( - promoted by Matt Glazer)
All the details and bluster are at www.tlcv.org/blog (and, soon, on our nifty and gorgeous new www.tlcv.org), but the news is Texas' environment won on Election Day. 26 of 34 Texas House candidates and incumbents in contested races endorsed by the Texas League of Conservation Voters PAC won Tuesday night. 2 endorsees for the Senate move forward, 1 doesn't. 11 of the PAC"s top 14 priority races were victories - including helping return leaders like Rep Vo and Rep Frost (a dam hero if you ask me) to Austin, ejecting bad incumbents like Rep Goolsby (who lied to KERA about his clean energy voting record) for good challengers like Carol Kent, and snatching open seats away from anti-conservation candidates, like Joe Moody's victory over Dee Margo. And as discussed, very much, elsewhere, the opportunity to elect a pro-conservation House Speaker depends on a recount in Irving. Nationally, the League of Conservation Voters helped President Elect Obama win, along with lots of pro-conservation folks to Congress, like those Udalls. Texas voters had lots of good choices to vote for in districts across Texas, and in a whole lot of the ones where the League's PAC was active, good people were elected and re-elected. Texas air quality may still be the worst, but I'm breathing easier now. |
