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4/13/2010

Tea Party Candidate Ousts Texas Incumbent (Updated)

Filed under: 2010 Election — DRJ @ 9:03 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

A Texas Tea Party candidate and novice politician trounced incumbent GOP State Rep. Delwin Jones of Lubbock in a Republican primary run-off:

“The long legislative career of state Rep. Delwin Jones is over. And for accountant Charles Perry a new day has dawned.

Jones, who has served in the Texas Legislature for nearly 30 years, including eight as a Democrat from 1965 to 1973, lost decisively to Perry in Tuesday’s Republican primary runoff.

With all the votes counted, Perry got 57.6 percent of the vote and Jones 43.4 percent.

Perry, who ran a shoestring campaign compared to attorney Zach Brady, who also challenged Jones but finished third in the March 2 primary despite raising more than a quarter million dollars, did what conservative GOP operators and hundreds of thousands couldn’t do for years – defeat Jones.”

Lubbock made history tonight. Not only was Jones the oldest member of the Texas Legislature but Perry may be the Texas Legislature’s — and perhaps the nation’s — first Tea Party winner since there is no Democrat or Libertarian candidate on the ballot.

Perry ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility but he wasn’t given much chance to make the run-off, let alone win. Political analysts were especially doubtful of his chances after he pledged to work to rescind in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.

— DRJ

UPDATE: The excerpt above is from the online version of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Since I posted, the A-J has updated its story to revise the vote totals — “With all 80 precincts counted, Perry received 57.8 percent of the vote and Jones 42.2 percent in the five-county district” — and add this:

“And now that there are no more elections in District 83 this year, it also means that for the first time in more than two decades the Panhandle/South Plains region will send at least three freshmen legislators to Austin.

The two other House districts in the region that will be represented by rookies are neighboring District 84 and District 87 in the Panhandle.

The possibility of a fourth freshman representing the region exists because in District 85 two-term incumbent Joe Heflin, D-Crosbyton, is expected to have a tough challenge from Plainview Republican Jim Landtroop. The Republican Party considers Heflin vulnerable because he is one of about a half-dozen House Democrats representing GOP-leaning districts.”

Panhandle term limits.

33 Responses to “Tea Party Candidate Ousts Texas Incumbent (Updated)”

  1. There is a new day dawning, and many of the old pols are going to wake up, look around, and ask:
    What happened?

    AD - RtR/OS! (f3d22b)

  2. So between the two of them, they garnered 101% of the vote? Paging Jimmy Carter…

    gazzer (87d7c3)

  3. I updated the post with new vote totals, and the interesting news that the Lubbock region will send at least 3 and maybe 4 new faces to Austin. That’s the Panhandle version of term limits.

    DRJ (daa62a)

  4. I hope he recinds in-state tuition completely

    EricPWJohnson (6ea8f8)

  5. Eric – Did you ever pay up on that bet?

    JD (18e145)

  6. I will take that as a no.

    JD (18e145)

  7. Those are the type of term limits I like. If only more voters would exercise them on a regular basis.

    gazzer (87d7c3)

  8. […] is the proper approach, and reason to contribute to specific campaigns and not the RNC, NRCC, NRSC. DRJ reported the news out of Texas. Lubbock made history tonight. Not only was Jones the oldest member […]

    Ignore Us At Your Own Peril « Truth Before Dishonor (099f00)

  9. this is a good thing?

    I’m indifferent but I thought Allah said we can’t be having this.

    happyfeet (c8caab)

  10. Feet, this was a Republican Primary runoff and not a third-party deal.

    John Hitchcock (039d58)

  11. John

    There is also some elements of fortitousness out there where Republican challenger just may embrace a tea party label for fortitousness

    EricPWJohnson (6ea8f8)

  12. In other words – ure I’m tea part – whatever that means –

    In Texas Perry, Paul, Medina, and an assorted nux mixture have tried to claim a tea party mantle

    The problem is being watchful of labeling by the MSM

    EricPWJohnson (6ea8f8)

  13. I like the anti-incumbentness of it Mr. Hitchcock

    happyfeet (c8caab)

  14. They are all the same. They all lie.

    Onion Creek Plumbing (084f3d)

  15. Happy

    term limits are best when the voters do it..

