Monthly Archives: September 2006

The Dallas Morning News may have endorsed only Republicans in its first go-round of state races, but they’ve managed to find a suitable Democrat in their State Supreme Court picks. SUPREME COURT, PLACE 2 William Moody Unlike most of Mr. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Continuing with my series of Q&A’s with local county and judicial candidates, today I bring you Veronica Torres, who is running for District Clerk in Fort Bend County. 1. Who are you and what are you running for? I am … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Sherrie Matula picked up a couple of nice endorsements recently. One is from the Houston chapter of the 80-20 Initiative, which is called the Houston 80-20 Asian-American PAC. I’ve got a copy of their endorsement letter here (PDF). The 80-20 … Continue reading → Continue reading →

By Rep. Senfronia Thompson. Friedman last week attributed a spike in Houston’s crime rate to the “crackheads and thugs” who evacuated New Orleans. “He has demonstrated a total lack of human sensitivity,” said state Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston. “The people … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Mary Beth Harrell will be meeting voters in John Carter’s home town of Round Rock next week. Will Carter be there, or will he be too scared to show his face? From Harrell’s press release: I’ve asked my opponent, John … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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 →