The deadline to file to run for office in Texas has passed, and Libertarians have filed for all statewide, U.S. House, and State Senate races.
Of note: for U.S. Senate it appears two candidates filed, Jon Roland who we reported on earlier, and someone named Tanuja Paruchuri. Here is her personal Twitter page: https://twitter.com/tanujap
For Governor, 6 Libertarians filed, including Kathie Glass & Lee Wrights.
For U.S. House, it appears a number of Libertarians will run in two-way races. Among them:
District 3: Libertarian Cecil Ince will face a Republican.
District 4: Libertarian J.P. Raley will face a Republican.
District 5: Libertarian Ken Ashby will face Republican incumbent Jeb Hensarling
District 8: Libertarian Russ Jones will face a Republican
District 9: Libertarian Johnny Johnson will face Democratic incumbent Al Green
District 11: Libertarian Ryn Lange will face a Republican
District 16: Libertarian Jaime Perez will face Democratic incumbent Beto O’Rourke
District 20: Libertarian Mike Idrogo will face Democratic incumbent Joaquin Castro
District 26: Libertarian Mark Boler will face a Republican
District 28: Libertarian Will Aikens will face Democratic incumbent Henry Cuellar
District 29: Libertarian James Stanczak will face Democratic incumbent Gene Green
District 30: Libertarian Max Koch will face a Democrat
District 33: Libertarian Jason Reeves will face a Democrat
Also of note, in District 21 no Democrat filed, but 3 Republican, 3 Libertarians, and Independent Philip Tottenham filed.
My source: The Green Papers
I’ve filed to run against GOP candidates Pete Sessions, Katrina Pierson and Democrat Frank Perez.
Texas sets a high bar for the rest of the states. When our party has ballot access, we should have a Libertarian running in every race.
Great to see Kathy Glass running again. She is a well spoken and affable attorney who always makes a strong candidate.
Good to see candidates running. Let’s hope they all run active campaigns.