[Lnc-business] Travis County, Texas - winnable elections

Tue Oct 14 19:34:38 EDT 2014

DEAR LNC:

>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

> 

>Libertarians run record 37 candidates in Travis County, Texas

> 

>Contact: Arthur DiBianca | 512-707-2809 | 

>< <mailto:arthur.dibianca at gmail.com>
mailto:arthur.dibianca at gmail.com>arthur.dibianca at gmail.com

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>"AUSTIN - The Libertarian Party will have 37 nominees on the ballot 

>in Travis County, Texas for the November 2014 elections.

> 

>That's a record for the Travis County Libertarian Party (TCLP).

> 

>"Not only is it a record for us, but we believe it's the most 

>Libertarians you'll see on any county's ballot in America this 

>year," said Arthur DiBianca, TCLP treasurer. 

>The following Libertarians are running:

STATEWIDE RACES

>Rebecca Paddock - U.S. Senator

>Kathie Glass - Governor

>Robert D. Butler - Lt. Governor

>Jamie Balagia - Attorney General

>Ben Sanders - Comptroller

>Justin Knight - Land Commissioner

>David (Rocky) Palmquist - Agriculture Commissioner

>Mark A. Miller - Railroad Commissioner

>Tom Oxford - Supreme Court Chief Justice

>Mark Ash - Supreme Court Justice, Place 6

>Don Fulton - Supreme Court Justice, Place 7

>RS Roberto Koelsch - Supreme Court Justice, Place 8

>Mark W. Bennett - Court of Criminal Appeals Judge, Place 3

>Quanah Parker - Court of Criminal Appeals Judge, Place 4

>William Bryan Strange, III - Court of Criminal Appeals Judge, Place 9

IN-TRAVIS-COUNTY RACES

>Bill Kelsey - U.S. Rep, District 10

>Shawn Michael Hamilton - U.S. Rep, District 17

>Ryan Shields - U.S. Rep, District 21

>John Betz - U.S. Rep, District 25

>Cory W. Bruner - U.S. Rep, District 35

>James Arthur Strohm - State Senator, District 14

>Brandin P. Lea - State Senator, District 25

>Kevin Ludlow - State Rep, District 46

>Scott G. McKinlay - State Rep, District 47

>Ben Easton - State Rep, District 48

>Daniel Krawisz - State Rep, District 49

>David Dreesen - State Rep, District 50

>Arthur DiBianca - State Rep, District 51

>Richard Perkins - County Judge

>Kevin Pick - District Clerk

>Michael M. Holt - County Clerk

>Mike Burris - County Treasurer

>Steven Haskett - County Commissioner, Precinct 2

>Joseph Morse - County Commissioner, Precinct 4

>Daniel Martin Ruble - JP, Precinct 2

>Nathan Kleffman - JP, Precinct 3

>Zach Warren - JP, Precinct 4

>TCLP website:    ><http://travislp.org/>http://travislp.org/

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I note that Texas has straight ticket voting.  That sucks, but it doesn't
affect non-partisan races.

I am not intimating that ALL of the elections below are winnable.  In many
cases, you probably have incumbents running for

re-election. 

That being said, you can see the extremely small number of votes needed to
win the elections listed below.  

I also note that almost all of these districts are outside of Austin.  Since
Austin has 77% of the population of Travis County, it is likely that there
are relatively few LP of Travis County members who live in the districts
below.  And - you need to find someone who is willing to show up at all of
the meetings of these districts for the next 4 years or so, if they win.

Even with all of those constraints, given the success of the LP of Travis
County in recruiting candidates for the unwinnable races listed above, I bet
they could win some of the elections below if they focused on said
elections.

I also note that there are dozens and dozens of districts in Travis County
in the link that I sent out a few days ago 

that are NOT listed below.  Some of those positions might be appointed, but
according to the staff member I spoke to, most of them are elected.   If
they are elected but not listed below, those are GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES for
the LP of Travis County to get Libertarians elected to those districts just
by filing for those races.

