Category Archives: Election 2007

Looks like the last major hurdle for the HISD bond referendum has been cleared. The Texas Attorney General’s office plans to give a preliminary green light Thursday to the Houston Independent School District’s $805 million bond — effectively ending a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It doesn’t mean much in practice, but it’s still a win. In an ongoing legal battle that could have a major impact on Texas taxpayers and school districts, a Travis County judge refused Wednesday to grant a new bond validation … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Remember that bond validation lawsuit that HISD filed and won, practically by forfeit, in Travis County after the last election? Opponents of the bond have now filed a motion to overturn that ruling. The motion contends that state District Judge … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Paul Burka admits that his earlier call about the HD97 runoff was wrong, and gives his reasons for why State Rep. Dan Barrett pulled off the win. Shelton ran a bad race. He waffled about the robo-calls. He had bad … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In an indictment of Craddick’s leadership, House District 97 was won today by Democrat Dan Barrett, in the special election to fill an unexpired term that opened up when Republican Anna Mowery resigned in August. Final: Barrett 52.2%, 5365 votes … Continue reading → Continue reading →

December 18th is election day in Tarrant County in the runoff election to select a new member to the Texas Legislature. Democrat Dan Barrett got 31.5% of the vote in the recent special election against five Republicans. He faces Republican … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Houston GLBT Political Caucus had a pretty good election season this year. Here’s the press release they sent out about it: The Houston GLBT Caucus was victorious in 16 of the 17 races in which they endorsed in the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Early voting begins today for the last election in 2007, the runoff elections in Fort Worth, which include the special election runoff for HD97. Democrat Dan Barrett picked up the endorsement of the Star Telegram as voting opens. Democrat Dan … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I confess, this story from Saturday confuses me. In a little-publicized decision, a judge in Travis County signed off this week on the validity of the Houston Independent School District’s $805 million bond election. The pre-emptive court action means that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

And the 2007 election season is officially over for Houston. Lawyer and former track star [Democrat] Jolanda Jones coasted to victory over education consultant Joe Treviño in the only citywide contest in Saturday’s runoff election, according to unofficial results. Runoffs … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The 2007 election season comes to an end in Houston (but not in Texas – see more in a minute) today as the City Council and HISD runoffs take place, with polling places open from 7 AM to 7 PM. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today is the last day to vote early for the City Council/HISD runoff elections. Polls will be open from 7 AM to 7 PM at one of these fine locations. If your experience is anything like mine was, when I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

(I have asked the candidates involved in next Saturday’s runoff to send me a brief statement saying why people should vote for them in that runoff. I will run the responses for candidates for each race concurrently. This statement is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

(I have asked the candidates involved in next Saturday’s runoff to send me a brief statement saying why people should vote for them in that runoff. I will run the responses for candidates for each race concurrently. This statement is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Almost missed this today: The Chron makes its endorsements for the four runoff elections. Jolanda Jones, Houston City Council At-Large Position 5 — Jones is a family and criminal law attorney who helped bring attention to shortcomings in the Houston … Continue reading → Continue reading →

(I have asked the candidates involved in next Saturday’s runoff to send me a brief statement saying why people should vote for them in that runoff. I will run the responses for candidates for each race concurrently. This statement is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

(I have asked the candidates involved in next Saturday’s runoff to send me a brief statement saying why people should vote for them in that runoff. I will run the responses for candidates for each race concurrently. This statement is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

(I have asked the candidates involved in next Saturday’s runoff to send me a brief statement saying why people should vote for them in that runoff. I will run the responses for candidates for each race concurrently. This statement is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

(I have asked the candidates involved in next Saturday’s runoff to send me a brief statement saying why people should vote for them in that runoff. I will run the responses for candidates for each race concurrently. This statement is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One HISD Trustee race, in District II, has gone to a runoff. Here’s the overview story for that. Both candidates in the runoff for the District II seat, Carol Mims Galloway and Michael Yarbrough, say they have serious concerns about … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Early voting for the City Council and HISD runoff elections begins today and runs through Tuesday. WHAT: The second and final round of voting to fill the four public offices. WHY: No candidate got a majority of the vote in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The last of the three City Council runoffs to get an overview story is in District D, and it gets a pretty decent story for its wait. The runoff for the District D seat on Houston City Council will be … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There are four local races remaining in the 2007 election season, and as of today we’ve gotten overviews for two of them. First up is in District E, where Kingwood’s Mike Sullivan is up against Clear Lake’s Annette Dwyer. Voters … Continue reading → Continue reading →

More good news for Dan Barrett: The Texas League of Conservation Voters (TLCV), a coalition of Texans committed to clean air, clean water, and access to public lands, water, fish and wildlife, has endorsed Dan Barrett for state Representative in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Always good to see the Texas ParentPAC get involved in an election, especially considering their track record last year: The bipartisan Texas Parent PAC today announced its endorsement of Dan Barrett for state representative in House District 97, which includes … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A few more election wrapup pieces to finish off the week… Joe Trevino talks to Carolyn Feibel about how he made it to the runoff in At Large #5. I asked Trevino who he thought his supporters were. He identified … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So Proposition 15 passed by a solid margin, with over 61% of voters statewide supporting it. But it turns out that Travis County, home of Prop 15 uber-supporter Lance Armstrong, nearly rejected it. What’s up with that? Proposition 15 just … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The City Hall blog asks Sue Lovell why she thinks she won by such an unimpressive margin against Griff Griffin. Lovell claims that she purposely did not campaign, instead choosing to spread her “political capital” to three other council hopefuls: … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So, why did the jail bond fail? Ed Emmett would like to know. County Judge Ed Emmett said Wednesday that he still was analyzing the loss — the first defeat of a county bond request in 20 years — and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So how good were my predictions yesterday? Let’s take a look. Mayor – The over/under line for Mayor White is 90%. I think he just slides over it. Mayor White got 86%, so the unders won. Still, that’s pretty impressive, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Good news from my dad: My Uncle Dan, who was running for the Dutchess County Legislature as a Democrat against a long-term Republican incumbent, won his race yesterday by a respectable margin. In doing so, he helped tip the partisan … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Continuing on from last night… – The HISD bond referendum squeaked through, with 51.2% of the vote. There’s a lot of people breathing a sigh of relief today, especially when you consider that it only had 48% of the early … Continue reading → Continue reading →

All results can be found here (PDF) or here, though it loads much more slowly. Just a quick recap of some highlights before I go to bed: – Mayor White is at 86%, so the under will win. Still a … Continue reading → Continue reading →