    They should do it more

    EricPWJohnson (6ea8f8)

  16. Onion, so you’re saying off with all their heads? No politicians because they all lie? Check your Constitution…

    Peg C. (130616)

  17. No, they are not all the same. You think you’re being cute by being cynical? Wake up. The very soul of this country is at stake this Nov. Do we “fundamentally transform” America into an Obama Nation? Or do we stick with what has made us the most prosperous country in the history of the world?

    JHE (9284aa)

  18. If the Tea Party got really smart, they’d announce that not only will they support only those candidates that support cuts to gov’t spending and keeping our foreign policy strong, but also will only support those who will promise to enact term limits. That would be a true killer message to the Dem’s MSM handmaidens that couldn’t be corrupted.

    Dmac (21311c)

  19. How about term limits for pundits, reporters, editors, and TV andhors?

    PCD (1d8b6d)

  20. PCD
    Those term limits are being enforced by the millions of viewers and readers who are turning away in disgust.

    Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (9eb641)

  21. Brother Bradley – Sadly, the number of people worthy of respect in that career field (politics or JournoListism) is vanishingly small.

    JD (b537f4)

  22. Brother Bradley I’m about ready to ditch Yahoo News for the same reason, being blindly partisan liberal in their stories, even when told there is a retraction or that the story is fiction from a partisan blog.

    PCD (1d8b6d)

  23. I wouldn’t worry too much about Yahoo (appropriately named), they’re almost as irrelevant as the MSM these days. Just looking in vain for either Google or Microsoft to bail their sorry arses out at this point, yet no one’s biting.

    Dmac (21311c)

  24. This “tea party” thing is getting out of control. These tea party people are extremely ignorant. They know nothing about how the government works. It’s dangerous to be putting these stupid ignorant people in positions of power. Seriously dangerous.

    Marvin (619f41)

  25. As opposed to the clowns that are currently running the show, Marvin? I love the smell of leftist bigots in the morning.

    JD (0f9c01)

  26. Marvin, I hope that’s sarcasm on your part, otherwise this country is in worse shape that I thought.

    Rochf (ae9c58)

  27. If “this ‘tea party’ thing is getting out of control,” that’s very much a good thing. I look forward to “this ‘tea party’ thing” becoming completely out of control. Oh, King George and his loyalists won’t like it one tiny bit, but that’s a good thing, too. It’s very good for the country. Bad for King George, but good for the country.

    John Hitchcock (9e8ad9)

  28. Just don’t vote for incumbents (just noticed it’s spelt “…bent”); there’s no good reason to put good people into the temptations from re-election, and lots of good reasons to vote the bad people out. Vote “someone else”, for change!

    htom (412a17)

  29. # 20
    Dear CNN,

    My repeated posts asking others to delete CNN from their televison channel programming has worked.

    I posted on your website that one person can make a difference.

    I win.

    Highpockets

    highpockets (56cb6c)

  30. Even more good news — Delwin Jones was an enemy of the concealed handgun laws in Texas, and would have been chair of the redisticting committee next year after the census. His winning opponent was endorsed by the Texas State Rifle Association. Icing on the cake.

    Eric (32f5db)

  31. PCD,
    Brother Bradley I’m about ready to ditch Yahoo News for the same reason, being blindly partisan liberal in their stories, even when told there is a retraction or that the story is fiction from a partisan blog.

    If you can find a good, comprehensive news aggregator that doesn’t have a political bias, let me know. The problem is that most stories come from left-leaning reporters, so any aggregator will tend to reflect that, unless there is a conscious effort to compensate.

    I just take it for granted that most news stories will on the average have a leftist bias when there’s a political angle, especially from outlets like the Associated Press, which hypes bogus “investigative reports”. And when I spot it, I look for stories or blog posts from other sources.

    When there’s no political angle, many stories will be wrong because the reporters don’t understand the subject. So when you find a significant subject, don’t just stop with one story, read what others are saying.

    IOW, you’ve got to be your own gatekeeper.

    Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (9eb641)

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