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Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Texas Primaries Open Thread

Posted by DavidNYC

The truth, in signage:

Apparently, thanks to the Steelworkers, over a hundred of these signs have sprung up throughout the district overnight.

There are actually several important primaries taking place in Texas today, not just TX-28. In TX-22, we get to see how much damage gets done to Tom DeLay in his primary. In TX-17, there's also a GOP primary to take on Democrat Chet Edwards. The lone Republican Iraq veteran running for office, Van Taylor, is a candidate in that race. There are also Democratic primaries for TX-Sen and TX-Gov (in the latter race, I'm a fan of Chris Bell).

Anyhow, you can get complete results here. Live results for TX-28 specifically are here. Go Ciro!

P.S. Polls close at 7pm CST (8pm Eastern).

Posted at 03:13 PM in 2006 Elections, Texas | Technorati

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Did I read accurately the other day when I saw that this primary could result in yet another runoff between Cuellar and Rodriguez next month?

Posted by: Mark at March 7, 2006 03:55 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

That's my understanding (and please someone correct me if I'm wrong), but if no one gets a majority, we all come back and do this again with the top two vote getters on April 11th. Given this might be really close, and Victor Morales is likely to at least get a few percent of the vote, it is a very real possibility. I think it actually would help Ciro ... more time to get the word out about Cuellar's record, and my guess is most Morales voters would be Rodriquez voters the second time around.

Posted by: IndianaProgressive at March 7, 2006 04:34 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

Hm... am i the only one that is well a little worried about the TX-17 race....

Posted by: D in FL. at March 7, 2006 04:34 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

What time do the polls close out there in the Lone Star state?

Posted by: Brian at March 7, 2006 04:36 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

Why Bell over Gammage? Just curious.

The Gammage campaign made a pretty funny commercial that put Bell's face on a beer bottle, and said: "If Chris Bell were a beer, he'd be Republican Lite!"

Posted by: HellofaSandwich at March 7, 2006 05:27 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

IndianaProgressive, thanks for the clarification.

D in FL, we need to always be worried about TX-17. Under current district lines, it's not a matter of if Chet Edwards is defeated, it's a matter of when. He held off Arlene Wohlgemuth in 2004 because she was a fire-breathing nut....and he only beat her 52-48. In no way can we relax about this seat, especially with a challenge by Van Taylor who will probably be a far stronger candidate, at least on paper, than Arlene did.

Posted by: Mark at March 7, 2006 05:30 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

It's a miracle that we have TX-17, so I'm really hoping for exceptional showings in suburban races in PA and CT to balance the eventual loss of Chet Edwards.

Posted by: HellofaSandwich at March 7, 2006 05:36 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

I feel like Chris Bell "saw the light" after he lost his primary two years ago - after that, he finally had the courage to file an ethics complaint. I'm pretty enraged at how the Dem leadership refuses to let anyone file ethics complaints because they are worried about blowback, and I'm really pissed that the Dems don't seem interested in serious lobbying/ethics reform. At least Bell woke up to all this crap.

Posted by: DavidNYC at March 7, 2006 05:39 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

When it comes to Taylor v. Anderson.. it appears to be a pretty spirited primary.

Source

"Anderson, a 34-year-old Texas A&M graduate and former aide to Congressman Pete Sessions of Dallas, has criticized Taylor for attending Harvard and moving to West in McLennan County a year ago.

Taylor countered that Anderson employs "liberal and anti-Christian" campaign aides and even some who worked for Edwards. "Anderson has been saying 99 percent of Van's donors are from outside the district, but we have 180 donors inside the district to Tucker's 40," a Taylor spokesman said Friday.

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Anderson has kept up a drumbeat of allegations including one that Taylor "claims a $2.3-million homestead outside the 17th District.

"Despite my opponent's very honorable military service, his moving into the district to run for Congress is a fundamental flaw that will make him unable to debate the issues if he moves to the general election," Anderson said.

"He did not attend school in Central Texas and does not know how to be an effective representative of A&M, Baylor and other educational institutions here. Our party has run veterans against Edwards in the past and we have failed.

"You must keep in mind that veterans do not support Edwards because he is a veteran but because they believe he is effective in Washington on the issues that matter most to them.""

Interesting..

Posted by: RBH at March 7, 2006 05:43 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment