1 2 3 4 5 6 7 KERR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT 8 Special Session 9 Friday, November 12, 2004 10 9:00 a.m. 11 Commissioners' Courtroom 12 Kerr County Courthouse 13 Kerrville, Texas 14 15 16 17 18 CANVASS GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS 19 20 21 22 23 PRESENT: PAT TINLEY, Kerr County Judge H. A. "BUSTER" BALDWIN, Commissioner Pct. 1 24 WILLIAM "BILL" WILLIAMS, Commissioner Pct. 2 JONATHAN LETZ, Commissioner Pct. 3 25 DAVE NICHOLSON, Commissioner Pct. 4 2 1 On Friday, November 12, 2004, at 9:00 a.m., a special 2 meeting of the Kerr County Commissioners Court was held in the 3 Commissioners' Courtroom, Kerr County Courthouse, Kerrville, 4 Texas, and the following proceedings were had in open court: 5 P R O C E E D I N G S 6 JUDGE TINLEY: Okay. Let me call to order 7 the special Commissioners Court meeting scheduled for this 8 time and date, Friday, November 12th, 2004, posted for 9 9 a.m. It is that time now. The agenda item listed is to 10 canvass the General Election results. The clerk has 11 provided me with the tabulations, and let me go through 12 those now. For United States President and Vice President: 13 Republican, George Bush/Cheney, the numbers are 16,530. 14 Democrat, Kerry/Edwards, 4,556. Libertarian, Badnarik and 15 Campagna, 111. There were a total of 64 write-in votes of 16 the declared write-in candidates: Andrew J. Falk and 17 Marijohn Peterman, none received. David Keith Cobb/Patricia 18 LaMarche, none received. Deborah Elaine Allen/Joseph H. 19 Senegals, none received. Michael Anthony Peroutka and Chuck 20 Baldwin, 3. John Joseph Kennedy and Daniel R. Rezac, none. 21 Ralph Nader/Peter Miguel Camejo, 37. Walt Brown and Mary 22 Alice Herbert, none. 23 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Judge? 24 JUDGE TINLEY: Hmm? 25 COMMISSIONER LETZ: You might want to look at 11-12-04 3 1 the first two you read out, the Bush/Cheney and the 2 Kerry/Edwards totals. There's some additional -- 3 MS. PIEPER: There are additional write-ins, 4 you're correct, on the provisional and late ballots. We 5 added 8 -- 6 JUDGE TINLEY: Okay. Let me go back and 7 correct the Bush/Cheney and Kerry/Edwards numbers. I was 8 incorrect on Bush/Cheney with 16,530; that number should be 9 16,538. And on Kerry/Edwards, rather than 4,556, it should 10 be 4,557. 11 We move to United States Representative, 12 District 23: Republican, Henry Bonilla, 16,319. Democrat, 13 Joe Sullivan, 4,214. Libertarian, Nazarite Comrade Perez, 14 223. 15 For the Railroad Commissioner: Republican, 16 Victor G. Carrillo, 14,846. Democrat, Bob Scarborough, 17 4,986. Libertarian, Anthony Garcia, 554. 18 Let's come down to Justice, Texas Supreme 19 Court, Place 3: Republican, Harriet O'Neill, 16,680. 20 Justice, Texas Supreme Court, Place 5: 21 Republican, Paul Green, 16,570. 22 Justice, Texas Supreme Court, Place 9: 23 Republican, Scott Brister, 15,605. Democrat, David Van Os, 24 4,552. 25 Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 11-12-04 4 1 2: Republican, Lawrence "Larry" Meyers, 16,112. 2 Libertarian, Quanah Parker, 1,715. 3 Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 4 5: Republican, Cheryl Johnson, 16,314. Libertarian, Tom 5 Oxford, 1,434. 6 Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 6: 7 Republican, Michael E. Keasler, 15,513. Democrat, J.R. 8 Molina, 4,578. 9 State Senator, District 24: Republican, Troy 10 Fraser, 16,646. 11 State Representative, District 53: 12 Republican, Harvey Hilderbran, 17,131. 13 Justice, Fourth Court of Appeals, Place 6: 14 Republican, Sandy Bryan Marion, 16,385. 15 Justice, Fourth Court of Appeals, District -- 16 Place 7: Republican, Phyllis J. Speedlin, 16,431. 17 District Judge, 216th Judicial District: 18 Republican, Stephen B. Ables, 16,955. 19 District Attorney, 198th Judicial District: 20 Republican, Ronald L. "Ron" Sutton, 16,694. 21 District Attorney, 216th Judicial District: 22 Republican, E. Bruce Curry, 16,804. 23 The local races were -- there were no votes 24 cast, because they were listed as unopposed, and the ballot 25 was not set up for votes to be cast for them. 11-12-04 5 1 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Can anyone tell me who 2 the largest vote-getter was out of that entire group? 