Democrat David Alameel handily defeats Kesha Rogers in Senate runoff (TX)

[struggle4progress]

Updated: 11:09 p.m. Tuesday, May 27, 2014 | Posted: 10:15 p.m. Tuesday, May 27, 2014
By Andra Lim
American-Statesman Staff

... David Alameel, who fell just shy of winning 50 percent of the vote in the March Democratic primary, swept the runoff race to be his party’s nominee to run against Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn ...

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/democrat-david-alameel-handily-defeats-kesha-roger/nf8Gd/

Whew! No LaRouche-ite on the D-ticket!

[sharp_stick]

1. Whew

I don't know if Alameel has any kind of real shot but at least we don't have the embarrassment of a Larouchie nutjob undermining the ticket.

[riqster]

2. Thanks to the voters who turned out!

[LoisB]

3. Thank you voters.

[Gothmog]

4. I spent Monday calling all of the voters in my precinct who voted in the March primary

I reached a good number and we turned out enough votes to hopefully end Kesha's 15 minutes

[a kennedy]

5. Thank you for doing this......

there's gonna be a lota calling come november to take back the house and keep the senate. Thanks again for all your work.

[struggle4progress]

6. thankyou thankyou thankyou

[Gothmog]

7. I was also an election judge yesterday for my precinct

It was a very long day

[struggle4progress]

8. +

[Gothmog]

9. As an election judge, I can not try to influence a voter

There was one voter who told us that she was not prepared to vote. As an election judge, I can not influence her vote and so I could do was point her to the sample ballot on the wall. Both I and a couple of my clerks were convinced that she voted for Kesha. That is how the process works.

[struggle4progress]

10. Of course.

[RBInMaine]

11. The LaDOUCHE BAGS are a bunch of creepy NUTS. YouTube Barney Frank taking one down at a town hall.