Morgan Williamson

Morgan serves as the Managing Editor for Texas Scorecard—monitoring our media presence, both online and in print. She is a Texas native, Texas State graduate, and veteran staffer of the 83rd Texas Legislature. Aside from a good dose of editing & strategizing, Morgan enjoys proper grammar usage, a lot of coffee, and good company.
What Makes Smitherman Qualified to be AG?

What Makes Smitherman Qualified to be AG?

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...

Branch Follows in Davis’ Missteps

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...

Button Melts Down at Tea Party Forum

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

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

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?

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...

Actions Speak Louder than Campaign Ads

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

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...