Thursday, November 16th, 2006...5:51 am
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
I got an e-mail yesterday saying that in the continuing count in Yuma County, Amanda Aguirre pulled ahead of Russ Jones in the District 24 State Senate race.
At the time, Aguirre was about 251 votes ahead. According to the Secretary of State’s website (last updated at 8:17 last night), that lead is at 150 votes. Yuma County officials reported that they sould have been done with early ballots as of yesterday, and the last provisional ballots should be counted by Friday. La Paz county is reported to be done with it’s count.
This also is accompanied by some news from the house race in that district. Democrat Lynne Pancrazi is still maintaining her healthy first place in that contest, but Theresa Ulmer has knocked Ken Rosevear from second place. Her lead is down to 24 votes, but if this holds, it will mean the Democrats swept a district where the Republicans counted on a win to get their “2/3 majority” they were going on about a few months back.
These results would also be a reversal of one of the few apparent pickups that Republicans had on election night, when it looked like Jones eked out a win.
Also, the Pinal County counting is done, and Democrat Barbara McGuire of Kearny has edged out Republican Frank Pratt of Casa Grande for the silver. This would be a pick-up in the district where Democrat Cheryl Chase switched to the Republicans.
In Maricopa County, Jackie Thrasher’s lead is back up to 115 votes against Doug Quelland. Earlier in the day, the lead was as small as 59 votes, nearly small enough to trigger an automatic recount. We may actually know how this turns out before the State of the State address.
NB - No real good reason for the title, ‘cept to be a smart alec.
1 Comment
November 16th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
Last I heard, we’ll know for sure by Monday. I have my candle lit that Yuma’s Angels will all win..
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