2008

The local Libertarian Party, which nominates by convention and not primary, has its slate of local candidates up. There are a few familiar names – Susan Delgado has apparently decided to follow the Mike Gravel career path; Drew Parks has … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Josh Berthume has a nice chat with CD07 challenger Michael Skelly. For those of you who first heard about Skelly from his awesome fundraising numbers and wondered if he was for real, here’s your chance to hear for yourself. Meanwhile, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

As we know, GOP DA runoff winner Pat Lykos wants the November campaign to be about “issues”. I think we can all get behind that, so here’s the issues Democratic candidate C.O. Bradford wants to talk about, according to an … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Most of this I covered last night, but just to be official and all, here are the results of races of interest. – Pat Lykos won the DA runoff, and as soon as she did, the race for November began. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Early results are trickling in, some good, some not so good. Let’s have a look, Democrats first: – Who are these people that are voting for Mark Thompson? We had two excellent candidates for Railroad Commissioner at the start of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today is Runoff Day, which is the last time anyone like me will nag you to vote until November, barring special elections such as the one we may get in SD17. If you’re a Democrat, you’ll be voting in whichever … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Chron overviews the Travis County DA runoff, which is the hottest contest on the Democratic side of the ticket for tomorrow. A sharp debate over who would be the best public watchdog at the state Capitol has overshadowed the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I had terrific experience on Saturday, block walking with Richard Morrison who is in a runoff for Fort Bend County Commissioner, Precinct 1 (see map here of Precinct 1). Election Day is tomorrow, Tuesday, April 8th. We walked in Greatwood, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

If you can call it that – there’s not much to or in this article. Henry had a career as a petroleum engineer, working in this country and the Middle East for several oil-drilling and field-service companies. He also worked … Continue reading → Continue reading →

All right! after our five-day campaign, the TexBlog PAC wound up with more than 50 donors, and more than $2000 raised, which surpassed both of our goals. On behalf of the PAC board, I thank everyone who contributed to this … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Not exactly a big excitement generator. More than 22,000 people voted early for Tuesday’s Republican primary runoff elections in Harris County, about a third of the number who voted early for the March 4 primary. On the Democratic side, where … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m very glad to say that the TexBlog PAC has surpassed its goal of $1500 raised; as of late last night, we were at $1875, which gives us more than $10,000 cash on hand and puts us in a position … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Have you cast your vote in the primary runoffs yet? If you have, you’re in select company. And you have until 7 PM today to join that select company, plus Tuesday the 8th, at the limited number of locations that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Thanks to a couple of generous contributions, the TexBlog PAC is more than halfway to meeting its $1500 financial goal, which will enable us to start helping candidates immediately. We’d still like to get a total of fifty donors regardless … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So I did my civic duty for the runoff on my way home from work yesterday, casting my ballots for Dale Henry and Larry Weiman. Not too surprisingly, there wasn’t any line at the Metro Multi-Service Center on West Gray … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Paul Burka has a useful overview of the Republican runoffs for State House seats. There are no such Democratic runoffs; despite numerous primary challenges, there were only two open seats on the Dem side, one of which was ceded to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

During this relative lull in the campaign season, I’m going to focus some energy on helping to raise money for the TexBlog PAC. We’d like to show some strong numbers for the June 30 reporting date (there is no March … Continue reading → Continue reading →

National attention for our local rising star. Democrats have been increasingly bullish about their ability to win over suburban, ancestrally Republican House districts that have been trending in their party’s direction over the past decade. But their party’s latest target … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The recount didn’t go his way, so after pondering his options, soon-to-be-former State Rep. Nathan Macias has decided to sue over allegations of irregularities in the HD73 Republican primary. “There is no other option but to ask a judge to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have been forwarded an email announcing that Austen Furse, described as a “candidate for SD17”, will be speaking Wednesday at the R Club downtown. (Actually, it said he was a candidate for SD7, but one presumes that was a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Oops. A candidate in the Republican runoff race for House District 144 filed a police report Monday accusing his opponent of identity theft over the disclosure of his Social Security number on a mailer. Fred Roberts said he filed the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Early voting for the primary runoff elections begins today. Unlike the primary itself, there are some rules governing how you can vote. Voters who participated in a March 4 primary can vote in the second round only in the runoffs … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s a little hard to remember amid all the primary excitement that we’re going to have a special election sometime this year to replace State Sen. Kyle Janek, who announced his resignation in January. Janek hasn’t formally resigned yet, so … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Chron story on the Democrats’ Senate conventions yesterday is pretty much in line with what I’ve heard from folks who attended theirs – some were chaotic, some went smoothly, all had a lot of people and took a long … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Here’s the video from a story Miya Shay did on Thursday: I’d argue that Jim Henley was a serious challenger to Culberson in 2006, but obviously Henley didn’t have Skelly’s fundraising capacity. Believe me, that makes a difference. You can … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Austin Chronicle makes its runoff recommendations. Railroad Commissioner: Dale Henry We endorsed Dale Henry in the initial primary voting, and we’re happy to endorse him again, after he finished second to advance to a run-off against Mark Thompson. Either … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You know, I’m enjoying the GOP DA runoff as much as the next political junkie, but I can’t shake the feeling that we’ve seen the last original episode and are now just watching reruns. The Harris County District Attorney’s Office … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The recount in HD73 has been completed, and the result is the same. The unofficial recount results in the Dist. 73 state representative race indicate that Doug Miller will be the Republican nominee on the ballot in November; Miller now … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I know, I know, everyone including me bombarded you with Vote Early! messages during the primary. The reason for that as we know was because of the high turnout that we expected, which turned out to be even higher than … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Apparently, some people took the “Texas Two-Step” thing a bit too literally. Harris County Clerk Beverly Kaufman will provide the Harris County District Attorney’s office today copies of the Democratic and Republican poll books that show 1147 names of individuals … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Excellent news from Sen. Feingold: I’m proud to announce that the Progressive Patriots community has chosen U.S. Senate candidate of Texas Rick Noriega as our first ‘Progressive Patriot’ of 2008. Of the thousands of progressives who cast their vote, Rick … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The DSCC continued their “Road to Victory” series this week with a pretty rockin’ look at the Noriega campaign. Having spent a good amount of time at Noriega HQ and having declined invites to their early morning runs, I don’t … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Easter Lemming has a boatload of information about all of the State Senate district conventions in Harris County, which I recommend you review if you plan on attending yours. If you’re going to the SD6 convention, please note that there’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One of the closest primary elections this year, and one of the few in which a Tom Craddick ally was knocked off by a challenger, is not over yet. A recount of the nearly 30,000 votes cast earlier this month … Continue reading → Continue reading →