Posted on 11/05/2014 7:44:41 AM PST by dennisw
FORT WORTH, Texas -- It was a major victory for conservatives at the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame at the Stockyards when Tea Party favorite Konni Burton (R-Colleyville) won Senate District 10, the state senate district seat that has been occupied by Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) since 2009. Burton's campaign slogan had been "Take Back SD 10" and she took it back surrounded by 200-plus friends, family, and community supporters. Burton was declared the winner with 86,182 votes and 52.19% of the vote. Democratic opponent Libby Willis, who was hand-picked by Davis to fill her progressive pink sneakers, only got 75,030 votes and 45.44% of the vote.
Senate District 10 has been a pivotal race statewide. The Burton win inches Republicans closer to an upper legislative chamber supermajority. According to a rule in the Texas Senate, two-thirds of the 31 member Senate, which equals 21 senators, must agree before a bill gets to the floor for debate. Burton's win gives the Republicans 20 seats and puts that supermajority goal into a visible range.
Closer to home, Burton's victory put Senate District 10 back into the hands of an elected official who shares the conservative values as the majority of its constituents. Throughout her campaign, Burton promised to bring that conservative voice back to the district.
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That is some well deserved salt in a wound.
You are thinking of LBJ in 1960, Senate and VP.
Awesomeness!
The article is misleading. There are actually a LOT more “takers” in District 10 than “conservatives”... probably 2:1.
If the weather had not sucked, it would have been a lot closer.
It’s great Konni won, but the district relies on EVERYONE in affluent, educated NE tarrant county to turn out in order to cancel out the potentially massive “It be free” vote coming out of Fort Worth.
Voter ID is critiacl for this district not falling back into the “D” column.
George Bush the Younger was also allowed to run for reelection to
Governor at the same time as he ran for President. He won both, BTW.
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Nope, didn’t happen.
But Dallas voted for her. :(
Women and Hispanics voted Abbott.
I'd like to drive around Austin right now, just to get a glimpse of some of the locals behaving like that Ole Miss fan in the recent video. Drunk, sobbing, distraught, belligerent.
The Schadenfreude would be positively toe-curling.
Umm, not exactly:
“Burton was declared the winner with 86,182 votes and 52.19% of the vote. Democratic opponent Libby Willis, who was hand-picked by Davis to fill her progressive pink sneakers, only got 75,030 votes and 45.44% of the vote.”
Texas’s “LBJ law” allows candidates to be on the ballot for two offices simultaneously only if one of the offices is President or VP.
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“Two time loser! “
The South’s version of Martha Coakley.
“Women and Hispanics voted Abbott.”
Women clearly did. But the numbers on Hispanics are very interesting...so interesting that there is NO WAY that a Republican can get 60% of the statewide vote without a MAJORITY of Hispanics.
Hispanics appear to have NO INTEREST in joining blacks on the Democrat Plantation.
Read the story. Davis only ran for governor
Hillary needs to appear on the, ‘Biggest Loser’...
Abortion Barbie did not run for two state seats at the same time, read the story. George Bush ran for both under a law passed for LBJ in 1960 to run in state and fed elections at the same time. Lieberman did the same thing in 2000
Wendy lost the Texas women’s vote because she’s not a lady. She’s a skank who beats up on cripples.
Or like finding a $20 bill in the street.
.... and dumped her kids.
Wendy Davis was not on the state senator ballot, I think someone named Liddy Willis was the Dem candidate
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