Primarily politics: Barton to face Cobb, Ratliff to face Cutler in November

By Ashley Landis Staff Reporter

San Marcos — With all precincts reporting after Tuesday's primary election, the November ballot seems to be coming into focus.

Out of 93,224 registered voters in Hays County, 3,460 Democrats and 4,403 Republicans voted in the primary elections. 

That's an 8.43 percent voter turnout.

In the race for county judge, Democrat Jeff Barton, currently County Commissioner, will run against Republican Bert Cobb on the November ballot.  Barton won over incumbent Liz Sumter, who received 43.73 percent of the vote while Barton received 56.27 percent.

“I'm looking forward to pulling together not only Democrats but the community to concentrate on how to address the challenges facing Hays County,” Barton said.

Cobb won with 55.8 percent of the vote over Republican opponent Peggy Jones (44.2 percent).  Cobb was unavailable for comment.

For Hays County Sheriff, incumbent Democrat Tommy Ratliff came out on top with 56.28 percent of the vote, while opponent Bill Huddleston received 43.72 percent.  Ratliff was not immediately available for comment.

Gary Cutler ran unopposed on the Republican ballot.

For County Court at Law, Place 1, Democratic incumbent Anna M. Boling won over David Mendoza with 63.71 percent of the vote.  Mendoza received 36.29 percent.

“I just think overall I have more experience, but he did a good job and he'll get there some day,” Boling said.

Republican Robert Updegrove ran unopposed.

Democratic incumbent Patrick M. Rose will be on the ballot after a 76.43 percent win over Andrew H. Backus (23.57 percent) for a place on the ballot for State Representative for District 45. Republican candidate Jason A. Isaac ran unopposed in the primaries.

County Commissioner, Pct. 2 yielded 77.05 percent of the vote for Republican Mark Jones and 22.95 percent for Mike Gonzales.

“I didn't expect a 75–25 win,” Jones said. “The people of Buda and Kyle agreed with our vision for the future.”

Democrat Ray Bryant ran unopposed.

At the state level, Governor Rick Perry won over opposing Republicans Kay Bailey Hutchison and Debra Medina with 51.11 percent of the vote.

Hutchison drew 30.33 percent of the vote and Medina 18.55 percent.

Hays County Democrats voted 85.08 percent for Bill White to appear on the November ballot, compared to Farouk Shami (8.14 percent), Felix (Rodriguez) Alvarado (3.43 percent), Clement E. Glenn (0.61 percent), Alma Ludivina Aguado (1.38 percent), Star Locke (0.72 percent) and Bill Dear  (0.63 percent).

Statewide, White garnered 76.10 percent of the Democratic primary vote.

Texans chose Linda Chavez-Thompson for Lieutenant Governor (53.09 percent) compared to Ronnie Earle (34.67 percent) and Marc Katz (12.22 percent).

Democrat Hank Gilbert (52.32 percent) won over Richard “Kinky” Friedman (47.67 percent) for Commissioner of Agriculture.

Other state level Democratic results include Hector Uribe (51.67 percent) for Commissioner of General Land Office and Rebecca Bell-Metereau (61.89 percent) for State Board of Education District 5.

On the Republican ballot, Proposition #1, which would require Texas voters to provide valid photo identification drew 1,322,658 affirmative votes (92.86 percent).

Proposition #2, which would limit government bodies to increase annual budgets to the combined increase of population and inflation without voter approval yielded 1,284,035 affirmative votes (91.90 percent).

Proposition #3: Cutting Federal Income Taxes: “In addition to aggressively eliminating irresponsible federal spending, congress should empower American citizens to stimulate the economy by Congress cutting federal income taxes for all federal taxpayers, rather than spending hundreds of billions of dollars on so- called 'federal economic stimulus,” drew 1,308,954 votes (93.08 percent).

Proposition #4: Public Acknowledgment of God, which would allow the use of the word 'God,' prayers and the Ten Commandments at public gatherings and public educational institutions, as well as be permitted on government buildings and property, will appear on the November ballot.  It received 1,368,565 yes votes (95.13 percent).

Proposition #5, which would require women to see a sonogram of their unborn fetus before receiving an abortion received 965,309 statewide affirmative votes (68.84 percent).

All results are unofficial and based on 100 percent of precincts reporting.



 

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