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supporters shortly after phoning
her congratulations to Bush.
“I don’t want anyone here to
feel like they lost a thing. I don’t
want any of us to go home with
anything but a great deal of pride
in our hearts. We had a great
four years.
“We have done a lot of good for
Texas. This is not the end of the
world, it is the end of a cam
paign,” Richards said.
Bush’s stunning victory
came on the same night U.S.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison
breezed to re-election.
Since 1874, the only other Re
publican to gain the governor’s
office was Dallas oilman Bill
Clements. He was victorious in
1978, lost in 1982, then won
again in 1986.
Richards, who hadn’t lost an
election since entering public life
with a run for Travis County
commissioner in 1976, trailed
Bush about 54 percent to 46 per
cent with 99 percent of precincts
reporting. Libertarian Keary
Ehlers had about 1 percent.
Vote returns from counties
showed Bush winning substan
tial support across the state.
Bush called his win “a
rather significant victory. ...
And I believe it will give me a
chance to have some political
capital ... to make necessary
changes for Texas.” t
An exit poll of voters con
ducted outside precincts around
the state found Bush’s anti
crime and education reform
messages played well, while
Richards’ criticizing his lack of
political experience failed to
strike a significant chord.
The poll was conducted by Vot
er News Service, a cooperative of
the four television networks and
The Associated Press. It also
found that voters didn’t give
Richards much credit for the
state’s robust economy or her
record of building 75,000 new
prison beds.
The survey showed that Bush
also enjoyed the support of more
men than did Richards, and that
he won the backing of his father’s
base of support. The elder Bush
carried Texas two years ago in
his race against Bill Clinton.
Richards, 61, was no stranger
to close elections. She defeated
Republican oilman-rancher Clay
ton Williams by fewer than
100,000 votes in 1990.
Campaigning furiously in the
closing days, she picked up the
endorsement of billionaire Ross
Perot, 1992 independent presi
dential candidate. She had
ridiculed Bush as being too inex
perienced to serve as governor.
Bush is managing partner of
the Texas Rangers baseball team.
This was only his second try for
office, having lost a 1978 election
for Congress to then-Democrat
Kent Hance of Lubbock. He said
voters who wanted change would
cast ballots for him.
The younger Bush had waited
until the campaign’s final day to
involve his father, who attended
a rally in Houston on Monday.
“I did not want to confuse the
electorate nor give my opponent
the chance to blast my dad,”
Bush said. “And now, in the last
days of the campaign, it is fully
appropriate for someone who is
not only a Texan, but one of my
strongest voters, to stand up and
express his pleasure at the way
I’ve conducted myself.”
During the 1988 Democratic
National Convention, Richards
had delivered a speech on the el
der Bush most remembered for
the phrase: “Poor George, he
can’t help it, he was bom with a
silver foot in his mouth.”
During their battle, Richards
had turned her acid tongue on
the younger Bush, calling him a
“jerk” and a “Johnny-come-late-
ly,” among other things.
Texas election results
Lt. Governor Attorney General
Comptroller
Ag Commissioner
Railroad Commission
DALLAS (AP) — Democratic Lt.
Gov. Bob Bullock, arguably the most
powerful officeholder in Texas, was
headed toward an easy victory Tuesday
over Republican Tex Lezar.
Vote returns from counties showed
Bullock winning sub
stantial support
across the state.
With 24 of 9,131
precincts reporting,
Bullock had 57 per
cent of the vote com
pared with Lezar’s
43 percent.
The lieutenant
governor presides
over the Senate,
makes committee ap
pointments, sits on
Bullock
Democratic Texas Attorney General
Dan Morales won a second term in of
fice Tuesday night, defeating a strong
challenge from Republican state judge
Don Wittig.
With a little more than half the vote
counted, Morales
had 55 percent to
Wittig’s 43 percent.
Libertarian candi
date Vicki Flores
trailed with 66,074
votes, or 3 percent.
Early results had
showed the race al
most a dead heat, but
Morales pulled way
ahead in later re
turns.
Morales
several key boards and committees and
controls the flow of legislation in that
chamber. It is one of the most important
political jobs in the state.
Bullock, 65, took off from campaign
ing from late September through Octo
ber to recover from heart surgery.
“The votes that
came in were no surprise. All along we
said this was going to be a very close
race,” said Mary Elizabeth Jackson, a
Morales campaign spokeswoman.
Morales was not immediately available
for comment.
Wittig said he believed he lost be
cause his opponent outspent him.
Democratic state Comptroller John
Sharp captured an early lead in his bid
for a second term Tuesday, but GOP po
litical newcomer Teresa Doggett was try
ing to thwart his effort.
Returns from 23 of 9,131 precincts
show Sharp with a
commanding 58 per
cent lead compared
with 42 percent for
Mrs. Doggett.
Sharp, 44, has ag
gressively conducted
extensive state gov
ernment audits, mak
ing recommendations
for savings and bud
get changes that he
says have saved $6
billion for the state.
Mrs. Doggett, an Austin business
woman, is in her first race for public of
fice. If elected, the 44-year-old would
break barriers: The comptroller’s post has
never been filled by a black or a woman.
Sharp has said he doesn’t intend to
run for comptroller a third time if he wins
re-election.
Sharp
Texas Agriculture Commissioner
Rick Perry easily won re-election Tues
day over Sulphur Springs dairy farmer
Marvin Gregory.
With about 60 percent of the vote
counted, the Republican incumbent led
61 percent to Grego
ry’s 37 percent. Liber
tarian nominee Clyde
Garland, a Houston
manufacturer, cap
tured 2 percent.
Perry told voters he
deserved another term
for delivering on
promises to downsize
the Texas Department
of Agriculture and
push for the North
American Free Trade
Agreement.
DALLAS (AP) — Republicans
staged an unprecedented clean swee;
of the Railroad Commission of Texas ypj ^
with the first woman ever elected ti
the post winning one of two seats
for grabs this year.
The three-person commission regt
lates the state’s oil and gas industry.
Republican challenger CharlesR
Matthews of Garland narrowly
Democratic Chairman James E. Ni . ; ,
gent in Tuesday’s balloting for a ful
six-year commission term, endiu]
more than four decades in gover
ment for Nugent.
Perry
Perry, 44, used to farm cotton and
wheat and raise cattle. He was elected
in 1990 in an upset over Democrat Jim
Hightower.
Perry said he would spend his next
term working to promote Texas farm
goods globally, and increase exports.
With 95 percent of the vote counta
early today, Matthews had 50 percent
of the tally to Nugent’s 48 percent,
difference of 69,038 ballots amon?
more than 4 million cast. Rick Dn
heim, a Libertarian from Rockwall, hs
2 percent.
In the other race, Democratic incmr
bent Mary Scott Nabers became m
second consecutive woman appointed|
the commission by former Gov. At
Richards to lose her job at elect!
time. Lena Guerrero was the first. I
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