Stonewall backs 59 candidates in primary

Phyllis Guest, from left, Erin Moore and Ron Ausemus are sworn in as three of Stonewall’s officers for 2010 during last night’s meeting at Ojeda’s.

I’ll have more on Bill White’s keynote speech to Stonewall Democrats last night in Friday’s Voice, but for now I wanted to share a full list of the group’s 59 endorsements in the March 2 primary. The list was ratified almost unanimously by Stonewall’s general membership last night, after being recommended by an endorsement committee that met last weekend. Out of 150 people who attended the standing-room-only meeting last night at Ojeda’s, only two voted against the slate, with an additional two abstaining. I’ve posted a full list of Stonewall’s endorsed candidates after the jump.

Dallas County Democratic Party Chair

Darlene Ewing

U.S. Reps:

Cong. Dist. 3: John Lingenfelder
Cong. Dist. 5: Tom Berry
Cong. Dist 26: Neil Durrance

Statewide:

Governor: Bill White
Lt. Governor: Ronnie Earle
Gen. Land Office Comm: Bill Burton

Agriculture Comm: Hank Gilbert

Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 6: Keith Hampton

State Representatives:

District 100: Terri Hodge
District 102: Carol Kent
District 105: Loretta Haldenwang
District 108: Peter Schulte

Judiciary:

Justice, 5^th Appeals, Place 4: Bonnie Goldstein
Place 12: Larry Praeger

District Judge:

68^th Judicial District: Martin Hoffman
116^th Judicial District: Tonya Parker
134^th Judicial District: Dale Tillery
191^st Judicial District: Gena Slaughter
193^rd Judicial District: Carl Ginsberg
194th Judicial District: Ernie White
203^rd Judicial District: Davie Lamb
254^th Judicial District: David Hanschen
256^th Judicial District: David Lopez
265^th Judicial District: Mark Stoltz
291st Judicial District: Susan Hawk
292nd Judicial District: Larry Mitchell
298th Judicial District: Emily Tobolowsky
363^rd Judicial District: Tracy Holmes

Criminal District Judge:

Court No. 7: Michael Snipes

Family District Judge:

301^st Judicial District: Lynn Cherry
302^nd Judicial District: Tena Callahan
304^th Judicial District: William “Bill” Mazur
330^th Judicial District: Andrea Plumlee

Judge County Court At Law:

No. 3: Sally Montgomery
No. 4: Mark Greenberg

Judge County Criminal Court:

No 2: Lennox Bower
No 3.: Doug Skemp
No 4.: Teresa Tolle
No. 5: John Loza
No. 7 : John Carlough
No. 8: Tina Yoo
No. 9: Peggy Hoffman

Judge, County Criminal Court of Appeals:

No. 1: Cas Callaway
No. 2: Jeff Rosenfield

Judge, County Probate court:

No. 1: Brenda Hull-Thompson

Dallas County:

County Judge: Larry Duncan

County Commissioner, Pct. 4: Elba Garcia
District Clerk: Gary Fitzsimmons

County Clerk: John Warren
County Treasurer: Joe Wells

Justice of the Peace:

Precinct 2, Place 1: Wesley Johnson
Precinct 3, Place 2: Michele Wong Krause
Precinct 4, Place 1: Mary Abeyta
Place 2: Katy Hubener
Precinct 5, Place 1: Luis Daniel Supelveda

Constable:

Precinct 2: Jerry Pittman
Precinct 4: Charles Woertendyke
Precinct 5: Jaime Cortes site

8 Comments

Eric Johnson Democrat for State Representative House District 100 on January 20, 2010 at 1:05 pm

Regrettably, I was unable to attend the endorsement meeting of the Stonewall Democrats last week. A matter relating to my law practice came up late on Friday, and I informed the political director of Stonewall immediately that unfortunately I would be unable to attend.
I am very disappointed that Stonewall decided to endorse my opponent in this race. I have long supported equal rights for the LGBT community. I have actively campaigned in the Oak Lawn precincts that are part of my district for over 7 months; my wife, Nakita, is a dedicated member of the Resource Center Dallas Board of Directors and we have both strongly supported that organization’s mission; several prominent members of the LGBT community are supporting my campaign, including my campaign manager Juan Ayala, who is a former board member and board secretary of Stonewall, and Mike McKay, the executive director of Resource Center Dallas.
Despite Stonewall’s unanimous endorsement of my opponent in this race, I will continue to reach out to the LGBT community to let them know that my focus on cleaning up our state government, improving our public schools, bringing higher-paying jobs to our district, and making our neighborhoods safer is what we need to make our community better.
Eric Johnson
Democrat for State Representative, House District 100
https://www.johnsonfortexas.com

