Category Archives: Election 2006

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bob Gammage kicked off his campaign yesterday in Sugar Land. Gammage began his “Set the Record Straight” campaign tour in Sugar Land — part of the district he represented in Congress and the home of U.S. Rep. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Rasmussen is first out of the gate for 2006 with polls in the Texas Senate and Governor‘s races, and the results are a bit odd. Let’s start with the Senate poll, where they have Kay Bailey Hutchison leading Barbara Radnofsky … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I know it sometimes feels like we’re in a neverending election cycle, but there is an election coming up real soon. The special election to replace the outgoing State Rep. Todd Baxter in HD48 (Travis County) is a week from … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I wanted to put this bit from the Chron story on the Governor’s race in a separate post: Dean Barkley: Friedman’s campaign manager Valid signatures come from registered voters who cast no ballots in either party’s primary or runoffs. They … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Chron got some opinions from different perspectives on the four-way Governor’s race. It’s a good read, some of which you’ve seen before here and elsewhere, and some of which is new. Couple points I want to highlight: Mike Baselice: … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Here’s some blog reaction to the decision by Hidalgo County Democratic Party chair Juan Maldonado to disqualify Jessica Reyes-Martinez from making a primary challenge against her soon-to-be ex-husband State Rep. Armando Martinez. South Texas Chisme notes a story from the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

DeLayVsWorld quotes from an interview in Human Events with Steve Stockman, the loony former Congressman now running as an independent in CD22. “I’m not here to ensure a loss but to make sure that Nick Lampson is not elected,” explained … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The filing season has barely ended, but already there’s some ugly stuff happening. Some jokers have attempted to smear David Harris up in CD06 by making false claims about him and his Army record. Harris has released a statement about … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Thanks to PinkDome, I found a new-to-me blog called South Texas Chisme, which passes on a report from the subscription-only Rio Grande Guardian about the ballyhooed husband-wife primary battle in Hidalgo County. Apparently, Jessica Reyes-Martinez, the soon-to-be ex-wife of State … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This Capitol Inside story will not do anything to quash the idea that State Sen. Frank Madla is more DINO than Democrat. Republican Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst is scheduled to be the special guest at a fundraiser next week for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Having looked at Democratic missed opportunities in the State House filings yesterday, it’s time to take a look and see where the Republicans dropped the ball. I’m going by the candidate filings page on the state GOP website, which is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I said in the last post that even though Democrats did an excellent job getting candidates to run in Republican-held State House districts, they did leave a few opportunities untaken. I’ll take a look at those here. What I did … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Dems who have filed page is fully up to date now, and it shows that the strategy of building the bench by running for more Legislative seats is off to a good start. Greg quotes from an email from … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Chron covers Steve Stockman’s entry into the more-crowded-than-I’d-thought CD22 field. Stockman and [Nick] Lampson are among eight candidates trying to unseat DeLay. The embattled former house majority leader, under state indictment alleging campaign finance improprieties, has three opponents in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Statesman has a good piece on how the Strayhorn independency may affect the gubernatorial race. Although many analysts still see Perry as the favorite to win re-election, Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn’s decision to challenge him as an independent instead … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Earlier, I listed a group of incumbents who were not listed on their state party’s webpage as having filed for reelection. All of them have filed, and the one open seat is being contested, but it’s still the case that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The proprietor of the PerryVsWorld blog emails me to say he’s got a new blog going, this one focusing on the DeLay-Lampson battle. The PvsW site is a good and useful resource, so I expect more of the same here. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Oops. When the dust settled after Monday’s 6 p.m. filing deadline, seven Fort Bend County Democrats and 32 Republicans had filed for local races. Incumbent Fort Bend County District Clerk Glory Hopkins was not among them. Fort Bend County Republican … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m not going to dwell too much on the Strayhorn goes independent story, since I think by now we’re all a little tired of it. The one thing I’ll comment on is this: The two top Democrats in the race … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This is still subject to some change, since not everything is yet reflected on the filings page, but here for now is the top of the Democratic ticket: U.S. Senator 12/5/2005 Barbara Ann Radnofsky, (713) 758-3846 12/6/2005 Darrel Reece Hunter, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The deadline has passed. According to the filings page, which was last updated at 4:45 PM and thus may yet be incomplete, all Congressional districts but one (CD11) have Democratic challengers. CD10 now has an amazing five candidatess (where were … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The announcement by Carole Independent Strayhorn (or is that Carole Keeton Independent? I can’t keep track) that she’ll be running as an independent is getting cheers from one corner of the electorate: the anti-toll road faction. That at least has … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ll be damned. Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn ended speculation today by announcing she will run for governor against Gov. Rick Perry as an independent. “It’s time to shake Austin up,” Strayhorn, who is now serving as a Republican officeholder, told … Continue reading → Continue reading →

David Murff made his filing this morning at HCDP headquarters, joining Jim Henley in the Democratic primary race to run against John Culberson in CD07. I can only hope that the Chron will cover Murff’s filing as they did Henley’s. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today’s the official filing deadline, so we can resolve the Strayhorn Shuffle once and for all. Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn has kept today’s filing deadline for the 2006 elections alive with speculation about what she will do in the Texas … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Red State is first out of the box to report some excellent news: Lt. Cmdr. Juan Garcia, who flirted with a run for Senate, will be challenging State Rep. Gene Seamon in HD32 (PDF map). Greg has the press … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Not a whole lot of filing news today. Matt reports that we have another Democratic contender for State Senate, an activist from Dripping Springs named Kathi Thomas, who filed yesterday to run against Sen. Jeff Wentworth in SD25, which covers … Continue reading → Continue reading →

What does it say about your campaign when this is a story? Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn’s campaign Friday declined to dismiss rumors that she will file Monday as an independent candidate for governor. Strayhorn spokesman Mark Sanders would not answer … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The problem with doing these big accumulation posts is that it’s easy to forget some stuff. Fortunately, blog software makes publishing easy… Rumors are flying around the campaign of Carole Keeton “One Discombobulated Grandma” Strayhorn. Will she run as an … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Lots of filing news to report as we approach the January 2 deadline. Let’s get started… Celebrity has its privilege, as radio personality Dan Patrick’s filing for SD07 rates a fairly sizable Chron story. He’s off the air until he … Continue reading → Continue reading →

And then there were three challengers in the GOP primary against Tom DeLay for CD22. Thomas A. Campbell, who specializes in environmental law, is the third Republican challenger to take on DeLay, who has held the post since 1985. Campbell … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Republican field for the now-open SD18 seat has gotten more crowded as State Rep. Glenn Hegar of Katy and a veterinarian from Wharton named Dwight King have jumped in. Here’s the Chron on Hegar: Hegar, a rice and corn … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You heard it here first, and now Kristin Mack confirms it: Two-time Mayoral loser Out Of Town Orlando Sanchez is aiming for the County Treasurer job in 2006. The job is strictly administrative and carries no real power. The county … Continue reading → Continue reading →

PerryVsWorld is right: This story is getting stranger by the day. The story sounded familiar to Bexar County Commissioner Lyle Larson. A top aide to Republican gubernatorial hopeful Carole Keeton Strayhorn calls the wife of Democratic hopeful Chris Bell last … Continue reading → Continue reading →