Category Archives: Election 2006

Oh, good grief. Shelley’s singing. At a campaign stop last week, congressional candidate Shelley Sekula-Gibbs asked a group of women who own businesses to vote for her twice in November: once in a special election to fill the unexpired term … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The poll results that I blogged about yesterday are reported in today’s Chron, with the usual carping from the Perry and Strayhorn camps about methodologies. The one point to highlight is here: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Next on my interview list is Sherrie Matula, one of two former teachers running for State House here in Harris County (the other being Diane Trautman). If there was ever a time to be a teacher running for office in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You’ve probably heard about the new Zogby Interactive/Wall Street Journal poll numbers for Texas, but if you haven’t, here they are: Governor Perry 30.7 Bell 25.3 Friedman 22.4 Strayhorn 11.1 Senate Hutchison 47.8 Radnofsky 39.0 Zogby Interactive carries a lot … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Dallas Morning News is first out of the gate with a Sunday slate of endorsements for the non-Governor, non-Senator statewide races. (All Republicans, of course, but then what did you expect?) How many days will elapse before the Chronicle … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Continuing with the State House interviews, today I bring you a conversation with Dot Nelson-Tunier, the first Democrat to run in HD150 since at least 1990. We Democrats could use more of that kind of courage and dedication to making … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You’ve probably read this WaPo story about how the NRCC and the RNC are going to spend some $50 million plus on negative advertising this fall, since they really don’t have any other option to try to hold down their … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Continuing my series of Q&A’s with local county and judicial candidates, today I bring you Rudy Velasquez, who is running for for judge in Fort Bend County. 1. Who are you and what are you running for? My name is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Here’s Kinky Friedman’s plans for the border. The number of National Guard troops on the Texas-Mexico border would jump from 1,500 to 10,000 under a plan to combat illegal immigration proposed today by independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman. “We’ve waited … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m in high gear with the State House interviews these days. Next up is another incumbent, State Rep. Hubert Vo, who won one of the more memorable and hotly contested elections in recent memory in 2004, knocking off longtime representative … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This fairly routine AP story about the CD22 race has a quote in it that’s bothering me. National Democratic and Republican party officials refused to say how much money they might spend. One Democrat who spoke on condition of anonymity … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Stace is already on this, but I’d like to echo the following press release from Dot Nelson-Turnier, the Democratic candidate in HD150. Early voting locations determined by the Harris County Elections’ Administrator, Beverly Kaufman and the Harris County Commissioners should … Continue reading → Continue reading →

To quote BOR, “First there was the grassroots. Then there was the netroots. Now we have the TexRoots- Texas activists who have taken to the streets as well as the Internet in support of Democratic candidates that deserve your support.” … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The video above is an ad produced on behalf of the Fort Bend County Democrats. Richard Morrison tells about it here and here. if you like this and want to see it on the air in Fort Bend, you can … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I kept meaning to get to this last week, and I kept missing: Chris Bell got a nice endorsement from the Texas League of Conservation Voters. “Chris Bell has demonstrated a real commitment to fixing our air quality problems, making … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Towards the end of this Fort Bend Now story on the weekend campaign activities in Fort Bend, we get this tantalizing tidbit from Shelley Sekula-Gibbs: Sekula-Gibbs said she will reveal “very good polling numbers” next week in comparison with Lampson. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Continuing with my interview tour of the State House, today I bring you a talk with Kristi Thibaut, who is running for the open seat in HD133. This is considered a prime pickup opportunity for the Democrats, along with HD134 … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You may recall that the Texas Parent PAC gave its first endorsement of the general election season to Ellen Cohen. You may not be aware of how the Wong campaign reacted to this news. Founder Carolyn Boyle of Austin said … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You already know the big news from the Very Special Election filing deadline, so I won’t recapitulate that here. I’ll just note the following from the Chron story. Sekula-Gibbs jabbed Lampson for skipping the race. “It’s surprising a person clamoring … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, I was wrong in my interpretation of the Libertarian Party press release, for as Chris Elam reports (and I’ve heard this independently, too), Bob Smither has filed for the CD22 special election. He joins Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, Don Richardson, a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Comparisons like this are never good. Democrat Mary Beth Harrell would seem to face an uphill battle to unseat Republican John Carter in the conservative Congressional District 31, which stretches from Williamson Co. north to Erath Co., but one has … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Chad Khan was on the air at KPFT the other day, talking about his campaign and the new business tax, which affects him directly. I’ve got an MP3 of his interview here if you didn’t get a chance to hear … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just to prove that I’m not a one-trick pony, I’m now on the distribution list for Libertarian Party press releases. Here’s what they say about the Very Special Election for CD22: In response to Governor Rick Perry’s announcement calling for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

When I said before that I was aware of a highly interesting rumor about the CD22 Very Special Election, this was what I was talking about. Nick Lampson, the Democratic candidate for Congressional District 22, will not participate in a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, that didn’t last very long. BOR had the scoop last night, and now it’s in the papers: Ciro Rodriguez has abandoned his effort to run in CD23 against Rep. Henry Bonilla and others. Democrat Ciro Rodriguez told a roomful … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Want to know another reason why it’s hard to take write-in candidacies seriously? Because, as Juanita discovered, literally anyone can be a write-in candidate. Does anybody else think that this guy was aiming to be on the CD21 ballot and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In my post on the CD10 poll that provides some good news for Ted Ankrum, I mentioned that one reason why the proportion of likely voters was higher in Travis County than in Harris was greater enthusiasm by voters in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A few days ago, Paul Burka reported being on the receiving end of a robocall poll for CD10, which he presumed came from the Mike McCaul campaign. He was wrong about that – the poll was commissioned by Ted Ankrum. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m just thinking out loud a little here about the Very Special Election for CD22 that will be held on the same day as the regular election. I’m still not sure what the point of it all is, besides Rick … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Continuing with my interview tour of the State House, today I bring you my first interview with an incumbent Rep who’s running for re-election, Rep. Scott Hochberg. I’m proud of all the interviews I’ve done so far, but if you … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I knew this was coming, but here’s the official announcement: Texas Parent PAC today endorsed Ellen Cohen for state representative in House District 134, which encompasses Bellaire, West University, River Oaks, Meyerland, and Montrose areas of Houston. “Ellen Cohen is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I keep thinking that it’s not possible for the November elections to get any screwier. I keep getting proven wrong. Gov. Rick Perry today officially set the special election to fill the unexpired term of U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

CQ Politics has updated its rating of the CD22 race from “No Clear Favorite” to “Leans Democratic”, which makes it “the first House seat being defended this year by the Republicans in which the Democratic nominee is rated as having … Continue reading → Continue reading →

According to this list (PDF) from the Secretary of State’s office (via Quorum Report), each of the five re-re-redistricted Congressional seats has at least two challengers. That contradicts this sloppy AP article, which says the following about CD21: In the … Continue reading → Continue reading →