U.S. Senate candidate Roger Williams says he raised more than $400,000 — or about $1,000 per guest — at a fundraiser last weekend.

Candidates don't have to make their reports public until mid-July. Williams, a former Texas Secretary of State, is in the hunt for Kay Bailey Hutchison's seat, if she decides to resign early to concentrate on her run for governor.

• Rep. Beverly Woolley, R-Houston, announced she'll seek reelection to her HD-136 seat. A victory would mean a ninth term for Woolley, who was first elected in 1994.

• Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio, did some research and found the shortest special session in state history: One hour, in 1919.

• Put Kim Limberg on the list of candidates in HD-105, where Rep. Linda Harper-Brown, R-Irving, is the incumbent. Limberg is a Democrat and a state highway department engineer. Harper-Brown won a very close election last year and Limberg is the second Democrat in the race; Loretta Haldenwang, a former aide to Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, is planning to get in. If the incumbent doesn't run for reelection, Irving City Councilwoman Beth Van Duyne will run as a Republican.

• Jeff Weems, a Democratic activist and an oil & gas attorney in Houston, is pulling together a challenge to Texas Railroad Commissioner Victor Carrillo, a Republican who'll be on next year's ballot.

• This isn't exactly the 2012 Republican presidential primary, but it's not exactly not: Govs. Rick Perry of Texas, Haley Barbour of Mississippi, and Sarah Palin of Alaska could all be on the dais at the Texas Public Policy Foundation's 20th anniversary shindig on September 11. That'll be in Austin.