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Volume 14, Iss. 26 3/5/2010
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Analysis: Perry wins on basis of conservative platform
Mark Lavergne
03/05/2010
The 10-year incumbent governor who won with a paltry 39 percent in 2006 was expected this time last year to go down in flames, the victim of Texas’ vastly more popular senior U.S. senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Instead, Gov. Rick Perry picked the right message in 2010 to propel him to a primary victory. That message is easily adaptable to the coming general election, in which Perry is already favored.
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Lower taxes, voter ID dominate Legislative races
William Lutz
03/05/2010
In a cycle dominated by a high-dollar governor’s race, sometimes down-ballot candidates were simply trying to cut through all the noise. Races for the Legislature — with a few exceptions — involved less money this cycle because the governor’s race drained the fundraising.
On the Republican side, GOP voters finally did what Democrats did in 2004 and 2006 — enforce some party discipline. Two of the biggest headaches for the GOP leadership — Reps. Tommy Merritt (R-Longview) and Delwin Jones (R-Lubbock) were defeated or forced into a runoff, respectively. In general, incumbent legislators who supported voter ID and lower taxes did fine. Those who did not had close shaves or lost.
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Local runoffs key to Supreme Court victory
Andy Hogue
03/05/2010
Though most of the focus – and money – this primary election season was on Kay vs. Rick (vs. Debra), some strong contests between judicial candidates took place, resulting in a runoff following the six-way race for Texas Supreme Court Place 3.
Now, with the smoke cleared and ballots counted, drawing attention to the only statewide runoff in Texas might be the challenge for candidates seeking a seat on the bench of the state’s highest civil court.
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Metroplex voters to politicans: Do not raise our taxes, or else
William Lutz
03/05/2010
It looks as though Republican primary voters in North Texas are beginning to have the same aversion to higher taxes as those in Houston.
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Victor Carrillo lone casualty among statewide incumbents
Andy Hogue
03/05/2010
Incumbents had the advantage in this year’s statewide Republican primary contests, though several House districts saw the ouster of many a long-time state rep in a wave of anti-establishment sentiment.
But there was one casualty among the GOP incumbents: seven-year Railroad Commission member Victor Carrillo, who was taken down in the Republican primary. The Democratic Party, which currently controls no elected state executive office, had several notable contests on its primary ballot to select its rivals to the Republican slate, which we’ll look at below.
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State Board’s conservative bloc wins some, loses some
Mark Lavergne
03/05/2010
State Board of Education members who have pressed for conservative education curricula — like pro-American history standards, and critical analyses of scientific theories like evolution and global warming — faced a few challenges this cycle to maintain their majority.
Hard at work to fracture it was the Texas Parent PAC, which endorsed several candidates who campaigned hard in favor of “local control.”
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AROUND TEXAS
LSR Staff
03/05/2010
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OPINION: Thus spake Perry: Stop Messing With Texas
William Murchison
03/05/2010
It wasn’t that the sovereign voters of Texas, or anyway the Republican component thereof, didn’t like the state’s senior senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison. Nor was it that they thought she’d done a lousy job for them in Washington.
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2010 Republican Primary Results
LSR Staff
03/05/2010
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2010 Democratic Primary Results
LSR Staff
03/05/2010
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