Locals have been closely watching the election results for a constitutional amendment.  Hey, it’s a small town and we get our non-nakkid entertainment wherever we can.

Brady: Colorful and Sad ... Like a Clown

It dealt with constitutional amendment #10, a piece of housekeeping legislation that is about as boring as scraping dead bugs off flypaper.  It would allow incumbents announce their intention to run for another office without resigning the office they hold.  That’s always been the law in Texas, but they had to move the dates of when they could announce because we moved the elections.

This little piddling proposed amendment, one of 10 being considered,  got hot around here due to another little law that won’t let you put election signs up until 90 days before an election.  The two main Republican candidates got cute with putting up signs asking folks to support or reject amendment #10, mainly as a way to get their names on yardsigns waaaaay before the 90 days before the election.  And the fact that one of them, Troy Nehls, is an incumbent and needs to keep his job as a constable while running for sheriff.

Nehls: Even Had The Wording Right

I gave Nehls the winning edge in the sign competition because he came up with the idea and got his out first.  Plus, his didn’t look like a peacock threw up on them.  Plus, he got the wording right.  Brady, who apparently hasn’t voted much, did not realize that there is not a “No” choice on the ballot – there is only For and Against.

Okay, so as the votes began to roll in last night, it quickly became apparent that Nehls won again.  The proposed amendment #10 won bigger in Fort Bend County than it did in the state as a whole, which was not true of other amendments.  But, that was only by 2 percentage points.  Also, the undervotes (people who skipped voting on that particular amendment) was neither high nor low, but right in the middle.

So, we have learned two things:  (1) Nehls won the amendment war, but (2) neither of them won the who-gives-a-damn-hoot war.

Brady, who has spent almost all of his daddy’s big money putting look-at-me, look-at-me, look-at-me-dear-God-I-need-attention-so-look-at-me billboards all over the county still can’t get people to look at him.   And Nehl’s support is a little better, but still pretty …. I dunno, meh.

The big winner of the night was the local folks in the sign business and political consultants.  They won big.