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October 29, 2024 5:52 PM
In the homestretch, 8 day reports show GOP cash coming in clutch
With one week to go until election day, Sen. LaMantia is now up on TV challenging Republican Adam Hinojosa to a debate while competitive Texas House races see a flood of GOP cash
It seems like
only in the year of our Lord 2024 could the following happen in Texas campaigns:
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A
Democrat could potentially outmaneuver Texans for Lawsuit Reform.
(Sen. Morgan LaMantia)
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Speaker
Dade Phelan faces a rebellion in his own caucus, leaving us with a
sophomore representative (Senate aspirant Rep. David Cook) who doesn’t
even want to stay in the House and is supposedly an alternative to Phelan.
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PACs
now aligned with traditional Republican leadership bail out the same candidates
as those anointed by Tim Dunn and the Wilks brothers. There’s no active coordination,
mind you. It’s just that the Dunn/Wilks directorate is investing in defeating Democrats
now
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Members
of the “Burn It Down Caucus” donate to each other and embattled incumbents
allied with Phelan as if there was no acrimony. (Well, save for Reps. Brian
Harrison and Nate Schlatzine, who are too
busy tweeting.)
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A
pro-choice Democrat lost a primary and transitioned to Republican.
Somewhere
between likely and surprising, however, is finally seeing Gov. Greg Abbott
spend money in House campaigns on something other than polling. With this
cycle, he invested in candidates and incumbents after years on the sidelines.
It was with Jeff Yass’ money, yes. Yet in his campaign to defeat incumbents who
oppose school vouchers regardless of the opponent’s history and additional failure
to truly invest in members who voted to impeach a corrupt attorney general, he,
in Abbott style may very well fail to pass his pet project.
Yet here we
are, 7 days out from a consequential election.
Let’s go
through the 8 day reports in down and dirty fashion.
Feel free to point out anything of interest you think we should include going forward.
By James Russell
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