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Thanks as always, Michelle, for great reporting and analysis. Democrats have good ideas for Texas, but I boils down to candidates and voters and turnout, and you keep up so well-informed.

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How do we get potential voters to realize how important voting is? That's the thirty-million-dollar question.

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R loon wins School Board primary.............hard to tell if he's nuttier than that who he replaced.

Here are his deep thoughts

from ST: "While not opposed to school choice, Hardy took a stance against using public money to pay for private schools. “Should someone wish to start a school of Satan, and they will, I do not want my tax dollars to pay for that education choice,” =

Satanists may save Texas schools....whoda thunk!

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i can't summarize other than to say TC knew wait times at polls and told no one

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/article286342440.html

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it does a whole lot of collating and mergering of voter data and other useful tasks. its a for profit enterprise owned by some former staffers and aids....basically they take the info that campaigns generate using donor money , put a price tag on it, and resell it.......a sweet racket

but fundametally it can provide emails of voters and contributors for newbie candidates who don't have that.

Hence Trey is complaining pre-emptively that Hinjosa won't do as promised...provide access to VAN , which means pay for it, which Hinojoas said he would do............

maybe one day Texas Dems will get so tired of losing they will throw all the grifting losers into the Trinity but right now its a money maker for alot of insiders

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julie thanked me, colin did too..by email

trey , a FB post was all i got...........

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MD ...u gonna love this....................in his press release Hunt chastizes Hinjosa for failing to fulfill a promise .to provide VAN to candidates. WTF?...is that issue still unresolved?

then he goes into pablum, thanks everybody AND THEN MENTIONS he was absent from the Primary for health reasons.....again WTF? u couldn't mention that on ur meager SM platform....i thought you a crummy campaigner...........turns out u are dumb and a crummy campaigner. this guy thinks he owes CD 12 voters nothing....i can assure u Trey they are gonna respond.

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Omg, I haven't heard that. I'll have to ask the candidates I know.

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I know these cause i read Hunt's press release.........i am guessing i am the only person in christendom who read that thing...............his SM must be managed by his accountant......its doesn't exactly scream: "I WON LET"S GO GET THE BASTARDS"

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is “VAN” that voter file thingamajig??

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the R Goldman-Shea runnoff at least gives Hunt a little alone time...to do....somethign

currently he sound likes he's additioning for Parks and Recs...a shows that is less dead than Hunt's campaign..........I said UKRAINE UKRAINE UKRAINE ABORTION.......... he said inside basball crap .............solid point but won't inspire one more vote

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