Posted on 02/10/2014 6:56:45 AM PST by jimbo123
Dwayne Stovall, a Republican primary candidate for Senate, will drive across Texas to tell you he’s more conservative than Sen. John Cornyn and tighter with the tea party than Rep. Steve Stockman.
A former oilfield worker and business owner from Cleveland, Texas, Stovall is one of seven primary challengers for Cornyn’s seat. With just a few weeks until the March 4 primary, he’s crisscrossing the state and reaching out online, having some success raising funds and gaining supporters.
While the outspoken Stockman has claimed the title of the tea party candidate, some tea party groups are going with Stovall, who is much more actively campaigning than the congressman. On Feb. 6, Grassroots America-We the People, a statewide tea party group based in Tyler, endorsed Stovall.
The group’s executive director, JoAnn Fleming, said Stovall’s constitutional conservative values and opposition to things like Obamacare align perfectly with the group.
“As far as we’re concerned, he’s the only viable candidate in the race,” Fleming said. She said the group didn’t even consider Stockman, citing questions about his campaign finances and tendency to pull provocative stunts.
Some local groups are also enthusiastic about Stovall. Ray Myers, chairman of the Kaufman County Tea Party, says his group has also endorsed Stovall.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
The primary’s only 8 weeks long..less than a month to go..I don’t thing Cornyn’s $$ matters that much...it’s a referendum on HIS record..I don’t know if they can hold him to under 50% and force a run-off..but if he barely gets by the primary, you can bet that it’s gonna excite and motivate a lot of people in Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, and S.Carolina..and make those incumbents sweat..
ABC
(Anyone BUT Cornyn)
Stovall will do just fine.
ABC, is right.
Stovall, Stockman....EITHER will do, against Cornpone.
Momentum is needed, NOW!
Here we go again. Two conservatives in Stovall and Stockman end up taking votes from each other and Cornyn sails again to another GOP nomination for senate. Are we going to have to deal with this kind of a scenario again in 2016 during the presidential race? We can’t keep splitting conservative votes because all it does is give us a RINO candidate for office, and I’m getting tired of this lesser of two evils nonsense every time I get into a voting booth.
Sadly though people in TX won’t vote for unknown names; they like the familiar face that they can recognize.
Three weeks from tomorrow, we can begin to topple the establishment dominoes by forcing John Cornyn, the senate minority whip!, into a runoff.
Then:
KY primary, 5/20/14
TX runoff, 5/27/14
MS primary, 6/3/14
SC primary, 6/10/14
SC runoff, 6/24/14
KS primary, 8/5/14
TN primary, 8/7/14
Possible outcome:
Cornball: 65 percent
Stockman: 11 percent
Stovall: 8 percent
Others and undecided: 16 percent
It's going to take Stovall, Stockman, Vega, and all of the others running to keep Cornyn under 50% and force him into a run-off. Cornyn loses if he goes to a run-off election.
That's exactly how Cruz beat Dewhurst.
/johnny
/johnny
Yes, good points, but not every state has that kind of a runoff system for the primaries. Look at the country as a whole and not just what’s happening in Texas.
/johnny
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Texas in person early voting:
Feb. 18 - Feb. 28, 2014
Cornyn can have a majority. But if he doesn't get 50%, he is forced into a run-off with #2.
There are 8 candidates and a lot of anti-Cornyn sentiment in the conservative groups. In a non-presidential election year primary, the politically informed groups are a higher percentage of voters. I suspect Cornyn won't get 50%. Run-off elections tend to have and even higher percentage of politically informed as the average voter won't bother to show up.
Then in the run-off, Cornyn won't get the opportunity to have the opposition split.
/johnny
/johnny
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