Rangel, Lopez Head to Runoff in House District 125
(Pictured left to right: Ray Lopez, Fred Rangel) The special election for Texas House District 125...
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Abbott Sets Runoff for Texas House District 145 for Mar. 5
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has picked Mar. 5 as the date of the special election runoff to replace...
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Mental Health Care Bill Passes Out of Senate Health and Human Services Committee
(pictured: Jane Nelson) One of the emergency items Governor Abbott laid out in his 2019 State of...
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Early Voting Has Ended in the Texas House District 125 Special Election
Early voting has concluded in the special election for Texas House District 125 located in San Antonio. As of Friday, February 8th, 3,490 voters had cast ballots in District 125, about 3.5 percent of the district’s nearly 101,057 registered voters.
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Recap of the First House Insurance Committee Meeting
The Texas House Committee on Insurance held their first meeting of the 86th Regular Session on...
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Senate Property Tax Reform Bill Passes Out of Committee
(Pictured: Paul Bettencourt) In the State of the State Address, Governor Abbott listed property...
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Here’s to the Losers: How Incumbents Spent Millions to Lose in 2018
With the final campaign finance reports for the 2018 election cycle turned in three weeks ago,...
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Follow the Freshmen: Campaign Finances and the Sprint to Session
Second in an occasional series Reform Austin has reported extensively on the nexus of special...
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Governor Abbott’s 2019 State of the State Recap
Earlier this morning, Governor Greg Abbott gave his biennial State of the State Address from the...
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8-DAY FILING FOR SPECIAL ELECTION IN HOUSE DISTRICT 125
With Election Day a week away, the Texas Ethics Commission recently released the four candidates’ 8-day campaign finance filings, the last required report before the February 12th election.
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Follow the Freshmen: New Legislators Seek to Make Mark Filing Bills
First in an occasional series The 86th session of the Texas Legislature welcomed 34 new members...
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New Member Profile: Peter “Art” Fierro (D – El Paso)
On Tuesday night, Chairman of the El Paso Community College Board of Trustees Peter “Art” Fierro was declared the winner of the Texas House District 79 special election. It was a low turnout election and Fierro avoided a runoff by 157 votes. Here’s who Fierro is and an analysis of his campaign finances.
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First House Public Education Committee Hearing Recap
(Pictured: Mike Morath) AUSTIN, TX – The Texas House of Representatives Public Education...
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A winner in one Texas House special election and a runoff in another
(From left to right: Art Fierro, Melissa Noriega, Christina Morales) Two special elections for the...
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