The Democratic Network Educational Forum on Saturday, September 14, 2013, will be a discussion on Battle Year 2014: Texas Primaries and Politics. Join us at the John and Judy Gay Library, 6861 W. Eldorado Pkwy., McKinney, TX 75070. Coffee and reception at 10:45 a.m., with forum discussion from 11:00
a.m. to 12:30 p.m., followed by round table discussion to 1:00 p.m.Tanene Allison, Texas Democratic Party Communications Director, will join Judge Bonnie Goldstein and Michael Handley to discuss the statewide and county level offices up for the March 4, 2014 primary election, candidates who have announced they will file to have their name listed on the 2014 Democratic and Republican primary ballots, the ballot filing process, the party run primary election process, precinct conventions, senatorial district v. county conventions, and what happens at each party's state convention.
The discussion will include a high level overview of offices that will appear on each party's primary ballot by reviewing the structure of Texas' elected executive, legislative, and judicial offices, and each party's statutory place in that structure and the primary election process. Tanene Allison will review what the Texas Democratic Party and Battleground Texas organizations are doing to expand the base of Texas Democratic voters.
Below is the list of offices that will appear on ballots for Collin County voters. In past elections, most of the incumbent Republican office holders listed below won their election by default, just by filing to have their name placed on the Republican primary ballot. Republicans win election by default because so few Democrats file to have name placed on the Democratic primary ballot, for any office. When Democrats don't file to have their name placed on the March Democratic primary ballot, Republicans win the November General Election, unopposed, as the only candidate listed on that November ballot. How many Republicans will win by default in 2014.
| Government Level | Office | Incumbent | Party |
| Federal, Statewide | U.S. Senate | John Cornyn | (R) |
| Federal, CD 3 | Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives | Sam Johnson | (R) |
| Federal, CD 4 | Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives | Ralph Hall | (R) |
| Federal, CD 32 | Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives | Pete Sessions | (R) |
| Statewide | Governor | Rick Perry | (R) |
| Statewide | Attorney General | Greg Abbott | (R) |
| Statewide | Lieutenant Governor | David Dewhurst | (R) |
| Statewide | Commissioner of Agriculture | Todd Staples | (R) |
| Statewide | Commissioner of General Land Office | Jerry Patterson | (R) |
| Statewide | Commissioner, Railroad Commission of Texas | Barry T. Smitherman | (R) |
| Statewide | Comptroller of Public Accounts | Susan Combs | (R) |
| Statewide | Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Texas | Wallace B. Jefferson | (R) |
| Statewide | Justice, Supreme Court of Texas Pl 7 | Jeffrey S. Boyd | (R) |
| Statewide | Justice, Supreme Court of Texas Pl 8 | Phil Johnson | (R) |
| Statewide | Justice, Court of Criminal Appeals Pl 3 | Tom Price | (R) |
| Statewide | Justice, Court of Criminal Appeals Pl 4 | Paul Womack | (R) |
| Statewide | Justice, Court of Criminal Appeals Pl 9 | Cathy Cochran | (R) |
| 5th COA District | Justice, Fifth District Court of Appeals Pl 6 | David Bridges | (R) |
| 5th COA District | Justice, Fifth District Court of Appeals Pl 8 | Kerry FitzGerald | (R) |
| SD 8 | State Senator, Senatorial District 8 | Ken Paxton | (R) |
| SD 30 | State Senator, Senatorial District 30 | Craig Estes | (R) |
| HD 33 | State House of Representatives, House District 33 | Scott Turner | (R) |
| HD 66 | State House of Representatives, House District 66 | Van Taylor | (R) |
| HD 67 | State House of Representatives, House District 67 | Jeff Leach | (R) |
| HD 70 | State House of Representatives, House District 70 | Scott Sanford | (R) |
| HD 89 | State House of Representatives, House District 89 | Jodie Laubenberg | (R) |
| SBOE 12 | State Board of Education, SBOE District 12 | Geraldine "Tincy" Miller | (R) |
| County | District Attorney | Greg Willis | (R) |
| County | County Court at Law 1 | Corrine Mason | (R) |
| County | County Court at Law 2 | Barnett Walker | (R) |
| County | County Court at Law 3 | Lance S. Baxter | (R) |
| County | County Court at Law 4 | David Rippel | (R) |
| County | County Court at Law 5 | Dan Wilson | (R) |
| County | County Court at Law 6 | Jay A. Bender | (R) |
| County | 219th District Court | Scott Becker | (R) |
| County | 296th District Court | John Roach, Jr. | (R) |
| County | 366th District Court | Ray Wheless | (R) |
| County | 417th District Court | Cynthia Wheless | (R) |
| County | 429th District Court | Jill Willis | (R) |
| County | JP, Precinct 1 | Paul Raleeh | (R) |
| County | JP, Precinct 2 | Terry Douglas | (R) |
| County | JP, Precinct 3, Place 2 | John Payton | (R) |
| County | JP, Precinct 4 | Mike Yarbrough | (R) |
| County | Probate Court 1 | Weldon Copeland | (R) |
| County | County Judge | Keith Self | (R) |
| County | Commissioner, Precinct 2 | Cheryl Williams | (R) |
| County | Commissioner, Precinct 4 | Duncan Webb | (R) |
| County | County Clerk | Stacey Kemp | (R) |
| County | Democratic Party of Collin County Chair | D. Shawn Stevens | (D) |
| County | Republican Party of Collin County Chair | Fred Moses | (R) |
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