Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

And she was. She hit an officer with the Denton Police Department causing "serious bodily injury.". Two years later, she would be sentenced to five years in prison out of Denton County two years later (case No. F16-1100-16.)  

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• It's election results time. First, the Wise County races:
• In the race to replace retiring judge Brock Smith, we had the closest result that I can ever remember. That's a difference of 89 votes.
  
  
  
• JP Kim Redman fought off a challenger from Chico by a comfortable margin. 
  
  
  
• In the race to replace retiring judge Jan Morrow, a former DPS trooper came out on top and managed to avoid a run-off to boot.
  
  
  
• John Cornyn and Ken Paxton will be heading to a statewide runoff, but his is how Wise County voted. I beginning to think Paxton could shoot someone on Highway 114 and it wouldn't matter.
  
  
  
  
• The West Texas Oilman PAC, with help from Texas trial lawyers, allowed Andy Hopper to continue to represent Wise County in the Texas legislature. 
  
  
  
  
• State results:
• Here are the Paxton/Cornyn statewide numbers. I think Cornyn will be in trouble in the run-off. 
  
  
  
  
• To replace Paxton as the State AG, it will be "MAGA Mayes" vs. Chip Roy. 
  
  
  
• For Comptroller, Don Huffines finally won a race and did so with avoiding a run-off. And that's despite being the new owner of Epstein's ranch in New Mexico.
  
  
  
• For state comptroller, we learned that "controversial"  Bo French amazingly made it to the run-off. 
  
  
  
• Long-time Ag Commissioner Sid Miller got beat. 
  
  
  

• In other news:
• Moments ago, Iran fired upon a NATO country. Seems significant. Yesterday, they struck the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia.  
  
  
  
• Four of the six war dead were identified.
  
  
  
• This poor sap was arrested yesterday evening. It was later determined that he was just making a delivery to someone inside the building in Dallas.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Oh, my! "A Kuwaiti F/A-18 fighter jet was the cause of the accidental shootdown of three American F-15s on Sunday, according to three people familiar with initial reports of the incident. One F/A-18 pilot launched three missiles against the U.S. aircraft, according to a U.S. official. All three U.S. aircraft went down, but their pilots ejected safely."
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• This post caused rumors to fly yesterday about the Austin Sixth Street shooting, and had over 2 million views.
  
  
  
• It wasn't true. 
  
  
  
• The Texas run-off date: May 26, 2026.  Sheesh, that's a long way away.