Bell gets another Labor endorsement for Labor Day

Texas State Employees Union backs Bell for Texas Senate
On Labor Day, the Chris Bell for Texas Senate campaign announced that it won the endorsement of the Texas State Employees Union.

“I am honored to have the support of the Texas State Employees Union as I stand with my brothers and sisters in the organized labor movement today,” said Chris Bell. “They know we need new leadership in the state legislature, and I’m happy that the state employees want me to provide it.”

TSEU is local 6186, a statewide local of the Communications Workers of America and is affiliated with the Texas AFL-CIO.
In Texas they have 11,635 state workers in 53 state agencies, 24 university locations. TSUE also has workers in local MHMR authorities, local and county government, and several private sector companies.

A poll conducted by Cooper and Secrest in August shows that Chris Bell has a 34-point lead over the three Republican candidates who remain clustered in a statistical tie for second place. The initial trial heat, asked of 400 likely special election voters on Aug. 14-18, has Chris Bell at 42%, with Republicans Joan Huffman at 8%, Austen Furse at 5% and Grant Harpold at 4%.

In May, an independent poll conducted for Texans for Insurance Reform found that Chris Bell has higher name identification in Senate District 17 than U.S. Sen. John Cornyn. The pollster, Jeff Smith of Opinion Analysts, labeled Mr. Bell the “front-runner in a very winnable contest.”

Chris Bell was an at-large Houston City Council Member from 1997 ‘til 2002, a Member of Congress from 2003 to 2005 when he lost re-election thanks to a politically motivated redistricting process led by former Rep. Tom DeLay. In 2006, Bell was the Democratic nominee for Texas Governor. An attorney, he lives in southwest Houston with his wife Alison Ayres Bell and his two sons, Atlee and Connally.

The special election to be held on Election Day, Nov. 4 will fill the vacancy created by Sen. Kyle Janek’s resignation. A runoff will follow if no candidate in the special election gets a majority.

Contact: Jason Stanford
Phone: 512-457-1909