Three incumbents on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals are up for re-election in 2010: Michael Keasler, Cheryl Johnson and Lawrence Meyers. All three are Republicans, as are all the judges on the CCA. On July 15, 2009, they reported the following amounts to the Texas Ethics Commission.
Michael Keasler Report (PDF)
Total Contributions Zero
Total Expenditures $342.58
Total Political Contributions Maintained $3,042.43
Total of all outstanding loans Zero
Lawrence Meyers Report (PDF)
Total Contributions $2,000 (He contributed $2,000 to his own campaign)
Total Expenditures $3,055.87
Total Political Contributions Maintained $1,073.30
Total of all outstanding loans $113,693.00 (He has reported this loan on every report since March 1998. He also reported expenditures in March 1998 of $107,532.00. He had a strong challenger in that year’s Republican primary.)
Cheryl Johnson Judicial Candidate/ Officeholder (PDF)
Johnson reported zero contributions, zero expenditures, zero contributions maintained and zero outstanding loans in her Candidate/Officeholder account.
Friends of Cheryl Johnson (Judicial Specific-Purpose Committee) (PDF)
Johnson is the treasurer of Friends of Cheryl Johnson
Total Contributions Zero
Total Expenditures Zero
Total Political Contributions Maintained $4,054.46
Total of all outstanding loans Zero