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I hung out at Election Central tonight calling in the results to my webmaster-for-the-night. I'll add more tomorrow. For now, I'm tired.Edit:
- The County Attorney's race was insane. Marilyn Belew pulled ahead of Thomas Aaberg for the chance to get into the runoff with 2 precincts left. We then had to stand around for 30 minutes waiting for the last two boxes to be counted (why did that take so long?). Marilyn, who has more guts than me, stayed in the room to wait for the final results.
- Although I like all the County Attorney candidates, I'm sick for Thomas who lost by about 30 votes with over 5,000 cast. And it looked like he would be in the runoff until the very end.
- I saw the Sheriff's bride-to-be. Hey, now.
- The Messenger guys are good sports. As much as I give them the business, they are always as nice to me as can be - especially as we scrambled over the released results. I kept proclaiming, in a faux serious voice, "The Messenger's blocking me! The Messenger's blocking me!" (And, when they had a little screw up with their addition of the votes on their web site, I didn't have any problem bringing it to their attention. It was a mistake easy to make. I made a couple myself along the way.)
- Kevin Huffman, Doug Parr, and Gary Emmert came by to watch the results. All good guys.
- Three Justices of the Peace showed up even though they weren't in any contested race.
- I can't believe I wasn't single handily able to bring down Phil King. Man, whenever you have that much name recognition, you can win as long as you want. (And I heard he was a Muslim who goes to a church that pledges its allegiance to Africa!!)
- There was almost an hour wait between early voting and the first results. And I promise that the word was given that even though two precincts had reported, those votes weren't going to be released because "we don't want to waste paper." I thought there was going to be a riot.
- That Joe Duty was everywhere snapping pictures.
- Speaking of riots, there was talk of a fight breaking out in the Blewitt voting site with Sheriff deputies called out to break it up. Good times.
- The vote counts went a lot smoother when Republican Chair Allen Williamson came in to help out with the distribution. He's a born showman.
- So much for a black man getting votes in Wise County (reference: Obama.) Pretty cool Google map break down here.
- It's no surprise that David Walker was re-elected Sheriff but the margin of victory continues to be mind-boggling.
- That messy blotch up by Phil King's name is the result of "White Out" being used to cover up an old permanent mark. It was not caused by my Barry Tears rolling down my Barry Cheeks. Maybe.
46 comments:
How could all those idiots vote for Phil King and Craig Estes? I can't believe it. Look at the crappy job our state legislature has done the last ten years and the folks keep voting the same boneheads back in. When our elected officials perform poorly, it's time to vote against incumbants. Except the sheriff, of course. Sorry for the hostility, but it pisses me off we keep getting the same ole crap.
Since the Records building was a madhouse, we had to rely on you and the Messenger site. Thanks for being the fastest and most accurate with the numbers. I will be donating calculators to the Messenger so that they might use them in the next election and not startle us with their drastic fluctuation in numbers!
I find it interesting that McCain had only a slight lead over Huckabee in the Republican Primary. REALLY?
Proud to be voting for Hillary, or Obama ~ whatever the case may end up.
I hate this county. But then I realize, you all deserve the "leaders" you elect.
And is Belew single? She is a hottie, holla!
Hey, Mr. Liberally Lean,
maybe what Joe needed was your money. You might talk to your partner about that. I note that he kicked in to the cause.
I second that m&m!!
We have this great process of being able correct mistakes and send a message to elected officials and we fell to use it. I'm not in favor of term limits but if the voters don't get any smarter then I might change my mind.
I like to hear from some of you guys who voted for King. Why???
I had a crazy night myself. I dreamed I won the lottery and hired Static X play my birthday party. Me, Tommy Lee and Keith Richards jammed while we gave each other shots of smack. It was cool!
m&m - for once I totally agree with you. There appear to be so many politically ignorant voters that elections are just incumbent re-election events - regardless of how poorly they perform. Name recognition seems to trump any other factor.
I'm not from Wise County, but it's funny to hear all you libs crying your little tears this morning. The majority of the voters spoke, and y'all lost. GET OVER IT!!!
