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Indy Texas
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« on: November 22, 2013, 02:49:43 AM »
U.S. Senate:
John Cornyn (I)
Michael Fjetland
Maxey Scherr
Chris Mapp
Dwayne Stovall
Linda Vega
Eric Wyatt

Governor:
Greg Abbott - TX Attorney General
Wendy Davis - State Senator (Fort Worth)
Lisa Fritsch
Larry Kilgore
Miriam Martinez
Tom Pauken - former RPT Chair; former Workforce Commission member

Lieutenant Governor:
David Dewhurst (I)
Dan Patrick - State Senator (Houston)
Jerry Patterson - Land Commissioner
Todd Staples - Agriculture Commissioner
Leticia Van de Putte* - State Senator (San Antonio)

Attorney General:
Dan Branch - State Representative (Dallas)
Sam Houston
Ken Paxton - State Senator (McKinney)
Barry Smitherman - Railroad Commissioner

Comptroller:
Mike Collier
Glenn Hegar - State Senator (Katy)
Harvey Hilderbran - State Representative (Kerrville)
Debra Medina

Land Commissioner:
George P. Bush
John Cook - former Mayor of El Paso
David Watts

Agriculture Commissioner:
J. Allen Carnes - Mayor of Uvalde
Kinky Friedman
Jim Hogan
Tommy Merritt - former State Representative (Longview)
Sid Miller - former State Representative (Stephenville)
Eric Opiela

Railroad Commissioner:
Becky Berger
Malachi Boyuls
Steve Brown
Wayne Christian - former State Representative (Center)
Ray Keller
Joe Pool, Jr.
Ryan Sitton

(I) = Incumbent
* Van de Putte has not officially announced or filed but is widely assumed to be running.
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« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2013, 03:23:45 AM »
Ugh, another George Bush? How awful.

I wonder how much Sam Houston's name helps him.
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« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2013, 05:19:13 AM »
Probably, all - Safe R. It's so for about 15 years..
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« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2013, 11:07:34 AM »

He has already won my vote for it and I am sure the entire youth vote of Walker County for it Tongue
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« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2013, 12:22:18 PM »
ahaha Kinky Friedman!
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« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2013, 06:41:34 PM »
Looks pretty normal to me. All statewide races of course should retain republican.
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« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2013, 10:48:49 AM »
so pathetic with downballot recruiting, TDP
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Indy Texas
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« Reply #7 on: November 23, 2013, 05:00:35 PM »
Turns out that Michael Fjetland, one of the two Democrats running for the Senate nomination, is a former Republican who ran against Tom DeLay in the GOP primary a couple of times in the early 2000s.

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The Democrats' comptroller candidate, Mike Collier, is also a former Republican who supported Mitt Romney in the 2012 GOP primary.
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