2010 Election Information for Central Texas
Posted: February 15th, 2010 | Author: ChrisCatagories: Politics | Tags: election, Texas
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Since today, February 15, is the start of early voting in the Texas Primary, I thought I would list the candidates so I know who is running and who to vote for. The following is the most current information I could find as of January 30, 2010.
Texas Secretary of State website lists Important Dates for 2010 Elections in Texas:
- Primary election day: March 2, 2010
- Primary runoff day: April 13, 2010
- May uniform election date: May 8, 2010
- November uniform election date: November 2, 2010
The Secretary’s website also lists What is on the ballot.
U.S. Congress:
First, look at the congressional district map for Texas. I live in the 17th congressional district for the U. S. House of Representatives; south central Texas including Waco and Bryan.
Senators:
- Sen. John Cornyn (R) Next Election: 2014
- Sen. Kay Hutchison (R) Next Election: 2012
Representatives (District 17):
- Rep. Chet Edwards (D) Next Election: 2010
- Chet Edwards (D)
- Rob Curnock (R)
- Timothy Delasandro (R)
- Bill Flores (R)
- Dave McIntyre (R)
- Chuck Wilson (R)
- Richard B. Kelly (L)
Texas Legislature:
I live in the Senate’s 5th district and House’s 14th district.
Texas Senate (District 5):
- Steve Ogden (R) Next Election: 2010
- Steve Ogden (R)
- Ben Bius (R)
- Stephen M. Wyman (D)
Texas House (District 14):
- Brown, Fred (R) Next Election: 2010
- Fred Brown (R)
- Rick Davis (R)
- Gerald “Buddy” Winn (R)
- Blanche Brick (R)
Texas Governor:
Rick Perry (R) Next Election: 2010
- Rick Perry (R)
- Kay Bailey Hutchison (R)
- Debra Medina (R)
- Larry Kilgore (R)
- Bill Lawrence (R)
- Koo-Hyun “John” Kim (R)
- Felix Alvarado (D)
- Bill Dear (D)
- Farouk Shami (D)
- Bill White (D)
- Alma Ludivina Aguado (D)
- Clement E. Glenn (D)
- Star Locke (D)
- Jeff Daiell (Libertarian)
- Kenneth Griffin (Libertarian)
- Steve Nichols (Libertarian)
- Fran Cavanaugh (Independent)
- Les Sanderfer (Independent)
- Kevin Still (Independent)
- Clement Glenn (Independent)
- M.J. “Smitty” Smith (Libertarian)
- Ed Tidwell (Libertarian)
- David Carpenter (Independent)
- Curtis “Tank” Hartfield (Independent)
- Kenneth Richardson (Independent)
- John Roland Ross (Independent)
Here is some interesting news. Texas Senator Steve Ogden (R-District 5) is Chair of the Senate Finance Committee. This position has an automatic seat on the Legislative Budget Board (LBB). The LBB decides, among other things, the State’s support to public universities. So, one of the people that lowered property taxes (temporarily) and raised cigarette taxes (permanently) in the name of education* will help decide how that money is spent. It’s good to be in Finance.
* From Steve Ogden’s website, I’m Proud of What We Accomplished in the Special Session: ”Other tax changes included revising the calculation of sales tax on used cars and raising the cigarette tax by $1 per pack effective January 1, 2007.At the end of the day,this means state tax revenues will now fund about half of public education, up from approximately 38 percent today.”