Mitchell beat out Bowen on fundraising for his 8 day out report. Mitchell raised $102,869 of which only $2025 came from within the district. $86,194 came from in-kind contributions. The donation from the major donors are listed below.

Two PACs the Associated Republicans of Texas Campaign Fund and Houston Region Business Coalition donated the $86,194. $11,500 came from other various PACs including $4,000 from the Texas Sands PAC an organization spending millions to promote gambling in Texas. Other PACs include Conservative Citizens’ Club PAC funded in part by Senator Money Mayes Middleton, HillCo PAC, Houston Police Officers Union PAC, ILA Local 24 Political Action Fund, and PAC of the Texas Hospital Assn. $2025 or about 2% came from donations within the district.

Between Bowen and Mitchell the PACs outside of the district are dominating the Republican race for the Bay Area State Representative.

You would think more people in the district would be supporting him. They are not.

In his 8 day out report Bowen received most of his money from PACs and outside of the district donors. He raised $89,000 which is a considerable amount and much more than his predecessor ever raised in one period. Of the $89,000, $65,000 came from 3 PACs, Texans for Lawsuit Reform ($40,000), Texans for a Conservative Majority ($15,000), and surprisingly Texas Trial Lawyer PAC ($10,000). That doesn’t make cents.

Texans for a Conservative Majority is the PAC formerly named Defend Texas Liberty. DTL was disbanded after they were caught meeting with Nick Fuentes, a well known white supremacist. This PAC is funded by two billionaires out of the Dallas area.

Of the remaining $24,000, only $3,700 came from within the district.

Tame when compared to other republican primaries.

Bob Mitchell, former President of the Bay Area Houston Economical Partnership took a swipe at Scott Bowen with one of his mailers. “35 years old, unmarried, lives alone”. Hum. To be fair that is what people said about him when he was on the School Board. He was a partisan hack running to take over the board. He had no experience in education besides graduating from Clear Lake High School. He had no children. He wasn’t married. He lived alone. Luckily his attempt to take over the board was stopped. Mitchell’s push card claims Bowen lost his school board race because of his support of the mask mandates. I think it was his support of school vouchers which made him lose by 8 points. I believe Mitchell is also in favor of school vouchers.

Bowen has struck back claiming Mitchell lives outside of the district and comparing him to Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo. It is a stretch claiming Mitchell’s support for policies supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the work place. Many companies actually embrace diversity in the workplace. It makes cents. It’s a lame attempt at a smear but it works on republicans.

Republican voters, especially those in the business sector, should know Mitchell is far more capable of representing the district. He has experience working with elected officials. He is the adult in the room. He has the support of the business community. Bowen has a history of failed leadership on the School Board. He has a history of taking a knee and doing the bidding of his party and Greg Abbott. He will be Abbott’s boy doing what he is told to do.

Early voting is ongoing.