Texas candidates for senator interview for the job
Big Jolly
Conservative politics in Texas with David Jennings

The Clear Lake Tea Party and the Alliance of Constitutional Patriots sponsored a candidate forum for candidates seeking the senate seat currently held by Sen. Kay Baily Hutchison last night on the University of Houston-Clear Lake campus. State Rep. John Davis (R-129) paid for the facility rental. The forum was well attended, it started at 6:30 pm and at 7 pm I did a head count, coming up with 257. A staff member for one of the candidates had a count of 217, so maybe I doubled a row? It isn’t the easiest thing to count people in a big auditorium!

Six of the declared candidates on the Republican Party side were in attendance, listed in order of appearance: Ted Cruz, Tom Leppert, Lela Pittenger, Glenn Addison, Andrew Castanuela, and Elizabeth Ames Jones. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has announced his entry into the campaign but declined the invitation to the event, as did each of the declared Democratic Party candidates.

The format was the same as the “Job Interviewâ€