Will the Speaker controversy affect local elections?

Whether or not the Speaker of the House controversy will affect local elections or not seems to depend on your point of view, but there is no doubt the local elections will influence the Speaker's race in the next legislature. With Craddick having something less than a 12-vote margin in the existing House, it wouldn't take too much change to upset the current House leadership.

There are 150 seats in the House. 72 of those seats have contested general elections and 40 have contested primaries. Check out Gary Sherrer's analysis in the San Antonio Express-News.