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Burnt Orange Report (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
The Austin American-Statesman has endorsed Woodie Jones, Democratic nominee for Chief Justice of the Third Court of Appeals. From the endorsement : [Republican incumbent Kenneth] Law, 60, is not a bad man. But he's proven ineffective and he has presided over a court that has become all too politicized as Republicans have won a 4 to 2 majority on the six-member court. Case in point: Law...
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Burnt Orange Report (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Part 1: In installment uno of the the Hustle's election night two-fer, we count down to Barack o'clock with Mayor Will Wynn , judicial candidate Woodie Jones , and Texas Senator Kirk Watson , at the Travis County Dems' Downtown bash. Part 2: This is it! The Hustle's partying down with 3,000 rabid Democrats for Barack's historic win, and our season finale - but not before interviews with...
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Texas Politics (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Ken Law, the aptly named chief justice of the Austin-based Third Court of Appeals, lost his bid for re-election to Democrat Woodie Jones. Law was one of three Republican justices who wrote an opinion that could help Tom DeLay fight...
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Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
... 58,000-vote margin there was enough to make up for ground lost elsewhere. In the Austin area, Woodie Jones knocked off Chief Justice Ken Law, author of the infamous "checks aren't cash" decision in the Tom DeLay appeal, for the 3rd Court. - Republicans managed to hold onto four judges in Harris County, with the Dems winning the other 23 judicial races. As was the case across the board,...