I admit that it would require a significant amount of Internet research,
telephone calling, and/or in-person visits to find out which districts hold
elections, when those elections are, and how to file for those elections.  I
am very lucky that all elections for public office in my county are listed
on my county's Registrar of Voters web site.

Again - I am not singling out the LP of Travis County as not wanting to
concentrate on winnable elections. There has been a lot of pressure from the
leadership of the National LP and State LP's over the past 40 years to run
as many candidates as possible 

in unwinnable, non-ballot-access-retaining elections.  I can't blame local
Libertarian leaders for following that lead.

     Scott Lieberman   Region 4 Alternate, Libertarian National Committee
(I live in Santa Clara County, California)

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This is NOT a complete list of the results of these elections.  These are
just the non-partisan elections that, IMO, are winnable with a reasonable
amount of work by a Libertarian.  By reasonable I mean it would involve less
than 40 total hours of campaigning.

It depends on how you count them, but I count approximately 32 different
"elections" below that are "winnable."  Note that most of these elections
are not held in November of even-numbered years, so don't blame the Travis
County LP for not having candidates for the races listed below in their list
of candidates at the beginning of this e-mail.

I apologize if the formatting of the stuff below looks bad.  I had to copy
multiple PDF files and extensively edit them, so it is likely that the
reflector software and/or your own e-mail software will mess around with my
formatting.

May 14, 2011 Joint General and Special Elections   Travis County, Texas

Official Results

MAYOR, CITY OF JONESTOWN

Deane Armstrong    69

PLACE 1, ALDERMAN, CITY OF JONESTOWN

Bill Nichols   65

PLACE 2, ALDERMAN, CITY OF JONESTOWN

Tom Buckle           66

Stanley Bruce Cline   9  

MAYOR, CITY OF MANOR

Jeff Turner    79

PLACE 1, CITY OF MANOR COUNCIL POSITION

Jim Hooker     68

PLACE 3, CITY OF MANOR COUNCIL POSITION

Rita G. Jonse     86

PLACE 5, CITY OF MANOR COUNCIL POSITION

Rebecca Davies   64

Stormy Stuard    36

COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF SUNSET VALLEY

John Moore         94

Rose Ann Cardona  126

Forrest Arnold    107

Rudi Rosengarten  117

PLACE 4, LAGO VISTA ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Tom Rugel    337

PLACE 5, LAGO VISTA ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Gene Uecker  158

Mark Abbott  313

MANOR ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Allen Ambuhl                     177

Tracy Reyes Medearis             142

Desiree Barnes Cornelius-Fisher  288

Melinda Tumlinson Fiebig         160

Ezequiel (Zeke) Lopez            101

Yvette Meiche                      116

MANOR ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES SPECIAL ELECTION

Isaac J. Ruiz  90

Ben Arellano  180

David Burgos  178

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 November 8, 2011 Joint General and Special Elections

Travis County

MAYOR, THE VILLAGE OF POINT VENTURE

Cristin Celcal  110

Rich Shinn      105

THE VILLAGE OF POINT VENTURE CITY COUNCIL

Donald Conyer    115

Andy Virette Jr.  72

Jeffrey Warneke  159

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May 12, 2012 Joint General and Special Elections

Travis County

COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF LAKEWAY

Anita Cokins           886

Bruce Harris          1135

Dave Taylor        1118

Dee Ann Burns-Farrell  911

Kay Sconci             561

MAYOR, CITY OF ROLLINGWOOD

Barry Bone                   257

William C. (Bill) Hamilton   245

ALDERMAN, CITY OF ROLLINGWOOD

Mark W. Welker  154

Sara Hutson     323

Shelly Bain     282

Pam Opiela      180

MAYOR, CITY OF SUNSET VALLEY

Rose A. Cardona   112

Barbara L. Wilson  77

COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF SUNSET VALLEY

Zubair Hamir    95

Walter Jenkins 119

Jeff Burdett    94

ALDERMAN, VILLAGE OF BRIARCLIFF

Kathy Crawford  163

Steven Autrey   208

Paul Eagan      116

Kelly Patterson 162

Jean Dowdy      131

MAYOR, VILLAGE OF WEBBERVILLE

Hector Gonzales  70

Nancy Johns      46

COMMISSIONER, PLACE 1, VILLAGE OF WEBBERVILLE

Monte Swearengen   88

COMMISSIONER, PLACE 2, VILLAGE OF WEBBERVILLE

Sean McMahon   91

DIRECTOR, LAKEWAY MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT

Allan Hitchcock  311

Don Paczkowski   312

Mel Neese        460

Tom Brewer       457

Kay Andrews      419

DEL VALLE ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES, SINGLE MEMBER DISTRICT 4

