Election Night...2007

Tonight is Election Night, and it's an off-year, odd-year one. On this day, all over Greater Houston, bond proposals are up for debate, council seats are for the taking, and a harbinger of what is to come in 2008 may emerge.

Outside of town, voters in Kentucky and Mississippi went to the polls, as did those in New Jersey and Virginia (for their legislative bodies). Louisiana, of course had its cake already, and the victor (Bobby Jindal) ate it too in celebration of what will hopefully be a new day for our statewide neighbors to the East.

In Houston, Bill White is re-elected in a landslide, and there is going to be a run-off in the race below it appears:

AT-LARGE POS. 5
Jolanda Jones 23.3%
Joe Trevino 18.1%
Jack Christie 15.8%
Tom Nixon 15.4%
Zaf Tahir 11.2%
John Gibbs 7.3%
Marlon Barabin 4.9%
Ray Ramirez 4.0%

HISD's bonds are neck-to-neck. Half are favoring it and half are against it, and right now it's barely passing. The bonds in Cy-Fair are passing right now with 56.9% of the vote and 9% of votes in, though. Bonds are also passing to build 12 new elementary schools in Spring Branch (with 59.3% For and 20% votes in).

Finally, Fort Bend's bond issue is not only passing, but is passing with 64.4 percent of the vote. This is surprising since I expected it to be closer given qualms some of the voters in the East End of the district had. I support the bond, though, because there is a need for new schools and improvements plus the need for a new high school. I expect the new HS #11 to be in Sienna Plantation because that area is not only booming, it was divided in two by the last realignment. Four-fifths of the vote is in, by the way.

HCCS BOARD:
District 1 - Yolanda Navarro Flores (51.1) is slightly ahead of Kevin Hoffman 48.9%
District 7 - Neeta Sane, who made a spirited bid for County Treasurer in FBC last year, is slightly ahead right now with over 40%

Finally, over in The Woodlands, all three propositions there are passing overwhelmingly, putting together the building blocks of self-government there.

I will have another update...soon.