The Chron checks with the ten candidates that did not make the runoff in District D to see who is endorsing frontrunner Dwight Boykins and who is going with runnerup Georgia Provost.
[Keith] Caldwell and [Demetria] Smith are supporting Boykins.
“I will be endorsing Mr. Boykins at this time,” Smith said, adding that she will aid in his runoff campaign.
Caldwell said Boykins “has a pretty good plan and that’s something I can live with: Somebody with a plan. … As voters, we can make him what we need him to be. He has a vision I can live with, right now, until I decide to run again.”
Four others – [Ivis] Johnson, [Travis] McGee, [Larry] McKinzie and [Christina] Sanders – have declared support for Provost.
Georgia Provost
“I have to decided to, without a doubt, support Georgia Provost for this election. If she is not elected, there will not be a black woman on Houston City Council,” Sanders said, adding that she is working to get her supporters back to the polls next month to vote for Provost. “We’ve got a lot of critical things happening in the district, particularly when it comes to development, and we need to make sure that we have somebody who is going to really have the community in mind and at heart if people are interested in buying and taking property.”
McGee called her “the best option” and had strong opposition to Boykins prevailing in next month’s runoff.
“He has too many special interests out there, too many favors to pay back and those are the people he’s going to pay attention to,” McGee said. “If Mrs. Provost can do this, it will also show that everybody can’t be bought. When has there ever been a time that a special interest group has ever put that much money behind a candidate for a predominantly black district like District D?”
McKinzie said he considers Provost “the more truthful candidate.”
Neither Assata Richards, who came in third, nor Lana Edwards are endorsing anyone in the runoff. Richards had been endorsed by former District D CM Ada Edwards, who sent out an email on Tuesday announcing that she was endorsing Boykins. As for the other candidates, Kirk White hadn’t made a decision yet, and Anthony Robinson said he was going to wait to see which candidate addressed the issues that were most important to him. As a reminder, my interview with Dwight Boykins is here – he also spoke with New Media Texas and did a Q&A with Texpatriate – and my interview with Georgia Provost is here. The Chron endorsed Anthony Robinson in November, so they have to name their second choice as well.
As for the other races and other candidates, if there have been any announcements in the At Large races on in District A, I have not seen them. In District I, Ben Mendez announced his endorsement of Robert Gallegos. His opponent, Graci Garces, released an open letter to him accusing him of letting people believe he is related to the late Sen. Mario Gallegos. If you are aware of any endorsements for a runoff by a candidate from November, please leave a comment or drop me a note.
Both assata Richards and lana Edwards are cowards that had no business running for public office=to have the audacity to lie to the people while you ran for office that you had the voters best interest at heart yet you are to much a coward to get behind a candidate=when you both campaigned beside them for a year=especially assata Richards,this is a slap in the face to the voters of district d,you should know better,al Edwards ex wife should know better,if you to much a coward to get behind somebody platform for the people then go home and keep your self out of the publics eye.assata Richards to much a coward to get behind a run off candidate=I live in district d=I vote in district d and I swear to god I will do everything I can legally and politically to keep you out of elected office assata Richards..
get some=take some
Joshua ben bullard
I think Graci’s campaign is imploding and she is not getting the traction they’d hope for; therefore, the open letter is to justify/soften the hard fall she is taking.
Julian, go change the channel. This post is about District D.