- indicates the winner
of the primary
Note: Reference is made below to a vote that by the Texas State Board of Education to appeal a court case that had held that schools could not withhold information from parents. The case is the Maxwell case and involved a suit by some parents to force their child's school to disclose test results and documents relating to their child. While this issue is not relevant to gun control, we felt it is important enough to mention here regarding school board candidates. A majority of the board ultimately voted to appeal the case and the Texas Supreme Court recently ruled in the parent's favor: Schools can keep nothing secret from parents. It is amazing the School Board fought against that.
- indicates the winner
of the primary
- indicates a run-off
candidate
- indicates a known anti-gun
candidate
- indicates our choice
as the most pro-gun candidate in the race
D - Democratic candidate
R - Republican candidate
L - Libertarian candidate
D - Vincent Alvarado-Food Manufacturer; hunting rifles, shotguns; has done no reading about the 2d Amendment. He hesitatingly came out against waiting periods, and for repeal of the semi-auto ban; but he basically appeared uninformed on gun issues.
D - Joe Bernal-Ret'd Educator
R - Jose Garcia De Lara-Incumbent Architect; appointed by Governor Bush.
D - Alma Allen-Incumbent; liberal, backed by Teacher's groups, and other traditionally liberal groups like labor. No response to our inquiries.
R - Earl J. Ehlers-Education Research; no response to our inquiries.
D - Joe "JB" Richeson-Teacher
D - Nettie Bratton-Retired
Teacher
R - Bob Offutt-Incumbent, Pediatric Dentist; he is one of the 5 board members who voted against appealing the Maxwell decision.
R
- Jack Christie-Incumbent; he supports the Brady waiting period
for all firearms; voted for "Goals 2000," a federal
plan that centralizes education decision-making (per Terri Leo);
he voted to appeal Maxwell Case.
R - Terri Leo-Teacher; Ms.
Leo was very knowledgeable about the current effort by liberal
and anti-gun groups to "rewrite" the history of the
2d Amendment that is contained in public school history textbooks.
She said she will do everything she can to prevent that from happening.
She opposes the Brady waiting period and is very articulate and
knowledgeable about the school board, the people currently on
it, what it has been doing, and the Maxwell case. She says she
bitterly opposed the decision to appeal the Maxwell case.
D - Rema Lou Brown-has every liberal endorsement according to Ms. Leo. She did not respond to our inquiries.
R - David Bradley-Insurance/real estate; Terri Leo says he and she are "like minded." He did not respond to our inquiries.
D - Will Davis - Incumbent, Attorney; he did not respond to our questionnaire.
R - DONALD CLARK - Mr. Clark was quite candid that he knows nothing about gun issues, but did reveal that he owns a gun.
R - JIM KILPATRICK - No response to our questionnaire--a sign that he is either anti-gun or does not care to take a public stand.
R - CYNTHIA THORNTON -
No response to our questionnaire--a sign that she is either anti-gun
or does not care to take a public stand.
R
- CHARLIE WEAVER - Antique
Dealer;owns one revolver; he is not informed on gun issues and
is unaware of attempts to re-write 2d Amendment history in textbooks
but seems like a reasonable man. He plans to work closely with
Terri Leo, who is strongly pro-gun, should he get elected to the
board.
D - Robert Platt-
R - Richard Neill-Dentist
D - Barbara Montgomery-Retired Teacher; she responded to our questionnaire, which revealed that she is truly uninformed about gun issues, and may possibly be anti-gun.
R - Geraldine "Tincy" Miller-Incumbent business exec.
L - Brady Byrum-Muscle Therapist