I wish the tea party organizations would run a “pre-primary” primary, and settle on one tea party endorsed candidate and try to get all the money shuttled to that candidate, so one would have a hope of winning over an entrenched, non conservative, non-tea party opponent.
With 5 or 6 relative unknowns (who all might be very good), the smaller amount of money available to fight the GOP establishment then gets split even further - not a good situation.
It also bothers me that Duane Stovall and Steve Stockman, probably the most favored candidates on FR, and the most constitutional conservative choices, didn’t bother to answer a lot of questionarres from conservative organizations. I don’t understand why, unless someone on their campaign team was trying to undermine them. Those voter guides and questionarres are where a lot of us get our info on people that are in other election districts - like Stockman or Stovall.
Here is some info on Texas Tea Party endorsements. Even this type info gets
little media play outside of local areas I’d guess.
http://gallery.mailchimp.com/062ab4923216b9035cc94cc4e/files/Contested_Races_R5.pdf
Texas Tea Party Groups
http://www.teaparty911.com/info/locations/texas.htm