Dallas Voters Will Choose One State Judge by Write-in Vote

Posted on by September 3, 2022

Texas elects state judges on a partisan basis. For some reason, no one qualified for the November 2022 ballot for District Judge, 301st district, in Dallas County, Texas. There are three declared write-in candidates: the incumbent, Judge Mary Brown; Earl Jackson; and Michelle McKinney. Thanks to Jim Riley for this news.

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Dallas Voters Will Choose One State Judge by Write-in Vote — 24 Comments

  2. Scratch that. I would have known that if I had looked at the URL. That was old shenanigans that failed in 2018. Not sure why Brown was booted this time. Getting no immediate hits other than Ballotpedia, which has no details on WHY Brown got booted. I remember now the 2018 story, but hadn’t heard anything this year, and it clearly wasn’t a countywide Dallas GOP deal.

  4. Hey, Disco Stick? You’re just the latest Dum Fuq, or else the reincarnation of the same Dum Fuq, who thinks I’m Stock. Feel free to GFY with your own willfully misinformed stupidity.

  5. I thought your name was Robert K Stock, a Satanist Motel 6 custodian from El Reno, Oklahoma. I’ve seen this nickname connected to him. Was I misinformed?

  6. I KNOW your name is connected to “troll.” Or was it “turd”? Saw your picture in the dictionary next to both.

  10. In Texas, judicial candidates in primary elections in larger counties have to pay a filing fee AND submit a petition. For this office the filing fee is $2500 (or an in lieu of petition of 500 signatures). The supplemental petition is 250 signatures. If you don’t pay the filing fee, then you have to collect 750 signatures.

    Republicans and Democrats file with their county party chair. The party chairs are only required to examine any petition for facial compliance. But someone can go to the party HQ, get a copy of the petition (which is a public record, even though the party has custody), and then point out any deficiencies in the petition. If the party chair refuses to act, the challenger may go to court to get a writ of mandamus to order the party chair to fulfill her ministerial duty.

    Sometimes the Republicans will go check the Democratic applications, or vice versa. Or it might be an opponent from the same party. In this case, there were not enough signatures, but other than that I don’t know the circumstances. I could find no news articles.

    Since no other Democrats, Republicans, Greens, Libertarians, or independents filed last December it was impossible for any candidate to get on the ballot in November.

    In Texas, write-in candidates require a filing fee (or in lieu of petition). As a benefit, a write-in space will be printed on the ballot. In addition, a list of write-in candidates is posted in each voting booth. The list is also included in the package sent to mail voters.

    It appears that the incumbent Mary Brown began collecting contributions in May for a write-in candidacy. There is a sore loser law for primary candidates, but because her application was rejected she was never a primary candidate.

    There does not appear to be a starting date for collecting signatures for a write-in candidate and there is no primary screenout, so a write-in candidate could have been collecting signatures for months, even outside the primary polling place.

  14. Mary Brown is under investigation by the Texas Ethic Commission for violating the Texas Election Code. I believe the case against her is airtight and have done several videos about the issue. If she is found to be in violation of the code, she will be liable for a civil money penalty of up to three times the amount of donations she has received.

  18. Jeff, going to watch later.

    I webmailed her campaign and have heard bupkis, and “silence gives assent” is a cliche that often remains true. But, it’s not always true. I’ll be Googling to find more about you, other than what’s in the video intros, too.

    Your YouTube “about” is a good starting point:

    “The main purpose of this channel is to expose the evil and injustice that are codified in the Texas anti-Family Code and implemented by our anti-family courts. For the sake of our parents, children, grandchildren, friends, co-workers, and society itself, we MUST strengthen our families and challenge unjust, immoral, and wicked laws and exploitive divorce attorneys from destroying our families.”

    Have a bad divorce yourself?

  19. @JM, SG,

    TEC 253.154 violates equal protection.

    In Texas, judicial candidates are somewhat restricted as to when they may accept campaign contributions. This is to reduce the appearance that contributors are parties and lawyers who are trying to curry favor from a judge who might be hearing their case.

    For partisan candidates the window opens 210 days before the filing deadline in December 2021 or 18 months before the election. For independent candidates the window opens 210 days before the filing deadline in June 2022 or 13 months before the election.

    For write-in candidates there is no window, and they purportedly can not fund raise before they file their declaration of candidacy, even though they must either pay a filing fee ($2500 for this office) or collect a petition with 500 signatures (it is likely that sunscreen, hydration fluids, paper, and ink are campaign expenses, and if someone did it for you it is a contribution in kind).

    The campaign finance reporting agency in Texas is called the “Texas Ethics Commission”. Opponents can suggest that a candidate acted “unethically.”

    In Texas, applicants for consideration for nomination by convention must designate a campaign treasurer when they file. But if they are raising funds to pay the filing fee or gather signatures they must appoint a treasurer at that time.

  21. SocraticGadfly, I and others are seeking to repeal unilateral no-fault divorce. Unilateral divorce has a predetermined outcome and provides the respondent with no remedy at law. For those who have engaged in a religious marriage, unilateral divorce is the state’s unconstitutional interference with a sacrament or ordinance of the church. Eliminate unilateral divorce, and you get rid of a lot of the corruption of the anti-family court industry and practitioners.

    Reagan said his biggest regret from public office was signing no-fault divorce. Huckabee said that it was the worst thing that ever happened to America. Lenin said, “Destroy the family, destroy society.”

    On its face, “no-fault” divorce is a lie to the court. With unilateral no-fault divorce, marriage lacks legal protection and is a sham institution. The injustice and destructiveness this practice has wreaked on society is incalculable.

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/20-590.html

  22. I agree partially. Although Muslims are demonic, I believe they have the right approach to marriage. The man may divorce his wife property by saying “I divorce you” three times. He may also acquire additional wife properties when it suits him. The wife, being property, has no rights at all, and certainly no right to leave of her own accord. If she escapes, she is brought back by the authorities and punished severely by the husband. I think we should adopt this approach.

  24. One of the biggest problems with this country today and the West in general is the heretic new notion that women have rights, regardless of whether they are married or not. This will take a lot of corrective rape to get out of girl’s heads.

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