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Christopher Tackett

27 Oct, 11 tweets, 7 min read

Quick cuts on the funds raised from 09/25 - 10/24/20 by Dems for the 17 Texas House races won by Republicans by less than 10 points in 2018:
HD26 - Sarah DeMerchant $450k
HD28 - Eliz Markowitz $179k
HD54 - Keke Williams $429k
HD64 - Angela Brewer $444k
#txlege #Vote

Quick cuts on the funds raised from 09/25 - 10/24/20 by Dems for the 17 Texas House races won by Republicans by less than 10 points in 2018:
HD66 - Sharon Hirsch $470k
HD67 - Lorenzo Sanchez $1.2m
HD92 - Jeff Whitfield $461k
HD93 - Lydia Bean $644k
#txlege #Vote

Quick cuts on the funds raised from 09/25 - 10/24/20 by Dems for the 17 Texas House races won by Republicans by less than 10 points in 2018:
HD94 - Alisa Simmons $451k
HD96 - Joe Drago - $566k
HD97 - Elizabeth Beck $921k
HD108 - Joanna Cattanach $515k
#txlege #Vote

Quick cuts on the funds raised from 09/25 - 10/24/20 by Dems for the 17 Texas House races won by Reps by less than 10 points in 2018:
HD112 - Brandy Chambers $1.0m
HD121 - Celina Montoya $747k
HD126 - Natali Hurtado $532k
HD134 - Ann Johnson $697k
HD138 - Akilah Bacy $779k
#Vote

Let me stress the amounts above aren't campaign totals for the whole enchilada. This is just for 1 month.

Here is Texas House District 67 from 09/25 - 10/24/20

Dem
Lorenzo Sanchez - $1.2m from 28,820 contributors, giving an average of $36

Rep
Jeff Leach - $1.7m from 190 contributors, giving an average of $7,733

#Vote #txlege

A side note before I continue to add to this thread with more comparisons. If you want to access the full dashboard, you can via this link. I had to create a new data table / page as we maxed out the 5,000,000 cells a google sheet will let me use.
datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/…

Here is Texas House District 66 from 09/25 - 10/24/20

Rep
Matt Shaheen - $863k from 85 contributors, giving an average of $9,189

Dem
Sharon Hirsch - $470k from 3,587 contributors, giving an average of $116

#Vote #txlege

Here is Texas House District 26 from 09/25 - 10/24/20

Rep
Jacey Jetton - $1.2m from 123 contributors, giving an average of $6,757

Dem
Sarah DeMerchant - $406k from 216 contributors, giving an average of $1,615

#Vote #txlege

Texas House District 97 from 09/25 - 10/24/20

Rep
Craig Goldman - $1.2m from 310 contributors, giving an average of $3,678

Dem
Elizabeth Beck - $922k from 12,745 contributors, giving an average of $62

#Vote #txlege

Texas House District 92 from 09/25 - 10/24/20

Rep
Jeff Cason - $392k from 51 contributors, giving an average of $7,137 (but it's really just about $300k from Tim Dunn)

Dem
Jeff Whitfield - $462k from 1,781 contributors, giving an average of $205

#Vote #txlege

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Christopher Tackett

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29 Oct

It is amazing to me how candidates for the Texas House on the GOP side of things STILL don't seem to have any meaningful grassroots support flowing into their campaign.

Is there a lot of money coming in? Yeah, but it's coming from the massive donors and PACs, not regular people.

Let's run through an example. Here is Jeff Leach in House District 67. He took in $1,708,915 from 09/25 - 10/24. You would think he must be getting lots of love from "the people". Nope, that all came from 188 donors. 9 of them gave 90+% of his total.

Look closely at the list of donors to Jeff Leach (HD67). 9 of 10 are PACs, + the gov.

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Lots of Texans must want lawsuit reform in order to be able to give that much, right?

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Christian nationalists have taken over the Texas GOP

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medium.com/@cjtackett/the…

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Early 2016 turnout % (46.08%) exceeded yesterday.

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I need the #txed folks listening intently. If you are a public ed advocate, you need to realize where dollars attempting to privatize education are coming from and who is getting them. This election and this next session are going to be battles, and public education is a focus.

We will start with the American Federation for Children. AFC is a national advocacy organization promoting school choice, with a specific focus on advocating for school vouchers and scholarship tax credit programs.
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I track State level campaign finance in Texas. Over the past three years, I've captured pretty much all of it, in every race (right from the TEC site). There is definitely something going on in 17 Texas House districts. #txlege

@sarah_dem26

HD26
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2020- 4 Dem candidates with 489 contributors, raising $367,874 (Sarah Demerchant is the November candidate @sarah_dem26)

@ElizMarkowitz

HD28
2018 - 1 Dem candidate with 103 contributors, raising $18,970

2020 - (special and primary) 1 Dem candidate with 9,907 contributors, raising $1,014,028 (Eliz Markowitz is the November candidate @ElizMarkowitz )

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Christopher Tackett

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Jon Francis and Ted Cruz had a get out the vote event today in Granbury. Purportedly 250-300 people at the event. Based on this picture, not any visible masks and not really any social distancing, all at an indoor event.

@covid19riskUSA

.@covid19riskUSA pegs it at an 89% risk that gatherings of 100 people in Hood County will have at least one person in attendance who is COVID positive (and may not know it). Gathering of 500 is 99% risk. This event is in between. Constituents beware.🤔

Here are a few more pictures from the GOTV event in Granbury yesterday. 250+ people, indoors, no masks.

Ted Cruz were there, trying to help get Farris Wilks son-in-law Jon Francis elected to a Texas House seat.

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