Category Archives: Election 2006

Former State House Speaker Pete Laney will not run for reelection next year. Laney, D-Hale Center, held the House’s top job from 1993 to 2003, losing his spot to current Speaker Tom Craddick after Republicans captured a House majority in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Aaron Pena says that his House colleage Carlos Uresti has an announcement to make tomorrow, but the cat is out of the bag already: He’s going to challenge State Sen. Frank Madla in the Democratic primary this March. Bolstered by … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The special election for HD48 to replace the outgoing Todd Baxter has been set for January 17. The January race will be a prelude to the March primaries and November general election, in which voters will choose someone for a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve mentioned that a fellow named Larry Stallings has taken the task of challenging State Rep. Frank Corte in HD122. It hasn’t taken him long to get his campaign into gear. He’s also got a campaign blog up, and judging … Continue reading → Continue reading →

David Harris made his appearance on the weekly Fighting Dems portion of Majority Report Radio tonight. Here’s the writeup from Daily Kos. There should be an audio file on the Majority Report site shortly, if you weren’t able to tune … Continue reading → Continue reading →

State Rep. Mary Denny, one of the Texas Monthly Ten Worst Legislators for 2005 and a dedicated foe of letting people vote and ensuring voting system integrity, will not run for reelection next year. The District 63 representative is not … Continue reading → Continue reading →

David Harris will get his first real national exposure tonight when he’s featured as this week’s Fighting Dem on Air America’s Majority Report. His segment is set to begin at 8:34 PM Texas time, and there’s streaming audio available, so … Continue reading → Continue reading →

According to The Jeffersonian, there may soon be a fourth contender in the Democratic primary for CD28 next year: once and former candidate for Senate and Congress Victor Morales. That’s based on a comment apparently left by Morales’ brother Joe, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Via Kirk at BOR, two Democrats are preparing to challenge Rep. Pete Sessions in CD32: Dallas lawyer Will Pryor and 2002 candidate Pauline Dixon. This is of course a good thing, as the goal is to run everywhere. CD32 is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Jaime Castillo has more on attempts by the state GOP to purge itself of members who committed heresies on school finance reform (see here for some background). According to the El Paso Times, the border city’s biggest GOP muckety-mucks are … Continue reading → Continue reading →

State Rep. Aaron Pena has announced that he will kick off his reelection campaign on Monday. He also says that his legislative neighbor Veronica Gonzales announced her intentions to run again last night. As Pena notes and as I wrote … Continue reading → Continue reading →

We now have two Democrats looking to challenge John Culberson in CD07. Joining David Murff is Lanier Middle School debate teacher Jim Henley, whose website should be up this weekend. From an email I got from Lamar High School student … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Katy Hubener, who gave State Rep. Ray Allen a close shave in 2004, will run again for HD106, which is now an open seat with Allen joining the retirement brigade. Hubener, made her first try for an elected office in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

After running completely unopposed in 2004, US Rep. Ron Paul may be facing challenges in both the general and the GOP primary next year. You already know about Shane Sklar; now meet Greg Roof. Greg Roof, an economics professor at … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Feels a little funny to say that Barbara Radnofsky is making her official announcement of her candidacy for Senate, since she’s been campaigning for well over a year now, but she is, starting in Dallas yesterday, in Fort Worth today, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Long as we’re talking about Gubernatorial primaries, I (and several of my blogging colleagues) got an email about another potential Democratic candidate, a fellow named Bob Gammage. Karl-T has the text of the emails in question for you. I’ve said … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Hey, wasn’t there supposed to be a contested GOP primary for Governor going on? Whatever happened to Carole Keeton Strayhorn? Strayhorn has a lot of money in her campaign war chest, but lately, many political observers have noted that her … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Via PerryVsWorld and BOR, Chris Elam is reporting that State Sen. Ken Armbrister is going to retire. Armbrister has been around for awhile, he’s one of a dwindling number of Democratic throwbacks who frequently does not go along with the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Shane Sklar will be in Galveston next week for a fundraiser. From his press release: Building on his growing grassroots support throughout the 14th District, Democratic Congressional Candidate Shane Sklar will hold a fundraiser in Galveston next week. Sklar’s fundraiser … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The early poll in CD28 that I mentioned last week has been pikced up as a story in the Express News, with comments from all campaigns. Andre Pineda has the pointer and some further thoughts in response to what his … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Bob Dunn reports that attorney and former Sugar Land Mayor Dean Hrbacek is “considering” a run in the GOP primary against incumbent State Rep. Charlie Howard. “We’re evaluating it right now,” Hrbacek said Friday. “We’ve been meeting with people in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Catching up on some stuff from the week…Barbara Radnofsky was in Washington, DC, for a fundraiser/meet-n-greet with several Democratic Senators and Congress members. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has the best poll numbers of any Texas politician, a huge campaign account … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Mary Beth Harrell, for whom Veterans’ Day is a “family affair” in her home – she is married to a retired Army warrant officer, and she has two sons on active duty – just picked up a nice endorsement from … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Andre Pineda has something to say about the upcoming Democratic primary in CD28: To all you Texas bloggers out there, I blame you. Between you and the San Antonio papers, you had me convinced that Richard Raymond was for real. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

If you’re wondering how the chips will fall from the House revolt that led to the death of the Perry/Craddick-back school finance reform plans, consider this story from Capitol Inside (sent to me by reader DH): Some of Governor Rick … Continue reading → Continue reading →

David Harris, the Iraq War vet who is running against Smokey Joe Barton in CD06 has his campaign website up now. It’s pretty spiffy, not quite the usual design, but looks appealing to me. There may be a few bugs … Continue reading → Continue reading →

According to Sal Costello, David Stall, the founder of Corridor Watch, will be announcing a run for SD18, currently held by Democrat Ken Armbrister. Before the Quorum Report hid its all-encompassing candidate list behind their paywall, they had a fellow … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Seldom is the question asked “How much would you pay to go out on a date with a Congressional candidate?” According to PinkDome, one enterprising young fella from Grand Prairie thought $25 a pop for the privilege of having dinner … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Quorum Report has put together a nice page of candidates for all the various offices up for grabs in 2006. There’s a few omissions and oversights, and with new candidates jumping in all the time it’ll be a bear … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Following up on my post about the Zogby Interactive poll from last month, we now have a full report of all the matchups they surveyed, which fills in a couple of blanks from the report they made available to the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Rick Perry’s approval numbers are back in their usual state of negativity after a one-month bounce from Hurricane Katrina, according to SurveyUSA. You can see the trendlines here. Basically, after recording September numbers of 49% approve/45% disapprove, October checks in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Another month, another fifty-state report by SurveyUSA on Senator popularity. Our senior member stays in the top half of the Senate with a 58% approve/35% disapprove tally. You can see her tracking numbers here, where the most notable thing is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The race for HD48, which was decided by 147 votes in 2004, just got more interesting as incumbent Todd Baxter has announced his resignation as of this November. “I am stepping aside because my family and my professional career come … Continue reading → Continue reading →

From the Governing Magazine blog, on the possibility that 2006 will see a rise in independent candidates at the statewide level: I can’t name a single credible candidate for governor in 2006 who isn’t a Democrat or Republican. I can’t … Continue reading → Continue reading →