By J.J. Smith. Candidates are now set for May 8 city council and school board elections across Rockwall County.
In Rockwall, Bill Bricker and Teddy Nugen will challenge first-term incumbent Mark Russo for the Place 2 City Council seat. David White will challenge Margo Nielsen for the Place 6 seat. Incumbent Cliff Sevier is unopposed.
In Rowlett, [...]
By J.J. Smith. Eighty six-year-old Rockwall resident and 15-term incumbent Congressman Ralph Hall easily won yet one more Republican primary election yesterday, beating five other challengers from across northeast Texas.
Final District 4 vote totals show Hall earning 57 percent of the vote, compared with Rockwall resident Steve Clark’s 31 percent, John Cooper with 5 percent, [...]
By J.J. Smith. Incumbent Rockwall County Commissioners Lorie Grinnan and David Magness were re-elected, newcomer Shelli Miller defeated Rockwall Mayor Pro Tem David Sweet in the Rockwall County Clerk’s race and Paul Wilson was elected Republican Party Chairman according to the official results of yesterday’s Republican primary election.
Grinnan beat Fred Lively with 68.5 to 31.5 [...]
By J.J. Smith. Voters will decide the winners of eight Rockwall County Republican primary elections today, in addition to several state and area elections.
No Democrats filed for a Rockwall County elected office.
County polls will open at 7 am and close at 7 pm.
Voting locations are determined by the precincts in which residents live throughout the [...]
The Dallas Morning News. Wharton political activist Debra Medina has questioned whether Texas needs a state child welfare agency. Medina, a Republican candidate for governor, suggested over the weekend that the state perhaps hand off child-protection duties to local law enforcement agencies closer to the people.
That would mean abolishing Child Protective Services, which after suffering [...]
The Rockwall County Herald Banner. The Rockwall County Courthouse was a topic of discussion from the first question to closing statements at a Rockwall County Republican Women-sponsored debate featuring the four candidates for county judge.
Incumbent Chris Florance, Kevin Fowler, Jerry Hogan and Ken Jones also responded to questions about the role of county judge, falling [...]
The Dallas Morning News. Sen. Bob Deuell, chairman of the chamber’s Republican Caucus and one of the more conservative members of the Senate, never expected to be attacked as liberal in his re-election bid this year.
But that’s exactly what he’s facing in his GOP primary contest against an [...]
WFAA-TV. ROCKWALL — Showing off a pile of campaign literature, Rockwall Congressional candidate Steve Clark describes himself this way: “I’d be considered an incumbent’s worst nightmare. I am somebody who likes tea parties, and was able to save a little money.”
Now Clark is spending his money, challenging Republican incumbent Ralph Hall, who has been a [...]
The Dallas Morning News. Rockwall County voters will choose from four Republican county judge candidates in the March 2 primary.
No Democrats are running, so November will be a walk-over for the candidate who emerges from the slate of incumbent Chris Florance and challengers Kevin Fowler, Jerry Hogan and Ken Jones.
Florance said serving a four-year term [...]
By J.J. Smith. Over 300 committed Republicans attended the Rockwall County GOP’s annual Reagan Day Dinner Saturday night at the Hilton Bella Harbor Hotel to meet and hear a number of Texas political leaders, military heroes and Rockwall County political candidates.
Texas Governor Rick Perry, Congressmen Ralph Hall and Sam Johnson, plus U.S Air Force fighter [...]
