{"id":10219,"date":"2012-01-11T23:22:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T05:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=10219"},"modified":"2012-01-11T23:22:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T05:22:53","slug":"texas-senate-race-update-for-january-11-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=10219","title":{"rendered":"Texas Senate Race Update for January 11, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I expect the campaigns to start announcing Q4 fundraising results any day now, and I just sent off a list of interview questions to the Craig James campaign today. So here&#8217;s one final news roundup of the senate race before an expected avalanche of news. <\/p>\n<li>Young Conservative of Texas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yct.org\/yct-endorses-ted-cruz-for-u-s-senate\/\">endorse Ted Cruz<\/a>.\n<li>Though tickets are gone, you can catch Thursday&#8217;s Texas Public Policy Foundation candidate debate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livestream.com\/texaspublicpolicyfoundation\">the live webcast<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/texaspolitics\/2012\/01\/u-s-senate-debate-gives-preview-to-race\/\">A brief overview<\/a> of the candidates in that debate.\n<li>The <i>Statesman<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/texas-politics\/williamson-voters-hear-from-u-s-senate-hopefuls-2080595.html\">notes the absence<\/a> of Lt. Governor Chupacabra<\/a> at that Williamson County candidate forum.\n<li>Craig James unveils <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/texaspolitics\/2012\/01\/james-opens-senate-campaign-with-pro-perry-ad\/\">his first ad<\/a>, talking about how awesome&#8230;Rick Perry is. Hmmm. Rick Perry + Craig James = Rick James???<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/portrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rjames\" width=\"200\" height=\"229\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10312\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>And speaking of James (Craig, not Rick), <a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/5873669\/campaign-donation-to-craig-james-contains-hidden-message-about-dead-hookers\">heh<\/a>. It was <a href=\"https:\/\/rally.org\/craigjamesforussenate\">still up<\/a> as of this posting&#8230;\n<li>James also appeared on the Joe Pagliarulo show on KPRC-AM 950 in Houston:\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"243\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hl0G7sjVcKw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Looking at James&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/james4senate\">Twitter feed<\/a>, he seems to have done a number of radio shows.<\/p>\n<li>Ross Ramsey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pegasusnews.com\/news\/2012\/jan\/09\/craig-james-starts-late-senate-race-well-behind\/\">wonders why James is running<\/a>.\n<li>Cruz, Dewhurst, Tom Leppert and James will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/community-news\/dallas\/headlines\/20120109-leading-hopefuls-for-texas-seat-in-u.s.-senate-seat-agree-to-debate-in-dallas.ece\">all be appearing<\/a> at a March 2 debate sponsored by <i>The Dallas Morning News<\/i>.\n<li>An interesting piece on a David Dewhurst proposal (or maybe just a trial balloon idea) for, not an illegal alien amnesty &#8220;path to citizenship,&#8221; but <a href=\"http:\/\/gopisforme.com\/archives\/4239\">a path to a work visa<\/a>, in which &#8220;if an undocumented\/Illegal resident paid for thumb prints, criminal background checks, and verification of residence, we could grant them a two year Visa\u2026renewable only if they have not been convicted of a felony and have paid their taxes.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure if this is the right place to mention it. I&#8217;m not in complete agreement with the writer, but I will say that Dewhurst&#8217;s proposal is far from the worst illegal alien proposal I&#8217;ve read.\n<li>Back on October 11, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=8625\">I noted<\/a> that Cruz had picked up the endorsements of &#8220;over 115 leaders of the Texas Federation of Republican Women.&#8221; The Cruz campaign has now upped that count to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedcruz.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/over-200-leading-republican-women-endorse-cruz-for-senate-3\/\">over 200 leader Republican women<\/a>.\n<li>Still waiting for Democrats Paul Sadler to put up a campaign website, and Jason Gibson to put up one that&#8217;s more than a placeholder. Come on people, putting up a page with a brief bio and a donation link is <em>not that freaking hard<\/em>. With Daniel Boone not having updated his pages in over a month, maybe Sean Hubbard will capture the Democratic nomination simply because he can update his Facebook and Twitter feeds.\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I expect the campaigns to start announcing Q4 fundraising results any day now, and I just sent off a list of interview questions to the Craig James campaign today. So here&#8217;s one final news roundup of the senate race before an expected avalanche of news. Young Conservative of Texas endorse Ted Cruz. Though tickets are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":16,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,13,18,12],"tags":[928,1417,941,2864,2862,365,2865,950,2861,945,1034,1312],"class_list":["post-10219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austin","category-democrats","category-elections","category-republicans","category-texas","tag-2012-election","tag-craig-james","tag-david-dewhurst","tag-democrats","tag-elections","tag-facebook","tag-republicans","tag-ted-cruz","tag-texas","tag-texas-senate-race","tag-tom-leppert","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10219"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10330,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219\/revisions\/10330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}