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Trib: Cruz blows deadline on personal disclosure, to pay fine
comments ()Ted Cruz before the June 22 U.S. Senate runoff debate at KERA's studio in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero) Senate Republican runoff finalist Ted Cruz missed a … [visit site to read more]
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Dewhurst’s state office purges old speeches from website, including his 2007...
comments ()Senate GOP runoff finalist David Dewhurst answers questions from the news media after he spoke at the American Eurocopter in Grand Prairie on June 2012 (David Woo/Staff Photographer)visit...
View ArticlePro-Cruz Club for Growth airs TV ad bashing Dewhurst
comments () The Club is back. Fiscal conservative super PAC the Club for Growth Action fund has returned to the Texas Senate race, where it supports former state Solicitor General Ted Cruz. The group...
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Cruz as private lawyer represents Pennsylvania jail developer who’s pleaded...
comments ()Senate Republican finalist Ted Cruz answers reporters' questions on the night of the May 29 primary, when he finished second behind Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Nick...
View ArticleDewhurst spot: Cruz would “fit right in” with troubled D.C.
comments () Well, that didn’t take long. Last Tuesday, news broke that Senate GOP hopeful Ted Cruz missed a May 15 deadline for filing his required personal financial disclosure. He paid a $200 late...
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UPDATED: Cruz slightly edges Dewhurst in fundraising from others in latest...
comments ()Senate rivals Ted Cruz, left, and David Dewhurst, right, share a lighter moment after their debate at Dallas' KERA TV on June 22. (LM Otero/AP Photo) Ted … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleVideo of ‘Tex’ Dewhurst on D.C. dollar hunt last week
comments () Here’s a video by republicreport.org, which touts itself as “investigating how money corrupts democracy.” It’s a jerky, handheld-camera video of our lieutenant governor, David Dewhurst,...
View ArticleDewhurst web ad viscerally casts Cruz as callous lawyer
comments () There’s the carousel with no children. The creaking, empty swingset. Then the helicopter shots of the massive, privatized juvenile-detention center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. And finally the...
View ArticleCruz, bracing for a hit over Pennsylvania scandal, airs radio ad slamming...
comments () The Ted Cruz for Senate campaign, which maintains it’s taking the high road and sticking to issues while rival David Dewhurst has gotten personal and nasty, released a 60-second radio ad on...
View ArticleAd by pro-Dewhurst super PAC questions Cruz’s legal work for figure in...
comments () A pro-David Dewhurst super PAC says Texas Senate hopeful Ted Cruz is a “phony” who has a pattern of taking on questionable clients in his private legal practice. Cruz “has no principles”...
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Doctors’ group scolds Cruz for saying ER care cheaper than adding uninsured...
comments ()Ted Cruz makes a point to David Dewhurst in Tuesday's Belo Senate Debate. (Tom Fox/Staff Photographer) The doctors’ lobby in Texas has rebuked Republican Senate hopeful Ted Cruz for...
View ArticleUPDATED: Dewhurst airs radio ad on ‘short fuse Cruz’
comments () Updated, 3:55 p.m.: Cruz spokesman James Bernsen responded to the Dewhurst ad. “Once again, David Dewhurst is trying to distract the voters from his own record of supporting a payroll tax...
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Cruz raises more than a half-million in 11 days — more than three times as...
comments ()Senate GOP runoff finalist Ted Cruz makes an appearance in Amarillo on Thursday. (AP/Amarillo Globe News/Michael Norris) Republican firebrand Ted Cruz raised nearly $523,000 for … [visit...
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Nolan Ryan endorses Dewhurst for Senate
comments ()Texas Rangers president Nolan Ryan, shown at a June ballgame in Arlington, endorsed Senate hopeful David Dewhurst on Friday. Ryan said Dewhurst deserves some of the credit for the state's...
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Perry defends Dewhurst as ‘solid conservative,’ blasts Cruz-backing super PAC...
comments ()Gov. Rick Perry, left, and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst hug during their January 2011 inaugural ceremonies at the Texas Capitol. Perry has strongly supported Dewhurst's 2012 bid for U.S. Senate....
View ArticleWas Dewhurst ‘caught’? Is Cruz ‘tearing Texas conservatives down’? Flurry of...
comments ()With eight days to go, the Senate GOP runoff battle reached a new level of broadcast-advertising frenzy on Monday. Ted Cruz, recoiling from David Dewhurst’s attacks on the clients of his...
View ArticleIn debate’s aftermath, Dewhurst explains immigration stand, releases web...
comments ()Senate candidate David Dewhurst appeared Tuesday morning on the same Fox TV affiliate in Houston that helped organize and broadcast his debate with Ted Cruz the night before. And it was...
View ArticleDewhurst airs final ‘contrast’ ad, catches bouquet from columnist Will;...
comments () This ad by Senate GOP runoff hopeful David Dewhurst, which began airing Wednesday, packs a lot into a visually very clean attempt by the lieutenant governor to summarize his race with...
