Democratic Party faces fiscal woes in TX

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If anyone is looking for a place to send cash, the TX Dem party needs it bad...


he Texas Democratic Party spent $400,000 more than it raised last year and has around $40,000 in the bank, leading party leaders to put a leash on future spending.

"Kind of like living paycheck to paycheck," said Latrice Sellers of Corpus Christi, a member of the finance committee of the State democractic executive comittee.

Party Chairman Charles Soechting of San Marcos told party leaders at a meeting Saturday that upcoming events will swell coffers. He's previously said that a fund-raising specialist will help raise $1.5 million this year for the party.

The party holds no statewide office and is in the minority in both chambers of the Legislature. It also has less than one-tenth as much money on hand as the Republican Party of Texas.

A five-person Democratic Party subcommittee recently found party finances "interesting and troubling," with $1.9 million in spending outpacing revenue by $400,000 last year, according to a March memo obtained by the American-Statesman.


http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared/tx/legislature/stories/04/19dems.html

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1. Just be careful who in the TX party you give the $$ to...

Cuz we have some DINO's <just like there are on the natinal level> down here who don't have any business getting $$...one of the excuses given for one of them not being in the room for the vote "I got a phone call about my sick mother"..what, and it took six of your co-workers to help you find the phone??

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/3135596


Seven Democratic state representatives, three from Houston, found reasons to be absent recently when the House voted on a key Democratic budget amendment.

The measure would have passed had they voted for it, and some of their party-mates claim at least some of them walked to gain favor with Republican House Speaker Tom Craddick, who opposed the amendment.

The amendment by Rep. Jose Menendez of San Antonio would have restored a $1,000 health stipend to teachers and other school employees that was cut in 2003. It failed by five votes.

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But party stalwarts are watching Turner and the other Democrats on the leadership team, referring to them as Craddick Democrats for being more loyal to the speaker than some Republicans