A Harris County grand jury indicted Texas Supreme Court Justice David Medina and his wife, Francisca Medina, on charges related to a fire at their home.
A Three-Alarm Mess
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The Annotated Ballot
Leave out the presidential contest and only a handful of the 173 statewide and legislative races on the Texas ballot are without incumbents. And they’re all in the Texas House.
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Drastic Plastic
Add Dawnna Dukes to the list of Texas lawmakers misreporting credit card spending by their campaigns. And to the line of lawmakers going to the state to make amendments to their campaign finance reports and to try to get their fines lowered.
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Go!
Weatherford Mayor Joe Tison kicked off the first day of filing, saying he’ll run in the GOP primary against Rep. Phil King, R-Weatherford. And then the flood began.
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Health care
The Other Season to Greet
You think they decorate the malls too early? Here’s our version: There are only 90 money-raising, commercial-running, attack-mailing, town hall-squabbling, sign-stealing, robo-calling, finger-pointing, voter-abusing days left until the Texas primary elections.
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Who Done It?
Six Fort Worth Republicans are asking for an investigation of automated phone calls they say might have swung the results of a special election earlier this month.
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Following the Money
Democrat Chris Bell is suing Republican Rick Perry and the Washington, D.C.-based Republican Governor’s Association over the provenance of $1 million in campaign money in last year’s gubernatorial election.
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Crash Test Dummies
Dan Barrett and Mark Shelton — a lawyer and a doctor, a Democrat and a Republican, an opponent and a supporter of the current Speaker of the House — will face each other in a runoff in HD-97 in a few weeks. The money is big, the stakes are big, and there’s nothing else going on in state politics at the moment. It’s a Petri dish full of what’ll be happening in House races for the next 12 months.
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The South Texas Way
The filing period for candidates is still a month away, but things are already getting ugly down in Senate District 21.