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Palin, DeMint to attend Cruz rally; DeMint PAC airs ad
comments ()Former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, seen here speaking to a Michigan tea party rally earlier this month, will attend a get out the vote event for Texas Senate hopeful Ted...
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It’s early but first two days’ turnout in top 10 counties suggests voter...
comments ()Texas Secretary of State Hope Andrade Two days of early voting for Tuesday’s GOP runoff election in urban counties of Texas … [visit site to read more]
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Combs endorses Dewhurst, credits him with state’s strong bond ratings; Dan...
comments ()Texas Comptroller Susan Combs, shown at a November 2010 political event, endorsed fellow Republican David Dewhurst for U.S. Senate on Thursday. (Courtney Perry/Staff Photographer)visit site...
View ArticleCruz mailer depicts Pennsylvania jail builder as helpmate to prosecutors;...
comments ()Robert K. Mericle, a private prison builder and key figure in a judicial corruption scandal in Pennsylvania, hired Texas Senate candidate Ted Cruz to appeal a federal district court's...
View ArticleVeterans for Dewhurst pour scorn on ‘career pol’ Cruz
comments ()Ret. Navy Cmdr. Jake Ellzey of Midlothian, center, speaks at a Veterans for Dewhurst press conference in The Woodlands late Friday, about a block away from a local park where hundreds were...
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Palin: ‘Fighters like Ted Cruz can lead the charge for us’
comments ()Sarah Palin fired up supporters of Senate candidate Ted Cruz at a rally Friday evening in The Woodlands, north of Houston. (Robert T. Garrett/DMN)visit site to read more]
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From own cash, for end-game: Dewhurst, $8M; Cruz, $250K
comments ()Senate rivals Ted Cruz, left, and David Dewhurst, right, share a lighter moment after their debate at Dallas' KERA TV on June 22. Each has dug into his own pocket in the past two weeks to...
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Police lobbyist, a Dewhurst backer, chides Cruz for mailer’s claim that...
comments ()Police lobbyist Charlie Wilkison says Senate hopeful Ted Cruz should repudiate his campaign's recent mailer that says Cruz law client Robert Mericle helped federal prosecutors put corrupt...
View ArticleCruz video: ‘Dewhurst in B minor’ (guest conductor spoof)
comments ()Josh Perry, digital director for the Ted Cruz Senate campaign, may not have the Dewhurst ad budget, which is pretty awesome to even casual viewers of Saturday’s Olympics coverage on NBC. I...
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Dewhurst disses robo poll, chomps on a Chick-fil-A
comments ()Senate hopeful David Dewhurst talks to reporters in Austin on the eve of the GOP runoff. Dewhurst holds a bag with a Chik-fil-A chicken sandwich. The fast food chain is at the center of...
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Who’s drunk most tea? Who’s doing the Rick Perry?
comments ()Ted Cruz speaks at Mesquite/Sunnyvale Tea Party meeting at LaPrada Drive Church of Christ in Mesquite on June 19, just as his Senate runoff battle with Dewhurst was heating up. (Kye R. Lee...
View ArticleUPDATED: Dewhurst spokesman denies Cruz camp’s suggestion it’s launched...
comments ()Updated, 4 p.m.: David Dewhurst spokesman Matt Hirsch on Tuesday afternoon flatly denied the Cruz camp’s suggestion of dirty tricks. There were no misdirection calls authorized by or...
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Cruz pollster claims ‘upward movement’ while Dewhurst camp scoffs at his...
comments () Ted Cruz, center, greets supporters at a precinct in Houston Tuesday (Pat Sullivan/AP) Chris … [visit site to read more]
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While Dewhurst tells Fox News he’s ahead, Cruz email blast says ‘this could...
comments ()David Dewhurst speaks to reporters outside a deli in Houston Tuesday. (Michael Stravato/The New York Times) Senate finalist David Dewhurst told Fox News late Tuesday afternoon … [visit site...
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Up to wire, Cruz, Dewhurst kept writing themselves checks
comments ()Ted Cruz, left, and David Dewhurst shown after their televised debate at KERA-TV in Dallas on June 22. (LM Otero/AP) Six days before the runoff, Ted Cruz … [visit site to read more]
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Dewhurst: ‘If I run another race, I’ll do it differently’
comments ()Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst plunged again into state business on Friday, telling reporters, “I’m back.” Dewhurst, still smarting from his defeat by Ted Cruz in Tuesday’s GOP U.S. Senate runoff,...
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Dewhurst spent ‘a little less than’ $20 million of personal funds on losing...
comments ()David Dewhurst spoke to reporters in Houston on Tuesday about the GOP runoff for U.S. Senate. He said Friday that he sank a net contribution of 'a little less than' $20 million of personal...
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Dewhurst, Cruz top group’s list of super PAC beneficiaries
comments ()Eventual GOP Senate nominee Ted Cruz, left, and runoff foe David Dewhurst, shown after their June 22 KERA-TV debate in Dallas. (LM Otero/AP) Texas Senate … [visit site to read more]
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