Texas filings deadline reminder — for Greens, too

Dec. 11 is not just the cutoff date for Republicans and Democrats to file to enter their primaries. That date, at 6 p.m., is also the deadline for prospective candidates filing in the Green conventions to submit their application to cochair@txgreens.org for the 2018 election.

The Green Party of Texas seeks candidates for statewide office to participate in the 2018 ballot access drive and elections. GPTX SEC recommends candidates for district and local offices file as independents in order to not be hindered by the higher petition signature requirements needed for party ballot access.

The issue of statewide party ballot access remains under discussion.

More information can be found on the TX Secretary of State's Candidate Guide, and in this Prospective Candidate Information. 

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Texas Greens then face a February 2017 deadline. With the hottest, and best-optioned, Democratic governor's race in 20 years, the state Green party needs to decide before the start of early voting, per that short paragraph above, whether to seek ballot access.

Brains reminds us that, as of Dec. 1, no Democrat has yet filed for Court of Criminal Appeals Place 8. There you go, Greens; if that stands, you have to A: Have somebody prepared to run for that spot and B: Do the petition drive. That's because A alone isn't good enough; a write-in candidate for a judicial spot isn't getting 5 percent.