Texas down-ballot statewide offices

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

Dan Patrick is not a tea-party favorite.

What is he, then?

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

I'm getting interested in what's happening in the comptroller's race.

Collier, the Democrat, has been spending a lot of money on ad buys and billboards. I haven't seen anything for Glenn Hegar - no billboards, no ads, not even yard signs or bumper stickers.

Collier has been attacking him relentlessly on his support for a higher state sales tax and he isn't doing anything to respond.

As for the LiteGuv race, I read an article earlier this week in which someone from the Chamber of Commerce spoke very negatively of Dan Patrick. If the business community stays out of that race or backs Van de Putte, it could be very damning for Patrick and a bigger sign that the Texas GOP really may have gone too far.

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

Is Collier from Houston?

Wouldn't shock me if he ran for Mayor in 2015, which would position him for statewide office again in 2018.

He lives in Kingwood, which is the random exurban appendage of Houston that the city annexed in the '90s and that most people forget is even part of the city. He can't launch a mayoral bid from there because he'll have no base of support. Houston politicians ignore Kingwood because it's so far away from the rest of the city and it's hardcore Republican. So Collier's own neighborhood won't support him because he's a Democrat and the core neighborhoods won't support him because he's not from there.