Texas Legislative Watch

Voting times vary somewhat by county but larger counties are generally 7am-7pm. Here are the latest multi-group recommendations for GOP runoff candidates with statewide reach.

Definitely need EVERY conservative vote in this.

We’ve completed guides for 3 counties so far and put tem in 2 styles. The ones with the -s on the end only lists the actual races in the county, as opposed to including all the statewide/regionals in a grayed-out form.  The shorter versions make for easy handouts, but looks too minimalistic is there only say 2 races as in Collin county.  Check them out one the top right of the page here. We’ll add additional counties as we can.

These runoffs are CRITICAL to the conservative legislative efforts: 6 U.S. representative, 7 State Representative and two key Court of Appeals nominees will be determined on the May 22nd runoff (early voting May 14th-18th). IF the conservatives are nominated for nearly all of these seats, it will make a HUGE difference. So, it’s time for another set of voter guides.

Here is the link to a ‘first cut ‘ of the state and regional runoffs, with the current endorsements of the same groups as from the primary. More endorsements likely will follow.

https://txlegewatch.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/runoff_gop_primary_voter_guide_316.xls

You’ll note that each race is in gray text color.  The goal here is to allow their download, select the races relevant to the area where the flyer will be distributed, and change the font color to black. Below is an example of doing this for Texas State Representative District 107 (Dallas County)

https://txlegewatch.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/runoff_gop_primary_voter_guide_hd107_317.xls

The voter guides certainly made the difference where the people were most familiar with them; Collin County. Over 1,200 downloaded and- more importantly, 8-10,000 printed copies voluntarily taken by voters. Of the 12 local races, 11 were won outright and the last one, the recommended person is the top votegetter going into the runoff. They were the talk of the meeting in the McKinney Tea Party meeting tonight. But that level of success only came because of the unbeatable grassroots of Collin County, mainly in over 20 volunteers choosing to hand out the guides at candidate forums, community events, and polling places. These guides are a tool of the grassroots and success cannot be had without them.

Smaller successes elsewhere, with hundreds downloaded in Tarrant, Denton, Dallas, and Montgomery counties. 40 counties proved a bit excessive and I will later post the full counts. Hopefully, next time we will expand further. One of the surest signs of the success is the number of imitations of our style of guide that arose, as well as efforts to discount our guides (laughably calling them ‘pay for play’, while pitching a TRUE ‘pay-for-play’ list as a ‘better alternative’).