Here are the Q2 finance reports, here are the Q3 finance reports, and here’s the FEC summary page for Democratic Congressional candidates in Texas. The Trib summarizes some of the highlights.
For many Texas congressional races, Wednesday was the most consequential day yet on the primary calendar.
That was the deadline for U.S. House and Senate campaigns to file finance reports covering the last three months of 2017. Those watching the races closely are sure to pore over the mishmash of donations and expenditures to separate viable candidates from the long shots.
And that weeding out process could be more intense than past years. Of the eight Texans in Congress who are not running for re-election, six waited until the fall to announce their decisions, prompting late scrambles for those open seats.
Over in the U.S. Senate, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was easily outraised by his leading Democratic challenger, U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-El Paso.
Texas is hosting the first statewide primaries of 2018 on March 6. Early voting begins on Feb. 20.
As before, here are links to individual reports of interest, with a table showing the important bits below.
Todd Litton – CD02
Ali Khorasani – CD02
Silky Malik – CD02
J. Darnell Jones – CD02
Adam Bell – CD03
Lori Burch – CD03
Medrick Yhap – CD03
Jana Sanchez – CD06
Ruby Faye Wooldridge – CD06
John Duncan – CD06
Levii Shocklee – CD06
Justin Snider – CD06
Alex Triantaphyllis – CD07
Lizzie Fletcher – CD07
Laura Moser – CD07
Jason Westin – CD07
James Cargas – CD07
Joshua Butler – CD07
Mike Siegel – CD10
Tami Walker – CD10
Richie DeGrow – CD10
Tawana Cadien – CD10
Dori Fenenbock – CD16
Veronica Escobar – CD16
Joseph Kopser – CD21
Derrick Crowe – CD21
Elliott McFadden – CD21
Letitia Plummer – CD22
Sri Kulkarni – CD22
Mark Gibson – CD22
Jay Hulings – CD23
Gina Ortiz Jones – CD23
Judy Canales – CD23
Rick Trevino – CD23
John Biggan – CD24
Jan McDowell – CD24
Todd Allen – CD24
Christopher Perri – CD25
Chetan Panda – CD25
Kathi Thomas – CD25
Julie Oliver – CD25
West Hansen – CD25
MJ Hegar – CD31
Richard Lester – CD31
Christine Mann – CD31
Mike Clark – CD31
Ed Meier – CD32
Colin Allred – CD32
Lillian Salerno – CD32
George Rodriguez – CD32
Brett Shipp – CD32
Dani Pellett – CD32
Dayna Steele – CD36
Jonathan Powell – CD36
Dist Name Raised Spent Loans On Hand
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02 Litton 362,364 77,577 0 284,786
02 Khorasani 12,674 11,849 0 825
02 Malik 14,464 12,803 0 1,660
02 Jones 10,802 160 0 10,642
03 Bell 24,313 23,066 175,000 180,247
03 Burch 66,082 43,993 649 22,994
03 Yhap 1,350 6,384 6,700 1,665
06 Sanchez 137,832 94,452 0 43,379
06 Woolridge 75,121 62,104 17,000 37,139
06 Duncan 21,143 15,377 0 5,765
06 Shocklee 4,721 8,401 3,707 26
06 Snider 11,312 6,891 0 5,605
07 Triantaphyllis 927,023 293,314 0 633,709
07 Fletcher 751,352 319,190 0 437,366
07 Moser 616,643 287,151 0 329,491
07 Westin 389,941 140,286 10,365 249,655
07 Cargas 63,123 57,272 0 12,268
07 Butler 41,474 37,542 0 3,932
10 Siegel 22,731 14,971 5,000 12,760
10 Walker 14,864 18,424 20,000 16,440
10 DeGrow 6,061 5,944 0 117
10 Cadien 500 48 31,243 209
16 Fenenbock 563,853 412,726 300,000 451,126
16 Escobar 619,490 217,886 0 401,604
21 Kopser 678,527 341,189 0 337,337
21 Crowe 120,406 100,067 0 20,339
21 McFadden 70,944 58,107 15,000 30,997
22 Plummer 69,346 51,550 2,350 17,796
22 Kulkarni 41,102 8,598 244 32,504
22 Gibson 5,895 9,034 6,645 4,006
23 Hulings 410,257 128,831 0 281,425
23 Ortiz Jones 316,972 147,508 0 169,463
23 Canales 17,085 20,113 10,000 6,972
23 Trevino 12,337 17,000 3,285 2,776
24 Biggan 41,269 22,113 0 19,156
24 McDowell 19,686 13,955 0 5,849
24 Allen 10,924 8,652 0 2,272
25 Perri 85,637 61,387 16,890 41,279
25 Panda 99,336 79,253 0 16,942
25 Thomas 31,201 27,038 3,082 3,478
25 Oliver 18,796 10,297 3,125 11,624
25 Hansen 5,600 4,472 11,477 9,223
31 Hegar 194,859 114,007 0 80,852
31 Lester 106,682 58,698 100,000 148,149
31 Mann 30,751 26,192 0 4,294
31 Clark 10,926 6,584 6,300 5,423
32 Meier 803,738 303,369 0 500,369
32 Allred 404,660 302,406 44,978 127,638
32 Salerno 312,062 155,035 0 157,026
32 Rodriguez 92,034 68,791 0 23,273
32 Shipp 46,969 29,778 9,000 26,191
32 Pellett 15,976 14,220 0 1,816
36 Steele 155,265 97,258 0 58,006
36 Powell 58,920 37,402 20,000 41,896
Here’s a Trib roundup of reports, which includes Republicans. I only looked at the Dems, and there were a few candidates who didn’t have any to see as of Saturday, so those folks are not represented above. Here are a few thoughts:
– Damn, this is a lot of money being raised. As I observed before, in 2016 there was only one Democratic non-incumbent who raised as much as $100K over the course of the cycle. With nearly a year to go in this cycle, eighteen candidates have topped that mark, with four others above $70K. Republicans are still going to lead the money race in most districts, but there’s no reason why any Democratic candidate must be outclassed.
– There’s about to be a lot of money spent, too. All four of the top raisers in CD07 are or are about to be airing TV ads, and they have been sending mail, too. We’ll see the scope of this in the next report, for which the deadline is March 31, after the primary is over.
– While there’s a lot of money in the Republican primary for CD02 – Kathaleen Wall has given her campaign some $2.7 million – Todd Litton has raised more from actual donors than any of them.
– In my previous update, I noted that Gina Ortiz Jones hadn’t had much time to do any fundraising. She had a pretty good Q4, though that was effectively even with Jay Hulings. She did demonstrate she has the chops, which was what mattered.
– For all the money that has been raised overall, I feel like Dems are not maximizing their potential as yet. We could use more resources in CDs 03, 06, 10, 22, and 24. Sure, most of these races are longer shots, but the point is that if this is a strong year for Dems, the margin between winning and losing in a district like those could be whether or not the challenger has enough resources to put up a real fight. There are going to be a number of people who wake up on March 7 as former candidates and who will still have six figures in the bank. I would strongly encourage these people to redirect some of their campaign cash to the nominees in other districts. Trickling some of it down to the state races would not be a bad idea, either.
– Do you live in one of these districts? If so, have you seen or heard from a campaign? Leave a comment and let me know.
I’m working on similar posts for the other race types. There’s a lot to go through but I’ll get there. John Coby has more.
