Run-Off Election is Today
If you are eligible to vote in the run-off elections, please do so today.
In Travis County, there is only one race on the ballot. This race is for the Democrat nominee for District Attorney between Mindy Montford and Rosemary Lehmberg. The only eligible voters are Democrats. If you voted in the Republican Primary in March, you are not eligible to vote.
We have two previous posts concerning the DA race.
April 2, 2008
March 5, 2008
Also, for our friends in southern Williamson County, there is a run-off election in the Republican Primary for State Representative in District 52. This district runs from Anderson Mill to Round Rock to Hutto to Taylor. The two remaining candidates are Bryan Daniel and Dee Hobbs. Only Republicans are eligible to vote in this run-off election. One of these two gentlemen will be the Republican nominee for State Representative in November.
Of these two candidates, Bryan Daniel is more in-line with conservative values and the Republican Party of Texas Platform on fiscal issues. Bryan supports limited government and lower taxes.
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1 comment:
I believe I am entitled to vote for the District Attorney in Austin, yet am told I may not because I did not vote in the Democratic Primary. There are two candidates in the democrat run-off election and the winner gains the office by default. Do Parties, not voters, determine the outcome of elections? The fact that there was no Republican candidate offered by that party should not disenfranchise non-Democratic voters who may wish to have a voice in who becomes their District Attorney. Parties are, after all, voluntary associations and should not be granted exclusive privilege to appoint candidates to office as distinct from offering candidates for approval by all the voters. Restricting voting for a particular office to members of a Party, where that vote determines the winner of that office, takes power from voters and gives it to the Party officials. Whole categories of voters are excluded. This is objectionable.
The law needs to be changed so that when an intra-party election would otherwise produce a claimant to office, that election shall be open to all voters, not just those of the party concerned.
A. J. Adolph
6307 Danwood Dr,
Austin, Texas. 78759 512-250-9891
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