However they might feel about state or national politics, the focus of many local Election Day voters was squarely on the McLennan County district attorney’s race, at least judging from interviews at voting centers. And given the convoluted Twin Peaks saga — case dismissals here and there, recusal hearings to and fro, all amid incendiary, back-and-forth campaign volleys — some voters were understandably overwhelmed by it all.
Example: Some voters arriving at polls Tuesday morning were still digesting a Page One story in the Trib about a visiting judge admonishing District Attorney Abel Reyna for using a Twin Peaks biker defendant’s picture and pending case in his re-election campaign materials. “The way you have handled this case is absolutely shameful and misleading to the citizens of this county,” Judge Doug Shaver angrily told the embattled DA Monday.
Even for a longtime voter such as 73-year-old Franklin Potts, associate professor of finance, insurance and real estate at Baylor University, the spectacle was jarring: “It’s pretty rare when a judge dresses down a district attorney like that in court.”
“I knew someone on the jury [of the first and only Twin Peaks trial]. That was a hung jury. And now I know they’re dismissing Twin Peaks cases, which makes me wonder why they didn’t do that in the first place. That sure was a bunch of arrests.”
Basically even people who don't follow news (let alone politics) finally notice the liability sword of Damocles looming over ZimbabWaco.
These people are checking their wallets.