Texas filing deadline (January 2, 2008)

[Sam Spade]

Well, I have the Republican list in front of me right now for Texas offices that span more than one county. 

http://www.texasgop.org/site/DocServer/1-2-08_office.pdf?docID=4403

If only the Democrats were this organized, ugh.  They have a list, but it's obviously incomplete (I think Lloyd Doggett is running again, for example). 

I can probably get the Libertarian one soon enough, if curious.

I will complete the list either tonight or tomorrow simply by checking the various counties because candidates for seats that are within only one county report to the county party.
Anyway for the Republicans: 

I can tell you there is no Republican candidate in TX-09 (Green).  I am unsure on TX-16 (Reyes), TX-18 (Jackson Lee), TX-20 (Gonzalez), TX-29 (Green) or TX-30 (Bernice-Johnson) because they are all located within one county.  Needless to say, none of these races would be competitive anyway, but people care about this.

There are Republican candidates in TX-15 (Hinojosa), TX-17 (Edwards), TX-25 (Doggett) and TX-28 (Cuellar).  There are two Republican candidates in TX-27 (Ortiz), probably because of his weak 2006 showing.  I don't know any of these people, so they're probably not cream of the crop (or even bottom of the crop)

To the big ones:
There are 10 (!) primary candidates in TX-22 to face off with Nick Lampson.  Good luck figuring that one out.

The big news of the day was Bexar County Commissioner Lyle Larson's filing to face of in the primary against Quico Canseco.  Canseco has money, Larson has the experience.  This means I suspect Larson will win the primary.  Not having a Hispanic name will hurt in this area of the world, but turnout is probably the key anyway.

Otherwise:
Ralph Hall (TX-04) has four primary challengers, but this is mainly because of age.  Sam Johnson (TX-03) has a couple, probably because of the same issue.

Ron Paul (TX-14) has only one.

Nothing else of any interest.  I'll post on statewide stuff in the other forum later, maybe.

[Meeker]

Unless something updates, Democrats have no candidates in Districts 1, 2, 5, 11, 14 and 21.

[Sam Spade]

Complete List GOP (Democrats in bold):

TX-01 (Gohmert) - no primary challengers
TX-02 (Poe) - no primary challengers
TX-03 (Johnson) - two primary challengers
TX-04 (Hall) - four primary challengers
TX-05 (Hensarling) - no primary challengers
TX-06 (Barton) - no primary challengers
TX-07 (Culberson) - no primary challengers
TX-08 (Brady) - no primary challengers
TX-09 (Green) - no Republican opposition***
TX-10 (McCaul) - no primary challengers
TX-11 (Conaway) - no primary challengers
TX-12 (Granger) - no primary challengers
TX-13 (Thornberry) - no primary challengers
TX-14 (Paul) - one primary challenger
TX-15 (Hinojosa) - one Republican opponent
TX-16 (Reyes) - no Republican opposition***
TX-17 (Edwards) - one Republican opponent
TX-18 (Jackson-Lee) - two Republican opponents
TX-19 (Neugebauer) - no primary challengers
TX-20 (Gonzalez) - one Republican opponent
TX-21 (Smith) - no primary challengers
TX-22 (Lampson) - ten Republican opponents
TX-23 (Rodriguez) - two Republican opponents
TX-24 (Marchant) - no primary challengers
TX-25 (Doggett) - one Republican opponent
TX-26 (Burgess) - no primary challengers
TX-27 (Ortiz) - two Republican opponents
TX-28 (Cuellar) - one Republican opponent
TX-29 (Green) - one Republican opponent
TX-30 (Bernice-Johnson) - one Republican opponent
TX-31 (Carter) - no primary challengers
TX-32 (Sessions) - no primary challengers

John Cornyn has a primary opponent, Larry Kilgore.

So, the GOP doesn't have a candidate in TX-09 and TX-16, it looks like...

[Sam Spade]

Unless something updates, Democrats have no candidates in Districts 1, 2, 5, 11, 14 and 21.

Do you have something different than what is on their website?  Well, we'll know for sure soon enough.

[Meeker]

Unless something updates, Democrats have no candidates in Districts 1, 2, 5, 11, 14 and 21.

Do you have something different than what is on their website?  Well, we'll know for sure soon enough.

I first went through the State Party's website and crossed off those districts with candidates, and then for those districts that are all within one county that didn't have a candidate listed on the State website (5 of them) checked the county websites.

Those six districts are multi-county and no candidate is listed on the State Party's page, so unless something changes on their website...

The LP says they have candidates in all but 1 and 13

[Sam Spade]

Unless something updates, Democrats have no candidates in Districts 1, 2, 5, 11, 14 and 21.

Do you have something different than what is on their website?  Well, we'll know for sure soon enough.

I first went through the State Party's website and crossed off those districts with candidates, and then for those districts that are all within one county that didn't have a candidate listed on the State website (5 of them) checked the county websites.

Those six districts are multi-county and no candidate is listed on the State Party's page, so unless something changes on their website...

The LP says they have candidates in all but 1 and 13

The interesting one is 14.

The LP has a good organization in Texas, so I'm not surprised. 

So that means that Gohmert's CD is the only totally uncontested one this year (unless one of the "real" minor parties runs someone).

Dems don't have candidates in 6 races and Reps don't have candidates in 2 races.

Anyway, thanks, I'll try and clarify it myself over the next few days if anything is wrong.

[Hash]

Why are the Libertarians opposing Paul in TX-14? Is he not "libertarian" enough?

[Sam Spade]

Why are the Libertarians opposing Paul in TX-14? Is he not "libertarian" enough?

Think about it - If Paul wins the Republican primary and drops out to run for President as an Independent, the Republicans would suffer the Tom DeLay scenario again.  There would only be the Libertarian candidate on the ballot.

