Tis the season … the filing period for the 2012 campaign season is among us. The Texas Democratic Party is live-tweeting candidates as they file at @TXDemParty. I’ll be doing my best to aggregate the challengers and open seat filings on the Almanac and the individual pages for each district.
There’s a possibility that the House will have committee assignments later this week. And Rick Perry will opine on the state of the state. Doped or un-doped … we’ll have to wait till tomorrow to find out. Till then, homework on a batch of bills in the Lege is underway. Oh, and a few news [...]
The following counts for sign-ins from Harris County conventions was shared by outgoing (thanks to redistricting) SD13 honcho, John Behrman: 4/21 Allotted Signups State Delegates ——————————– SD04 26 37 SD06 106 188 SD07 82 216 SD11 105 81 SD13 151 300 SD15 184 287 SD17 129 204 SD18 5 7 ——————————– 788 1319 I booked [...]
Welcome to the year 2012, where all the party politics are going to play out different than in years past. Here’s a snapshot from the Senate District 13 convention earlier today … Go ahead and click it to “big it” if you want to get a full count of those empty seats. Four years ago, [...]
» Texas Tribune: Demographics, and Ideas (Mustafa Tameez, Greg Wythe) If Texas Democrats want to magnify the advantages of a shifting demographic, they need to better practice the fine art of persuasion. We’ve already seen what can happen when good arguments are made forcefully and clearly to voters when they handed us significant wins in [...]
