Monthly Archives: December 2005

Mary Beth Harrell has two sons on active military duty. Her eldest was just deployed to Iraq. She writes about that and what it means to her as she runs for Congress here. Check it out. Link via Eye on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today is the last day for early voting in the city of Houston for the runoff elections. Polls are open until 7 PM. After that, you have to vote in your home precinct on Saturday. As a reminder, here are … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Yesterday was the first day that candidates turned in their paperwork to run for office. So who’s in so far? Agriculture commissioner Susan Combs was among those filing in the Republican primary for statewide office. She wants to be state … Continue reading → Continue reading →

And as long as we’re talking polls, the Chris Bell blog has the latest Texas Poll numbers for the Governor’s race: General Election Match-up 46 – Rick Perry (R, inc.) 25 – Chris Bell (D) 13 – Kinky Friedman (I) … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Ooh, this has to hurt. CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll. 803 Adults (713 Registered Voters). December 1-4, 2005. MoE +/- 4% If Tom DeLay runs for re-election in 2006, in general, are you more likely to vote for the Republican candidate Tom … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Jim Henley, longtime debate coach at Lanier Middle School and one of two candidates currently running for the Democratic nomination in CD07 (the other being David Murff), had a campaign kickoff event yesterday. From a press release I got today … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Quorum Report had this when they first put out their big list of candidates, and today they confirm it: Talmadge Heflin wants a rematch in HD149. “I still have work to do. I still can represent the district well … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Somebody at Team Radnofsky has been busy with the oppo research: Barbara Ann Radnofsky’s opponent spent 2005 declining to discuss any specific challenges to her anti-Texas voting record. While absurdly claiming through her consultants that “Every poll has shown that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

To the surprise of no one, business has been slow at the early voting locations so far. Turnout for Saturday’s six runoff elections probably will be about 10 percent of registered voters, election officials say. Reasons include holiday distractions, low … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Three more days of early voting. One week till the runoff. We’ll all need the break that Christmas will provide. Couple things happening beneath the radar that you ought to know about. First, a little while back the question of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today is the start of filing season for the 2006 elections. If this is typical of the coverage we’re going to get, it’s going to be a long, long year. As the 2006 political season officially opens with the start … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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 →

Got three pieces of mail yesterday relating to the upcoming runoff elections. Two were positive: one from Jay Aiyer, one from Natasha Kamrani. The third was a straight-on attack piece, saying that Kamrani did not vote in several recent elections, … Continue reading → Continue reading →