Bohac’s decision gives Democrats one of their best pickup opportunities next year in the Texas House.
Dwayne Bohac
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Texas Elections 2018
The week after Election Day, some Texas races remain in limbo
Counties still say they’re tallying their final votes, but here’s a roundup of races where the outcomes remain in limbo.
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Energy
The Brief: Dec. 15, 2014
The Houston Chronicle’s Theodore Schleifer has the goods on next year’s mayoral election in Houston.
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Campaign Promotes Merry Christmas Law
Texas Values, a faith-based political advocacy organization, wants Texans to know about a new law that protects their freedom to express holiday cheer. Critics say that freedom was never in jeopardy.
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State Government
“Merry Christmas Bill” Heads to Governor
The Senate passed a House bill that would allow teachers and other public school staff to use holiday greetings like “Merry Christmas” and “Happy Hanukkah” and to display Christmas trees, menorahs and other cultural icons of winter celebrations.
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Health care
Texas House Gives Smoking Ban Early OK
The Texas House tentatively approved a statewide ban on smoking in public places tonight, adding the measure onto another bill that must pass in order to make the two-year state budget balance.
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Tonight’s the Night
Over the past year, we’ve seen nearly $100 million worth of gubernatorial politics in Texas and millions more spent maneuvering for advantage in Congress, in the Legislature and in other statewide and local offices. Tonight, we’ll finally know what’s what.
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The Life Jacket
For some incumbent Republican House members who might otherwise be struggling to stay above water — Harper-Brown, Bohac, Driver, Kleinschmidt, Anderson, Hartnett, Legler — President Barack Obama may be just the flotation device they need.
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The Great White Hope
Bill White, the Democratic nominee for governor, was a popular mayor of Houston who was twice returned to office by wide margins. So having him at the top of the ballot this November should help Houston-area Democrats win their races, right? “I can’t think that it would do anything but help,” says Democratic state Rep. Kristi Thibaut, who’s in a tough contest for re-election against former Republican lawmaker Jim Murphy. But Harris County GOP Judge Ed Emmett insists White will have little impact on his own bid for re-election — and won’t matter in legislative races either.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Hu compares and contrasts the official schedules of four big-state governors (including Rick Perry) and picks the 21 Texas House races to watch, Ramshaw on a 19-year-old with an IQ of 47 sentenced to 100 years in prison, Stiles on Perry’s regent-donors, Galbraith on a plan to curb the independence of the state’s electricity grid, Thevenot on the turf war over mental health, Grissom on whether the Texas Youth Commission should be abolished, Aguilar on a crucial immigration-related case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Ramsey’s interview with GOP provocateur Debra Medina and M. Smith on how changes to campaign finance law will affect judicial elections in Texas: The best of our best from August 23 to 27, 2010.