Leticia Van de Putte Will Announce Lt. Governor Campaign on November 23rd

[TexasTowelie]

The slate of Democrats running for statewide office in 2014 is about to gain a very strong new candidate. State Senator Leticia Van de Putte will make known tomorrow that she will announce a run for Lt. Governor on Saturday, November 23rd. Sources close to the Senator told the Houston Chronicle that she will definitely run for the second-highest office in Texas. The Texas political world is abuzz.

Sen. Van de Putte, 58, has represented large parts of San Antonio and Bexar County in the Texas Legislature since 1990 (she was elected to the Senate from the House in 1999). She chairs the Senate Veterans Affairs & Military Installations Committee, has pushed ardently for increased education funding, and has fought ardently against human trafficking in Texas and the suppression of women.

As soon as Wendy Davis began considering a run for governor, Texas progressives have hoped Sen. Van de Putte would join her on the ticket. Now we know that a Governor Davis - Lieutenant Governor Van de Putte administration is possible. And what a possibility that is.

Sen. Van de Putte, who has worked as a pharmacist for 30 years, went to the University of Texas and then earned a Kellogg Fellowship Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Van de Putte lives in San Antonio with her husband, Pete, of 32 years and has six children. The San Antonio Currant (sic) has a superb 2009 profile of her.

More at http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/14365/leticia-van-de-putte-will-announce-lt-governor-campaign-on-november-23rd .

Van de Putte's profile on the SACurrent: http://www2.sacurrent.com/news/story.asp?id=69871

[Tx4obama]

1. More 'stuff' regarding Leticia Van de Putte ...

June 28, 2013 - Our other heroine of the week: Texas Senator Leticia Van de Putte

Article, links, and VIDEO here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1100752

TX State Senator Leticia Van de Putte Also Forced to Sign Affidavit To Vote Under Photo Voter ID Law

http://www.democraticunderground.com/107813138

[TexasTowelie]

2. It looks like the Democrats are going to be fielding a great crop of candidates in 2014.

It should be easy to identify to separate the pragmatists from the ideologues.

[longship]

3. Wendy's iconic filibuster does not succeed without Van de Putte's 10 second parliamentary inquiry.

It brought the house down. The Senate never again regained order to finalize the vote. Your first link is to Van de Putte's short inquiry which shows just what a woman can do in a legislative session.

It is awesome, as were the people in the TX senate gallery who saw that this was do or die. They did not get control until the clock ended the session, too late to pass the bill.

It was a brilliant, but subtle move by the Democratic caucus. And Leticia was there throughout it all. If only we had some like her, and Wendy Davis, here in rural Michigan.