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Capitol Context: Abbott waited a record amount of time to fill Texas Congressman’s seat, KXAN analysis shows
Two months after Congressman Sylvester Turner’s death, Texas’s 18th Congressional District seat sits vacant. A KXAN data ...
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Gov. Abbott announces special election for Sylvester Turner’s seat
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A date is now set to fill the seat after Houston area Congressman Sylvester Turner died last month. Gov. Greg Abbott proclaimed the special election will be held Nov. 4.
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Hakeem Jeffries says Democrats ‘likely’ to sue over delayed special election for Sylvester Turner seat
Greg Abbott continues to hold off on calling a special election for the Houston-area seat of the late Congressman Sylvester Turner. Texas law does not require Abbott to call a special election ...
Special election for Turner seat set for November, drawing Democratic outrage
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has set the special election for the vacant 18th District seat for Nov. 4, drawing swift condemnation from Democrats.
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Rep. Sylvester Turner, first-term Democrat, dies at 70
Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-Texas), the former Houston mayor who won a seat in Congress in November, succeeding the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D), died Tuesday night. He was 70.