Texas House District 100
Openly gay state Rep. Venton Jones, the first openly HIV-positive person elected to the Texas Legislature, has coasted to an 84 percent-16 percent victory over Amanda Richardson in the Democratic Primary runoff for the District 100 seat in the state House of Representatives.
At p.m. central, with 86 percent of the ballots counted, Jones, with 3,140 compared to Richardson’s 596 votes, has been declared the winner.
Jones barely missed winning outright in a three-way race in the March 3 primary. He took 49 percent of the vote, and Richardson had 35 percent, with Justice McFarlane garnering 16 percent — just enough to deny Jones the 50 percent majority necessary to avoid a runoff.
U.S. House District 33
In the District 33 runoff between incumbent U.S. Rep. Julie Johnson, the first openly LGBTQ+ person elected to the U.S. House from any Southern state, and former Rep. Colin Allred, as of 9 p.m., Allred was ahead by 9.6 percent, 54.8 percent to 45.2 percent. But with only 64 percent of the votes counted, the Associated Press has not yet called a winner in the race.
The actual incumbent in District 33 is Rep. Marc Veasey, who chose not to run for re-election after Republicans in the state Legislature pushed through highly gerrymandered mid-decade redistricting map and the demand of Donald Trump who is trying to avoid Democrats taking control of the U.S. House in November.
Johnson is running in District 33 because of the redrawn maps, and Allred dropped his bid for the U.S. Senate last year when Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett announced she was running for the Democratic nomination to the Senate. Crockett lost a narrow race in the March 3 Primary to James Talarico.
Dallas County Justice of the Peace, Pct. 5, Place 2
As of 9:30 p.m., openly gay candidate and former Dallas City Councilman Omar Narvaez holds a comfortable 24 percent lead over Katelyn Logie in the race for Dallas County Justice of the Peace, Precinct 5, Place 3.
GOP Senate Runoff
In other races of note to the Texas LGBTQ community, rabidly anti-LGBTQ+ Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has made attacks on transgender Texas a hallmark of his tenure as AG and of his campaign for U.S. Senate, has ousted longtime incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn to win the GOP nomination for that seat.
Paxton, who faced federal securities fraud charges throughout most of his time as attorney general and who was impeached in 2023 by the Texas House (though not convicted by the Texas Senate) over allegations of abuse of his office, now faces Democrat James Talarico in the November general election.
Stonewall Democrats of Dallas’ endorsed candidates
Here are the runoff results for candidates endorsed by Stonewall Democrats of Dallas, as of 9:45 p.m., according to DallasCountyVotes.org.
• In U.S. House District 5, Stonewall’s endorsed candidate Chelsey Hockett leads Ruth “Truth” Torres, 54.67 percent-45.33 percent.
• In U.S. House District 24, Stonewall’s endorsed candidate Kevin Burge leads T.J. Ware, 81.61 percent-18.39 percent.
• In the race for the Democratic nomination for Texas lieutenant governor, Stonewall’s endorsed candidate Marcos Velez trails Vikki Goodwin, 28.92 percent-71.08 percent.
• In the race for Democratic nomination for Texas Attorney General, Stonewall’s endorsed candidate Nathan Johnson leads Joe Jaworski, 74.81 percent-25.19 percent.
• In the race for Dallas County clerk, Stonewall’s endorsed candidate Damarcus Offord leads Ann Marie Cruz 64.11 percent-35.89 percent.
• In the race for judge in Dallas County’s Criminal District Court No. 5, Stonewall’s endorsed candidate Mareen Alexander trails Lakesha Smith, 42.22 percent-57.78 percent.
• In the race for judge in Dallas County’s 194 District Court, Stonewall’s endorsed candidate Peggy Hoffman trails Kim Cooks, 47.34 percent to 52.66 percent.
Read the Friday, May 29 issue of Dallas Voice for final results.
— Tammye Nash