Monthly Archives: November 2004

Backers of City Prop 2 are in the corner and looking for a way out. Prop 2 was a charter amendment put on the ballot by citizen petition. It called for a cap on all city revenues, such as taxes, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The expected recount final count (see update at bottom) in the extremely tight Vo-Heflin race will take place this weekend. Democratic businessman Hubert Vo apparently defeated Heflin in Tuesday’s election by just 52 votes — a margin that narrowed to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Backers of City Proposition 2 are mad that they won’t get their way. Houston officials say they wrote Tuesday’s Proposition 1 tax cap in a way that specifically meant that the competing Proposition 2 revenue cap couldn’t be enforced if … Continue reading → Continue reading →

State Democrats celebrate the still-unofficial pickup in the House. Seeking victory wherever they could find it, Democrats Wednesday were claiming their first net increase — a gain of one — in the Texas House in more than 30 years and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I had thought that John Kerry would do better in all three of the big urban counties – Bexar, Dallas, and Harris – than Al Gore did. (That he was going to kick butt in Travis County was never a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

All right, enough time in the funk for me. Let’s look back at a few of the things that went well, a few places where we need to do (much) better, and a few opportunities for 2006. First things first, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Sadly, I was wrong to predict that this would be the year that the Harris County Democratic Party won a countywide race. Kathy Stone came closest, losing 52-48; the other judicial candidates all scored in the 46-47% range. Reggie McKamie … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Chet Edwards was the only one of the five endangered Democratic incumbents to survive, as he topped Arlene Wohlgemuth by a 51.17-47.45% margin. Nick Lampson and Martin Frost came closest, but neither came particularly close; both lost by about 10 … Continue reading → Continue reading →

We’re off to watch returns at the Get Donkey! household. I’ll try to check in before heading over to KPFT to make my media debut. The Burnt Orange guys will be posting results, so keep an eye on them. Oh, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Turnout is indeed high in Houston. How heavy, we’ll see. Andrew has some projections from around the state. One hour till we start seeing some results here… Continue reading →

I know what Ezra means when he talks about feeling a strange calm today. Actually, for me, it’s more like the feeling I used to get as a big test that I’d really studied for was being handed out. Confident, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

After beautiful weather throughout the early voting period, the Houston area has had severe thunderstorms since yesterday. It didn’t rain all day everywhere, but it did rain a lot, and it was pretty heavy at times. If we get anything … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just a few Congressional race stories to tide you over until it’s all over… MyDD suggests that President Bush’s campaign stop tonight in Dallas is recognition that Pete Sessions is in trouble against Martin Frost. I sure hope that’s right. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One of the things we’ve heard way too much of this election season is that there erally isn’t a pro-Kerry vote, there’s just an anti-Bush vote. My response to that is “So what?” One of the other things we’ve heard … Continue reading → Continue reading →