I voted for Hillary because she will be much easier for McCain to beat. Besides it will be fun to watch Hillary and Obama smear beat each other up. I'm getting my popcorn ready, it should be a great show!
What's really sad is the individuals who vote strictly on name association or because a friend told them or a neighbor told them or a family member told them. Not because they researched the information for themselves. For instance, voting for Phil King is really close to pulling the pin on a grinade and holding it,you will LOSE something. Common sense and public record will tell the average citizen it's time for him to go. I realize Joe Tison is not a seasoned Politician but that's my point, it's the seasoned politicians who are screwing the tax payer. Ask yourself a question, are those seasoned politicians, we all wonder about, still in Ausitn because they just LOVE what they do or, are they still there because of the major rewards they receive? No, wait, he's won again because of his family values, that's why he wants to be in Ausitn. Yes, that's correct no one other than Phil has family values. Wake up people! Special Interest is in his back pocket and we are all paying for it. Where's the term limits, someone please bring me some term limits!!
Thanks to all the Rush and Ann Coulter followers that switched over to vote for The Pig in a Pantsuit so that the liberal weenies will continue to fight and raise and waste money. It's so much fun to watch liberals eat each other.
Reason #1 Voted for King
Tison supports abortion rights...King was endorsed by thr Right for Life Group.
Reason #2 Voted for King
Tison supports Gov. recognition of Gay Marriage. King does not.
Research before you vote!
Good job, Barry. I found your reporting more accurate than the Messenger's (when they had their screw-up). I couldn't believe the King win, either.
WTF? Phil King and Craig Estes AGAIN?
SOS!
Dear Hillary and Barack,
I have watched several news cast and listened to numerous speeches of Hillary and Obama. The US is in trouble and we desperately need new leadership. Lets put aside the differences and become a team. Lets think about the common good and what is of the most importance...NEW LEADERSHIP. If McCain wins, we as Americans will lose. There will be no changes.
Gas prices are STILL going up, the cost of a jug of milk is outragious, and the war in Iraq has takin it's toll on every American in one way or another. Enough is enough!
Both Hillary and Obama bring great solutions to the table. If I had a wish, I would wish they would run as a team. Imagine what the two of them combined could do. I think it is something they should think about. Whomever wins the Presidency, should ask the other to be their running mate, not for themselves, but for America!
I hope this finds Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and they give it some thought.
I agree that a drawn out race for the Democratic presidential nomination will be good for McCain. Watching these two smear each other all the way to the convention will leave little time for the party to unite and let's admit it: McCain ain't unattractive to moderate Democrats who will be fed up with a protracted Hillary-Obama war.
I'm just hoping that McCain picks a running mate along the lines of a Duncan Hunter to appeal to the Reagan conservatives that he has alienated over the years as a RINO (Republican In Name Only).
welll i never knew that we had so many voters glad to see the turnout but with that i see that we have a runoff for county attonery vote for james since ou of the two he is the only conservative with good family values
anonymous 9:28..reason #3
Tison bit off HOLYFIELD'S e
ar that guy' mean..
Glad to see our incumbant Sheriff won with such a devastating victory!!
I don't listen to Ann Coulter or Rush. I don't like either one of them. I figured it out on my own. A house divided cannot stand! Vote for Hillary
Re 9:28
You heard with your own ears Tison say he supports gay marriage and abortion rights.........or did you buy into the sleezebag's lies?
Come on use, your brains.
All of us will pay dearly (utilities) for your vote.
10:27, You are so right about a house divided will not stand. That's why the Conservatives switched over to vote for the pig so that we can watch and laugh at your house not standing. Thanks for your vote.
9:28 I understand what you are saying but Gay's are going to do their thing whether they are married or not and if a scared child wants to have an abortion because she is afraid of what her parents will do to her she's going to do it. I understand your concerns but what does that have to do with Phil King and Special Interest taking money out of your pocket and not being "straight-up" with the voting public. It sounds as if you'll vote for a person because of his stand on gay's and abortion and not his ethics when the ethics are the problem. If you run for office in Texas all you have to do is say your against gay marriage and abortion and you get elected. I am against gay rights and not in favor of abortion but I also realize in the scheme of things it's the so-called "race card" for politicians. Ethics are important as well. Especially when you align yourself with the Religious right. You should have thought and used a little common sense before you voted. It's not O.K. in my mind to say one thing and do another regardless of who you are or how much pull you have.
