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April 19, 2018 10:10 AM
Challenger Cindy Crocker Asche says this “disqualifies him to represent RPT to donors and investors”; Dickey expects to comment later in the day
Editor’s note: This is a developing
story and will be updated throughout the day. The legal documentation is available
to subscribers at the bottom of this story – SB
The
GOP woman running against Republican Party of Texas Chairman Jim Dickey on Thursday morning said the
incumbent cannot be trusted with the party’s finances because of his history of
alleged securities fraud in a case brought against him back in 2004 by the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
Cindy Crocker Asche of Frisco is challenging Dickey
for his chairmanship at the upcoming RPT convention. Dickey was installed by
the State Republican Executive Committee last year after a brief race against a
Brenham businessman following the resignation of former Chair Tom Mechler.
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April 19, 2018 9:04 AM
41% of voters are undecided, per the poll by Public Policy Polling
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April 18, 2018 5:30 PM
Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke with 47 to 44, respectively
Of course, one should
never read too much into one set of numbers, but a new poll from Quinnipiac
shows Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep.
Beto O'Rourke in essentially a dead heat.
Cruz is at 47 and his
Democratic challenger is at 45, per the Quinnipiac poll.
"There are wide
party, gender, age and racial gaps, the independent Quinnipiac University Poll
finds," per the pollsters.
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April 18, 2018 3:29 PM
This comes a day after Ken Paxton announced he's with Bunni Pounds. “Lance Gooden has a thorough understanding of complex policy issues as a result of his work representing East Texas in the statehouse and we have full confidence he will continue to stand up for Realtors, homeowners and private-property
rights while serving in Congress," said TREPAC Chairman David Alan Cox.
The
full endorsement of Rep. Lance Gooden
for Congress by the National
Rifle Association is here.
The Texas
Association of Realtors announcement is here.
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April 18, 2018 11:42 AM
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April 18, 2018 10:20 AM
Rep. Simmons asks the agency “If you’re going to be doing it internally, how will we know whether or not you’re going to have a system that does some evaluation…How can we be assured that you’re going to implement something that is rigorous and puts a critical eye to the process?”
The Texas Department of Transportation has ditched a
contract with a key vendor tasked with merging the agency’s disparate legacy
project management systems.
The goal of Modernize Portfolio and Project Management,
or MPPM,
is to take the data of 12,000 road and bridge projects and make it accessible
to both internal and external stakeholders.
That’s harder than it might seem because TxDOT has 40 different
legacy systems, many of them launched on mainframes back in the 1980s.
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April 16, 2018 5:30 PM
Cook and McNutt worked overtime in ‘16 to drive up each other’s negatives, and impressions among many voters are frozen in time. Only McNutt carries that baggage in this election against Cody Harris
In the Republican run-off for the
open House
District 8 seat, currently represented by retiring State Affairs Committee Chairman
Byron Cook, R-Corsicana, the third
time may not be the charm for one candidate.
That candidate is Thomas McNutt, who’s making his second
run for the seat after losing to Cook by a mere 222 votes in the 2016 primary.
Despite constantly campaigning
for the seat ever since, the vice president of Collin Street Bakery only
garnered 39 percent to Palestine’s Cody
Harris’ 44 percent in March. A third candidate, Navarro College Dean Linda Timmerman came in third with 15
percent. Timmerman has now endorsed Harris.
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April 16, 2018 12:35 PM
A former state district court judge in Harris County, Mizell is now at V&E
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April 16, 2018 12:33 PM
"As a State Senator, she will help lead the fight for women's reproductive rights, public education funding, LGBTQ equality, and health care for everyone," said Geri Prado, senior director of state and local campaigns at EMILY's List.
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April 13, 2018 5:45 PM
With up to $13 billion in debt possible in two funds, lawmakers may be more receptive to Comptroller Hegar’s proposal to aggressively invest ESF dollars to generate revenue to cover unfunded liabilities
Texas
lawmakers appear likely to face an increase in long-term shortfalls to the
state’s two major pension funds – up to $13 billion – if boards at the
Employee Retirement System and Teacher Retirement System
complete votes to decrease rates of return on investments.
Such
decreases would be a huge blow and a tremendous increase in cost to current Texas
pension fund models.
At the
same time, they might be actuarially sound choices, as required by the state
constitution. ERS has voted to roll back its investment decision. TRS is
expected to take a more conservative course of action at its meeting in April.
Such
choices make revenue-generating proposals, like Comptroller Glenn Hegar’s Texas Legacy Fund, even more
critical to the numbers in next session’s budget.
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April 13, 2018 5:36 PM
From agencies to lobby shops, folks are on the move this week while the lite guv’s former COS made a soft landing and a former Texas agency chief may end up leading a similar agency in another state
It
was another long week on the road across Texas for your editor
but it was more than worth it to see so many of your smiling faces at both the Texas
Association of Community Schools conference in Abilene on Tuesday as
well as the many members and lobbyists to showed up for Rep. Travis Clardy’s Lone Star Legislative Summit
in beautiful and distant Nacogdoches.
Meantime
back in the capital city, some folks were getting new business cards printed up
to hand out and we love hearing about it. Reach out anytime at ksbraddock@gmail.com
Here’s
this week’s edition of People on the Move.
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April 13, 2018 5:31 PM
That, of course, is less than half the amount raised by Democrat Beto O'Rourke in the same reporting period
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April 12, 2018 5:20 PM
Harvey claims now top claims filed 60 days after Hurricane Ike, but only in terms of dollars and not in terms of number of claims. Harvey has 717,000 claims filed at the 60-day mark, which have cost insurers $7.7 billion
The ultimate cost of last year’s Hurricane Harvey
to the private insurance industry has been bumped to $19.4 billion, adding
another $3.7 billion in payouts on top of the earliest project storm costs
presented to lawmakers last year by the Texas Department of Insurance.
Actuary Brian Ryder presented the numbers of TDI’s
second Harvey data call -- claims and anticipated claims -- as of two months
after the two-pronged storm hit the Texas Gulf Coast. The initial data call had
pegged the storm’s cost at $15.7 billion, with the caveat that the numbers were
likely to rise due to some early technical glitches with data.
Today’s hearing of the House Insurance Committee,
where the numbers were presented, will be one of Chair Rep. Larry Phillips,
R-Sherman, last. Phillips is not returning for another term.
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April 12, 2018 12:40 PM
Only "not guilty" from the Houston jury was for a count of wire fraud
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