Richard Rendon  50

Jerry Banda     37

DEL VALLE ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES, SINGLE MEMBER DISTRICT 6

Edward Johnson   37

Rebecca A. Birch 66

DIRECTORS, TRAVIS COUNTY WCID 17

Jeff Roberts     307

Rob Berry        228

Jerri Lynn Ward  311

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November 6, 2012 Joint General and Special Elections

Travis County

DIRECTORS, LAKESIDE MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 3

Mike Zeniecki    78

John A. Howell  100

Turk McMurry     20

PLACE 1, DIRECTOR, NORTH AUSTIN MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 1

Keith Collins      188

John Grossenbacher  85

PLACE 3, DIRECTOR, NORTH AUSTIN MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 1

Jo Jones  265

PLACE 5, DIRECTOR, NORTH AUSTIN MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 1

Diana Christiano  144

Rob Lallier        46

John T. Lenz       83

DIRECTORS, SOUTHEAST TRAVIS COUNTY MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 1

Robert J. Kleeman           2

George E. Robinson III      2

Steve Ashlock               2

Frank H. Del Castillo, Jr.  2

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 May 11, 2013 Joint General and Special Elections

Travis County

COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY OF BEE CAVE

Michelle Bliss  390

Bill Goodwin    333

Jack McCool     229

Paul Kline      473

Kara King       592

Chad Wilbanks   173

BOARD OF TRUSTEES PLACE 3, LAKE TRAVIS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT

Alex Alexander   1368

BOARD OF TRUSTEES PLACE 4, LAKE TRAVIS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT

Jason Buddin   1373

BOARD OF TRUSTEES PLACE 5, LAKE TRAVIS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT

Kendal Fowler    385

Jennifer Spille  264

Kim Flasch      1072

David Lovelace   241

PERMANENT DIRECTORS, TRAVIS COUNTY MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 17

Frank Caldwell  1

Ronald F. Beyer 1

Mike Marsh      1

Barry Clark     1

PERMANENT DIRECTORS ELECTION, PILOT KNOB MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 3

Thomas K. Rhodes   2

Shelley Rowton     2

Michael C. Stouse  2

Howard Surratt     2

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<http://www.traviscountyclerk.org/eclerk/content/images/election_results/201
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November 5, 2013 Joint General and Special Elections

Travis County

PLACE 4, CITY COUNCIL, UNEXPIRED TERM, CITY OF LEANDER

Dan Miche      16

Ron Abruzzese  39

Bob Hanson     20

Jerry Perez     9

Caldwell       16

MAYOR, VILLAGE OF THE HILLS

Ron Dodd       232

Jerry Schmeil  191

BOARD OF ALDERMEN, VILLAGE OF THE HILLS

J.R. Smith   302

Rick Zehrer  225

CITY COUNCIL, VILLAGE OF VOLENTE

Ken Beck               141

Christopher R. Wilder  125

Mike Nitz               60

Mark Scott             117

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May 10, 2014 Joint General and Special Elections

Travis County

MAYOR, CITY OF WEST LAKE HILLS

Dave Claunch    875

PLACE 2, CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF WEST LAKE HILLS

Taylor Holcomb    744

ALDERMEN, VILLAGE OF BRIARCLIFF

Kelly Ann Patterson  74

Jo Ann Richmond      67

Kathy Crawford       61

Jeff Elliott        103

The following district is up for election next month:

TANGLEWOOD FOREST LIMITED DISTRICT 

DIRECTORS ELECTION

  Approximately 400 votes needed to win

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