Texas Senate Race Update for October 28, 2011

A roundup of Texas Senate Race news, some of which I would have reported sooner if my week hadn’t been so packed…

  • Rep. Mike McCaul passes on the race. Big news, and I think the Ted Cruz campaign is heaving a sigh of relief at not having someone as rich as David Dewhurst (but demonstrably more conservative than the Lt. Governor) in the race.
  • Here’s the audio for Ted Cruz’s appearance on the Mark Levin show.
  • He also appeared on KBTV Beaumont:

  • As well as KSKY in Dallas.
  • He also visited Lubbock.
  • David Dewhurst follows Cruz’s lead in calling for an investigation of Fast and Furious:

  • Ricardo Sanchez appears on WFAA in Dallas/Ft. Worth:

    Standard democratic talking points, well-spoken, but delivered in the tone of a slightly bored high school algebra teacher. Gravitas he’s got, but if this is the best he can do charisma wise, I don’t think any of the likely (or even unlikely) Republican candidates have anything to worry about. That accomplished, Sanchez seems to have gone back in hibernation for the rest of the week.

  • Just for the record, I asked the Sanchez campaign why they scrubbed mention of tax cuts from their website…and have received no reply.
  • Robert T. Garrett of the The Dallas Morning News offers up a hard-hitting expose that absolutely nails Cruz…on not doing reporter’s homework for them. The upshot is that Cruz’s father was tortured by and fled the Batista regime rather than Castro’s communist regime. Did Cruz tell his story in a way that led people to believe that his father fled Castro? Yeah, he did. And that’s worth reporting. I can see doing at least a paragraph on that as part of a general article on Cruz. But it doesn’t explain why Garrett felt the need to expend 769 words explaining not that Cruz lied, but that he told an easily misinterpreted truth. Given that he hasn’t lied about anything, and has told the precise story forthrightly upon being questioned about it, it’s hard for me to work up any indignation about people misconstruing one part of a candidate’s father’s history.
  • Garrett seems to suddenly be paying a great deal of attention to Cruz as of late. Here’s his piece of Cruz denouncing the Council on Foreign Relations, even though his wife used to be a member (which, in turn, relies on this Politico piece and this Roll Call piece). Maybe he just noticed Cruz was in the race…
  • Report on the Clear Lake Tea Party rally attended by Herman Cain, Lela Pittenger, and Glenn Addison.
  • Sean Hubbard breaks the $10,000 barrier. That’s actually more active than I expected him to be. (And better than Lela Pittenger.)
  • Curt Cleaver raised $3,208, which is respectable for a longshot, especially considering his late start. (Psst, Curt, handy campaign tip: It actually costs you nothing to update your Facebook and Twitter pages more than once a month…)
  • Andrew Castanuela has raised $1,503. Coming up the rear is Beetlebaum Stanley Garza with $200…of which he’s spent $199. Got to save up for that big ad blitz…

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