Monthly Archives: November 2006

There is a second runoff for a Congressional seat, over in Louisiana where their open-primary-in-November style requires a majority and often means overtime for a race or two. This one is of special note because it involves the notorious Rep. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Hard to believe, but there’s still an election of consequence for 2006 going on in Texas (*). I’m speaking of the runoff in CD23, where Rep. Henry Bonilla failed to crack 50% of the vote against a big slate of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Via PDiddie, who feels a little more cheerful after reading it, comes this story of how 2008 may finally be the breakthrough comeback year for Harris County Democrats. Harris County Democratic and Republican officials have looked at Tuesday’s local election … Continue reading → Continue reading →

(Too much stuff from yesterday to do it all at once, so here’s a couple of catchup posts.) Now that we know it’s inevitable, let’s once again review the bidding regarding the upcoming special election to replace Congresswoman-for-a-day Shelley Sekula … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This piece about Nick Lampson’s efforts to get on the Appropriations Committee also talks about his political future, based on this year’s vote. Lampson earned 52 percent of the vote in complete but unofficial returns in the 22nd Congressional District, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m looking out my office window and I could swear I don’t see any flying pigs, but they must be out there somewhere if Rick Perry is talking about bipartisanship with a straight face. Bridge-building and bipartisanship were GOP Gov. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The first thing to understand about Juan Garcia’s win in HD32 (once you’re done doing the Happy Dance) is that Tom Craddick has lost a lot of support since he became House Speaker in 2002. In addition to the seven … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I wanted to put this bit in its own post, because I’m going to visit this theme with a number of candidates over the next few weeks. At the end of that Caller story, we see this: While the late … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s official, Juan Garcia is Texas’ newest State Representative. When complete, unofficial returns in the District 32 state representative race were released late Wednesday, Garcia received 17,611 of the votes, or 48 percent, to Republican incumbent Gene Seaman’s 16,847, or … Continue reading → Continue reading →

From the Juan Garcia campaign: (Corpus Christi) – State Representative candidate Juan Garcia’s campaign for the Texas House will be holding a press conference at their campaign headquarters today announcing their victory in the hotly-contested District 32 race. 4:30 PM … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Despite rumors to the contrary, Shelley Sekula Gibbs will indeed go off to Washington to spend Christmas break as a Congresswoman thanks to her special election victory. “I made a commitment to the voters of District 22,” she said at … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I had the pleasure of attending a Greater Houston Partnership lunch today at which a panel (which featured Ted Delisi, Paul Burka, Sonny Messiah-Jiles, and Mustafa Tameez) discussed last night’s election results. I’ll have something to day about this later, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Wow. Let me just say Wow to begin with. Not a single Democratic seat was lost in the State House. Four Republican seats were picked up, with a fifth still possible. Say Hello to State Reps Valinda Bolton, Paula Hightowner … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I haven’t felt this good about an Election Day since 1992, when I cheered on Bill Clinton in my living room with some friends. I’ve finished my Chron blogging for the evening, and despite the statewide shutout again, there’s more … Continue reading → Continue reading →

From the Quorum Report: Hays County Sheriff’s Department confirms an altercation broke out between Rep. Patrick Rose (D-Dripping Springs) and Rick Green at Sunset Canyon Baptist Church, an election day polling site. Early unconfirmed reports are that Green punched Rose … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, today’s the day. If it feels like this has been a really really long election season, it has. That’s good in a lot of ways, but it’s also good to see it come to an end. If you’re in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, this is interesting. A marine from Iraq war veteran Van Taylor’s platoon is questioning the way the Republican nominee has described their missions on the campaign trail for the 17th Congressional District against U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco. Marine … Continue reading → Continue reading →

As Dwight announces, I’ll be doing too much blogging here and here tomorrow evening as the results come rolling in. Among other things, I’ll be live-blogging from one or more election return parties, in which we may finally get to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Via Houstonist, Rick Perry gives us a little of that old time religion. Gov. Rick Perry, after a God and country sermon attended by dozens of political candidates Sunday, said that he agreed with the minister that non-Christians will be … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve got a roundup of links regarding the phony robocalls that the NRCC is running to make voters annoyed about various Democratic candidates over at Kuff’s World. A longer list of districts that have been on the receiving end of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just read Juanita. And here, too. And consider making a donation if you’ve had enough. Note that in Juanita’s first entry, one of Meyers’ signs is next to a sign for Republican District Clerk candidate Annie Elliott, who apparently became … Continue reading → Continue reading →

As you will recall, Republican State Rep. Glenda Dawson passed away in September. By law, she could not be replaced on the ballot for her HD29 race, so she will remain there against Democratic candidate Anthony DiNovo. Since a win … Continue reading → Continue reading →