Election Campaigns

Desperate Election Day Tactics: Mary Ann Perez's Campaign Sends Dumb Letter

You know a political candidate is pretty desperate when their campaign releases an "open letter" to their rival on election day, accusing them of stealing campaign signs, without any proof. And that's just what the campaign for state district 144 candidate Mary Ann Perez did today. The letter accu ... More >>

The Tea Party Democrat

Party leaders want to throw out District Attorney candidate Lloyd Oliver and the donkey he rode in on.

Pop Rocks: Alternative Songs for the 2012 Candidates

Please god, no.​Poor Michele Bachmann, first the John Wayne/John Wayne Gacy thing, now Tom Petty's piling on as well: The inaugural music-related strike of the 2012 presidential race comes from Tom Petty, who issued a cease and desist letter to Michele Bachmann's campaign to get her to stop ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Songs In The Key Of [Presidential] Fail

Please god, no.​Poor Michele Bachmann, first the John Wayne/John Wayne Gacy thing, now Tom Petty's piling on as well: The inaugural music-related strike of the 2012 presidential race comes from Tom Petty, who issued a cease and desist letter to Michele Bachmann's campaign to get her to stop ... More >>

The Other Winners And Losers Of The 2009 Election

​Every election cycle, there are winners and there are losers. 2009 is no different. Here is a list of winners and losers and brief reason why.WinnersGarnet Coleman -- He was one of the few African-Americans that supported Annise Parker when she began her career. He stuck out his neck once again, ... More >>

Why Annise Parker Won And Gene Locke Lost

Photo by Daniel Kramer​The path to victory for Annise Parker looked easy and if you run a well-oiled machine, that is exactly how it should be. Bottom line, Gene Locke did not win because he lacked the campaign experience that Parker had learned over the last ten years.Locke had the support ... More >>

The Tug of War

Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison are locked in a pitched battle over the soul of the GOP. They are also running for governor.

Local Mayoral Campaigns Use Social Media, and Apparently That's News

​If you don't have eyes, ears, or a television set with that nonsensical converter box, you may not be aware that today kicks off early voting for stuff that's pretty crucial to the Houston political agenda. Not only can you stick your ballot in the box for City Council, City Controller, comm ... More >>

Adrian Garcia's Campaign Manager Wants To Move Up

Barack Obama and Me

It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator

Chris Bell Is In Your Extended Network (?)

Displaced in the Diaspora

New Orleans mayoral candidates are looking for votes -- and finding them in Houston

Sweet Charity

For years Tom DeLay has used nonprofits to help himself. Now the heat is on.

Election Ennui

Why the mayor's race hasn't caught fire

A Little Jump to the Right

Can a ballot triple shift win City Hall for the GOP?

Running Mates

Michael and Nandy Berry are world-class charmers. But what's really behind those two smiles?

Mayoral Field of Dreams

If you pay them, they will come

Dream Team or Bad Dream?

Democrats sift pre-election portents for the answer

All I Want for Christmas Is...

Some pols count blessings; others keep on running

The Two Faces of Womack

Is his campaign currying gays in Montrose, then bashing them in black areas?

Smackdown at City Hall

Candidates clash in a castaway district, exes attack, and Bell wringers rumble for a final round with Brown. Voters, pick your fight.

Running on Empty

Local political campaigns struggle to get news coverage

An Early War Casualty?

Mayoral challengers find money, attention and time dwindling

GOP Jitters

While a party chair guards his rear, Vision America makes judges nervous

Campaign Finance Laws, What Are They Good For?

Absolutely nothing! Yarbrough proves it again.

GOP Inc.

How "Scary" Gary Polland turned his party apparatus into a political slot machine

Have Gavel Will Travel

Campaign cash carries a retired judge around the world

District 25's Rudy Giuliani

Sudan campaigns for Congress amid connubial carnage

This Bud's for John

John McCain's family

Uploading

If her capers as comptroller don't catch her, Carole Rylander is ready to ride the Internet to greater political fame

The Insider

Rolling the Credits on Council's "B" Movie: The dynamic duo of Yarbrough, Johnson leave a legacy of campaign high jinks

Strong Convictions

Hard-line leaders such as loopy Stephen Mansfield have taken their agenda to the Court of Criminal Appeals, where legal precedents--not prosecutions--get overturned

The Deal Busters

GOP chair's super slush fund helps sink arena deal

Ross Tossed

Perot inspired his legions to throw the hypocritical rascals out of politics. He just never thought he'd get the boot, too

The Man Who Would Be Kingmaker

Karl Rove has masterminded all of Bush's political victories. Now he faces his toughest challenge: convincing you that the presidential front-runner owns his own soul.

Contributing Factors

Debra Danburg swears she'll defend your right to open government. But when it comes to Internet campaign finance reports, ignorance is bliss.

The Wooden Indian Ticket?

A Gore vote in 2000 could send Brown back to D.C.

Lost in theYarbrough Triangle: $10,000

Easygoing George W. Bush

With help from Democrats Pete Laney and Bob Bullock, Bush has been a Republican governor Texans love. But who'll be his pals if he sets his sights on the presidency?

The Insider

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Situational Ethics

As Jew Don Boney has moved upward in public life, have his values changed to meet his needs rather than those of his constituents?

The Insider

Show 'Em Your Money!

The Insider

The Insider

He Spanked an American Hero

And it's not every candidate for Congress who can say that

Turkeys (and Other Creatures) On the Ballot

Quick! It's almost Election Day!! Do you know who your candidates are? Check this guide to the mother of all ballots!

Son of Lindsay ... Son of Driscoll

Robert Eckels and Vince Ryan fight the battles of the past as they fight each other for county judge

Vince Ryan's Distress

His campaign manager's gone, his headquarters got smoked, but domestic bliss awaits