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March 13, 2026 2:23 PM
Appointments, new offices opening, power players, and more
With the Texas
primary in the rearview and the runoffs now getting underway, there’s more
bandwidth to delve into the serious issues of the day – like Harris County
Judge Lina Hidalgo crashing out at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
Kidding, sort of. I was also reminded by a reader that officeholders melting down at rodeos is now a bipartisan tradition in Texas. We’ll talk about that on the Quorum Report Radio
podcast today. More substantively, we’ll do a deep dive into AI and the data
center industry that’s booming across Texas.
Reporter James
Russell perfectly captured the fault lines in his story yesterday here in the
Daily Buzz and we’ll follow up on the show with our friend
Chad Hasty in Lubbock, where there’s an ongoing fight about a data center.
The links to follow the show on Apple and Spotify are on the Quorum Report homepage.
Meantime, there
were some significant career moves in the Texas
Capitol community to tell you about this week. People on the Move is
all about y’all, of course, and it’s the most efficient way to let political
professionals across the state know about your new gig or venture. All you’ve got
to do is send the scoop to ksbraddock@gmail.com
and use “POTM” in the subject line for the fastest service.
Here’s the
latest edition.
The rest of the story, subscribers only
By Scott Braddock
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March 12, 2026 5:02 PM
Rural, suburban, conservative, and liberal Texans have angrily protested and taken action against the rapidly growing business, but the centers can greatly add to a tax base and it’s not like the legislature has given municipalities endless opportunities to earn revenue
FORT WORTH
– Residents in an unincorporated part of Hood County last year were so sick of
a data center using natural resources – coupled with a constant buzzing and
humming and an operator they called unresponsive – that they tried to start
their own city in an effort to regulate it. County
commissioners, while sympathetic, do not have the authority to declare a
moratorium, which residents initially demanded. The effort to incorporate into Mitchell
Bend failed. But it stands as one of the perhaps most desperate attempts to
slow the construction of the rapidly booming industry.
As you
first read in Quorum Report this week, a joint Texas House
and Senate select committee on the issue is widely expected to be
formed as soon as next month. The lawmakers chosen for that panel will hear
from conservatives and liberals alike who have more and more
concerns.
One new
example: Data centers have expanded so fast in Texas that even former Republican
Party of Texas Chair James Dickey is now advocating for more
local control.
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By James Russell
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March 12, 2026 3:20 PM
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March 12, 2026 3:01 PM
On KVUE TV in Austin, Quorum Report Editor Scott Braddock and news anchor Ashley Goudeau talked about that and more
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March 11, 2026 5:40 PM
Some of the U Dems are said to be angry about the argument being made now by Tovo’s campaign
Subscribers
can download the memo distributed by the campaign consultants for Kathie Tovo.
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March 11, 2026 5:29 PM
From reporters
Alayna Treene and Lauren Fox at CNN:
President
Donald Trump was gravitating toward endorsing Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn last
week. But he and some top advisers grew frustrated after his intentions leaked
to the press, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, and the plan stalled.
Then
Cornyn’s opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, announced on Friday that
if the Senate passed the president’s voting restrictions bill — something Trump
has grown particularly fixated on in recent weeks — he would consider dropping
out of the runoff race. Paxton specified the GOP should lift the filibuster to
do so, an idea many Republican senators oppose.
White
House officials viewed the ploy as a “genius move,” as one Trump official
described it, and it kept Paxton in the mix, at least temporarily. Now, Trump
has latched onto the idea of tying his endorsement to the passage of his
high-priority “SAVE America Act” — which, among other things, would impose new
voter ID requirements.
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March 10, 2026 1:45 PM
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March 10, 2026 12:16 PM
And in the Legislature: With a new generation ascendant, "There's very little reward for being in the center." HK and James Barragan talked about those races and more this week on Texas Capital Tonight
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March 9, 2026 3:41 PM
Cassie Daniel, Chief of Staff to Rep. Candy Noble, posted an emotional video online over the weekend after the death of a friend who's been helping her with chemotherapy in Houston
An 18-year-old
from Houston was set to appear in a Harris County criminal court Monday
afternoon after he was charged with capital murder in the shooting death of the
very good friend of a Texas Capitol staffer.
Darius
Dewayne Hall is
accused of gunning down Marietta Allison, a best friend of Cassie
Daniel, who was in Houston receiving treatment for cancer at MD
Anderson. Daniel, as many of y'all know, is Chief of Staff to Rep. Candy
Noble.
Daniel posted an emotional video
online about what happened late Friday night, when she said Allison was
killed after parking her car in The Heights neighborhood. Daniel said that her
chemotherapy lasted longer than expected Friday, which was why she and Allison
arrived late at night at the place they were staying in The Heights. Daniel
also asked that her privacy be respected and simply asked that we all send our
love by keeping her and Allison’s family in our thoughts and prayers.
Meantime,
some Capitol folks have
stepped up with this page to help Cassie in her battle with cancer,
including says to send resources and to help her travel to her chemo
treatments.
By Scott Braddock
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March 9, 2026 1:50 PM
“Sinton and Corpus Christi are both vital parts of the Coastal Bend Region. Our goal is to provide a venue and facilitate discussion so that both Sinton and Corpus Christi may both benefit,” Sen. Hinojosa said
Sen. Hinojosa’s
full
statement is here.
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March 9, 2026 1:37 PM
But Rankin tells QR he'll still appear from time to time on the station. He started at KURV radio back in 1984. Cheers my friend - SB
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