continue making progress<\/a> on water conservation and clean-energy initiatives \u2014 and she wants to push other government leaders to do the same.<\/p>\n\u201cNone of it is rocket science, none of it is wildly expensive. It’s all doable,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd that’s the largest part of the reason I ran, is I feel like we have to get really serious about addressing climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n
Civil rights attorney Amanda Marzullo fell second to Shea with nearly 31% of the vote. In a statement, Marzullo said her campaign made it clear that many voters are \u201cfed up\u201d with county leadership and are looking for change.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter knocking more than 15,000 doors, we heard disappointment about transparency, accountability, and decisions affecting our community \u2014 from civil rights to corporate handouts with Tesla,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m grateful to everyone who helped elevate those conversations, and the fight for a county government that works for all of us, not the wealthy or well off, continues.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rick Astray-Caneda had slightly more than 6% of the vote in the Precinct 2 race; Reese Ricci Armstrong had just above 5%.<\/p>\n
The race for Precinct 4 now heads to a runoff between former Travis County Precinct 4 Constable George Morales and Del Valle ISD Trustee Susanna Ledesma-Woody.<\/p>\n
Morales is ahead with just about 37% of unofficial voting totals. Ledesma-Woody trails slightly behind with close to 36%. The two remaining candidates \u2014\u00a0Ofelia Maldonado Zapata and Gavino Fernandez \u2014\u00a0had roughly 21% and 6% of the vote, respectively.<\/p>\n
The runoff election will be held May 26. Since no Republican candidates are running for Precinct 4, whoever wins will run unopposed in November.<\/p>\n
Ledesma-Woody said, in the coming months, she will continue campaigning and stressing the difference between her and Morales.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that the biggest thing is whether people want somebody with policy and governance experience or somebody with policing experience, and I think that’s going to be the huge difference between the two of us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Morales did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Incumbent Brigid Shea came out on top in the race for Travis County commissioner Precinct 2, and two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75557,132,134,133,75558,21482,64697,67447,17665,64700,394,22941],"class_list":["post-190218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-amanda-marzullo","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-bridgid-shea","tag-election-results","tag-george-morales","tag-precinct-2","tag-precinct-4","tag-susanna-ledesma-woody","tag-travis-county","tag-travis-county-election-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}