Hall was challenged? We probably would have been well served with some fresh blood.
Lampson is at it again? When will he get the message?
Also of note I believe Hispanic rats hoped to beat Lloyd Dogget but he won easily.
The only two GOP-held CDs in TX that I think the Dems have a shot at picking up are Quico Canseco’s TX-23 (which was made a bit more Republican, but not much) and the TX-14 that Ron Paul vacated and where Lampson is running. It now includes Jefferson County (Beaumont) and the GOP vote is like 10% lower than the old TX-14; it’s more akin to the CD that Lampson represented from 1997-2005 than to any of the districts represented by Ron Paul. The GOP should be favored, but it’s by no means a slam dunk, and Lampson is probably the strongest possible candidate the Dems could have run. Hopefully we’ll beat Lampson and get rid of him once and for all, but a Lampson victory isn’t out of the question.
(BTW, had black parts of Jefferson County been added to one of the two black-plurality CDs in the Houston area, the Dems wouldn’t even be contesting any of the white Anglo CDs in the region. GOP redistricters also could have drawn two GOP-leaning 60%-Hispanic CDs in the Houston area, but they decided to stick with a 70%-Hispanic CD for Gene Green and with heavy Hispanic populations in the two black-plurality districts. Missed opportunities abound in TX redistricting.)