Records and experience have become a major campaign theme this primary season. And with so many of the state’s top offices up for grabs, a candidate’s record and level of experience is truly where we must look. One race this theme has really played out in is the race...
Morgan Williamson
Branch Follows in Davis’ Missteps
The Right spends a lot of time calling out the Left on their cronyism—government contracts existing strictly for their own benefit, conflicts of interest, increased regulations protecting industry incumbents, etc—and rightly so. However, the exact same cronyism...
Sarah Davis: Not Even a Conservative Whisper
While Davis may assume her district is full of naïve voters, I assume it’s not.
Button Melts Down at Tea Party Forum
Is hijacking the stage after the closing of a candidate forum the type of conduct becoming of an elected state official? That’s a question voters in House District 112 need to ask themselves in regards to State Representative Angie Chen Button’s meltdown at the end of...
Worse than Wendy
Thanks to several media blitzes, Republican voters all over Texas—and honestly, all over America—are well aware of Democratic Senator turned Gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, and everything she stands for. Whether it’s being unabashedly pro-abortion, or doubling...
Smitherman Sidesteps the Straus Question
As we are all likely aware, there is a speaker’s race heating up as we approach the 84th Texas Legislative Session, so Texans have started to recount what exactly our current speaker has done while at the gavel. But even before Texans learned taxpayer champion Scott...
Dan Branch: Detached, Disinterested, or Defiant?
Back in September during The Texas Tribune Festival, Reeve Hamilton posed a question to the three Republican candidates for Attorney General that was, and probably still is, weighing on the minds of voters: Is there a substantive way for the Texas Attorney General to...
John Carona, We Have a Problem
Despite using social media tricks to affect his numbers, the Dallas-area senator may still be out of touch with his district…
Actions Speak Louder than Campaign Ads
Texas Comptroller candidate Harvey Hilderbran released his first online campaign ad Monday morning. Maybe it was supposed to be funny…? Aside from the all-out corniness of a console television playing crackled and ominous Fox News clips in the bed of a pickup – (and,...
Abbott Not a Fan of Corporate Welfare Incentives
In appearances in San Antonio and Houston, gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott has hinted he may not be the biggest fan of the state's corporate welfare programs. Those funds, such as the Texas Enterprise Fund and Emerging Technology Fund, were created to encourage...