Primary voting season campaigns begin

ELLIS COUNTY – The big 2024. We have been talking about it for a while now and regarding elections, the presidential election is the big elephant in the room.

With states around the country making landmark decisions about who can and can’t be on the ballot well, in my mind it is akin to that saying “Let the games begin.”

Here in Ellis County, let’s just say our politicians will have the decency on a local, state and national level to run a decent campaign and keep the tomfoolery out of it. 

Here is the roundup of the March 5, 2024 primaries and candidates Democratic (one for a US seat) and Republican.

ELLIS COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 3

Joseph R. “Joe” Gallo (Incumbent) 

ELLIS COUNTY ATTORNEY

Ann Montgomery (Incumbent) 

Lindy Beaty

ELLIS COUNTY SHERIFF

Brad Norman (Incumbent)

ELLIS COUNTY TAX ASSESSOR-COLLECTOR

Richard Rozier (Incumbent) 

ELLIS COUNTY COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 1

Randy Stinson (Incumbent) 

Travis M. Smith 

ELLIS COUNTY COMMISSIONER PRECINCT 3

Paul D. Perry (Incumbent) 

ELLIS COUNTY CONSTABLE PRECINCT 1

Roy A. Callender Jr. (Incumbent)

ELLIS COUNTY CONSTABLE PRECINCT 2

Casey A. