Dallas County Democrats
Local Election Highlights 2000

This site is an ARCHIVE of the website used for the Dallas County Democratic Party from 2000 to May of 2002, and which was built by the then Chair Bill Howell. Though some information here will be relevant through the 2002 elections, other pages here are of interest for history or research. For the latest updated news about the Dallas County Democratic Party, see their own website at www.dallasdemocrats.org.

First, we re-elected all of our incumbents and elected new Democrats to the only two seats that were being given up by Democrats this year.

STRAIGHT-PARTY VOTING:

We won this!!! 186,230 Democratic straight-party votes versus 184,054 for the Republicans. This has not happened here in years. Also, the straight party voting usually sort of tracks the primary vote totals for the parties -- but this year we got well over three times our primary vote. These are very good signs for the future here in Dallas County.

GORE-LIEBERMAN:

We got 44.89% in the county, not as well as Clinton, but then the other party's two candidates were both from Dallas County so there was a real home-town factor. But in a trend that was repeated in other races yesterday, Gore did much better with those who voted on Tuesday. Among those who waited until the last day Gore only lost by 5000 votes.

REGINA MONTOYA-COGGINS:

Again, although she lost to Pete Sessions overall, she did better on election day, when she was only 62 votes short in Dallas County.

COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS:

Our two candidates came close enough in this county to have given them a real shot at victory statewide, if they had ever had the budget to get out the word about all their endorsements and their opponents' records. Bill Vance got 48.93% here and Bill Barr got 46.98%.

MARY ANN HUEY:

She almost won!! Her final total was just 4,150 votes short. Among voters on election day, she actually won by over 23,000 votes. The difference in overall percentage was only 0.74%. This is better in terms of both percentage and total difference in votes than Susan Barilich did four years ago, and that was for an open seat instead of against a long-time incumbent. I keep saying, the trend is in our direction. We CAN win judicial races here -- and we will very soon, with quality candidates like these.

CHARLES MUNOZ:

Our candidate for Sheriff was not far behind. He got 47.10%, but he also won at the polls on election day by over 5000 votes -- against a long-time incumbent.

KAREN HOLLIE:

This first-time candidate for Justice of the Peace got 45.49%, but was only 1600 votes short on election day -- again, against a long-time incumbent.

NEWLY ELECTED DEMOCRATS:

Luis Sepulveda was elected Justice of the Peace in place of the retiring Diana Orozco-Garrett. Mike Dupree was elected Constable in place of Aurelio Castillo.

We also had several other candidates facing well-funded and entrenched Republican incumbents that campaigned and represented our party and our views to the public. We owe them all our thanks:

Bill Zachary against Sam Johnson for Congress

Stephen Love against Dick Armey for Congress

Bruce Archer against Elvira Reyna for State Representative

David Gutierrez against Ray Allen for State Representative

Mike Moore against Will Hartnett for State Representative

Goldye Levi against David Childs for Tax Assessor-Collector

Clair Woertendyke against Jim Jackson for County Commissioner

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