Scott Golemon wins GOP 9 th Appeals Court nomination

  • Scott Golemon, a civil and family law attorney currently practicing in Montgomery County, TX has won the GOP primary election to be that party’s nominee for Chief Justice of the Texas 9 th Court of Appeals. He won his primary runoff by a mere 322 votes. Since the Texas Democrats did not field a candidate for this race, Golemon becomes the presumptive Chief Justice of the 9th Court of Appeals in Beaumont, TX. Photo Courtesy Golemon For Judge.com
    Scott Golemon, a civil and family law attorney currently practicing in Montgomery County, TX has won the GOP primary election to be that party’s nominee for Chief Justice of the Texas 9 th Court of Appeals. He won his primary runoff by a mere 322 votes. Since the Texas Democrats did not field a candidate for this race, Golemon becomes the presumptive Chief Justice of the 9th Court of Appeals in Beaumont, TX. Photo Courtesy Golemon For Judge.com

Only 492 Orange County Republicans went to the polls on Tuesday, July 14, 2020 to cast their ballots in-person during the Orange County Republican Party Primary Runoff Election last week. However, an additional 1000 Orange County Republicans voted by mail or cast their ballots at the early voting polling places to select their candidate for Chief Justice of the 9th Texas Court of Appeals, making the grand total number of Orange County GOP voters casting ballots at 1,529.

Those Orange County Republicans selected Conroe, TX Attorney and former Nueces County prosecutor, Jay Wright, to have his name placed on November’s General Election Ballot by a local vote of 814 votes to 710 local votes for Wright’s opponent, Scott Golemon. However, even though Jay Wright was the local Orange County GOP favorite to be nominated, Mr. Wright did not carry all of the other nine counties served by the 9 th Texas Court of Appeals.

At the end of the night, when all of the votes were counted, the unofficial results of total vote in Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Montgomery, Newton, Orange, Polk, San Jacinto, and Tyler Counties gave the nomination to Scott Golemon with a squeaker 50.4% of the total vote or 20,056 votes to Mr. Wright’s 19,734 votes. Jay Wright lost by a mere 322 votes. No word yet on whether Mr. Wright will ask for a recount.

In the Orange County Democratic Party Primary Runoff Election, Mary “MJ” Hegar will be on the November ballot as the Texas Democrats nominee to run against incumbent U.S. Senator John Cornyn in the race for U.S. Senator.

Former U.S. Air Force pilot, Mary “MJ” Hegar was the favorite to win the nomination among Orange County Democrats. With a grand total of 892 Orange County Democrats casting Democratic Primary Runoff ballots, Major Hegar won the county race by a mere 27 votes with an Orange County total of 458 votes to her opponent Royce West’s 431 votes. However, statewide, the U.S. Senate Democratic nomination race was a bit more decisive with Major Hegar carrying 52.13% of the vote or 498,180 votes to Texas State Senator Royce West’s 47.87% or 457,555 votes.

Also in the Orange County Democratic Party Primary Runoff Election race for Texas Railroad Commissioner, Orange County Democrats picked Dallas, TX mom, attorney, engineer and community leader Chrysta Castañeda to be their nominee by a local vote of 478 votes to her opponent Roberto R. “Beto” Alonzo’s 397 local votes.

Statewide, Ms. Castañeda won a landslide of Texas Democrats votes soundly defeating Mr. Alonzo by winning nearly 62% of the nomination vote with statewide vote totals of 575,460 Texas Democrats nominating Chrysta Castañeda to 353,399 Texas Democrats nominating Roberto R. “Beto” Alonzo.

Ms. Castañeda will face Texas Republican nominee for Railroad Commissioner James “Jim” Wright in the November 2020 General Election.