Wednesday, February 23, 2022 - 10:00 AM
Via Webinar (link will be sent to participants prior to the event)

Free for PAAT Members - $50 for Non-Members

Join us for a media preview of the upcoming Texas Primary Election.

We have invited Jim Henson of the Texas Politics Project, Gromer Jeffers of the Dallas Morning News, and Ross Ramsey of the Texas Tribune to provide their thoughts on the races and seats of particular interest, as well as on the general interim action to date and beyond. Henson will moderate the webinar discussion. Free for PAAT members, $50 for non-members.

About Jim Henson: Jim Henson directs the Texas Politics Project and teaches in the Department of Government at The University of Texas, where he also received a doctorate. He helped design public interest multimedia for the Benton Foundation in Washington, D.C., in the late 1990s and has written about politics in general-interest and academic publications. He also serves as associate director of the College of Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services unit at UT, where he has helped produce several award-winning instructional media projects. In 2008, he and Daron Shaw, a fellow UT government professor, established the first statewide, publicly available internet survey of public opinion in Texas using matched random sampling. He lives in Austin, where he also serves as a member of the City of Austin Ethics Review Commission. 

About Gromer Jeffers: Gromer Jeffers is the political writer for The Dallas Morning News. A graduate of Howard University and native of Chicago, he came to The News as its City Hall reporter, where he covered the second term of Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk. During his time at the newspaper, he has written about the administrations of mayors Laura Miller, Tom Leppert and Mike Rawlings. As The News’ political reporter, Gromer has covered national and local politics, including the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. He has also written extensively about Texas government and politics, including the administrations of Rick Perry and Greg Abbott. Before joining The News, he was a political reporter at The Kansas City Star and The Chicago Defender.

About Ross Ramsey: Ross Ramsey is the executive editor and co-founder of The Texas Tribune, the only member-supported, digital-first, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. He writes regular columns on politics, government and public policy. Before joining the Tribune, he was editor and co-owner of Texas Weekly. He did a 28-month stint in government with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Before that, he reported for the Houston Chronicle, the Dallas Times Herald, as a Dallas-based freelancer for regional and national magazines and newspapers, and for radio stations in Denton and Dallas.