Texas Farm Bureau Friends of Agriculture Fund Announces Endorsements

Information keeps pouring across my desk regarding the upcoming political cycle. Here is one such item, a list of endorsements coming from the Texas Farm Bureau's AGFUND.

The Texas Farm Bureau is the largest farm organization in Texas, organized in 207 Texas counties. Only people in competitive races received endorsements. This is the complete list of AGFUND endorsements as approved by the board of directors:

UNITED STATES SENATE
Senator- Kay Bailey Hutchison (R), Dallas

U.S. CONGRESS
District 3-Sam Johnson (R), Plano
District 14-Shane Sklar (D), Edna
District 22-Tom Delay (R), Sugarland

STATEWIDE OFFICES
Governor-Rick Perry (R)
Lt. Governor-David Dewhurst (R)
Attorney General-Greg Abbott (R)
Supreme Court Chief Justice-Wallace Jefferson (R)
Supreme Court Place 2-Don Willett (R)
Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge -Sharon Keller (R)
Court of Criminal Appeals Place 8 -Terry Keel (R)

TEXAS SENATE
District 2- Bob Deuell (R), Greenville
District 18- Glenn Hegar (R), Katy
District 19- Frank Madla (D), San Antonio

TEXAS HOUSE
District 2- Dan Flynn (R), Canton
District 4 - Betty Brown (R), Terrell
District 6 - Leo Berman (R), Tyler
District 7-Tommy Merritt (R), Longview
District 9- Roy Blake (R), Nacogdoches
District 10 - Jim Pitts (R), Waxahachie
District 26- Charlie Howard (R), Sugar Land
District 27- Dora Olivo (D), Missouri City
District 42- Richard Raymond (D), Laredo
District 43- Juan Escobar (D), Kingsville
District 48 – Ben Bentzin (R), Austin
District 52- Mike Krusee (R), Round Rock
District 54- Jimmie Don Aycock (R), Killeen
District 62- Larry Phillips (R), Sherman
District 72- Scott Campbell (R), San Angelo
District 73- Carter Casteel (R), New Braunfels
District 75- Chente Quintanilla (D), El Paso
District 78 - Pat Haggerty (R), El Paso
District 79- Joe Pickett (D), El Paso
District 83 - Delwin Jones (R), Lubbock
District 87 - David Swinford (R), Dumas
District 94-Kent Grusendorf (R), Arlington
District 98- Vicki Truitt (R), Southlake
District 99- Charlie Geren (R), Fort Worth
District 101- Elvira Reyna (R), Mesquite
District 109- Helen Giddings (D), Dallas
District 110- Jesse Jones (D), Dallas
District 112- Fred Hill (R), Richardson
District 127- Joe Crabb (R), Kingwood
District 140- Kevin Bailey (D), Houston

AGFUND is Texas Farm Bureau's political action fund. It is a legal entity separate from the Texas Farm Bureau and may endorse and contribute financially to political candidates.

Since no Republican or Democrat challenged my office we, like other candidates who went unchallenged, were not put through the endorsement process.