Hello, outgoing Fort Bend DA John Healey!
John Healey
When John Healey began his career as a young prosecutor in Fort Bend County in the early 1980s, Ronald Reagan was president, MTV had just gone on the air and the then-rural county had fewer than 175,000 residents.
As Healey prepares to leave the office where he’s spent his entire career, including 26 years as the county’s top prosecutor, the sprawling suburb has roughly 764,000 residents with a growing number of diverse communities.
A Republican, Healey announced his retirement more than a year before the blue wave that swept many Democrats into county offices, including his own. Democrat Brian Middleton, a Houston defense attorney who once worked for Healey, will succeed him at the start of 2019.
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The county is also tilting more toward the Democrats, from Hillary Clinton winning the county in 2016 to ousting longtime County Judge Bob Hebert, a Republican, this past fall. Hebert will be succeeded by Democrat KP George.
“I think you have a well-organized Democratic Party that mobilized a lot of people on fear across the board in the ballot of Donald Trump,” said Healey. “Those that voted straight-ticket voted good Republicans out of office, didn’t care that they were doing it, and maybe didn’t even know that they were doing it.”
I do so love the implication that people who voted straight ticket were too stupid to know who and what they were voting for. There’s nothing more appealing in a public official than insulting voters. The possibility that people may have been deliberately and consciously voting for a change of direction, to rebuke a corrupt and incompetent president, for the candidates who better reflected their values and experiences, or some combination of all three, just doesn’t occur to him. Which strongly suggests to me that he picked the right time to get off the stage.
And just for the record:
Straight R 81,228
Straight D 89,491
Margin 8,263
240th District Court
Bridges 117,587
Fraley 132,199
Margin 14,612
268th District Court
Hawkins 116,476
Williams 133,419
Margin 16,943
458th District Court
Cannata 117,370
Rolnick 132,206
Margin 14,836
District Attorney
Vacek 115,370
Middleton 134,915
Margin 19,545
County Judge
Hebert 118,001
George 132,783
Margin 14,782
District Clerk
Elliott 117,534
Walker 132,630
Margin 15,096
I skipped a few county court races, all of which were in the same range. Point being, even if you accept the ridiculous and ridicule-worthy claim that straight ticket votes are somehow less than other votes, every countywide Democrat in Fort Bend still won their race. Nowhere was that margin greater than in the race for DA, to succeed John Healey. You can believe what you want to believe, John. The voters knew what they wanted.
“Well organized” hahahahahahaha
And I’m sure the people voting for the Republicans in Fort Bend could pick the Republican candidates out of a lineup right?
Tom thank you
Just another reason why Republicans lost. Trumps fault. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee