The late-voter's guide to Travis County elections

If you missed early voting and are only just now looking at your sample ballot choices, don't worry: we're here to help!

Below are our recommendations -- mostly Republicans, as is par for our course, but with some Libertarian favorites and some local independents worthy of a vote. A race with no endorsement is not necessarily a slight against any candidate but that we either don't have enough information or wish to leave it up to the voter. (Leaving uncertain races blank is generally a wise choice.)

CANDIDATES APPEARING ON BALLOT STATEWIDE:

Ted Cruz for U.S. Senate*

Greg Abbott for Governor (i)*

Dan Patrick for Lieutenant Governor (i)*

Ken Paxton for Attorney General (i)*

Glenn Hegar for Comptroller (i)*

Sid Miller for Agriculture Commissioner (i)*

Christi Craddick for Railroad Commissioner (i)*

Jimmy Blacklock for Texas Supreme Court Place 2 (i)*

John Devine for Texas Supreme Court Place 4 (i)*

Jeff Brown for Texas Supreme Court Place 6 (i)*

Sharon Keller for Presiing Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals (i)*

Barbara Parker Hervey for Court of Criminal Appeals Place 7 (i)*

Michelle Slaughter for Court of Criminal Appeals Place 8 (i)*

CONGRESSIONAL RACES WITHIN TRAVIS COUNTY:

Michael McCaul for Congressional District 10 (i) *

Bill Flores for Congressional District 17 (i) *

Chip Roy for Congressional District 21 *

Roger Williams for Congressional District 25 (i) * 

David Smalling for Congressional District 35 *

LEGISLATIVE AND COUNTY RACES:

George Hindman for Senate District 14 *

Donna Campbell for Senate District 25 (i) *

Gabriel Nila for House District 46 *

Paul Workman for House District 47 (i) *

Kyle Austin for House District 49 *

Cindy Olson Bourland for 3rd Court of Appeals Place 2 (i) *

Scott Field for 3rd Court of Appeals Place 3 (i) *

David Puryear for 3rd Court of Appeals Place 5 (i) *

Mike Toth for Third Court of Appeals, Place 6 (i) *

Erica Lockwood for County Clerk 

Chris Soileau for Travis County Justice of the Peace Precinct 2 *

Martin Harry for Travis County Justice of the Peace Precinct 3 *

CITY RACES

Note: due to the obscurity of some of these hyper-local races we left a question mark by many as to indicate that there is a race appearing on the ballot, but that we did not have enough information to make an endorsement.

Austin:

Mayor - Todd Phelps*
District 1 - Vincent Harding (former Dem chair, but level-headed)
District 3 - ?
District 5 - ?
District 8 - Frank Ward*
District 9 - ?
Props A-G - Against*
Props H-I For* (procedural)
Props J-K - For* (audit and code reform)

Jonestown:

Place 3 - Rod Schaffner
Place 4 - Dave Nelsen
Place 5 - Linda Bush

Lago Vista:

Don Barthlow, Tim Collins, Darnell Powell.

Propositions A-G - ?

Lakeway:

At-large (2 slots, 5 candidates) - ?

Manor:

Place 2 - Maria D. Amezcua
Place 4 - Gil Burrell
Place 6 - ?

Mustang Ridge:

Mayor - ?
At-large (2 slots, 3 candidates) - ?

Pflugerville:

Proposition A - Against*

Round Rock:

Proposition A - Against

Sunset Valley:

Mayor - ?
At-large (2 slots, 4 candidates) - ?

Volente:

Mayor - ?

SCHOOL/COLLEGE DISTRICTS:

Austin ISD:

Place 1 - ?
Place 4 - Kristin Ashy
Place 6 - ?
Place 7 - ?
Place 9 (At-large) - Sam Russo

Austin Community College:

Place 9 - Lora Weber
Place 8 - Sarah Mills or Doug Gibbins
Place 7 - Barbara Mink (incumbent)

ACC Annexation of Pflugerville ISD - Against*

Del Valle ISD:

Place 5 - ?

Johnson City ISD:

Proposition A - ?

Lago Vista ISD:

Place 6 - ?
Place 7 - ?

Leander ISD:

Place 1 - Trish Bode or leave blank (Bode beat taxpayer champion Lisa Mallory in 2016)
Place 2 - Sharyn LaCombe
Place 6 - Aaron Johnson
Place 7 - Elexis Grimes

Manor ISD:

Place 1 - ?
Place 3 - ?
Place 5 - ?

Marble Falls ISD:

Proposition A - ?

Pflugerville ISD:

Propositions A-B - Against

Round Rock ISD:

Danielle Kobe Weston, Amy Weir, David G Schmidt, Steve Math

(Note: According to the Williamson County Republican Leaders Organization there are at least 2 Republicans in each race. Feller, Hanna, David are their picks — although the group made no endorsement in the Math-Brenek seat.)

Proposition A - Against*

OTHER DISTRICTS:

East Travis Gateway Library District:

At-large Trustees (3 slots, 6 candidates) - ?

Wells Branch Community Library District:

At-large Trustees (3 slots, 4 candidates) - ?

Williamson-Travis MUD No. 1:

At-large Directors (3 slots, 4 candidates) - ?

North Austin MUD No. 1:

Place 2 - ?
Place 4 - ?

Wells Branch MUD:

Place 1 - ?
Place 3 - ?
Place 5 - ?

Travis County MUD No. 14:

Propositions A-C - ?

Lost Creek Limited District:

At-large Directors (3 slots, 6 candidates) - Joyce Cunningham, Barbara Szalay, Diane Fulton

Tanglewood Forest Limited District:

At-large Directors (2 slots, 3 candidates) - ?

* = endorsed by Travis County Republican Party

NOTE: Sample ballots with more detail may be found at http://traviscountyclerk.org/eclerk/Content.do?code=E.3

Special thanks to the Travis County Republicans Facebook Group for the information sharing.

DID WE MISS ANYONE a local conservative should support? Let us know in the comments.