Yesterday's Election Update

We the People and limited government scored two meaningful victories yesterday.

Ted Cruz won in Texas and no new transportation taxes won in Atlanta.

Both were political anti-business-as-usual victories.

The people are now speaking clearly. Let's hope the politicians are listening.

A Tea-Party Favorite Wins Texas  Race says this in part:

"AUSTIN, Texas—Houston lawyer Rafael "Ted" Cruz easily won a runoff election Tuesday to become the Republican U.S. Senate nominee in Texas, underscoring how tea-party activists are upending this year's GOP primary contests.

Mr. Cruz, a tea-party favorite, defeated Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, the candidate backed by most of the state GOP establishment, including Gov. Rick Perry. He led by 57% to 43%, with 96% of the state's 7,957 precincts reporting.

Mr. Cruz will hold a commanding advantage in the general election in heavily Republican Texas, which hasn't elected a Democrat to statewide office since 1994. His Democratic opponent in November will be Paul Sadler, a former state representative who defeated retired educator Grady Yarbrough in the Democratic runoff. The winner will fill the seat of retiring GOP Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.

Mr. Cruz's win "is the biggest victory for the tea party to date," said Tom Jensen, director of Democratic firm Public Policy Polling. A May poll by the firm showed Mr. Dewhurst with a 17-point lead, but a July 29 poll of likely GOP voters found a complete reversal, with Mr. Cruz ahead by 10 points. . . .

The Texas Republican primary was viewed nationally as a test of the strength of the tea-party movement, which played an insurgent role in 2010 congressional races and this year targeted several big-name GOP lawmakers considered insufficiently conservative, with mixed results."

The voters spoke clearly in Atlanta as well. Voters reject transportation tax says this:

"Distrustful of government and riven by differences, metro Atlanta voters on Tuesday rejected a $7.2 billion transportation plan that business leaders have called an essential bulwark against regional decline.

The defeat of the 10-year, 1 percent sales tax leaves the Atlanta region's traffic congestion problem with no visible remedy. It marks failure not only for the tax but for the first attempt ever to unify the 10-county region's disparate voters behind a plan of action.

"Let this send a message," said Debbie Dooley, a tea party leader who early on organized opposition to the T-SPLOST tax measure. "We the people, you have to earn our trust before asking for more money.""

Summing Up

It was a good day for We the People and a bad day for elitist business-as-usual government knows best politicians and bureaucrats.

Let's keep up the good work.

Thanks. Bob.