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Lege Briefs: Perry formally puts Jones in nomination (Texas)
San Antonio Express-News ^ | 02/02/2005

Posted on 02/02/2005 11:05:53 AM PST by SwinneySwitch

AUSTIN — Elizabeth Ames Jones, the former state representative from San Antonio, was formally nominated by Gov. Perry on Tuesday to the 3-member Texas Railroad Commission.

Jones, a Republican, still needs to go before the Senate for confirmation. She declined to be sworn in to her House seat last month, after Perry announced she was his pick to replace Charles Matthews.

Vying to fill Jones' 121st District seat in Saturday's special election are former Texas Supreme Court Judge Rose Spector, a Democrat; businessman Joe Straus III, a Republican; and former state Rep. Paul Silber, who is running as an independent.

A fourth candidate, Republican Glen S. Starnes, withdrew last week.

Matthews resigned Tuesday to become chancellor of the Texas State University System.

(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Yeah, but this guy served way, way back in the 1970-71 session, and Laney was a long ways away from becoming Speaker

70-71 puts him in Austin right in the middle of the Sharpstown Stock Scandal that took down Ben Barnes. Gus Mutscher would've been speaker. It also looks that he either "retired" or was defeated in 1972, which indicates that he was on Mutscher's side during the scandal. About half the legislature was replaced that year due to public backlash over the scandal.

21 posted on 02/06/2005 11:00:05 AM PST by GOPcapitalist ("Marxism finds it easy to ally with Islamic zealotism" - Ludwig von Mises)
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To: Theodore R.

You might note that runoffs are not required in special elections in Texas for National office - Congress and the US Senate. If so we would never have elected John Tower or KBH.


22 posted on 02/06/2005 11:00:11 AM PST by HoustonCurmudgeon (Redneck from a red city, in a red county, in a red state, and a former Red Leg EM.)
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To: GOPcapitalist
I was going to ping you but instead made a bet with myself how long it would be before you showed up! I WON, and lost! ;-0
23 posted on 02/06/2005 11:02:57 AM PST by HoustonCurmudgeon (Redneck from a red city, in a red county, in a red state, and a former Red Leg EM.)
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon

Not quite Curmudgeon, Tower ran first in the 1961 special election and was forced into a runoff to get his 51 percent over William Blakely, who was said to be "more conservative" than Tower, who thereafter gradually drifted to the left. But I think Hutchison may have run second to Krueger in the 1993 special election, or she may have been in first place from the start -- can't recall without lookiong it up. Ironically, it was Krueger who nearly retired Tower in 1978. Tower wound up splitting the GOP because of his pro-abortion stance -- the same stance as his old mentor Goldwater.


24 posted on 02/06/2005 1:11:56 PM PST by Theodore R.
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To: fieldmarshaldj

The only "Republican" seat back then was probably Craddick's Midland district, and it was a newly Republican district at that.


25 posted on 02/06/2005 1:13:10 PM PST by Theodore R.
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon

I checked and found that Republican Straus did win the special House election. It's in the San Antonio Express-News, but I did not want to bother with "registration" to forward the article. But the Democrat lost in the S.A. suburbs.


26 posted on 02/06/2005 1:18:24 PM PST by Theodore R.
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To: Theodore R.
The only "Republican" seat back then was probably Craddick's Midland district, and it was a newly Republican district at that.

Yes - Craddick was one of the "Dirty Thirty" who took down Mutscher and Barnes. There were about a half dozen Republicans at the time - Walter Mengden and Bill Blythe of Houston, Jim Earthman of Galveston are the ones that come to mind. There were also two or three Republicans in the Senate - Hank Grover is the one that comes to mind immediately, because he was our nominee for Governor in 72.

27 posted on 02/06/2005 3:19:58 PM PST by GOPcapitalist ("Marxism finds it easy to ally with Islamic zealotism" - Ludwig von Mises)
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To: deport
Texas Secretary of State

SPECIAL ELECTION, STATE REPRESENTATIVE, DISTRICT 121

Unofficial Election Results As Of : February 06, 2005 11:20 AM

Our election night returns are updated every five minutes.
This page refreshes every three minutes, or you may click on the "Refresh" or "Reload" button in order to get the current results.



RACE NAME PARTY EARLY VOTES PERCENT TOTAL VOTES PERCENT
State Representative District 121 - Unexpired Term

Paul Silbert IND 64 1.79% 401 2.76%
Rose Spector DEM 1,052 29.48% 4,707 32.34%
Glen S. Starnes REP 41 1.15% 192 1.32%
Joe Straus REP 2,411 67.57% 9,255 63.59%
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Total Votes Cast 3,568 14,555
Precincts Reported 88 of 88 Precincts 100.00%
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28 posted on 02/06/2005 3:28:47 PM PST by deport (There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead.)
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