Two months before the midterm election, GOP Tarrant County (Texas) Judge Tim O'Hare endorsed what he called a "sensible" plan to reduce the number of polling places in Tarrant County by 92.
It was the beginning of the end of his judicial career in Tarrant County.
Top headline: WFAA Dallas
Middle headline: KERA Dallas
Bottom headline: Fort Worth Report
Cecelia Lenzen reports for the Fort Worth Report:
Democrat Alisa Simmons claimed victory over Republican Tim O’Hare in the race for Tarrant County judge, flipping the seat blue for the first time in 40 years.
She is the first Black person and first woman to hold the countywide executive position.
“This is telling. It tells us that the constituents, the taxpayers of Tarrant County, wanted change,” Simmons told the Fort Worth Report.
O’Hare called Simmons early in the evening to concede the race and congratulate her, Simmons said, and the two spoke about the transition to come.
Simmons will take office Jan. 1 and serve a four-year term. She told the Report she plans to increase how often the commissioners court meets each month, increase residents’ time to speak during those meetings and “shore up” financial issues to rightsize the county’s budget.
Simmons won with 402,291 votes, or 56.4%, and O’Hare received 311,040 votes, or 43.6%, according to unofficial results from the county elections office.
Tarrant County voters were across-the-board pissed. In a county that Trump won by 5 percentage points, James Talarico whomped Ken Paxton by 19 percentage points.
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