Call to action – Congressional House candidates needed in Texas

Candidate filing in Texas closes in less than a month – 2nd January – and we still don’t have confirmed candidates in a large number of Congressional House districts!

Once again go and take a look at the  

2008 Race Tracker Wiki.

Below the fold for details………….

Texas has 32 Congressional House districts. 13 are held by Democrats who according to the Texas Dems website are all running again as follows: (Note that I have included the Cook PVI scores for each district also.)

TX-09 – D+21,

TX-15 – D+3,

TX-16 – D+9,

TX-17 – R+18,

TX-18 – D+23,

TX-20 – D+8,

TX-22 – R+15,

TX-23 – R+4,

TX-25 – D+1,

TX-27 – R+1,

TX-28 – R+1,

TX-29 – D+8,

TX-30 – D+26,

That leaves 19 Republican held districts.

Again according to the Texas Dems website there are challengers in 4 of those 19 districts:

TX-04 – R+17,

TX-10 – R+13,

TX-26 – R+12,

TX-31 – R+15,

These four districts thus have candidates that have officially filed. That leaves 15.

Five further districts have confirmed candidates that are yet to file officially:

TX-03 – R+17,

TX-07 – R+16,

TX-08 – R+20,

TX-13 – R+18,

TX-32 – R+11,

That leaves ten districts with no confirmed candidate – yep more than half of the GOP held districts have no Democratic candidate at this point!

And here they are:

TX-01 – R+17,

Not a peep of a candidate here!

TX-02 – R+12,

Conrad Allen announced that he was forming an exploratory committee, set up a campaign website (now defunct) and disappeared off the face of the earth.

TX-05 – R+16,

Not a peep of a candidate here!

TX-06 – R+15,

Not a peep of a candidate here!

(our 2006 candidate is definitely not running either.)

TX-11 – R+25,

After Brad Vincent withdrew earlier this year Floyd Crider has apparently been collecting petition signatures but has yet to file with the TDP or the FEC and does not yet have a campaign website. Any further news on him?

* This is one of ten districts we did not contest in 2006!*

TX-12 – R+14,

Not a peep of a candidate here!

TX-14 – R+14,

We had a candidate then he switched parties!

(2006 candidate is out.)

TX-19 – R+25,

Not a peep of a candidate here!

TX-21 – R+13,

Not a peep of a candidate here!

TX-24 – R+15,

According to a comment at Daily Kos a real estate agent Bill Eden has filed. He hasn’t yet filed with the TDP or the FEC.

Less than a month to go and we need 10 candidates – do you know anyone that could run?