Incumbents
Win Local Primary Elections
Glasscock County Election Judge Wanda Forbis reports that Precinct One Commissioner Jimmy Strube and Commissioner Hugh Schafer in Precinct Three each won his race in the Republican Primary election March 14. Strube won by a margin of 73 to 34 over opponent Shirley Braden, while Schafer edged by Rufus Fowler 43-41. In uncontested races, Royce “Booger” Pruit got 239 votes for sheriff and Leroy Hoelscher got 214 votes for constable. Forbis says the winners will run unopposed in the November General Election, unless others file as write-in candidates.
Glasscock County voted heavily for Governor George W. Bush in the Republican Presidential Primary. Bush got 281 votes, John McCain 7, Alan Keyes 6, Charles Urban 1 and Uncommitted 2. In the Democratic Presidential Primary, there were 8 votes for Vice-President Al Gore, and 4 for Bill Bradley.
The school prayer initiative was approved by Glasscock County voters by a margin of 283 to 3.
Forbis reports that
304 people voted in the Republican primary and 14 in the Democratic
primary, with the combined vote representing 42 percent of the county’s
registered voters (as compared to only 30 percent in Midland County).