edited by: Ted McLaughlin,
Texas Editor
Many gay activists across the United States are cheering the election of openly gay Mayor-Elect Annise Parker and her victory over Gene Locke in the Houston mayoral runoff--and [...]
This AP story about the Mayoral runoff election contains a paragraph you won’t see very often.
Houston became the largest U.S. city to elect an openly gay mayor, with voters handing a solid victory to City Controller Annise Parker after a hotly contested runoff.
Several other U.S. cities, including Portland, Ore., [...]
Last night, our own Texas city of Houston became the largest to elect an openly-gay mayor. City controller Annise Parker defeated former city attorney Gene Locke with 53.6 percent of the vote in the hotly contested runoff election. She takes office as mayor Jan. 1. While we have long way to go [...]
I’ll go through them one race at a time, with the unofficial vote totals minus Montgomery County for each. Once I have precinct results, I’ll go through those and do a more detailed analysis.
Mayor
Annise Parker – 81,971, 52.78%
Gene Locke – 73,331, 47.22%
This was perhaps a bit closer than one [...]
As tonight is Lights in the Heights, I will be paying attention to things other than election results this evening. Assuming you’re not at an election night party, you can follow results as they are posted here or on the interwebs in various places like Mayoral [...]
Today is Runoff Day. If you did not vote during Early Voting, this is your lasr chance. The following is from the Harris County Clerk’s office:
Harris County Clerk Beverly Kaufman, the chief elections officer of the County, made available a list of important election related facts voters should be aware [...]
An unusual election night for yours truly. The early part of the day was focused on the first half of a football game, then work, then church, then getting home late after the votes have been counted and the commentary been added.
And if that wasn't enough, there's the [...]
This morning, the Dallas City Council adopted some new and voluntary standards aimed at controlling stormwater runoff in coming years.
The news methods - which could become mandatory in coming years - are intended to help control the quality as well as the velocity of runoff into [...]
To wrap up our tour of the finance reports for the city runoffs, here’s a look at the two District Council races. First, District A, in which Lane Lewis is up against Brenda Stardig:
Candidate Raised Spent Loans Cash PAC $$ PAC % =============================================================== Lewis 42,439 33,765 19,401 8,250 19.4 Stardig 41,495 41,638 40,264 [...]The final tally is in, and after 13,534 in person votes were cast today, a total of 66,909 have been counted so far. This compares to 80,516 early votes for the November election.
Except it doesn’t, since that total represents all of Harris County. In reality, 62,641 early in person [...]
Continuing on with our look at the eight days out reports, here’s how things stack up for the At Large Council candidates in the runoffs.
Candidate Raised Spent Loans Cash PAC $$ PAC % =============================================================== Derr 26,692 13,034 5,000 5,487 8,650 32.4 Costello 193,225 165,200 15,000 16,065 71,000 36.7 Candidate TV Radio Mail Phone Field ==================================================== Derr [...]Before I get into today’s numbers, there was an incident at one of the early voting locations this morning.
Police say someone broke into the Hester House Community Center, an early-voting location in the Fifth Ward, overnight, but officials with the Harris County Clerk’s Office said the integrity of the [...]
