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Roberto
Alonzo, Jr, watched the election results at his father's victory party on the
evening of March 4Texans set records with over 2.8 million primary election voters. In a number of states where data was available, union households turned out up to 33% of the total vote. Texas does not get this information, but union people worked hard to get their endorsed candidates elected.
During the last two weeks of the Texas campaign, the "Change to Win Federation," which broke away from the AFL-CIO, endorsed Barack Obama for President. However, most unions had still not endorsed by March 4. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, but was slightly edged by Obama because of the "pledged" delegates that result from the precinct conventions. There are enough "unpledged" delegates at the Democratic Party's State Convention, and a loose enough structure on the "pledged" delegates, to make the outcome of the Texas primary go either way.
Texas union leaders had gone through a process of scrutinizing
the state and local candidates and endorsing some of them. Here, we can review
the results:
The main race was the U.S. Senate. Union-endorsed Rick Noriega took 51% of
the vote over two Democratic candidates and will not have to go through an expensive
runoff election. he faces Republican John Cornyn this November. Texas AFL-CIO
Communications Director says that most of the endorsed statewide candidates
came through the election well, but four union-endorsed candidates for the state
legislature went down. They are:
District 43 - Rep. Juan Escobar; District 77 - Rep. Paul Moreno, District 140
- Rep. Kevin Bailey. District 146 - Rep. Borris Miles
Listed below are the Dallas County candidates endorsed for the 2008 Primaries. All Dallas AFL-CIO candidates won outright except for Diana L. Lackey, who got the most votes but still has a runoff.
Don Adams - Criminal District Judge, Court 2
Roberto Alonzo - State Representative District 104
Rafael Anchia - State Representative District 103
Jaime Cortez - Constable, Precinct No. 5
John Creuzot - Criminal Districtcourt No. 4
Yvonne Davis - State Representative District 111
Darlene Ewing - Chair, Dallas County Democratic Party
Helen Giddings - State Representative District 109
Terri Hodge - State Representative District 100
Eddie Bernice Johnson - US House 30th Congressional District
Diana L. Lackey - County Tax Assessor-Collector
Barbara Mallory-Caroway - State Representative District 110
Ken Molberg - District Judge, 95th Judicial District
Eric V. Moye' - District Judge, 14th Judicial District
John Wiley Price - County Commissioner, District 3
Lorraine Raggio - District Judge, 162nd Judicial District
Lupe Valdez - Sheriff
Allen Vaught - State Representative District 107
Royce West - Texas Senate District 23
Dallas County AFL-CIO may be reached at 214-826-4808
Rod Tanner (D) Tarrant County Democratic Chair LOST
Warren H. Gould (D) 67 th Judicial Dist. Judge WON
Randy Turner (D) 17 th District Court Judge WON
Louis Sturns 213 th District Court Judge RUNOFF with Lisa Callaghan
R. Maureen Tolbert (D) Criminal Dist. Court No. 2 WON
Charles "Chuck" Randolph (D) State Rep. Dist. 61
Chris Utchell (D) State Rep. Dist. 91 WON
Marc Veasey (D) State Rep. Dist. 95 WON
Jesus Carrillo (D) State Rep. Dist 63
Chris Turner (D) State Rep. Dist. 96 WON
Paula Hightower-Pierson (D) State Rep. Dist. 93 WON
Dan Barrett (D) State Rep. Dist. 97 WON
Tracey Smith (D) U.S. Congress Dist. 12 WON
Tom Love (D) U.S. Congress Dist. 24 WON
Steve Bush (D) U.S. Congress Dist. 6 LOST
Gerald Hartley (D) Wise County D.A.
Kyle Dubberke (D) SDEC - Dist. 10 DON'T VOTE TILL STATE CONVENTION
Tarrant County AFL-CIO may be reached at 817-284-1461