Since it would be difficult for me to say this better than Matt Glazer at BOR, I’m just going to point you in his direction and urge you to contribute today.
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Once again, Texas Governor Perry has shown little regard for reality when selecting December special election runoff dates:
Gov. Rick Perry chose Dec. 18 for a runoff election for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives, rejecting a request by Tarrant County election officials.
Seriously, a team of monkeys with darts could have selected a better [...]

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Texas Parent PAC has endorsed Democrat Dan Barrett in the runoff for HD 97 in Tarrant County. From their press release:
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We’ll be keeping tabs on elections across Texas tonight.
We’ll get started with this: In HD 97, Democrat Dan Barrett is leading the early vote with over 32 percent in a seven-way race.
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If you needed any other evidence that former State Rep. Bob Leonard (R-Fort Worth), the presumed front-runner in the free-for-all for retired Rep. Anna Mowery’s seat is a tool of the Craddick-Perry establishment, try this one on for size:
They note that Leonard’s consultant, Bryan Eppstein, represents many of the leaders of the anti-Craddick faction (as [...]

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Via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Former state Rep. Anna Mowery has thrown her support behind Republican Bob Leonard to replace her as District 97 representative in the Texas House.
This is somewhat of a surprise, as it seems Leonard is not one of the first-tier GOP candidates in the race. It’s unclear to me what impact Mowery’s [...]

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Former House member Bob Leonard (R-Fort Worth), running amid a huge field featuring a bunch of Republican clones and Democrat Dan Barrett (D-Fort Worth), has been caught red handed supporting school vouchers and is now trying to back away from that support:
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Evidently the 2006 election cycle and the 80th Legislative Session still hasn’t taught Republicans that, when it comes to Tom Craddick, ‘distance’ might be the best campaign strategy.
Certainly, nobody told HD 97 candidate Craig Goldman, who is one of a passel of folks vying to replace retired State Rep. Anna Mowery:
Big names showed up — [...]

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This week’s announcement by Rep. Anna Mowery (R-Fort Worth) that she will resign early rather than retire at the end of her term is somewhat surprising, given most felt Mowery would hang on to the bitter end. But, it will likely be only the first of many “early resignations” by legislators who have indicated–publicly or [...]

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