This headline and first paragraph are short by a couple of candidates.
Judge Lina Hidalgo
A dozen potential challengers to Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo were among the scores who filed ahead of Monday’s deadline to run for county offices next year.
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Hidalgo, who is seeking a second term, faces three candidates in the Democratic primary: former Precinct 1 Constable’s Office Chief of Staff Erica Davis, real estate broker AR Hassan and photographer Georgia Provost.
Nine Republicans are vying for their party’s nomination, including attorney Vidal Martinez, former Army Capt. Alexandra del Moral Mealer, Humble Independent School District board president Martina Lemond Dixon and Randy Kubosh, brother of Houston Councilman Michael Kubosh. The others are Oscar Gonzales, George Zoes, Robert Dorris, Warren Howell and HQ Bolanos.
There are five Democrats running against Judge Hidalgo, not three. Joining Erica Davis on the last-day-to-file train were Kevin Howard and Maria Garcia; I know nothing about either of them. The photos in that Facebook post, plus the 2022 candidate filings album, are the main source that I have for figuring out where the SOS qualified candidates webpage falls short. Chron reporter Zach Despart must have gotten his info from there before the late-filers were included.
There are still some oddities and seeming exclusions on the SOS page as well. I know I saw a Democratic candidate for CD22 on there on Monday, but as of Tuesday there’s no listing. There’s still no one listed for HD22, the seat being vacated by longtime Rep. Joe Deshotel, but local news in Beaumont lists three candidates, one of whom (Joseph Trahan) is the Jefferson County Democratic Party Chair. Jonathan Cocks had been listed for well over a week as a candidate for SBOE8 but is now showing as a candidate for SD08, which makes sense because his address is in the Metroplex city of Allen, and because the Svitek spreadsheet had him going there after pulling out of the Land Commissioner race. Svitek lists two of the three HD22 candidates as the news story, and has the CD22 candidate (Jamie Jordan) as well.
Some other bits of interest:
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Pérez tells me: “I have checked off all of my goals by 2022 and I firmly believe in passing the torch to the next, most talented individual to represent our district, and I believe Dr. Melissa N. Ortega is that individual.”— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) 11:43 AM – 14 December 2021
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A couple notable holes in GOP recruitment for South Texas right now, w/ two hours to go: No challenger against state Rep. Tracy King, D-Batesville, and no #RGV-based candidate for @SenatorLucio’s open seat #HD80 #SD27 #txlege— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) 4:03 PM – 13 December 2021
HD80 was carried by Trump by four points in 2020, so yeah, that’s a big miss for the GOP.
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Former U.S. Rep. John Bryant is a Democratic candidate to replace the retiring @TurnerForTX in the Texas House. He once served in the Legislature.— Gromer Jeffers (@gromerjeffers) 9:57 PM – 13 December 2021
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Former U.S. Rep. John Bryant is a Democratic candidate to replace the retiring @TurnerForTX in the Texas House. He once served in the Legislature.— Gromer Jeffers (@gromerjeffers) 9:57 PM – 13 December 2021
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He told me that the political extremism brought about by Donald Trump is now in Texas and that he wants to “get off the sidelines and get back in the fight.”— Gromer Jeffers (@gromerjeffers) 10:06 PM – 13 December 2021
Bryant represented th