17th Congressional District of Texas

 

Candidate Political Affiliation
Chet Edwards (incumbent) Democrat (website)
Bill FloresRepublican (website)

 

Primary Results, Runoff Results


NRA Shoots Down the Sen. Harry Reid Endorsement

The National Rifle Association through its political PAC, the NRA Political Victory Fund (PVF), announced Friday, August 27th, they would not be endorsing Nevada’s Senator Harry Reid (D-NV). In January of this year the PVF hinted they would be endorsing Sen. Reid because of his long standing support for firearm and Second Amendment issues.  Read more »

    

Bill Flores for Congress Campaign Launches First Television Ad of General Election: "Where the Jobs Are"

The following came in from the Bill Flores campaign.

Today the Bill Flores for Congress campaign launched its first general election television ad, "Where the Jobs Are." Flores has spent 30 years in the private sector creating hundreds of jobs,   Read more »

    

Politics or People: What did Chet Edwards Choose?

I want to first say that one of my campaign strategies is to not start a negative campaign and focus on what an opponent did or did not do, but when a fellow servicemen is put in the cross of fire, I must apologize and say that I break my own rule.  Read more »

    

Let's Take Our Country Back!

Lisa Aldridge from College Station, TX is at the RPT 2010 Convention to help take our country back and support Railroad Commissioner Elizabeth Ames Jones, candidate for U.S. Senate, and Bill Flores, candidate for Congressional District 17.

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New Poll Shows Chet Edwards Trailing Bill Flores in TX-17

A new poll of 400 likely voters was conducted May 2-3 and shows GOP candidate for the 17th Congressional District of Texas Bill Flores with a 12% lead over ten-term Democrat incumbent Chet Edwards. Texas-17 is Republican in nature with its Congressional generic vote currently 51% Republican and 27% Democrat. However, Edwards says he is not worried:  Read more »

    
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