30-Day Campaign Finance Reports

Political campaigns are about great ideas and contests of character -- but they are also about money, money, money, and today on TEXAS POLITICS TODAY, we're "following the money."

Texas law requires that all candidate for state office file campaign finance reports covering the period up until 30 days before an election. Known as "30-day out" reports, these give an idea of who's raising money and how they're spending it.

Our guests this week are two Capitol insiders and shrewd observers of Texas politics:

• Will Lutz is the Managing Editor of the Lone Star Report, weekly newsletter devoted exclusively to coverage of Texas politics and government, largely from a conservative viewpoint. The Lone Star Report has been published since 1996, and its readership includes all of Texas' statewide elected officials and thousands of ordinary people with an interest in Capitol news beyond what their local newspapers provide.
• Matt Glazer is the Editor-in-Chief of the Burnt Orange Report, a widely-read blog covering Texas politics from a progressive perspective. Burnt Orange Report has been online since 2003 and had over 7,000,000 page views.

TEXAS POLITICS TODAY airs every Wednesday from 2:30 to 3:00 p.m. Central Time on KOOP, Austin's community radio station. KOOP is at 91.7 on the FM dial and streams live over the Internet at www.koop.org.