Mark G on January 20, 2010 at 1:52 pm

Shame on the Stonewall Democrats!
I guess they think are are only part human deserving of only partial human rights.
This shows a complete lack of any self respect which is bad enough, plus it shows a complete lack of respect for their fellow LGBT citizens.
We need to stop all this piecemill BS where we beg like dogs for table scraps!
Unconditional Full Equality in All Matters – no more, no less – or we should take our votes to 3rd parties.
We need to push aside any and all so called LGBT “leaders” and organizations that want us to take any less.
Are we only part human to them and only deserving of partial rights of a human being?

David Taffet on January 20, 2010 at 2:35 pm

Mark, are there particular endorsements you object to or the full slate?

David Bradley on January 20, 2010 at 4:05 pm

Actually, no endorsement was given in the race for Land Commissioner.

Mark G on January 20, 2010 at 5:31 pm

Mr. Johnson,
I was looking at your website from the link you posted above.
I was trying to find information on your website for your stand on LGBT issues, but was unable to.
Would you please help me out by posting a link to that part of your website?
I’m assuming since you feel you are deserving of LGBT endorsement and since you are asking to represent the Oak Lawn area in the Texas House, you would have such a section and it would have a prominent position on the website and that it would be favorable to the LGBT community.
I looked under the Issues tab and only found 3: Education, Economic Development, and Crime and Public Safety. I didn’t seen any section there for LGBT equality, which if you were truly deserving of LGBT endorsements, it would be there.
Thanks,
Mark

Mark G on January 20, 2010 at 5:39 pm

Mr Taffet,
In general there are several names that make me cringe and some that have not stated a position on LGBT issues, which if it were important they would have.
Specifically, I’ll answer your question with an exercise:
Take each endorsement and google their name and find their official website.
Do any of them mention LGBT rights? If so is it prominent? Is it full equality or just partial table scraps?
I think that would answer my opinion on this issue.
And for the gay candidates, do their websites mention that they are gay? Are they publically out otherwise? And worse yet, are their gay candidates that don’t support full equality (talk about careers before queers syndrome)?
Thanks,
Mark

Harvey Jackson on January 21, 2010 at 10:48 am

I hope the Stonewall Democrats will reconsider their endorsement of Katy Hubener for Justice of the Peace. Sadly she is the only candidate on the Democratic primary ballot, so I know it would be a difficult choice for the Stonewall community, but frankly Katy lacks an appreciation between the proper and improper use of police power and resources.
I am Harvey Jackson the former president of the Grand Prairie Democrats, prior to Katy taking that position through action of the executive committee when I resigned in 2007. At the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009 she initiated a series of emails to regarding business of the Grand Prairie Democrats (as a former president I’m a de facto member of the executive board) to which I responded. When it became apparent that I planned to attend the 2009 club elections she abruptly sent a series of threatening emails to me and contacted one of her police friends in Duncanville (a “Sargent Frazier”) who threatened me with harrassment charges at that time even though Katy had initiated the emails herself. She didn’t stop there sending both me and MY PARENTS (I kid you not!) defamatory letters just to send the message home. Needless to say, she was successful in securing my non-attendance to the elections which of course she won.
I really considered not making the issue until I heard that she was running for Justice of the Peace. That really concerns me . . . if she is so willing to abuse police resources as a private citizen for political gain, if we agree to give her the authority of Justice of the Peace what will she do then? I’d rather not find out, and since the Justice of the Peace is generally not a policy creating position I don’t think we lose anything politically by not endorsing her. I for one would like this to count as my negative endorsement for Katy. I don’t know the Republican so I won’t endorse him, but I think its irresponsible to stand idly by while we allow power to vest in the hands of someone very likely to abuse that power at her political whims.
Sincerely,
Harvey Jackson

John on January 23, 2010 at 12:14 am

Jaime Cortes? Puleeez…what a crook!

