Now just over seven months old, the 2006 Campaign for county and state wide positions has become only slightly less uncertain. The big news is that we had one of the closest races in history.
The race for State Representative # 78 was unofficially decided by only 106 votes. Now that the recount is completed, the official results are that Haggerty won by 105 votes: 3,107 to 3,002 votes.
The challenger, Dr. Lorraine O’Donnell, sure put the scare into Pat Haggerty, the incumbent. Even though early polls indicated that Haggerty was way ahead, O’Donnell, an El Paso ISD Board Member, kept closing ground each day. O’Donnell claims that there are over 250 votes that have not been counted and has officially requested a recount.
Pat Haggerty must have known that O’Donnell was hot on his trail because there was a rare sighting of the incumbent out on the campaign trail ... waving to passersby in a stiff breeze. Many had thought that he had forgotten how to campaign. Guess not.
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