A few days ago 84% of the Texas Tribune’s Insiders picked the Lite Guv to win the GOP Primary U.S. Senate race. 14% picked Ted Cruz. Commentary was one of the Insiders that picked the Lite Guv.
The Tribune’s Ross Ramsey has a story today on the latest Tribune Lone Star State survey that has the Lite Guv with 38% and Cruz with 27%. Here is a piece of the story:
"David Dewhurst is roughly splitting the extremely conservative primary voters with Ted Cruz," said poll co-director Jim Henson, who teaches government at the University of Texas at Austin and runs the Texas Politics Project. "That’s not a sign of failure or defeat, but it is a yellow flag."
Henson attributes that more to style than to substance, but he said it could help the challenger.
"Cruz is in the advantageous position right now of, for the most part, defending his ideas against Dewhurst’s record," Henson said. "In the last few cycles, that’s been a good place to be, and not to be the person who’s having to defend your actions in government."
Here is the entire Tribune story.
Should Dems give a rat’s arse who wins the GOP U.S. Senate Primary race? I wonder how having a Spanish surname fella at the top of the GOP ticket plays with Latino voters in the Lone Star State this November? I’m thinking it doesn’t help Dems. Stay tuned for sure!
Oh, I forgot, Dems also got a mention in Ross’ story:
Unsettled might be the best description of the race for the Democratic nomination for Senate, where 55 percent said they would prefer another Democratic candidate to those who are running.
The named candidates were clustered in a statistical tie: Sean Hubbard, 12 percent; Addie Dainell Allen, Daniel Boone and Paul Sadler, each at 10 percent; and John Morton with 3 percent.
Are you in the 55%?
Now that MLB Spring Training is underway, how many teams are in the Cactus League and how many are in the Grapefruit League?
My pal Chris Moran has a piece today in the Chron on city finances. Here is how the piece starts:
The city of Houston has been papering over multimillion-dollar budget deficits for nine years by borrowing money, tapping its rainy day fund, selling buildings and just plain putting off bills to the future, according to city finance officials.
And:
"We have a local government problem in that those administrations made decisions not to fulfill their obligations and to punt it down the road," said Councilman C.O. Bradford, who voted in favor of the last two budgets in which spending exceeded revenues by at least $98 million a year. "There’s no institutional accountability for having done that, and it continues today."
And:
Meanwhile, Parker’s predecessor, Bill White, insisted there was no deficit during his six-year administration.
"We collected more revenues while I was mayor than we spent," White said.
Not according to the city’s finance department, which reports more spending than income for each of the six fiscal years White presided over the city.
Check out the entire piece here.
Look! The headline says it all: “Houston grappling with decade of deficit spending”.
Here is the headline in the hard copy of today’s Chron: “Task force: No more maneuvers on deficit”.
15 teams (A’s, Angels, Brewers, Cubbies, D-Backs, Dodgers, Giants, Indians, Mariners, Padres, Rangers, Reds, Rockies, Royals, and White Sox) play in the Cactus League and 15 teams (‘Stros, Blue Jays, The ATL, San Luis, Fish, Mets, Nationals, B’More, Phillies, Pirates, Rays, Red Sox, Tigers, Twins, and Yankees) of course play in the Grapefruit League.
The new owner showed up at the first day of Spring Training.
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