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Report: Ames Jones to Challenge Wentworth
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| Last Edited | TX DEM Nov 07, 2011 08:40am |
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| News Date | Monday, November 7, 2011 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Elizabeth Ames Jones, who left the Legislature for a spot on the Texas Railroad Commission, will reportedly get out of the U.S. Senate race to run instead for the Texas Senate against incumbent Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio.
Ames Jones and Wentworth could not be immediately contacted Monday morning; the switch was reported on the blog of Robert Miller, a Houston lobbyist and lawyer who writes regularly about state politics.
Wentworth, an iconoclastic senator who doesn't always vote the party line, has drawn only token opposition so far this year, but a serious challenge isn't a surprise. His opponents have been trying to recruit challengers since before the end of the legislative session. Dr. Donna Campbell, a Republican who previously ran for Congress from Columbus, recently moved to New Braunfels to challenge him.
Wentworth, an attorney and former Bexar County commissioner, served in the state House from 1988 to 1993 and has been in the Senate since then. |
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