Wahoo Belew!!!
Yesterday a male (not a real man) was seen by the neighbor stealing Ms. Belew's sign out of my rock garden. You left perfect boot prints on the driveway, (approx. size 9.5 work boot's), and crushed one of my pansie's.
Remember-FORGIVENESS is the fragrance that flowers put forth when crushed under boot.
The rock stayed solid like Ms. Marilyn Belew.
Your boot print's are photographed and hopefully Wise County's finest will be investigating, YOU THREE LEGGED DAWG!!!
I voted for Joe Tison because he is not a seasoned politician. He wasn't in the race for himself and he wasn't some young newcomer to the political scene that these special interests could influence!
If Obama should win the presidency, he'll never accomplish the things he's promising! There's too much bureacracy. He's a smooth talker and people like the things he's says, but that's all it is-talk.
Haven't you guys ever seen Eddie Murphy in The Distinguised Gentleman??? That's a great movie!
Anon 9:46
"Gas prices are STILL going up"
(because everyone thinks they need that SUV)
"the cost of a jug of milk is outragious" (Farm Bill and ethanol idiocy from the Democrats)
"and the war in Iraq has takin it's toll on every American in one way or another" (apparently it has TAKEN ITS toll on education)
I cannot believe that anyone thinks that these problems are going to magically disappear when a Democrat is elected.
Phil King is backed by the NRA, my DH received at least 5 postcards telling him to vote for King from the NRA-ILA. 'Nuff said.
I just read the WC Messenger and am pissed.....I read through David Allen's (Sheriff Candidate)comments post election. He said that is is possible that the voters were confused and voted for the wrong "David" Give me a freaking break......over 4000 people did not mistake which David to vote for. I live in New Fairview and am pleased to vote for David WALKER mainly because he is doing a great job. The other reason is I was insulted by Allen last election when he made a comment to the Messenger about the "good 'ol boy system. Congratulations WALKER and congratulations for loosing Allen...
Anon 9:46 Are you serious? Both of these candidates are in favor of abortion, including partial birth abortion. They want more gun control and are even against private gun ownership. They favor affirmative action, you know how fair that is. They want to increase taxes they take. They want to increase government spending. If Obama's promises were passed, the budget would go up 1 trillion dollars in one year. Yea, we can afford that! They want to fix education by throwing more money at it, ya like our past history of spending more on education has fixed it. They are against domestic drilling and exploration for oil to reduce foreign dependence. They are very soft on border control and immigration reform. They want to poor tons of more money into the united nations. Right just poor it straight down the toilet, no difference. They were in favor of the min. wage going up, nice government interference. They won't repeal those outrageous death and estate taxes. They are against the death penalty. Man alive, the list just goes on and on how their thinking and philosophy is pure craziness. Right, they bring great solutions to the table?
Barry, why don't you do a poll....
Who did you vote for?
1. Obama - really
2. Hillary - really
3. John -really
4. Hillary - so John can beat her in November?
My hope is that good old santimonious Phil King got a STRONG message that lots of folks don't care for him. He may have the name recognition, but that's about all he has. And at least one person reported that bookoos of his signs were erected in a yard WITHOUT the permission of the landowner. Nice move from his church going buddies.
He may be back in for a while, but just bet some folks will be lining up to run against him again.
Hopefully!
Hey 9:00, if McCain wins the Presidency the best thing you can do for him is ship him a wheelchair and get him a speech therapist.
9:28 - explain how all of your reasons for voting for Phil King impacts the job he HASN'T done for Wise County?
Please?
You're right about David Walker's bride to be. HEY NO! YUMMY!
