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Democrats of Dallas
2018 PRIMARY RUNOFF ENDORSEMENTS
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JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, PRECINCT 4, PLACE 2
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THE SLATE OF ENDORSEMENT
RECOMMENDATIONS ISAS FOLLOWS:
U.S. REPRESENTATIVE 32
★ COLIN ALLRED
COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT OF APPEALS NO. 2
★ PAMELA LUTHER
DISTRICT JUDGE, 193RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT
* CARL GINSBERG
JUDGE, COUNTY COURT-AT-LAW NUMBER 4
★ KEN TAPSCOTT
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, DISTRICT 109
* CARL SHERMAN, SR.
DISTRICT JUDGE, 68TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
★ MARTIN HOFFMAN
★ CONSTABLE, PRECINCT 5
BETH VILLARREAL
GOVERNOR
★ LUPE VALDEZ
EARLY VOTING
May 14th-18th
ELECTION DAY
May 22nd
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Bruno Lozano, left, Jess Herbst, right
an. Herbst was appointed mayor after
Angel's husband, former mayor Johnny
Hamm, died in 2016.
Herbst was an aiderman before her ap-
pointment by the town council. She also
identified as Jeff Herbst. She announced
her transition in February 2017 in a letter to
the town of 700. If elected, she would have
become the first elected transgender mayor
in the state.
She came in third out of four candidates,
including one who dropped out but re-
mained on the ballot.
She blamed a litany of issues, according
to an interview with NBC News, includ-
ing an anonymous letter mischaracterizing
pro-LGBT tweets.
But way down south, in Vai Verde Coun-
ty, voters elected gay veteran Bruno Loza-
no as mayor. Fie ousted incumbent Mayor
Robert Garza by a lopsided 62-38 percent.
Lozano's sexual orientation was not an
issue in the campaign. He ran a spirited,
energetic campaign focusing on the future
of the city. Garza, on the other hand, was
an entrenched incumbent who was just not
well liked. Turn out was also low, with few-
er than 3,500 votes cast.
Near Houston, Michael and Steven
Byrum-Bratsen would have been the first
same-sex couple in the state to both hold
elected offices. Michael faced no opponent
in his re-election bid for the Iowa Colony
City Council. But his husband Steve fell
short of winning election to a seat on the
Brazoria County Drainage District Board.
While Salman Bhojani is straight, the
Muslim Democrat elected in Euless in
northeast Tarrant County pulled off noth-
ing short of a miracle when he defeated
Molly Maddux, a Republican, for that city's
open council seat. The council race is non-
partisan, but Maddux had the backing of
state Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford,
who took issue with Bhojani's political af-
filiation and faith.
Sticklands' comments posted on Face-
book drew widespread criticism, and Bho-
jani earned support from ministers across
North Texas. He won by 37 votes.
A Bedford councilman backed by Stick-
land also lost. Dan Cogan beat Dave Geb-
hart by a 54-45 percent margin. And the
drama did not end in northeast Tarrant
County. In two hotly contested races for
Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School
District, incumbent Mindy McClure beat
Tim Raine, while incumbent Becky St. John
faces a run-off against Amy Putnam, likely
in July.
The challengers — Raine and Putnam —
ran as a slate and had the backing of Stick-
land, Sen. Konni Burton, R-Colleyville, and
others.
Beginning next week, early voting begins
for run-off elections for any vote-getter that
did not win outright in the March primaries.
In those runoff elections, Democrats could
make history by electing lesbians as their
party nominees up and down the ballot.
Statewide voters will choose between
former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez
and Houston businessman Andrew White
to take on Gov. Greg Abbott in the fall. And
Lorie Burch faces Sam Johnson for the Dem-
ocratic nomination in congressional District
3, a Plano-based seat. The eventual victor
faces Republican Van Taylor in the fall.
If Burch is elected, she will share the No-
vember ballot with Mark Pharriss, who is
running for the open state senate District 8
seat. He faces Republican Angela Paxton,
the wife of Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Other races feature the run-off for Senate
District 17, a swing district currently repre-
sented by state Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Hous-
ton. The run-off for the three-county district
including Brazoria, Fort Bend and parts of
Harris County pits lawyer Fran Watson
against lawyer and LGBT ally Rita Lucindo.
In Congressional Distrct 32, the state's
sole swing congressional district encom-
passing parts of San Antonio and El Paso,
veteran Gina Ortiz Jones faces Rick Trevino
for the chance to face Rep. Will Hurd in the
fall. ■
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