This whole mess has been more confusing than Chinese algebra but it looks like a deal has been struck.

Texas will have a single primary on April 3rd.  Thank you, Sweet Jesus.

Other details:

February 1, 2012 – New residency deadline for candidates seeking election to the Texas House and Texas Senate.

February 1, 2012, 6:00pm – New deadline of court-ordered reopened filing period, in which candidates for all offices have the opportunity to amend, withdraw or file a new application for the ballot.

February 3, 2012 – New deadline for County Executive Committees to conduct drawing for candidate order on ballot.

April 3, 2012 – Date of the 2012 General Primary Election.

April 14 or April 21, 2012 – Date of County and Senatorial District Conventions, as determined by the State Chair of each political party.

June 5, 2012 – Date of the 2012 General Primary Runoff Election.

Now the downside is that there will be a two month run-off in the primary election, which means that the odds of there being bloodshed or at least spitwads thrown in the Fort Bend GOP primary race for sheriff increase dramatically.  Since there are 4 candidates, there almost assuredly will be a run-off.

The latest spitwad thrown?  I took a picture of it last night.

Yep.  This sucker is pretty near the same size as Juanita’s purse or Del Rio.

Meanwhile, while these two dudes are playing spite games with each other, the sole Democratic candidate is taking bullets for the public.

I love yew, Democrats.