3 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Representative 4 Hilderbran, I believe. 5 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Representative 6 Hilderbran. 7 COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: It wasn't Steve after 8 all. I thought it was. 9 COMMISSIONER LETZ: That's quite a bit. 10 COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: 17,1, mm-hmm. And 11 Steve was second, with 16,9. 12 JUDGE TINLEY: Appears to be, yeah. 13 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Representative is 14 very, very difficult to live with when that happens, believe 15 me. 16 COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: Bet you're right. 17 COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: Some kind of fiefdom, 18 all of a sudden, set up. 19 JUDGE TINLEY: At this point, I think it's in 20 order that there be a motion to approve the canvass of the 21 votes as indicated on the record. 22 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I move we approve the 23 canvassing the votes as read. 24 COMMISSIONER NICHOLSON: Second. 25 JUDGE TINLEY: Motion made and seconded for 11-12-04 6 1 approval. Any question or discussion? 2 COMMISSIONER LETZ: Judge, I just have a -- a 3 question. This is the first time, on the local candidates, 4 we've never -- we've done it the way we did it, with -- that 5 they weren't on the ballot. Should we not read into the 6 record as to who was elected for all those spots? 'Cause 7 this is the official, I guess, tally of said votes. 8 COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: The unopposed 9 candidates. 10 COMMISSIONER LETZ: All the unopposed 11 candidates in the local races. I don't know if we should 12 read them in or not, but it seems that, for future record, 13 it might not be a bad idea to have it memorializing the -- 14 MS. PIEPER: Let me run and get the names 15 real quick for you. 16 COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: That's a good idea. 17 JUDGE TINLEY: Certainly. 18 COMMISSIONER NICHOLSON: What was the 19 Democrats' showing compared to historical levels? Was it up 20 some? 21 COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: It's up. 22 COMMISSIONER LETZ: I'm not sure. 23 COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS: I think it's up a 24 little bit. 25 (Discussion off the record.) 11-12-04 7 1 JUDGE TINLEY: The local candidates who ran 2 opposed and for which, as I indicated, no votes were 3 actually cast, but who were listed on the ballot and who 4 were elected to office by virtue of the General Election, 5 are: Rex Emerson as Kerr County Attorney; W.R. "Rusty" 6 Hierholzer as Kerr County Sheriff; Paula Rector as Kerr 7 County Tax Assessor/Collector; H.A. "Buster" Baldwin, as 8 Kerr County Commissioner, Precinct 1; Jonathan Letz as Kerr 9 County Commissioner, Precinct 3; David J. Billeiter as Kerr 10 County Constable, Precinct 1; Joel Ayala, Jr., as Kerr 11 County Constable, Precinct 2; Angel Garza as Kerr County 12 Constable, Precinct 3; Robert "Bob" Terrill as Kerr County 13 Constable, Precinct 4. 14 COMMISSIONER LETZ: And let the record show 15 that my motion -- I have an amendment to my motion which 16 includes all those names. 17 COMMISSIONER NICHOLSON: And my second. 18 JUDGE TINLEY: All right. Any further 19 question or discussion? All in favor of the motion, signify 20 by raising your right hand. 21 (The motion carried by unanimous vote.) 22 JUDGE TINLEY: All opposed, same sign. 23 (No response.) 24 JUDGE TINLEY: The motion does carry. Is 25 there any further business, gentlemen? If not, we will 11-12-04 8 1 stand adjourned. 2 (Commissioners Court adjourned at 9:08 a.m.) 3 - - - - - - - - - - 4 5 6 7 8 STATE OF TEXAS | 9 COUNTY OF KERR | 10 The above and foregoing is a true and complete 11 transcription of my stenotype notes taken in my capacity as 12 County Clerk of the Commissioners Court of Kerr County, 13 Texas, at the time and place heretofore set forth. 14 DATED at Kerrville, Texas, this 12th day of November, 15 2004. 16 17 18 JANNETT PIEPER, Kerr County Clerk 19 BY: _________________________________ Kathy Banik, Deputy County Clerk 20 Certified Shorthand Reporter 21 22 23 24 25 11-12-04