Election Thread
By Byron LaMasters
Polls close across the state in various municipal elections at 7 PM. I'll use this thread to update the results. I'll mostly be following the Austin races, but I may have some remarks on some other races.
Update: Here are the numbers from the Austin races (11:23 PM- 100%):
ACC TRUSTEE PLACE 4
240 of 240 Precincts Reporting
Jeffrey Richard 54.95% 15,926
Thomas Krueger 45.05% 13,055
ACC TRUSTEE PLACE 6
240 of 240 Precincts Reporting
Guadalupe Q. Sosa 20.93% 6,810
Marc Levin 29.82% 9,700
Veronica Rivera 31.92% 10,385
Rodney Ahart 17.33% 5,638
AISD AT-LARGE POSITION 8
202 of 202 Precincts Reporting
Doyle Valdez 61.32% 18,606
Jennifer Gale 38.68% 11,735
TRAVIS COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT PROP
261 of 261 Precincts Reporting
FOR 54.72% 31,907
AGAINST 45.28% 26,401
CITY OF AUSTIN SPECIAL MUNICIPAL PROP 1 (Firefighters)
255 of 255 Precincts Reporting
FOR 58.88% 26,250
AGAINST 41.12% 18,335
DALLAS ISD DISTRICT 07
(WITH 26 OF 26 COUNTED)
Ramiro Lopez . . . . . . . . . 596 31.07
Chris Hay . . . . . . . . . . 67 3.49
Louis Tranquilino Trujillo. . . . . 169 8.81
Jerome Garza . . . . . . . . . 969 50.52
Bob Werner . . . . . . . . . . 117 6.10
HOUSTON PENSION PLAN EXEMPTION
FOR 60,567 votes 72%
AGAINST 23,944 votes 28%
And in my (Andrew D's) home town's wet/dry election:
Allen Local Option-Beer and Wine
FOR 1741 67.95%
AGAINST 821 32.05%
At least now I'll have a way to dull the overwhelming misery of that dismal town...
Andrew D. is helping b/c Byron's computer is being mean to him.
Posted by Byron LaMasters at May 15, 2004 06:53 PM
| TrackBack
Gale got the votes she did for a few reasons as I see it:
1. Name ID- she's run for 15 offices in like 5 years so ppl know the name
2. Woman vote- a small number of women voters will vote for a woman over a man (Jennifer vs. Doyle) when all other things are equal. Most people know nothing about these races (I couldn't tell you anything about that Doyle guy other than he's not Jennifer Gale, which is enough for me) so these voters vote for the woman. I would put that in quotation marks but I think that might be homophobic or transgenderedaphobic so...
3. Racists- Even in liberal Austin there are some racists. These people see a Latino name and an Anglo name and they go ahead and vote for the Anglo.
Add these up and you get near 40%. Good news, she seems to have tapped her base out as she said at a UD meeting that she got 40% last time she ran for school board. So we'll see.
