Texas Democratic Party: Moving Texas Forward

At a rare red-state gathering of Democrats from across the United States, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine said in Austin on Friday that the Democratic National Committee will help Texas Democrats gain ground next year, perhaps toward wiping out the GOP’s 76-74 edge in the Texas House of Representatives.

But Kaine, the committee’s chairman, didn’t detail specific infusions of money or political ground troops.

“Texas can do it, and Texas will do it. We are thrilled at the prospect of working side by side to turn Texas blue,” Kaine told more than 300 Democrats from U.S. states and territories and abroad.

To read more, go to the Austin American-Statesman article.