{"id":494022,"date":"2016-05-25T03:05:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T08:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=494022"},"modified":"2016-05-26T03:26:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T08:26:15","slug":"may-2016-run-off-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=494022","title":{"rendered":"May 2016 Run-Off Election Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"voting-computer\"<\/a> EAST TEXAS (AP) – A boost from former presidential candidate Ted Cruz may have helped an East Texas Republican win the nomination for a state Senate seat. Bryan Hughes beat David Simpson on Tuesday night in a primary runoff between the two state House members. Cruz called Hughes a “conservative fighter” in recorded phone messages to voters. Cruz seldom gets involved in legislative races and has been mostly quiet since ending his White House run. But the raucous support the U.S. senator drew at the Texas Republican Convention earlier this month was a reminder of his influence with GOP voters statewide. No Democrats bothered to run in the solidly conservative senate district. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who controls the Senate, had also endorsed Hughes to replace outgoing Republican Sen. Kevin Eltife.<\/p>\n

Winner in Texas Education Runoff Thanks Rival<\/p>\n

AUSTIN (AP) – The winner of a Texas education board runoff says he thinks Republican voters in March simply weren’t paying attention when they nearly nominated a retired schoolteacher who once claimed President Barack Obama was a gay prostitute. Keven Ellis said after his victory over Mary Lou Bruner on Tuesday night that primary voters likely tuned out their race partly because of the attention surrounding the presidential election. But Ellis, a local school board president, wouldn’t criticize Bruner and instead thanked her for her career as a schoolteacher. The 69-year-old Bruner came within a couple percentage points of winning the race outright in March. <\/p>\n

A watchdog of the Texas State Board of Education says the state “escaped an education train wreck” after a retired schoolteacher who believes dinosaurs walked the Earth with humans lost her runoff election. Mary Lou Bruner’s defeat Tuesday night delighted the left-leaning Texas Freedom Network. The organization said in a statement that the 69-year-old Bruner would have been “the most embarrassingly uninformed” member on the state’s powerful education board.<\/p>\n

In the race for the Texas House, District 5, unofficial returns has Cole Hefner beating Jay Misenheimer. The district became open when Bryan Hughes decided to run for the state senate. Hefner has no Democratic opposition in November.<\/p>\n

In the Race for Smith County Constable, Precinct 4, John Smith, the incumbent, lost to challenger Josh Joplin by 17 votes. Joplin will now meet Democrat Larry Reddic in November.<\/p>\n

SMITH COUNTY-Republican Primary
\nRailroad Commissioner
\nGary Gates 2,382
\nWayne Christian 6,002<\/p>\n

Judge Court of Criminal Appeals-Place 2
\nMary Lou Keel 3,773
\nRay Wheless 4,263<\/p>\n

Judge Court of Criminal Appeals-Place 5
\nBrent Webster 3,341
\nScott Walker 4,483<\/p>\n

Texas Senate- District 1
\nBryan Hughes 6,976
\nDavid Simpson 2,214<\/p>\n

Texas House-District 5
\nCole Hefner 1,401
\nJay Misenheimer 1,801<\/p>\n

Smith County Constable, Precinct 4
\n(I) John Smith 483
\n Josh Joplin 500<\/p>\n

State Board of Education-Place 9
\nMary Lou Bruner 2,804
\nKevin Ellis 5,754<\/p>\n

Smith County Democratic Primary
\nRailroad Commissioner
\nCody Garrett 179
\nGrady Yarbrough 325<\/p>\n

State Returns
\nRepublican Primary
\nRailroad Commissioner
\n91% of precincts reporting
\nGary Gates 183,712
\nWayne Christian 190,670<\/p>\n

Judge Court of Criminal Appeals-Place 2
\n91% of precincts reporting
\nMary Lou Keel 183,034
\nRay Wheless 176, 382<\/p>\n

Judge Court of Criminal Appeals-Place 5
\nAccording to the Associated Press – Scott Walker, GOP, nominated Criminal Appeals
\n91 % of precincts reporting
\nBrent Webster 148,766
\nScott Walker 205,117<\/p>\n

Texas Senate- District 1
\nAccording to AP – Bryan Hughes, GOP, nominated State Senate, District
\n81% of precincts reporting
\nBryan Hughes 20,314
\nDavid Simpson 9,851<\/p>\n

Texas House-District 5
\n 100% of precincts reporting
\nCole Hefner 6,989
\nJay Misenheimer 4,582<\/p>\n

State Board of Education-Place 9
\nAccording to AP – Keven Ellis, GOP, nominated State Board of
\nEducation,
\n89% of precincts reporting
\nMary Lou Bruner 22,148
\nKevin Ellis 32,076\t<\/p>\n

State Returns
\nDemocratic Primary
\nAccording to the Associated Press – Grady Yarbrough, Dem, nominated Railroad
\n89% of precincts reporting
\nRailroad Commissioner
\nCody Garrett 81,396
\nGrady Yarbrough 93,239<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EAST TEXAS (AP) – A boost from former presidential candidate Ted Cruz may have helped an East Texas Republican win the nomination for a state Senate seat. Bryan Hughes beat David Simpson on Tuesday night in a primary runoff between the two state House members. Cruz called Hughes a “conservative fighter” in recorded phone messages … Continue reading May 2016 Run-Off Election Results<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":489916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 01:31:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=494022"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494127,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494022\/revisions\/494127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/489916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}