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Rick Reed top choice in Travis County DA's race

By Gritsforbreakfast

As primary day approaches, I wanted to tell readers in Austin and Travis County - especially since several people have asked me, including three today! - that I'm voting for Rick Reed to replace Ronnie Earle as the Travis County District Attorney. (I meant to post this last weekend, but came down ill; I apologize to Reed for my tardiness.) If you haven't seen it, here's his TV spot, or you can watch a candidate forum online.There are four candidates in the Democratic primary for Travis DA, and the winner will get the job since there's no Republican candidate. Of the four, to me, the choice came quickly down to Reed and Rosemary Lehmberg, Earle's long-time first assistant.Odds are, the race is really for second, to see who winds up going head to head against Rosemary in the runoff...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 28, 2008 (boomark / email).