Um, Hello, Phil King HAS NOT BEEN RE-ELECTED as the Messenger Suggests. He will face the Democrat, Charles Randolph in the November General Election.
Fair and Balanced Reporting would be an overstatement to say the least when it came to the election results coverage of the Texas 2008 Primary Election in Wise County by the Wise County Messenger. One Democratic Voter referred to it as "feeling dis-infranchised" because we had been "left out". Until midnight, I checked for the election returns for the Democratic Primary and only a few Democrats were listed. Then I picked up the Early Thursday edition and found no mention in any of the biased Messenger articles that would give any indication that there were any Democrats that had run in Tuesday's Primary. In an article about Phil King the title said he was "Re-Elected" and that was misleading. Why, if it wasn't for his own comment about looking towards November, Voters would have assumed he won and obviously do from the neo-con rants on this blog!
The real story for the voters of Wise County is this.
In the 2006 Republican Primaries the Governors race drew in 1877 voters from Wise County. This Years Presidential Race counted 1711 voters, a decrease by 166 votes. In the US Senate Race, Republicans Votes were 1807 in 2006, in 2008, they were 1505, a decrease of 302 voters. In 2006 the Republican primary race for Railroad Commissioner attracted 1707 voters, this years race drew 1262, another decrease of 445 voters.
In the 2006 Democratic Primaries, the Governors Race drew in 618 voters from Wise County. This Years Presidential Primary counted 1251 voters, an increase of 633 votes. In the US Senate Race, Democrats Votes were 507 in 2006, in 2008, they were 1002, an increase of 405 voters. In 2006 the Democratic Primary race for Railroad Commission attracted 535 voters. This year 932 votes were cast, yet another increase from 2006 by 397 votes.
This is the Real picture of politics in Wise County and the State of Texas. Shame on the Messenger for not picking this up.
Spin it however you want, by calling it the Muddying of waters by crossovers, but Republicans had more to loos in Wise County Races than they did in the Presidential nomination and wouldn't risk it, not real Republicans. Besides, you can not contribute the spark for the Democrats by that many because of crossovers. If so, that seems a bit communist, much like the CUBA REGIME does by pretending to be a Democracy.
Denton County: Is Cynthia White going to get a recount?
The local republican election results left me UNDERWHELMED! Except, of course, the great vote of confidence for our good sheriff.
Anon @ 5:18 you are correct. The Messenger should hold the Republican meetings at the news room. That way Roy and his band of clowns wont have to walk far to report the news.
Anon 5:18, you need to research your facts a little better. The numbers you're spouting for this year are EARLY votes, not the totals.
Everyone here might be interested in this site. http://www.taxguru.org/politics/Commies.htm
If links are not allowed look up the 10 planks of the communist manifesto and compare them to America.
9:35 whatever you are smoking must be real good stuff. Or you might be LSD tripping. Anyway, in your wildest dreams, or how you wish it really was.....
and don't forget Commies are mean like Conservatives. Remember the Chinese and Russians? They are more in tune with the Conservative "kill'em and take their liberties away" mentality than those "Libruls" ever could be.
Comparing this to Democrats (the comparison to Democrats is not coincidental) is like comparing Republicans and the Bush Admistration to Nazi thinking/actions. Not exactly true.................
Look it up, SOS website, 100% preceincts Reporting. Maybe you do the Research.
educational link
http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_135_county248.htm
23 precincts 100%
For all you Phil King supporters, I guess you weren't at the Chamber Meeting where he admitted to adding "what he wanted" into other bills so that he knew it would pass (and he was proud enough about it to admit it in public!) Makes me a little scared of what else he does to get what he wants!
way to go phil - this just goes to show that seniors and business people actually go vote and the teachers just wine and complain. I wonder if tison will get back money from his 15k consultant.
I voted for David ALLEN. Personally I think David WALKER is far to young and inexperienced to hold position of sheriff. Granted he seems like a very nice guy, but...
Phil King is a corrupt jackass who has NEVER done one good thing for Wise or Parker county. On the other hand, Joe Tison seems to be a intelligent individual who truely cares about the citizens of this district. I was really hoping he would win.
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