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October 28, 2020 4:52 PM
Speaker candidates, and potential candidates, ramp up their giving as well
Democrats are meeting their match now in the most recent
campaign finance reports., with Texans for Lawsuit Reform
propping up potentially endangered incumbents and candidates in closely watched
races that may decide the fate of who leads the Texas House.
Here’s a breakdown:
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October 28, 2020 3:16 PM
GOP incumbents and some of their challengers now in the millionaires club for cash raised; reports start to look more like congressional races
The 8-day reports are in and needless to
say that if past legislative election cycles were college football, we have
moved up to the NFL when it comes to spending.
Let us know what you’re
seeing.
For now, here is our down and dirty
breakdown.
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October 28, 2020 9:09 AM
Has spent $380K so far in legislative races, it appears from reports
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October 28, 2020 8:13 AM
"Garnering respect and admiration from both sides of the aisle, we ask our colleagues representing the diverse constituencies of Texas to come together to make what they know is the right choice (and the right side of history) by electing Senfronia Thompson the next speaker of the Texas House," they wrote.
Their letter of support
is here.
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October 27, 2020 4:15 PM
Mr. Bloomberg was reportedly presented with polling showing the best opportunities to change the electoral map were in Texas and Ohio, where he's kicking in an additional $15 million to support Biden
Via the
New York Times:
Michael R. Bloomberg is funding a last-minute spending blitz to bolster
former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Texas and Ohio, directing
millions toward television advertising in two red states that have shifted away
from President Trump in the general election. A political adviser to Mr.
Bloomberg said the billionaire former mayor of New York City would use his
super PAC, Independence USA, to air intensive ad campaigns in all
television markets in both states. The cost of the two-state campaign is
expected to total around $15 million.
The decision by Mr.
Bloomberg reflects just how much the electoral landscape appears to have
shifted in the final few months of the presidential race, as Mr. Trump’s
mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic has intensified his unpopularity and
further alienated crucial voting groups like women and suburbanites.
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October 27, 2020 4:12 PM
Public Blueprint's guide includes the newest endorsements from HOMEPAC (Texas Association of Builders), NFIB Texas PAC (National Federation of Independent Business), TAA PAC (Texas Apartment Association), Texas Parent PAC, and TLR PAC (Texans for Lawsuit Reform)
Check it out here.
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October 27, 2020 1:52 PM
Each weekday leading up to election day and beyond we’ll have special editions of the show for you with Editor Scott Braddock, Houston Chronicle political writer Jeremy Wallace, and others
Here’s
the first of the special editions if you’d like to check it out. Depending
on your browser, you may have to right click the link and open in a new tab.
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October 27, 2020 1:47 PM
From the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram this
afternoon:
About one-third of Tarrant
County mail-in ballots have been rejected by scanners because the bar codes are
not legible, but the votes will still be counted, election administrator Heider
Garcia told county commissioners on Tuesday. The county’s state-approved print
shop is not making the bar codes 100% scannable, Garcia said. The county’s
election board will have to copy the mail-in ballots into new ballots and scan
them, Garcia said. If about 60,000 mail-in ballots get returned, Garcia expects
about 20,000 of those will need to be redone by the election board.
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October 26, 2020 4:28 PM
Martinez Fischer, who has helped build toward a Democratic majority with more than $1 million in contributions in the last decade, says he respects and has learned much from Chair Thompson as he joins her in the race
Saying he respects Chair Senfronia Thompson and has “learned much from
her,” Chairman Trey Martinez Fischer on Monday announced he is joining
her in the race to be the next Speaker of the Texas House of
Representatives.
He is filing this afternoon.
“The number one job of the
Speaker is to protect the House and its members,” Martinez Fischer said in his announcement.
“Members know that I have been a defender of the House rules and wielded them
to protect the institution and the people we serve. My vision for the Texas
House is an independent body that will work respectfully in a bi-partisan
manner with the best minds at the table. That is not negotiable.”
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October 26, 2020 4:22 PM
The Dallas Morning News reported first that adviser Ash Wright said several campaign donors have asked Bush to consider running in 2022
Full
story here by reporters Allie Morris and Lauren McGaughy.
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October 26, 2020 12:51 PM
"With Weakness Among Hispanic Voters, Biden Trails in Texas; Large Democratic gains among white suburbanites suggest risks down the ballot for Republicans in congressional and state House races"
From the
New York Times writeup:
President Trump maintains
a narrow lead in Texas, according to a New York Times/Siena College
poll on Monday, as he faces a rebellion in the state’s once overwhelmingly
Republican suburbs but survives with support from an unlikely ally, Hispanic
voters.
Over all, Mr. Trump leads Joe Biden, 47 percent to 43 percent,
among likely voters. The majority of interviews were
conducted before the final presidential debate on Thursday. In the Senate race,
the Republican incumbent, John Cornyn, holds a larger lead, 48-38, over
the Democrat, M.J. Hegar.
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October 26, 2020 12:11 PM
The Legislative
Budget Board has posted its first expanded strategic fiscal review, a
review now done in tandem with the Sunset Commission process.
