Here are some figures pulled from the latest campaign finance filings regarding each candidate's Midland-based donors:

MyWestTexas.com has more here.

The Reporter-Telegram has an article today on the campaign finance filings in the Craddick/Dingus race for the state legislature.

The article did not list any of the donors so if you are curious as to who they might be you can have a look at the Craddick filing here or the Dingus filing here.

Most Interesting Donor Prize goes to candidate Dingus who lists Fess Parker as a donor.

This just came across the RSS feeds out of the Waco Tribune:

A federal judge in Waco ruled Wednesday that a Midland City Council member is ineligible to challenge Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick for his District 82 seat because he didn't resign his city council seat before filing for the Legislature.

U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Texas Democratic Party against the Republican Party of Texas in a court challenge over Bill Dingus' eligibility to challenge Craddick.

In a 19-page opinion and order in the lawsuit, which was filed in Midland in January but transferred to Smith's court, Smith ruled that Dingus should have resigned his council seat before he filed to run for the District 82 House seat.

Because he did not, he is ineligible to run against Craddick, the judge ruled, citing Article 3, Section 19 of the Texas Constitution.