Eric Johnson Democrat for State Representative House District 100 on January 20, 2010 at 1:05 pm

Regrettably, I was unable to attend the endorsement meeting of the Stonewall Democrats last week. A matter relating to my law practice came up late on Friday, and I informed the political director of Stonewall immediately that unfortunately I would be unable to attend.
I am very disappointed that Stonewall decided to endorse my opponent in this race. I have long supported equal rights for the LGBT community. I have actively campaigned in the Oak Lawn precincts that are part of my district for over 7 months; my wife, Nakita, is a dedicated member of the Resource Center Dallas Board of Directors and we have both strongly supported that organization’s mission; several prominent members of the LGBT community are supporting my campaign, including my campaign manager Juan Ayala, who is a former board member and board secretary of Stonewall, and Mike McKay, the executive director of Resource Center Dallas.
Despite Stonewall’s unanimous endorsement of my opponent in this race, I will continue to reach out to the LGBT community to let them know that my focus on cleaning up our state government, improving our public schools, bringing higher-paying jobs to our district, and making our neighborhoods safer is what we need to make our community better.
Eric Johnson
Democrat for State Representative, House District 100
https://www.johnsonfortexas.com
Mark G on January 20, 2010 at 1:52 pm

Shame on the Stonewall Democrats!
I guess they think are are only part human deserving of only partial human rights.
This shows a complete lack of any self respect which is bad enough, plus it shows a complete lack of respect for their fellow LGBT citizens.
We need to stop all this piecemill BS where we beg like dogs for table scraps!
Unconditional Full Equality in All Matters – no more, no less – or we should take our votes to 3rd parties.
We need to push aside any and all so called LGBT “leaders” and organizations that want us to take any less.
Are we only part human to them and only deserving of partial rights of a human being?
David Taffet on January 20, 2010 at 2:35 pm

Mark, are there particular endorsements you object to or the full slate?
David Bradley on January 20, 2010 at 4:05 pm

Actually, no endorsement was given in the race for Land Commissioner.
Mark G on January 20, 2010 at 5:31 pm

Mr. Johnson,
I was looking at your website from the link you posted above.
I was trying to find information on your website for your stand on LGBT issues, but was unable to.
Would you please help me out by posting a link to that part of your website?
I’m assuming since you feel you are deserving of LGBT endorsement and since you are asking to represent the Oak Lawn area in the Texas House, you would have such a section and it would have a prominent position on the website and that it would be favorable to the LGBT community.
I looked under the Issues tab and only found 3: Education, Economic Development, and Crime and Public Safety. I didn’t seen any section there for LGBT equality, which if you were truly deserving of LGBT endorsements, it would be there.
Thanks,
Mark
Mark G on January 20, 2010 at 5:39 pm

Mr Taffet,
In general there are several names that make me cringe and some that have not stated a position on LGBT issues, which if it were important they would have.
Specifically, I’ll answer your question with an exercise:
Take each endorsement and google their name and find their official website.
Do any of them mention LGBT rights? If so is it prominent? Is it full equality or just partial table scraps?
I think that would answer my opinion on this issue.
And for the gay candidates, do their websites mention that they are gay? Are they publically out otherwise? And worse yet, are their gay candidates that don’t support full equality (talk about careers before queers syndrome)?
Thanks,
Mark
Harvey Jackson on January 21, 2010 at 10:48 am

I hope the Stonewall Democrats will reconsider their endorsement of Katy Hubener for Justice of the Peace. Sadly she is the only candidate on the Democratic primary ballot, so I know it would be a difficult choice for the Stonewall community, but frankly Katy lacks an appreciation between the proper and improper use of police power and resources.
I am Harvey Jackson the former president of the Grand Prairie Democrats, prior to Katy taking that position through action of the executive committee when I resigned in 2007. At the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009 she initiated a series of emails to regarding business of the Grand Prairie Democrats (as a former president I’m a de facto member of the executive board) to which I responded. When it became apparent that I planned to attend the 2009 club elections she abruptly sent a series of threatening emails to me and contacted one of her police friends in Duncanville (a “Sargent Frazier”) who threatened me with harrassment charges at that time even though Katy had initiated the emails herself. She didn’t stop there sending both me and MY PARENTS (I kid you not!) defamatory letters just to send the message home. Needless to say, she was successful in securing my non-attendance to the elections which of course she won.
I really considered not making the issue until I heard that she was running for Justice of the Peace. That really concerns me . . . if she is so willing to abuse police resources as a private citizen for political gain, if we agree to give her the authority of Justice of the Peace what will she do then? I’d rather not find out, and since the Justice of the Peace is generally not a policy creating position I don’t think we lose anything politically by not endorsing her. I for one would like this to count as my negative endorsement for Katy. I don’t know the Republican so I won’t endorse him, but I think its irresponsible to stand idly by while we allow power to vest in the hands of someone very likely to abuse that power at her political whims.
Sincerely,
Harvey Jackson
John on January 23, 2010 at 12:14 am

Jaime Cortes? Puleeez…what a crook!