Finance Chair Sen. Jane
Nelson, R-Flower Mound, passed Senate Bill 68 last session, with a goal of minimizing mission creep
in agency expenditures. LBB staff, using programmatic and fiscal data, would
look at all activities of an agency and then rank, itemize
and review funding levels and sources.
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October 26, 2020 11:17 AM
The $4.5 million is from 3,400 donors, more than 80 percent of whom are from Texas. "The average grassroots contribution was 43 dollars," the HDCC said
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October 26, 2020 10:56 AM
Here’s the poll from the University of Houston
Hobby School for Public Affairs.
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October 25, 2020 11:14 AM
Ms. T positions herself to move quickly if the House flips
Democratic Houston State
Representative Senfronia Thompson has
been on multiple short lists of Speaker candidates should the Democrats take
the House this cycle. But her filing Friday nonetheless startled quite a few in
the political community.
It should not have.
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October 23, 2020 7:24 PM
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October 23, 2020 12:54 PM
Significant career moves, appointments, staffer moves, awards, a law review and more
DALLAS – Good afternoon
from a cold, rainy Metroplex, where there are way more questions than answers
when it comes to early voting. As of yesterday, a full 24 percent of the votes already
in the bank in Collin County were cast by people who have no voting history at
all. Let that sink in as we head into the weekend.
More to come on competitive
races across the state in the days ahead. The Financial Times
reached out to Quorum Report for our take on what’s
happening in Texas House races. The article is a really thorough piece
that you can read
here. And if you haven’t already, be sure to check
our in-depth coverage of races in The Daily Buzz including Rep. Sarah
Davis’ contest against Democratic challenger Ann Johnson in Houston
and the clash between Rep. Michelle Beckley and Republican Kronda Thimesch in
Denton County.
There are some significant
career moves, meantime, to tell you about. You can always let us know what’s
happening with you or someone else – it’s called gossip, people – by sending
the scoop to ksbraddock@gmail.com.
Please use POTM in the subject line.
Thanks so much.
Here’s the latest edition of People on the Move:
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October 22, 2020 5:30 PM
It is a district that rejected hardline social conservatives but voted for mainstream Republicans; will that lead to a full embrace of Democrats?
Rep. Michelle Beckley,
D-Carrollton, likes to say, “Denton County is Democratic.”
To the surprise of even some
members of her own party, she proved in 2018 that it is at least purple when
she defeated former Rep. Ron Simmons and Justice of the Peace Chris
Lopez defeated incumbent Republican Gary W. Blanscet.
They were just shy of victory against GOP County Commissioner Ron Marchant.
He defeated Democrat Brandy Jones by less than 360 votes.
Rep. Beckley faces former Lewisville
Independent School District trustee Kronda
Thimesch for the eastern Denton County House
District 65 – considered one of the most competitive races in North
Texas.
Should Beckley win a second term,
it will help answer whether Denton County really is trending Democratic and if the
last election result was more than simply attributable to “Betomania.”
According to the latest campaign
finance reports, Beckley and Thimesch are attracting
a lot of money in what polling suggests is a tight race.
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October 22, 2020 5:23 PM
Sen. Nathan Johnson points to business demand for expanding coverage: “It’s about the well-being of Texas citizens, about the productivity of Texas businesses, the growth of the Texas economy, and it’s about revenue and fiscal responsibility for the state of Texas.”
DALLAS – Standing alongside
business leaders in the Metroplex, Sen. Nathan Johnson on Thursday
rolled out a plan that he said has “no ideology” and is neither a Republican nor
Democratic idea: Expanding health insurance coverage to as many Texans as
possible, in part, by drawing down federal dollars under the Affordable
Care Act.
“This is neither a
Republican bill nor a Democratic bill; this is a Texas bill,” said Johnson, the
Democrat who succeed former Sen. Don Huffines in the Texas Senate
partly on the argument that Republicans needed to rescue their party from the
far right. “It’s a Texas bill because it’s about the well-being of Texas
citizens, about the productivity of Texas businesses, the growth of the Texas
economy, and it’s about revenue and fiscal responsibility for the state of
Texas.”
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October 22, 2020 4:42 PM
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October 22, 2020 11:57 AM
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October 22, 2020 11:51 AM
Sanchez was accused of being an "anti-police" zealot in an ad run by Chair Leach. Sanchez now calls his GOP opponent "Lying Leach" and says he's a "Trump Republican"
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October 21, 2020 5:01 PM
There's been a mountain of stinging mail pieces coupled with negative TV ads from challenger Ann Johnson backed up by national third-party groups; Rep. Davis has no plans to return fire in the Houston district with a legendary independent streak
WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE –
After a decade in the Texas House of Representatives as a rank
and file member and part of leadership under former Speaker Joe Straus, Rep.
Sarah Davis faces what may be her most serious challenge yet in
Democratic former prosecutor Ann Johnson. Johnson has in recent weeks,
with the help of well-funded outside groups, stepped up attacks against the
Republican incumbent on an issue dominating many campaigns across the state but
felt even more acutely in the home of the Texas Medical Center:
Health care. Specifically, protections for preexisting conditions.
With the minority party in
position to potentially win a majority in the House next month, traditionally
Democratic-allied organizations are all pulling in the same direction in
competitive races across Texas.
But not here.
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