Various #TXPrimary thoughts

Focused on the two big-dog races — governor and US Senate, Democratic side.

First, on governor. Tom Wakely remains my preferred candidate. That said, despite having officially announced well before both Loopy Lupe Valdez and Andrew White, he's still lagging badly on both name recognition and money. And, while he most likely would not have gotten the Chron's editorial endorsement, AND, while such endorsements are often overrated, I'm not sure why he didn't show up. (It could be that, like me, he opposes an Ike Dike and figured that was a non-starter right there.)

Meanwhile, Loopy Lupe continues to show she's just not ready for prime time. (Click through on the sublinks on both.) Indeed, per the second link, Jonathan Tilove quoted the Chroni as saying she wasn't even option No. 2; it reportedly gave halfway serious thought to tagging Adrian Ocegueda, who, from what I can tell, comes off as a policy wonk and left-neoliberalism type.

Now, the Senate race.

Per a couple of prevoius blog posts and some back and forth with Brains, part of what concerned me with Sema Hernandez vs Beto O'Rourke was semantics on health care (from both candidates and others) and related issues, and part of what concerned me was a sense of fair play.

That latter definitely cuts both ways.

With the creation of a fake Sema Twitter account and, according to David Bruce Collins, the hacking of her website to replace the link to her real account with that one, we're definitely in the land of major non-fair play.

And, this incident has been mentioned on Twitter. Beto backers, at least, know about it.

At the same time, Sema wants a debate. All three declared Dem candidates welcome. Beto, despite earlier claims to want a primary debate, has actually been MIA.

That all said, polls indicate Beto will likely win his primary over Hernandez, and Wakely probably won't be one of two candidates in a likely runoff.

At some point down the road I, like Brains, will discuss the issue of undervoting. Obviously, if Greens get ballot access, Janis Richards is an alternative for governor. And an independent candidate could be an option, too. (The Socialist Party USA had its presidential candidate available by write-in for 2016.)