Candidates in 23-person race to replace Ron Wright using different tactics to reach voters
Early voting begins Monday in the congressional race that is expected to be determined in a runoff.
Early voting for the special election in Congressional District 6 and various municipal races start on April 19.(File Photo / Staff)
The 23 candidates in the all-inclusive special election to fill the seat of the late U.S. Rep. Ron Wright in Congressional District 6 are using disparate strategies to attract voter attention and make one of two spots in an expected runoff.
The outcome is wildly uncertain.
And there’s not much time to separate from the pack. Early voting for the May 1 election starts Monday and extends through April 27.
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Four years ago, the chair of the Republican Party in Hamilton County, a rural county about an hour west of Waco, was getting ready to retire. Around that time, Cat Parks’ husband was sitting on the porch of his ranch one evening, drinking whiskey with a neighbor, when the neighbor asked if he knew anyone up for the job.
“If you could get Cat to do it, she’s the one,” he replied, as she tells it.