So many candidates, so little time to get to campaign.
Rep. Jessica Farrar
Voters in the reliably blue, Houston-area Texas House District 148 will have plenty of candidates to choose from to replace the recently retired Democratic incumbent.
After longtime State Rep. Jessica Farrar retired at the end of last month, a dozen Democrats, 2 Republicans and one independent entered the race to replace her in the majority Hispanic district.
With so many candidates, the Nov. 5 election is likely to head to a runoff. Early voting begins Monday.
In interviews, Democrats in the race indicated they support red flag laws and universal background checks on gun sales, and pledged to find longterm funding to sustain increased education spending in the current budget. Just one of two Republicans in the race were available for comment for this story.
You can read on to get a very brief look at nearly all of the candidates, As before, my interviews with ten of these candidates can be found here, and a look at their 30 day finance reports is here. I note that this story counts the number of candidates to be 15, while the editorial board had it at 14. I think we can conclude now that was a goof.
Seems like you gotta be white to get the Chronicle’s endorsement. Sad for the brown people running in that district
Luis LaRotta’s campaign for HD 148 is one of the most exciting in almost a decade!!! 🙂