[fieldmarshaldj]

This just reported today on Politics1:

TX CD-36: Due to Cong Steve Stockman (R) last min entry into US Sen race, per state law, the CD-36 filing period is extended until Dec 16.

So serious candidates have 5 days additional to file, presumable this will give State Rep. James White his entrée.

[deport]

presumable this will give State Rep. James White his entrée.

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If he does enter then that leaves HD19 without a candidate in either GOP or Dem primary.
Not sure what the State law is regarding that situation, Gov. appt or special election?

[Viennacon]

Hope he runs. I’ve heard a lot of good things about him. Props to lawmakers for doing the right thing and extending the deadline.

[AuH2ORepublican]

“This just reported today on Politics1:

TX CD-36: Due to Cong Steve Stockman (R) last min entry into US Sen race, per state law, the CD-36 filing period is extended until Dec 16.”

Great news! Hopefully either state Representative James White (whose district lies entirely within the TX-36, and who already represents around 25% of the TX-36’s voters) or some other first-tier candidate with a proven conservative record will enter the race.

If White runs, I think he’ll win, and he’ll be giving the liberal media conniptions every time he gives a speech from the House floor or appears on TV. Hopefully he won’t be the only black conservative Republican in the House: at the very least Mayor Mia Love of UT-04 should win, and other possibilities are Katrina Pierson in TX-32 (if she succeeds in her longshot bid to defeat Pete Sessions in the primary, she’s a shoo-in in the general), Erika Harold in IL-13 (I’d set her odds of winning the primary at 25%, and of winning the general at 85%), and maybe a few of others.

[Theodore R.]

I have never heard of extending a filing deadline like this, dj; is it legal to do so? LA would not extend the Democratic filing period when Allen Ellender died while campaigning for a sixth term in 1972. But that deadline had passed some weeks before.

[Impy]

Excellent.

http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/14508/texas-gop-forced-to-extend-filing-deadline-to-replace-steve-stockman-in-cd36

This article which is apprently from a hostile liberal site says this Section 172.054 of the Texas Election Code required this action.

Sec. 172.054. EXTENDED FILING DEADLINE. (a) The deadline for filing an application for a place on the general primary election ballot is extended as provided by this section if a candidate who has made an application that complies with the applicable requirements:

(2) holds the office for which the application was made and withdraws or is declared ineligible on or after the date of the regular filing deadline and on or before the 79th day before general primary election day; or...

(c) An extension of the filing deadline under this section applies only to the primary election of the political party for which the withdrawn, deceased, or ineligible candidate applied for a place on the ballot.

The article seems to imply that GOP wouldn’t have wanted to extend the deadline, I can’t imagine why. I assume they are just engaging in Republican bashing.

[Pilsner]

the CD-36 filing period is extended until Dec 16.
So serious candidates have 5 days additional to file, presumable this will give State Rep. James White his entrée.

I think it is too late for him to withdraw.

I did not know of this provision of the Texas Election Code.