Add the Democratic House member from McAllen to the list of legislators who won’t be seeking re-election next year.
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Updated: 2012 Primary Election Candidates List
We’ve updated our list of 2012 primary candidates, adding the latest filings to the major political parties. Candidates for Congress, the Texas House and Texas Senate are filing under political maps that are still the subject of federal court fights.
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Interactive: What’s My District Now?
Pending any legal intervention, the three court-issued redistricting maps (House, Senate and Congress) and the State Board of Education map drawn up by the 82nd Legislature are now in effect. Use our interactive to see which district you live in now and who represents you.
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State Government
The Brief: Nov. 29, 2011
Election season in Texas may have officially begun Monday, but with maps in flux, the state appears ready to tap the brakes.
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State Government
Two Ways to Kill Federal Court’s Political Maps, Abbott Says
Even if the U.S. Supreme Court decides not to intervene in the Texas redistricting controversy, the maps drawn by federal judges in San Antonio could be knocked down by another federal panel, Attorney General Greg Abbott told the Tribune on Monday.
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State Government
Texas Asks Supreme Court to Stop Court-Ordered Maps
The state’s lawyers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop elections under court-ordered redistricting maps, arguing today that the federal judges who drew the maps improperly disregarded the wishes of the Legislature.
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State Government
The Brief: Nov. 28, 2011
A burst of holiday-weekend activity has settled the state’s game of political musical chairs. For now.
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Politics
A Wobbly Starting Position for Texas Elections
Monday’s the day candidates can begin filing for office, and after a flurry of legal activity over the holidays, they now know what districts they’re seeking to represent. Probably.
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Economy
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Root and Tan on the restoration of the Governor’s Mansion and on the Perrys’ expensive replacement digs, E. Smith’s TribLive interview with three freshman legislators in El Paso, M. Smith on tough financial standards for local school districts, Ramshaw and Murphy on Texas docs paid by drug companies, yours truly on new congressional and legislative redistricting maps, Hamilton on the biggest competitive endeavor in Brownsville’s schools and Aguilar on how border mayors feel about military equipment in their cities: The best of our best content from November 21 to 25, 2011.
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State Government
Peña Won’t Run for Re-election
State Rep. Aaron Peña, R-Edinburg, says he can’t win re-election under new court-drawn redistricting maps and won’t seek another term in the Texas House. It would have been his first election as a Republican.
