Texas Megathread

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Are there any other confirmed candidates for the governorship besides Wendy Davis and whoever the current Lieutenant Governor is?

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IndependentTexas' list of candidates for each office

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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Interesting. I wish Julian Castro were running, though.