You know the drill. Links to reports where I could find them, plus a summary table at the end. Let’s do this.
County Judge
Commissioner, Precinct 2
Adrian Garcia
Roger Garcia
Daniel Box
Commissioner, Precinct 4
District Clerk
Chris Daniel – through December 14
Chris Daniel – Dec 15 through Dec 31
Marilyn Burgess
Rozzy Shorter
Kevin Howard
Michael Jordan
County Clerk
Stan Stanart
Abel Chirino-Gomez
Diane Trautman
Gayle Mitchell
Nat West
County Treasurer
Orlando Sanchez
Dylan Osborne
Cosme Garcia
Nile Copeland
HCDE, Position 3 At Large
Marcus Cowart
Richard Cantu
Josh Wallenstein
HCDE, Position 4, Precinct 3
HCDE, Position 6, Precinct 1
Candidate Office Raised Spent Loan On Hand
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Emmett County Judge 91,222 188,409 0 450,230
Hidalgo County Judge 54,949 47,828 1,400 7,443
Morman Comm Pct 2 11,000 31,941 39,382 2,247,067
A Garcia Comm Pct 2 650 0 0 0
Box Comm Pct 2 0 1,250 1,250 0
Melancon Comm Pct 2
R Garcia Comm Pct 2 352 4,509 5,250 998
Cagle Comm Pct 4 81,350 238,199 0 896,279
Shaw Comm Pct 4 500 1,215 0 800
Stauber Comm Pct 4 600 1,250 0 600
Daniel District Clerk 26,025 30,038 55,000 34,857
Burgess District Clerk 10,980 8,273 0 6,518
Shorter District Clerk 11,738 3,091 0 8,647
Howard District Clerk 700 3,622 0 700
Jordan District Clerk 0 0 0 0
Stanart County Clerk 18,625 11,773 20,000 71,002
Gomez County Clerk 0 0 0 0
Trautman County Clerk 8,230 8,208 0 18,287
Mitchell County Clerk 1,613 1,465 0 300
West County Clerk 0 0 0 0
Sanchez Treasurer 0 6,420 200,000 199,621
Osborne Treasurer 4,305 1,855 0 2,449
Garcia Treasurer 0 1,453 0 0
Copeland Treasurer 0 270 0 0
Cowart HCDE 3 750 750 0 0
Wallenstein HCDE 3 5,422 1,751 5,416 9,086
Cantu HCDE 3 200 0 0 200
Patton HCDE 3
Tashenberg HCDE 4
Flynn HCDE 4 0 110 0 0
Duhon HCDE 4 1,475 750 0 725
Miller HCDE 6
Norris HCDE 6 8,468 4,198 0 4,680
Bryant HCDE 6
Not everyone has filed a report, but most people have. It’s possible that some people hadn’t yet designated a treasurer, which is required to raise money, before the deadline. This would be more likely for the later entrants in some races.
Ed Emmett has a decent amount of money, but not a crushing amount. He doesn’t really need much – he’s been in office over ten years, this is his fourth time on the ballot, people know who he is. If he’s raising money, it’s to support the ticket as a whole. Given the ideological purge going on at the state level and the fact that he had originally been planning to retire, it wouldn’t shock me if he lets that aspect of his job slide a bit.
No such slacking for Jack Morman, who is armed and ready for a tough election. I’m not sure it’s possible to spend two million bucks in a race like this in a way that couldn’t be described as “extravagant”, if not “excessive”, but we’ll see. I would have thought that between his Mayoral and Congressional campaigns Adrian Garcia would have had a few bucks left over, but apparently not. He’s always been a strong fundraiser, so I’m sure he’ll have a healthy sum to report in July.
There isn’t much of interest below the Judge/Commissioners level, as there usually isn’t that much money in these races. I don’t know why Chris Daniel filed two separate reports, but together they cover the full filing period, so whatever. Orlando Sanchez still has that $200K loan on his books. I don’t know what the source of it is, nor do I know its purpose – he clearly isn’t spending it down. Maybe he just knew that this day would finally come, I don’t know.
That’s about all there is to say here. I will look at city of Houston reports soon, and I may do the same with some state reports from other races of interest. As always, I hope you find this useful.