Carrilo’s losing, Kinky’s losing, and Ronnie Earle’s losing.

28% in

Perry is right below 52% now

appears to be a runoff for what Republican will challenge Edwards and Rodriquez

17th Flores and Curnock would be in runoff

22nd Cancesco and Hurd

His challenger is a local entrepreneur & Ron Paul Repub named Schoppe. He’s a longshot, but Smitty’s a Yale guy whose been in DC for far too long.

Out with the old.

I read multiple sources that say Kay Hutchison has conceded. Unless I misunderstand, that would mean that even if Perry were to slip below 50.00%, she will forgo a runoff 6 weeks from today.

Good.

Governor Perry has been re-elected to another term.

The Socialist Democrat party cannot win any statewide race in November.
The Governor gave a fine acceptance speech reminding Washington DC, “Don’t Mess With Texas”!

A winner is declared if someone gets 50 percent plus one of the vote or is it 51 percent. – That’s sorta big in a state the size of Texas. Also, since KBH conceded does that mean she’s out entirely and won’t even participate in a runoff, or she just conceded the top spot?

Also, should we be worried of her (senate wise) since she lost the gov’s race. Will she pull a Scozzahuzits and vote dem on some issues. Just asking cause she’s your dance partner, and I’m hoping you know.

Ballot Prop #2: Controlling Government Growth
YES 951,461 91.88%
NO 84,026 8.11%
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Ballot Prop #3: Cutting Federal Income Taxes
YES 969,838 93.10%
NO 71,838 6.89%
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Ballot Prop #4: Public Acknowledgement of God
YES 1,015,316 95.26%
NO 50,479 4.73%

or is she going to wait some and (please Lord) not run for reelection in 2012…

BTW, I signed the Senate Conservative’s “Make It Michael” petition today at the below link and did not (cough) do so (attention MSNBCrap) because Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams happens to hail from a hyphenated America:

http://senateconservatives.com/petition/makeitmichael

KBH is barely making up any ground and is running out of precincts.

I know this time that it’s not because I didn’t work hard enough.

Now I think I’m going to drink for a bit.

I’ll update my sig sometime when I feel better.

Retch.

If you want to watch, go here.

I have a lot of admiration for the Tea Party movement. I have been among them. They are an enthusiastic bunch. Many of them were perfectly happy to vote for Rick Perry. Those who didn’t vote Perry learned a lesson tonight in Texas. Running weak and hopelessly underfunded candidates in the Republican primary just doesn’t get the job done.

To make a real difference theTea Partiers will have to work within the party starting at the precinct level. Tonight, after the polls closed, precinct conventions were held. So what? The so what is delegates are chosen and delegates can change the party.

We had a whopping FIVE people show up from my precinct and all five of us elected ourselves as delegates. The precinct qualified for 29 delegates. There was room for 24 more activists to help set policy.

Tea Partiers and conservatives take note. The Texas Republican party is wide open to your participation. You need only to show up where and when it really counts.

People don’t seem to understand that it doesn’t matter one whit who won the governor’s race.

In the State Board of Education, while Tincy Miller may surprisingly lose to George Clayton (a good thing) in District 12, it looks like Don McLeroy has lost to the anti-Christian Thomas Ratcliff in District 9. I don’t know how that happened or why that many people would have wanted to vote for Ratcliff.

I don’t know what happened in house district 66, but it looks like they are headed for a runoff. I have a hunch this is not a very conservative district though.

It looks like there are a lot of Polo Road elitists in the lead right now in house races, and it looks like a bad night for Texas conservatives. I don’t hold out hope Straus will lose his speaker’s job either.

The next legislative session is going to be just as bad if not worse than the last two, with the agenda controlled by Democrats.

They have a live chat room thing. I personally think it’s a mistake. Anyhow, a few of the nutters are screaming to each other about Perry and KBH colluding to steal the election from Medina and saying that there are still 19% of the precincts to report, so there’s no way – not even through advanced mathematics and knowledge of the population of remaining precincts – that they could know Perry has won.

Glad I could do my part in the gubernatorial race — Medina was an intriguing candidate but she proved to my satisfaction that at the very least she just wasn’t ready.

But what I want to know is, how will the MSM square this result with the narrative that the Tea Party movement is “anti-incumbent” in nature (to pick one of their less derogatory terms).

Taking advantage of most current open thread and changing subjects….

Slashdot points to a story in the LA Times (via Hugh Pickens)…

In short…a couple decides to save the planet by replacing their grass with wood chips. Only now they face a “maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for their grass-free, eco-friendly landscaping scheme.”

Quotes like this blow my mind:

They said they were trying to do something good for the environment.

“We’ve got a newborn, so we want to start worrying about her future,” said Quan Ha, an information technology manager for Kelley Blue Book.

and

But city officials determined the fix was not acceptable, saying city codes require that 40% of the yard be landscaped predominantly with live plants.

“Compliance, that’s all we’ve ever wanted,” said Senior Assistant City Atty. Wayne Winthers.

and

They sent a photo of the yard to city officials in October. But according to the city, their landscaping still did not comply with city standards.

and

“It’s just funny that we pay our taxes to the city and the city is now prosecuting us with our own money,” Quan Ha said. “Doesn’t it waste funds to go back and forth in court, rather than sending pictures, e-mails and having phone conversations?”

Winthers said he hopes the city can work out a compromise. “We know times are tough, but we’re willing to work with them, we’d be more than happy to,” he said.

Bolding is mine. This last one is the best. What could possibly go wrong with government involvement in lawncare?!?

Heh. How silly of them to think politicians actually believed global warming was real. PropertyValues meet EnviroNuts…hope you enjoy your time together.

Tom is from conservative West Texas. He is not a RINO and never has been.
He will be a true Conservative Speaker for Texas. We must not allow the Dems to control any committees. This is a war of Ideas people. The Dems are progressives that want Washington Politics for Texas.

Is that what you want? I bet not. The conservatives were not able to govern for Texas largely because Dems controlled too many seats in Austin and too much influence in committees. We need a conservative, we need Tom Craddick back as Speaker.
We will rock the Dems world. No more appeasement. No more retreat.