Congratulations, Sen.-elect Sylvia Garcia.
Sylvia Garcia
Former Harris County Commissioner Sylvia Garcia beat State Rep. Carol Alvarado in the runoff race for the Senate District 6 seat, according to preliminary results.
Garcia earned 53 percent of the vote, compared to Alvarado’s 47 percent with 95 percent of precincts counted, according to the Harris County Clerk.
Shortly after Saturday’s race Alvarado tweeted: “I go back to Austin on Monday, and I won’t skip a beat!”
Garcia told her followers: “I’m so proud that you chose to send me to the Texas Senate. I will never stop fighting for you!”
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More than 17,500 voters cast ballots in the runoff.
The final total was just over 18,000 votes, of which a bit more than 9.500 were cast early. Both were improvements over the January election, with the runoff turnout exceeding Round One by nearly 2,000 votes. I’ll note that I called it on the higher turnout.
Now here’s the bad news:
Harris County has 10 days to canvass the results after Saturday’s contest, and Gov. Rick Perry’s office of has an additional four days. The winner cannot take her oath until the governor’s canvass, which means the victor will not be able to file any bills after taking office.
Cripes. After all this time, we still have to wait another two weeks for SD06 to be represented. If Sen.-elect Garcia were able to file bills, I’d recommend that her first would be to amend the special election procedure to allow for an immediate swearing in when a special election to fill a vacancy occurs during a session and there’s no question of a recount or other challenge to the election to fill that vacancy. I mean seriously, in a just world Garcia would be sworn in on Monday. Maybe one of her colleagues-to-be can file this legislation on her behalf, or perhaps Rep. Alvarado can do it as a gesture of letting bygones be bygones. In any event, congratulations and best wishes to Sen.-elect Garcia, and my thanks to Rep. Alvarado, who I’m glad to say will still be my State Rep, for her candidacy. PDiddie, who was following the results last night, has more.
Glad Garcia won; hate the Harris County and Gov. Helmethair delaying bullshit.
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i called this race 53.2% alavarado-instead i was mixed up-i think i bumped my head or something,but any ways-the 53% was exactly right-only applied to the wrong candidate-i think i posted the 53% on offthekuff’s ,theres a number of issues i overlooked in this race,the main issue was alvarado was already in elected office and the voters wanted both women to serve,so alvarado never had a chance,but i was right on the percentage,wrong on the candidate,my hat is off to sylvia garcia ,its poliutical, never personallllllllllllllllllllllll….
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