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The polls are closed.  The votes are tallied.  And the Republicans are still fighting.

“It just goes to show what a dirty campaign will get you, and that’s what he ran,” McMeans said about Forlano.

Reached Wednesday morning, Forlano accused McMeans of running the “dirty campaign” and said McMeans was “untruthful” throughout the campaign.

McMeans now faces Democratic opponent Harrison Gregg Jr. in the fall election. Gregg ran unopposed.

McMeans said the difference in the race was that Forlano had “no real criminal law experience.” Secondly, McMeans reiterated that Forlano ran a “dirty campaign.”

“A lot of people told us tonight — all of the poll workers that I have — that the dirty robo-calls, the lies and just the untruths he told in his fliers and speeches turned them off,” McMeans said. “They’re done with dirty politics. Fort Bend voters are so smart that they’re not going to put up with dirty politics, and that’s how he ran his last election and that’s how he ran this election, and you can see how that works.”

Forlano called McMeans a “sore winner” and that he was “sorry to hear” about McMeans’ comments.

“They are still fighting about the race that happened 4 years ago.  They won’t even get rared-up to really fight about this one for another year or two,” Juanita says.

“That’s what you gotta love about Republicans,” she said.  “They don’t let it end when it ends.”

“And, come to think of it, grudge-holding is certainly a quality you’d want in a county court at law judge,” she grins, “if freekin’ justice ain’t real high on your list.”

“Come November, I’m going to vote for Harrison Gregg, Jr.  because he knows how to get over himself.”

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On a personal note, McMean’s father has been a judge around here since the earth cooled.  He called my husband a few weeks ago to complain about something he claimed I wrote, but I didn’t.  Hal wrote it.  But, the father thought that since my name is clearly visible on Hal’s site (as a link) then I must have written it.

Contrary to popular belief, I do not write everything on the Internets.

Hal writes the half of it that I don’t.  And you can tell what I wrote from what Hal writes because Hal is a better writer than I am.

My husband told the judge that it was a little weird to holler at him about something I didn’t write.  He told him that if he has a problem with something I didn’t write, that he should call me and file an official complaint about things I don’t write.

He, of course, hasn’t.

My husband operates on the theory that if someone is very confused, you should do your part to add to that confusion.  It makes life interesting.

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