E-Interview: Valinda Bolton

[Fifth in a continuing series of Capitol Annex E-Interviews with Democratic candidates for Texas House and Senate in contested races this fall.]

Previously, we’ve published E-Interviews with Sherrie Matula (HD 134), Kathi Thomas (SD 25), Jim Stauber (HD 20) and Karen Felthauser (HD 52). Today, it’s Valinda Bolton’s turn.

Valinda Bolton [website•e-mailing list•$$$] is running in HD 47, currently an open seat, against Republican Bill Welch. The district covers a portion of Travis County.

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E-Interviews: Jim Stauber, HD 20

[This week, I'll be publishing more of our E-Interviews with Democratic candidates for Texas House in contested races across the state. If you are a candidate and haven't turned in your E-Interview yet, there's still time, email Vince!

In case you missed it, we've previously run interviews with: Karen Felthauser, HD 52; Sherrie Matula, HD 129; and Kathi Thomas, SD-25.]
This week, we’re going to start off with another central Texas district, House District 20, where Jim Stauber [website, $$] (D-Liberty Hill) is running against Dan Gattis in a district that includes part of Williamson and Milam Counties.

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E-Interviews: Karen Felthauser, HD 52

[This is the third in our installment of E-Interviews with Democratic Texas House and Texas Senate candidates. If you are a candidate or campaign staffer and have questions about E-Interviews, please contact Vince.]
Karen Felthauser (D-Round Rock) [website•e-mailing list•$$$] is opposing Trans Texas Corridor godfather Mike Krusse (R-Round Rock) in House District 52, which encompasses the southern half of Williamson County.
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E-Interview: Sherrie Matula, HD-129

[This is the second in a continuing series of E-Interviews with Democratic candidates for Texas House and Texas Senate.]

Sherrie Matula (D-Houston) [website•blog•$$$•Educators For Matula] is running against Repulican John Davis in Texas House District 129 which encompasses the southern end of Harris County.

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E-Interview: Kathi Thomas, SD 25

[This is the first in a continuing series of E-Interviews with Democratic candidates for Texas House and Texas Senate.]

Kathi Thomas (D-Austin) [website•blog•$$$] is running for Texas Senate in Senate District 25. SD 25 includes all of Hays, Comal, Guadalupe and Kendall Counties, as well as southern Travis County (primarily between I-35 and MOPAC) and northern Bexar County (between I-35 and I-10 north of 410, dipping to pick up Alamo Heights, Terrill Hills and Olmas Park).
Thomas is running a tough race against Sen. Jeff Wentworth (R-San Antonio), who currently holds the seat.

Here’s the Q&A:

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E-Interviews

Later today, the first of a number of Capitol Annex E-Interviews with candidates for Texas House and Senate will go online.

A few weeks ago, I sent Democratic state house and senate candidates in contested races an “E-Interview” and asked them to complete it and send it back for publication on Capitol Annex.

If you are such a candidate or work for one and haven’t seen yours yet, shoot me an email (vince_leibowitz-at-cox.net). I’ve had several campaigns tell me they got caught up in spam filters and what not, so let me know if you don’t have yours and I’ll resend it.

Anyway, the first installments will run daily until I’ve run them all. I have several right now with more coming in.

The E-Interviews are pretty lengthy and cover a lot of territory. I did this for a couple of reasons.

First off, I wanted to make sure that a lot of races that aren’t on the radars of many people across the state got some much-needed attention on this blog.

Second, I wanted to give grassroots activists across the state ammunition for the November election. A lot of Republicans love distorting the positions of Democratic candidates on a variety of issues without even knowing those positions. Through the E-Interviews, I hope to give activists in each of these races the ammunition they need to counteract GOP half-truths about Democrats running in their areas.