Category Archives: Election 2006

Interesting. A project to mobilize faith-based voters to support a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage may have illegally served Gov. Rick Perry’s re-election campaign, according to a complaint filed Thursday with the Internal Revenue Service. The Texas Freedom Network, a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

From the weekend, the Statesman lays out the issue of Rick Perry’s RGA troubles. Even by Texas standards, the Republican Governors Association’s argument that it isn’t a political committee is absurd. Not only absurd, it’s obscene. Just before last year’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You may recall back in March that NASA Administrator Michael Griffin stirred up some trouble when he gave a public address that included an exhortation to the audience to keep Tom DeLay in office. This is because of the Hatch … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m not sure why this has come up right now, but both Perry and Stace are using the case of Janette Sexton in HD144 to make a point in a larger argument about who did and didn’t do what to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m following the CD29 results here. The folks who are embedded with the DiNovo campaign are doing the same here and here. With all of Matagorda and about half of Brazoria in, the standings are here, and K-T’s assessment at … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today is the day for the last election of 2006, the special election in HD29 to fill the seat of the late Rep. Glenda Dawson. I’ve got a writeup on it over at Kuff’s World, and to that I’ll add … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Last Thursday, I blogged about how the National Journal twice quoted an incorrect assertion that Tom DeLay’s 2003 re-redistricting netted the GOP a mere two seats. PerryVsWorld has also blogged about this – though I disagree about his assessment of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The last election of 2006 (but not necessarily the last election of this cycle) will take place on Tuesday. It’s the special election for HD29 to fill the seat left vacant by the death of State Rep. Glenda Dawson. There … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Eye on Williamson brings the latest news about the major voting problems they had in that county this year. Williamson County officials took a major step Thursday to restore residents’ trust in the voting system after numerous problems in the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Long as I’m in a quibbling mood, I need to point out an error in this Hotline post about CD23. [Congressional guru Rich] Cohen also makes one other point. This is now the second seat in TX this cycle that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Wow. U.S. Rep. Henry Bonilla conceded defeat to former congressman Ciro Rodriguez in a stunning upset that completed the Democratic takeover of Congress. The Republican incumbent lost Bexar County for the first time in his political career Tuesday night, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Were you not able to be in San Antonio for the get-out-the-vote rally with Bill Clinton and Henry Cisneros? Have no fear, PM Bryant was there, and he’s got pictures and video from the event for you. A quick review … Continue reading → Continue reading →

CD23 isn’t the only election going on this month – the special election to fill the vacant HD29 is Tuesday, December 19, with early voting going on Monday through Friday of next week. There’s phonebanking and blockwalking going on this … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Lots of stuff happening in the CD23 runoff as early voting draws to an end. Here’s a link dump for you so you can keep up: Henry Bonilla goes very negative amid rumors that his lead over Ciro Rodriguez is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

We have a poll for the runoff. In a runoff election today, 12/4/06, in Texas’s 23rd Congressional District, incumbent Republican Henry Bonilla appears to edge Democrat Ciro Rodriguez, 53% to 46%, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for WOAI-TV … Continue reading → Continue reading →

BOR has done a series of posts on how the Dems made gains in this last election cycle. The latest entry gives props to the least well known of the factors, the House Democratic Campaign Committee, or HDCC. Check it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Vince has put together a Best and Worst of 2006 survey that’s worth checking out. I just finished filling in my responses – click on the More link to see what I entered., or click here to see PDiddie’s. Continue reading →

Continuing with my series of reports on how Harris County candidates did this year, I’d like to focus on three State Rep candidates who clearly exceeded the baseline Democratic performance of their districts. We’ll start in HD129, where Sherrie Matula … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There seems to be some confusion about what I was trying to show with my posts on the Richmond Rail Effect from this past election. I think way more is being made about what I said and what the data … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have four things to say about this Chron article regarding the Richmond rail issue and its possible effects on the Wong-Cohen race: 1. I covered this exact topic more than two weeks ago, both here and at Kuff’s World. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

As we have seen, the runoff dates for CD23 and HD29 are a week apart, with CD23 coming first on December 12. That date, which is the Feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe for Catholics, has drawn complaints by Latino … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Didn’t quite get the chance to do the next writeup that I have in mind, but in the course of noodling around with it, I found another nice little illustration of why Dan Patrick was not exactly all that and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Maybe this has something to do with his rumored interest in the 2008 Senate race and maybe it doesn’t, but I for one am glad to see Rep. Henry Cuellar bury the hatchet and get behind Ciro Rodriguez in his … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I was going to save this one for later, but given the mostly fawning profile that just ran in the Statesman, plus my own recent tweaking of him, I suppose now is as good a time as any to analyze … Continue reading → Continue reading →