I know that we just finished the primary runoffs, but we’re also now more than halfway through August, so it’s time to start doing interviews with candidates for the fall. I’ll be up candid, I don’t know exactly how many interviews I plan to do. For the most part, I don’t anticipate re-interviewing candidates that I spoke to for the May election – I’m already too far behind even if I did want to do that. I’m mostly going to concentrate on area races, but as always things can and do change, so don’t hold me to that. In the meantime, here’s a list of the interviews I did earlier with candidates who will be on the ballot in November:
Senate: Paul Sadler – Web – MP3
CD07: James Cargas – Web – MP3
CD14: Nick Lampson – Web – MP3
CD20: Joaquin Castro – Web – MP3
CD23: Pete Gallego – Web – MP3
CD27: Rose Meza Harrison – Web – MP3
CD33: Marc Veasey – Web – MP3
SBOE6: Traci Jensen – Web – MP3
SD10: Sen. Wendy Davis – Web – MP3
HD131: Rep. Alma Allen – Web – MP3
HD144: Mary Ann Perez – Web – MP3
HD146: Rep. Borris Miles – Web – MP3
HD147: Rep. Garnet Coleman – Web – MP3
Harris County Sheriff: Sheriff Adrian Garcia – Web – MP3
HCDE Position 3, At Large: Diane Trautman – Web – MP3
HCDE Position 6, Precinct 1: Erica Lee – Web – MP3
Harris County Commissioner, Precinct 4: Sean Hammerle – Web – MP3
Constable, Precinct 1: Alan Rosen – Web – MP3
You may notice if you click on the Web links above that the embedded audio player no longer works. The code comes from Google, and they unfortunately appear to have disabled it. I should have an alternate solution in place going forward, but just clicking on the MP3 file ought to work for you as well. And of course you can always download it for your iPod or whatever.
I am going to try again to reach Beto O’Rourke and Filemon Vela, but you know how that goes. I’ve given up on Rep. Lloyd Doggett; though I did finally make contact with a staffer before the primary, at this point I doubt there’s any interest on his end. There was a contested primary in CD10, but both candidates were late filers. I am trying to reach Tawana Cadien, who won the nomination, but she has no phone number that I can find and she has not as yet responded to an email I sent. If anyone knows how to reach her, please ask her to drop me a note: kuff – at – offthekuff – dot – com.