Eric Flores
No position on campaign finance or lobbying was found on his campaign site.
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Campaign positions remain attributed. Official actions are shown separately, with narrow relationship labels and limits.
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Campaign positions
What each campaign says.
Vicente Gonzalez
No position on campaign finance or lobbying was found on his campaign site, whose issues page does not include the subject.
Chris Royal
His current site does not address it. In his 2024 survey he said officials caught taking money under the table or stock tips should be barred from future government work.
Eddie Espinoza
His campaign says he rejects support from all political action committees, takes no corporate PAC money, would overturn Citizens United, and opposes lobbying by unregistered foreign agents.
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Evidence timeline
Where statements meet the record.
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Eddie Espinoza: Matches stated record claim
His campaign says he rejects support from all political action committees, including AIPAC and its allies, and takes no corporate PAC money. His committee, Espinoza for Texas, has filed no report of receipts and disbursements. It has filed four notes to the FEC instead, on January 29, March 25, April 11 and July 12, 2026, each saying the campaign had not reached the $5,000 at which a report is required. A search of every federal committee's itemized disbursements for 2025-2026 returns no payment to his committee. Limit: Two records point the same way: his own statements that he has raised less than $5,000, and the absence of any PAC's report of giving to him. A federal PAC must itemize a contribution to a candidate however small, so the second is the stronger. Neither reaches a state or unregistered group, and neither is a filed statement of where his money came from, because he has filed none.
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Eric Flores: Record does not bear out the claim
His campaign's release of August 29, 2025 says it raised over $440,000 during the campaign's first five weeks. His committee's first report covers July 1 to September 30, 2025, which takes in the five weeks and six more. It reports $300,479.29 of contributions for the whole quarter, no transfers, and $250,000 in loans from him, for $550,479.29 of total receipts. Of the loans, $100,000 is dated July 31 and $150,000 September 5, a week after the release. Contributions itemized after August 29 come to $94,757.65. Two nominee funds that now carry his name were set up in December 2024 and January 2025 as funds for whoever won the Republican nomination: one reported $7,767.57 of receipts for July to September, the other $12,850.48 for July to December. His committee listed no joint fundraising committee until January 30, 2026. Limit: The FEC does not date contributions under $200, so the exact amount raised by August 29 cannot be read. It does not need to be: every contribution of the quarter falls $139,520.71 short of the figure. Adding the only loan made before the release and both nominee funds' receipts still leaves about $19,000 short, though the second fund's figure runs to December and neither fund was his campaign's until March 2026. The figure can be reached only by counting money his committee did not have by that date.
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