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Legislative candidates accounted for 42 percent of the Luddite money studied in this report. This state with 180 legislative districts, produced 131 legislative Luddites who raised almost $3.3 million by July 2002.
 

Legislative Luddites

Legislative Office	No. of Filers	Non-E-Disclosed Money Raised Jan '01 - July '02
Senate	8	$156,918
House	123	$3,107,239
TOTALS:	131	$3,264,157

Just eight Luddites ran for the 30-district Texas Senate in 2002. These included two incumbents (Mario Gallegos and Jon Lindsay), who accounted for 66 percent of all the money raised by Senate Luddites. Besides these incumbents (both from Houston) four other Senate Luddites survived the primary. Senate District 4, between Houston and Louisiana, produced two Luddites. District 4 electronic filer Tommy Williams defeated Luddite Michael Galloway in the Republican primary and will face another Luddite, Democrat Terry Smith, in November.
 

Senate Luddites

Senate Candidate	Party	Dist.	Primary Outcome	Non-E-Disclosed Money Raised Jan. '01 - July '02
I Mario V. Gallegos	D	6	Won	$80,618
I Jon S. Lindsay	R	7	Won	$23,400
Terry M. Smith	D	4	Won	$18,733
Michael Galloway	R	4	Lost	$13,406
Ruben M. Garcia	D	20	Lost	$13,300
Jan Frederiksen	D	16	Won	$4,325
Ronnie Harrison	D	17	Won	$2,611
Michael P. Wolfe	R	15	Won	$525
			TOTAL:	$156,921

^I Incumbent

With 150 districts, the House produced 123 Luddite candidates who already had raised more than $3.1 million by July 2002. Incumbents—led by Republican Reps. Gary Walker of Plains and Ruben Hope of Conroe—accounted for 32 of the House Luddites. Two other House Luddites raised more than $100,000: W. Kenneth Paxton and Walt Fair, whose family-values candidacy self-destructed when his wife filed for divorce and a videotape of an alleged Fair affair went into circulation.

Twenty-nine house districts spawned two or more Luddites, led by the Palestine area’s District 8, which boasted four Luddites. A surviving Democratic Luddite, George Robinson, faces Republican electronic filer John Graves in that race in November. In three districts November voters will be forced to choose between two major-party Luddites. In District 70, Democratic Luddite Frederick Lusk faces Republican Luddite W. Kenneth Paxton. District 74 pits Luddite incumbent Democrat Pete Gallego against Luddite GOP challenger Pedro Nieto. Finally, Democrat Roberto Alonzo faces Republican Joe Hernandez in a Luddite face-off in District 104.
 
 

Top-80 House Luddites

House Candidate	Party	Dist.	Primary Outcome	Non-E-Disclosed Money Raised Jan. '01 – July '02
I Gary L. Walker	R	83	Lost	$138,205
I Ruben Hope	R	16	Won	$115,390
W. Kenneth Paxton	R	70	Won	$113,360
Walter Warren Fair	R	56	Lost	$113,224
I Eugene J. Seaman	R	32	Won	$94,866
I Joe Crabb	R	127	Won	$87,021
Steve Munisteri	R	134	Lost	$83,803
I Rene O. Oliveira	D	37	Won	$75,635
I Joseph C. Pickett	D	79	Won	$72,861
I James R. Pitts	R	10	Won	$71,625
I Delwin Jones	R	83	Won	$69,519
Scott E. Campbell	R	72	Won	$65,589
Judy Strickland	R	85	Won	$61,680
I Paul Moreno	D	77	Won	$61,330
I Talmadge L. Heflin	R	149	Won	$60,609
I Ruth J. McClendon	D	120	Won	$59,328
I Kevin E. Bailey	D	140	Won	$59,189
Robert C. Rankins	R	70	Lost	$58,736
Joaquin Castro	D	125	Won	$58,384
I Ron Wilson	D	131	Won	$57,800
I Manny Najera	D	75	Lost	$56,226
I Warren D. Chisum	R	88	Won	$55,250
Edmund Cyganiewicz	R	43	Won	$55,075
Gregory R. Travis	R	28	Lost	$48,296
C. Brandon Creighton	R	16	Lost	$47,810
John P. Mabry	D	56	Won	$47,184
Roberto R. Alonzo	D	104	Won	$46,989
Inocente Quintanilla	D	75	Won	$46,598
Regino J. Gonzales	R	128	Lost	$46,566
Linda Harper-Brown	R	105	Won	$45,482
Henry Pearson Knolle	D	35	Lost	$43,080
Gabriella S. Canales	D	35	Won	$41,368
I James R. Dunnam	D	57	Won	$41,220
I Robert E. Talton	R	144	Won	$39,308
Mack L. Dobbs	D	61	Won	$38,825
Adolfo Campero	D	31	Lost	$37,860
Charles Anderson	R	56	Lost	$35,200
Bob E. Griggs	R	91	Won	$34,280
Alfredo Flores	D	143	Lost	$32,575
Kenneth S. Cannata	R	28	Lost	$28,748

House Candidate	Party	Dist.	Primary Outcome	Non-E-Disclosed Money Raised Jan. '01 – July '02
I Frederick H. Brown	R	14	Won	$28,150
I Robert R. Puente	D	119	Won	$27,675
Jesse L. Quackenbush	D	87	Won	$22,922
Roberta Jean Killgore	R	17	Won	$22,370
I Gladys E. Hodge	D	100	Won	$22,340
Gary Lee English	D	1	Lost	$21,731
I Kenny E. Marchant	R	115	Won	$21,222
J. Corbin Van Arsdale	R	130	Won	$19,400
I Harold V. Dutton	D	142	Won	$18,900
Ryan A. Guillen	D	31	Won	$18,730
Charles W. Nichols	D	8	Lost	$18,643
Charles A. Luke	R	60	Lost	$18,590
I Roberto Gutierrez	D	41	Won	$18,425
George M. Robinson	D	8	Won	$18,351
Anthony A. Aguilar	R	107	Lost	$18,000
I G. E. "Buddy" West	R	81	Won	$17,127
Roger A. Perez	D	123	Lost	$15,600
Jan S. Phillips	R	8	Lost	$14,975
Bernard C. Amadi	D	133	Won	$14,485
Joseph L. Stunja	R	127	Lost	$14,375
Kris J. Gillespie	R	50	Lost	$12,882
I Anna Mowery	R	97	Won	$12,430
Kerry C. Williams	R	15	Lost	$11,278
I Yvonne Davis	D	111	Won	$11,100
I Joseph D. Deshotel	D	22	Won	$10,704
Alma Zepeda	D	148	Lost	$10,615
Fred N. Moses	R	66	Lost	$10,475
Jack Stick	R	50	Won	$10,350
Rose A. Cannaday	R	105	Lost	$9,919
Michael S. Sullivan	R	127	Lost	$9,173
Pedro G. Nieto	R	74	Won	$9,155
I Al Edwards	D	146	Won	$8,875
Janie Gonzalez	R	117	Lost	$8,125
Judith Ann Canales	D	80	Lost	$8,100
John J. Baker	D	19	Lost	$7,900
G. Michael Lawshe	R	89	Lost	$7,675
Paul D. Clayton	D	19	Won	$7,550
Richard Wayne Smith	R	128	Won	$7,000
Mark A. Rubal	R	27	Won	$6,775
Joe D. Hernandez	R	104	Won	$5,590
			TOTALS:	$3,023,776

^I = Incumbent