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The Houston Post /Sat., June 3, 1978/ 9A
Lively candidates
keep runoff voting
interesting in stateBy LEE JONES
Associated Press WriterRaces involving a conservative black
representative, a lawmaker who fasted
when his bills didn't pass and a maver-
ick South Texan make Saturday's legis-
lative runoffs at least as interesting as
the statewide contest for railroad
commissioner.
Voters in two senatorial districts and
13 House districts will return to the polls
to finish the job of nominating Democrat-
ic legislative candidates.
Republicans are waiting for the Demo-
cratic nominees in both Senate races and
in eight House races when the November
election rolls around.
REP. BOB VALE, a veteran of seven
two-year terms in the House, and lawyer
Phil Hardeberger, are tangling for the
Senate seat now held by Frank Lombar-
dino, D-San Antonio. Vale led in the first
primary election that defeated
Lombardino.
Vale is regarded as the more liberal of
the two candidates to. succeed the con-
servative Lombardino.
The other Senate race matches Don
Workman of Lubbock, member of the
Texas Tech board of regents, and Rep.
E.L. Short, D-Tahoka, both
conservatives.
One race that will get a lot of atten-
tion is between Rep. Clay Smothers and
automotive worker Charles Rose, both
blacks, in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas.
Smothers delighted white conserv-
atives in the House with his speeches
against such things as a state park in a
ghetto section of Houston, where he said
winos would congregate.
The House elected him rookie of the
year last session.ANOTHER DALLAS race pits black
Rep. Sam Hudson against Wes Pool, son
of the late Congressman Joe Pool and a
former aide of U.S. Rep. Jim Mattox, D-
Texas.
Hudson starved himself, subsisting on
fruit juices, for several weeks last ses-
sion to protest the slow movement of his
bills in several House committees.
Another incumbent with a runoff oppo-
nent is Rep. Ernestine Glossbrenner of
Alice, who sponsored the bill repealing
the requirement that Texans sign their
ballot stubs.
Glossbrenner, a former school teach-
er, is opposed by Homero Canales of
Alice.
Tarrant County's new single-member
district arrangement produced three run-
offs, Jack Clark and Lanny Hall, Rep.
Leonard Briscoe and Reby Cary and Roy
C. Brooks vs. Bobby Webber.
The Briscoe-Cary and Brooks-Webber
contests both match blacks against
blacks.
OTHER HOUSE runoff opponents are
Bo Crawford and Chester Slay, both of
Beaumont; Ken Valka of Missouri City
and Larry Wilkinson of Rosenberg;
Frances Morales and Rep. Hector Uribe,
both of Brownsville; Rep. Bob Valles of
El Paso and Mike Graham of San Elizar-
io; H.D. Baggett and Jay Gibson of
Odessa; Al Edwards and Gerald Wo-
mack of Houston and El Franco Lee and
Norma Mims Watson of Houston.
The Edwards-Womack contest will
name a successor to Rep. Anthony Hall,
and the Lee-Watson race is to replace
Rep. Mickey Leland. Hall and Leland,
both blacks, are runoff opponents for
Se. congression-
al seat.
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