Brown appears headed toward re-election ( In Houston Racist Rat Wins )

Hoston Chronicle ^ | 12/02/2001 | JOHN WILLIAMS

[KQQL]

Brown appears headed toward re-election

JOHN WILLIAMS
Incumbent Lee Brown appeared headed toward re-election today over City Councilman Orlando Sanchez, who had been looking to become Houston's first Hispanic mayor, in a tight race.

With 95 percent of the precincts counted, Brown had 162,751 votes, or 52 percent, to Sanchez's 152,552, or 48 percent

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[Cincinatus' Wife]

Number of votes cast Nov. 6 ---288,000 (25,000 less than the runoff)
*****Runoff Totals Dec. 1 ---313,365
158,874 Brown(D)
154,491 Sanchez(R)

All I can add after watching the media in this is, think how campaign finance "reform"
would "shape" the landscape, if the GOP had to depend on the media to get out their message.

[LincolnLover]

If a recent Houston Chronicle poll proved true this evening, then 4 out of every 10 so-called "conservatives" voted for the very liberal (and if Thursday's debate is any indication, very very stupid and borderline illiterate) Lee Brown.

Pathetic.

[weegee]

"Won" by less than 4000 votes (less than 1.4%) Freep it. Take to the streets and demand a review of the votes (not for "chads" but for legal votes). This won't pass the smell test (and that includes "well-intentioned" hispanics who may have voted for Sanchez).

The city of Houston deserves to know who the real mayor is.

[weegee]

Anyone have an apartment/office on Mainstreet where we can show a webcam of the "progress" being made there? time lapse photography of anything less than a month at a time would show no change.

[weegee]

What I don't understand is that in the primaries, you cannot vote in the runoff if you don't vote in the open election.

Why should people get the chance to have a say in the runoff if they were unwilling to vote (to the tune of 25,000 voters) in the general election?

[weegee]

Racism won tonight.

Anyone have the ability to print up some bumper stickers that say this (with the date)...

[weegee]

Someone else brought up how all the other "conservative" candidates won by wide margins.

Maybe the mayoral voters were confused by the ballot. Certainly it doesn't seem right that they would differ in their votes so much (even the "hispanic" named Shelly Rodriquez beat the black candidate for the at-large city council seat).

[dr_who]

Like I said, coattails don't help.

[hchutch]

Pal, you don't get it. All we gotta do in big cites is run close, and your buddy Terry McAuliffe is screwed. We got the rual areas, we run well in the suburbs. Your butt is grass, and we're gonna be the lawn mower.

[anymouse]

I heard on the radio, while scanning stations, a popular black market station, Majic 101 was doing a live broadcast from one of the major downtown polling locations, where they were urging folks to get out and vote. They were telling people to go to the local polling place, and the "if it was the wrong place, go vote at the next polling place." Sounded like an odd comment, but I bet it was a known euphamism code for encouraging massive voter fraud with multiple votes.

[RikaStrom]

Houston is the number one place for blacks in the country so there will be a black mayor, no puzzle here! Only if you get out the lazzy white vote, never!

Lazy white has nothing to do with it, it has to do with where the city limits are drawn.

Most of the conservatives live in the "burbs" and cannot vote for mayor, even though their address as Houston listed as the city.

[Allegra]

Houston is the number one place for blacks in the country

Say what? Blacks are not the majority population in Houston.

[GOPcapitalist]

Agreed. As soon as the sign in sheets become available, I intend to file an open records request. This kind of bullshit is out of hand and has gone on too long. It has cost us too many elections and it is only getting worse. The 'rats can't win on their merits so they cheat, lie, steal, and coerce. Somebody needs to put their foot down.

[GOPcapitalist]

Majic 101 is a disgusting bilge depository. They were saying things like that ALL DAY. Lee Brown was on the air (pre-recorded) with FREE messages at practically every single commercial break all day.

I am seriously contemplating an FEC complaint against them for encouraging voter fraud.

[BnBlFlag]

Many of the Anglos in the city limits of Houston are big business types who support Brown because they control him. Many others are "artsy-craftsy" types or Homos. Houston is a Gulf Coast mecca for Homos.

[GOPcapitalist]

Blacks are only 25% of the population in Houston, but they get everything they demand from city hall, which exists to provide handouts to blacks and blacks alone. The city employment system down here is so screwed up with affirmative action that any minority, or more specifically any black person, can practically walk in off the street and be handed a job. Comparatively, persons of other "non-perpetual-victimhood" races are at an automatic disadvantage in hiring and in obtaining city contracts because of quotas, pure and simple. Houston literally runs empty city busses at 2 AM on several of the major routes just because it makes jobs that they can fill with recipients of affirmative action, all of whom turn around and vote (some of them more than once) for Lee Brown.

[Dr. Pepper]

Blacks are only 25% of the population in Houston...

Blacks may only be 25% of the population in Houston but they turn out and vote while many whites head to the Galleria and the other malls to Christmas shop.

[Austim]

What, he lost by 4383 votes!!!FRAUD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KQQL:

Yes, the election was very close but Republicans have not done very well in elections in the last couple months the Conservative Republicans have gotten their butts kicked in New Jersey, Virginia and New York City. In all cases a Liberal has won! What could the problem be after President Bush is the most popular President in History and he cannot help a fellow conservative get elected in his daddy's hometown?

[weegee]

If it is true that Magik 102 gave Brown free ad space to encourage voters to "vote" (not necessarily "vote for me"), then they may have violated FEC by not offering Sanchez equal time (just to make the same statement).

[Austim]

Majic 101 is a disgusting bilge depository. They were saying things like that ALL DAY. Lee Brown was on the air (pre-recorded) with FREE messages at practically every single commercial break all day.

I am seriously contemplating an FEC complaint against them for encouraging voter fraud.

When you call the FCC to complain about Majic 101 encouraging people to vote, make sure that you also voice a complaint against the Rush Limbaugh Show for encouraging people to get out and vote for Republicans every election day.

But, I imagine you would only want an FCC that takes actions against media outlets that promote Democrats while believing in the Free Market when media outlets support your candidates.

Perhaps, you may want to change your screen name from GOPCapitalist to "GopSocialist" or "GopFascist" You seem to love Government Intervention only when it helps your cause!