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March 3, 2010 |
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Paul Workman in April 13th Paul Workman will be in the Republican Primary Runoff Election for HD 47 on April 13th. Paul will face off against Holly Turner, after receiving 39.40% of the vote last night to 35.57% for Holly Turner. The remaining 25.02% of the vote went to David Sewell. Representative Valinda Bolton will meet the winner in the November General Election.
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AGC Texas Building Branch PAC has supported Paul in this race and will be
sending him another contribution for the runoff. You can read more about
Paul’s election at his campaign website
http://www.workmanfortexas.com/. |
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Defeats, Runoffs and One
Don't A total of six incumbent Texas House of Representatives were defeated in their reelection bids last night. There were two Republican and four Democratic incumbents that were defeated. On the Republican side, Betty Brown in HD 4 and Tommy Merritt in HD 7 were defeated. On the Democratic side, Dora Olivo in HD 27; Tara Rios Ybarra in HD 44; Terry Hodge in HD 100; and Al Edwards in HD 146 were defeated. The AGC PAC supported Representatives Merritt and Ybarra. The loss of Ybarra is a big loss for the business community. There will be a total of eight Republican Primary Runoff elections for State Representative seats and they are as follows: HD 14 Rep. Fred Brown vs. Buddy Winn; HD 52 John Gordon vs. Larry Gonzales with the winner to face Rep. Diana Maldonaldo in the General Election; HD 66 Mabrie Jackson vs. Van Taylor in an open House Seat; HD 83 Rep. Delwin Jones vs. Charles Perry; HD 84 Mark Griffin vs. John Frullo in an open House Seat; HD 127 Dan Huberty vs. Susan Curling in an open House Seat; HD 149 Jack O’Connor vs. Dianne Williams with the winner facing Rep. Hubert Vo in the General Election and finally the HD 47 Workman vs. Turner race. There will be one Democratic Party Runoff in HD 76 where Representative Norma Chavez will face Naomi Gonzalez.
The Non-Candidate was the winner in SD 22 as Senator Kip Averitt, who
decided not to campaign for reelection in January due to health issues,
defeated Darren Yancy with Senator Averitt receiving 60% of the vote.
It was too late for Senator Averitt to remove his name from the ballot.
Stay tuned to see what happens next, here are a couple of possible
scenarios – Senator Averitt could ask that his name be removed from the
General Election ballot. He would then be replaced on the ballot with a
Republican candidate and the Democrats who do not currently have a
candidate on the ballot would select a candidate to be put on the
ballot. In this case the ten county party chairs for each respective
party would select the candidate. The second possibility would be for
Senator Averitt to keep his name on the ballot where he would face only
the Libertarian candidate. After the election, he could serve again or
decide to resign. If he resigns after the General Election, then a
Special Election for his Senate Seat would be held and a whole new set
of candidates could run, including sitting State Representatives who
live in the district. Again stay tuned to see how the story plays out. |
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AGC PAC Scorecard The AGC PAC supported 24 candidates who won their election night battles and supported 2 more candidates who will be in runoff elections, while 3 candidates supported by AGC were defeated last night. The big surprise of the night was the outright win by Governor Perry with 51% of the vote. It was interesting to hear the Governor’s pollster, Mike Baselice, tell a group at a meeting in Austin this morning that last September was the time when the campaign felt it really had the race well in hand. The AGC TBB PAC Board made its decision at its September Board Meeting to support the Governor’s reelection. |