| COUNTY-WIDE RACES |
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Sariñana moves past Medina
April 12, 2006
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Former El Paso City Council member Luis Sariñana, who lost his last race for county commissioner two years ago, defeated County Commissioner Larry Medina on Tuesday in the Democratic Party primary runoff. "The voters spoke, and they made the right choice" Sariñana said. "This is a new beginning for El Paso County."
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Escobar unseats Flores
April 12, 2006
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| Veronica Escobar defeated incumbent Betti Flores on Tuesday to become county commissioner of Precinct 2. "I'm very excited," Escobar said just after the final results were in for the primary runoff. "I'm looking forward to working for this community and bringing some honesty and ethics to Precinct 2." |
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Gamboa wins Probate Court seat
April 12, 2006
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Voters on Tuesday made longtime lawyer Eduardo Gamboa the first judge to hold the new Probate Court No. 2 seat. "I feel very humbled by the amount of votes and the margin," said Gamboa, a 26-year lawyer and a part-time associate judge in Probate Court No. 1.
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Olivo wins, will face Haggerty
April 12, 2006
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Attorney Rick Olivo pulled away from Laure Searls in Tuesday's runoff election to win the Democratic Party's nomination and face three-term Republican incumbent Dan Haggerty this fall for the Precinct 4 seat on the County Commissioners Court. "Ultimately, what made the difference was getting out and talking to people one on one" in a door-to-door campaign, Olivo said. "I plan to keep working hard discussing the issues I think are important to all of El Paso."
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Sanchez clinches new term as district clerk
April 12, 2006
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Gilbert Sanchez won a second term as El Paso County district clerk. Sanchez, 38, handily defeated Irma Jaloma-Keith, 53, a former deputy chief of the district clerk's office and a retired sheriff's deputy, in the Democratic primary runoff on Tuesday. There is no Republican opponent for this race in the November general election.
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| LOCAL NEWS/RACES |
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Petition for vote to recall O'Rourke not submitted
July 25, 2006
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By David Crowder / El Paso Times
A petition to force an election for the recall of South-West city Rep. Beto O'Rourke, which South Side activist Carmen Felix said would be filed Monday, never arrived.
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| POLITICAL NEWS |
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AG: No immigration bill by election
August 22, 2006
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Gonzales says border security must be 1st step of any plan
12:00 AM CDT on Tuesday, August 22, 2006
By GROMER JEFFERS JR. / The Dallas Morning News
Attorney General Al Gonzales said Monday that it was unlikely Congress would settle on an immigration overhaul bill by November, leaving the matter to be decided by a lame-duck president and a new Congress.
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Democrats Bump Up Nev., S.C. on Calendar
August 21, 2006
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By JIM KUHNHENN
Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO (AP) -- Democrats shook up tradition on Saturday by vaulting Nevada and South Carolina into the first wave of 2008 presidential contests along with Iowa and New Hampshire - a move intended to add racial and geographic diversity to the early voting.
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Politicians Face Tricky Task Over Iraq
August 21, 2006
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By WILL LESTER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Voters are clearly unhappy with the war in Iraq and increasingly pessimistic about its prospects, polls indicate. And they're uneasy about abandoning that country to terrorists and chaos. |
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| STATEWIDE RACES |
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TXU donations to Perry raising some eyebrows
August 28, 2006
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Governor refutes Bell's claim that he's being swayed by polluters
03:40 PM CDT on Sunday, August 27, 2006
Associated Press
AUSTIN – Utility provider TXU donated $5,000 to Gov. Rick Perry's campaign in November, just a few weeks after Mr. Perry signed an executive order speeding up state permitting for coal-fired power plants.
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Perry's vision for rural highway could become a political pothole
August 24, 2006
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By R.G. RATCLIFFE
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau
AUSTIN - One out of every eight votes in Rick Perry's margin of victory in the 2002 race for governor came from the rural counties along the Interstate 35 path of Perry's proposed Trans-Texas Corridor.
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State parks' funding woes get political
August 24, 2006
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By JIM VERTUNO
Associated Press
AUSTIN — With crumbling facilities, staffing shortages and reduced hours of operations at some sites, the 600,000-acre Texas state park system has become one of the hot political issues in the November election.
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Strayhorn plan avoids toll roads
August 22, 2006
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I-35 expansion part of alternative to Perry's Trans-Texas proposal
12:00 AM CDT on Tuesday, August 22, 2006
By KELLEY SHANNON Associated Press
AUSTIN – After months of complaining about Republican Gov. Rick Perry's transportation plan, independent gubernatorial candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn put forth her plan Monday for unclogging Texas roads.
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Perry spells out property tax aid
August 22, 2006
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But cities, counties likely to fight his relief for rising appraisals
08:04 AM CDT on Tuesday, August 22, 2006
By KEVIN KRAUSE / The Dallas Morning News
Gov. Rick Perry made a stop in Dallas on Monday to announce the creation of a task force he said would attempt to put the brakes on runaway property value increases that are straining family budgets statewide.
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| TEXAS LEGISLATIVE RACES |
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Law enforcement groups endorse candidates
April 02, 2006
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Local law enforcement officials announced their endorsements Saturday for the state Senate District 29 race. The El Paso Municipal Police Officers' Association, the El Paso County Sheriff's Officers' Association and International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 51, have endorsed state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-El Paso.
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Legislators try to regroup, get to work
March 14, 2006
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| AUSTIN -- El Paso legislators, bruised and battered from a nasty primary election season, vowed to take off their campaign gloves for the sake of voters and schoolchildren when they go back to Austin to tackle school finance. |
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O'Donnell led 19 of 36 precincts
March 10, 2006
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Lorraine O'Donnell, a candidate who challenged state Rep. Pat Haggerty in Tuesday's Republican primary election, carried a majority of the precincts in the district, which covers Northeast El Paso and part of the West Side. Out of 36 precincts, O'Donnell carried 19 and tied with Haggerty for one, according to the El Paso County Elections Department precinct results.
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