While Straus will not be at the gavel when the legislature reconvenes in January 2019, the recent donations into open races illustrate the Austin establishment machine that propped him up remains active.

While Straus will not be at the gavel when the legislature reconvenes in January 2019, the recent donations into open races illustrate the Austin establishment machine that propped him up remains active.
Both Zerwas and Darby appear to be employing the same strategy of creating a coalition of Democrats and liberal Republicans to gain the gavel.
“I know both candidates in Senate District 30 and I choose Fallon.”
When confronted by a constituent with his pro-abortion vote, State Rep. Ernest Bailes took to Facebook to mislead voters and threaten the constituent’s job.
Uresti will likely be forced to surrender his seat in the Texas Senate and spend years in jail.
To say Wilson’s past is checkered doesn’t go far enough.
Eastland is one of eight counties in House District 60, which covers a large swath of West-Central Texas, and the second to formally condemn Largent’s campaign.
Darby has donated to exclusively establishment colleagues in what could be an effort to build goodwill ahead of a possible speaker run.
With his latest TV ad, Abbott continues to put his endorsements into action.
“Cindy Burkett has proven herself to be a desperate ambitious and self-serving politician who will say and do anything to get elected.”