Although I suspect in that situation, the Republicans run a write-in who wins, since there appears to be no Dem on the ballot.

In truth, the Libertarians probably ran someone because they always do, even though I don't think they've run someone in TX-14 since Paul was elected.  Whichever, they have a strong party apparatus in Texas and always get people on the ballot, usually better than the Dems or the GOP (go figure).

[Lief 🗽]

Oh man, Larry Kilgore's running? I love that guy.

http://www.larrykilgore.com/

[Sam Spade]

Oh man, Larry Kilgore's running? I love that guy.

http://www.larrykilgore.com/

I knew the name, but I couldn't connect it until you gave me the website.

[Kushahontas]

hinojosa ftw! wonderful congressman and a hell of a lot better than my old one (ortiz) sadly im off to college in a somewhat more competitive district next fall and ill be represented by ciro rodriguez.

[minionofmidas]

Oh man, Larry Kilgore's running? I love that guy.

http://www.larrykilgore.com/

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[Mr.Phips]

Unless something updates, Democrats have no candidates in Districts 1, 2, 5, 11, 14 and 21.

Do you have something different than what is on their website?  Well, we'll know for sure soon enough.

I first went through the State Party's website and crossed off those districts with candidates, and then for those districts that are all within one county that didn't have a candidate listed on the State website (5 of them) checked the county websites.

Those six districts are multi-county and no candidate is listed on the State Party's page, so unless something changes on their website...

The LP says they have candidates in all but 1 and 13

The interesting one is 14.

The LP has a good organization in Texas, so I'm not surprised. 

So that means that Gohmert's CD is the only totally uncontested one this year (unless one of the "real" minor parties runs someone).

Dems don't have candidates in 6 races and Reps don't have candidates in 2 races.

Anyway, thanks, I'll try and clarify it myself over the next few days if anything is wrong.

I have the Green Papers' final list(http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G08/TX.phtml) and it looks like Republicans have missed the deadline in TX-18, TX-20, TX-29, and TX-30.  However, its not like it would have mattered anyway in these districts. 

[Sam Spade]

Unless something updates, Democrats have no candidates in Districts 1, 2, 5, 11, 14 and 21.

Do you have something different than what is on their website?  Well, we'll know for sure soon enough.

I first went through the State Party's website and crossed off those districts with candidates, and then for those districts that are all within one county that didn't have a candidate listed on the State website (5 of them) checked the county websites.

Those six districts are multi-county and no candidate is listed on the State Party's page, so unless something changes on their website...

The LP says they have candidates in all but 1 and 13

The interesting one is 14.

The LP has a good organization in Texas, so I'm not surprised. 

So that means that Gohmert's CD is the only totally uncontested one this year (unless one of the "real" minor parties runs someone).

Dems don't have candidates in 6 races and Reps don't have candidates in 2 races.

Anyway, thanks, I'll try and clarify it myself over the next few days if anything is wrong.

I have the Green Papers' final list(http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G08/TX.phtml) and it looks like Republicans have missed the deadline in TX-18, TX-20, TX-29, and TX-30.  However, its not like it would have mattered anyway in these districts. 

That list can't be entirely accurate, unless the Dallas County Democrats and GOP list of candidates on the ballot are wrong (e.g. Dallas County Democrats say that there's three candidates in TX-32 (Sessions) and two candidates in TX-18).  I'll check the others, sometime, but not now.

http://www.dallasdemocrats.org/2008_candidates_for_democratic_p.htm
http://www.harriscountygop.com/Primary08.asp

All of those races are within one county, so you file with the local party.

Of course, the Indys on that list must get the signatures.  We'll see if that happens.

Wow, I just realized I'm getting really nit-picky on something that doesn't matter.

[jimrtex]

Links to Texas Candidate Lists Dem/GOP

Libertarian Candidates

Independent Candidates (intent)

Texas primaries are (mostly) conducted by the parties.  At one time, polling places were required to be in separate buildings, but now it is permitted to have the county conduct joint elections.  Even when separate primaries are held, it is ordinary to use the county's voting equipment, and the voting rolls are provided by the county.

Both general elections and primary elections are conducted at a county level, with state canvasses consisting of compilations of county canvasses.  For primaries, if all the voters are within a single county, filing is with the county chair of the party.  For statewide and multi-county races, filing is with the state chair.  The state chair sends their candidate lists to the appropriate county chairs, and the county chairs send their lists to the state chair, so eventually the state party will compile a full statewide list of candidates.

General elections for statewide offices and district offices, including districts within a single county are conducted under the auspices of the Secretary of State, so that even though some primary candidates file with their county chairs, the nominee of the party is reported by the state chair to the SoS for inclusion on the general election ballot.

Independent candidates for statewide and district offices file with Secretary of State.  They must file an intent to run at the same time as party primary candidates (by January 2nd), but they collect their petitions immediately after the party primaries, so many may not actually qualify (for Congress, only 500 signatures are required).

The Libertarian Party chooses its nominees through conventions rather than a primary, but the filing procedure is the same as for the Dems and GOP - they just weren't compiled into the Quorum Report lists.

There may be a few more candidates from would-be new parties.  New parties choose their nominees by conventions, just like the Libertarian Party.  However, they still have to qualify for the general election.   They do this by having 44 thousand-odd voters participate in their precinct conventions (which may be supplemented by petitions).   Some of these parties may primarily be interested in gaining ballot access for a presidential candidate, and may not actually have any candidates for other offices.   Some candidates nominally associated with a party may choose to run as independents, since ballot access is somewhat easier (for district offices).   IIRC, Green, Reform, Constitution, and Texas Independence have filed intent to organize.