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Texas House race: cookies, liquor and Nazi mockery

The campaign's federal filings show more than four thousand three hundred dollars on cookies, beer, wine and Mexican restaurants; the race itself remains very much unbaked.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorKaty Padilla Stout is the Democrat in a fiery Texas House race, and her campaign reported more than four thousand three hundred dollars on cookies, beer and wine, and Mexican restaurant spending, according to federal records.

  2. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorCookies first, Hank, and then the beer, and then one day you wake up and the whole republic is a bake sale.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOr it is a campaign that feeds its volunteers, Dale, which is what a community looks like when it is hungry and hopeful.

  4. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHopeful for a snickerdoodle, Vera, with my tax-paying eyes watching.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorCampaign money, Dale, not tax money. Fox also says the race has turned heated, with the candidate mocking Nazis.

  6. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWhich proves she has range. She can do a fight in the morning and a cookie platter by lunch.

  7. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorLet me finish. Nobody buys that many cookies without a plan, and the plan is always more cookies.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMore cookies.

  9. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd the Mexican restaurant is a small business, Dale. You are attacking enchiladas.

  10. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI am attacking the pattern, Vera. Cookies, beer, enchiladas, and then a ballot.

  11. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat is called a Friday. I would ask for a recount of the cookies. Brock, is the forecast also running a tab?

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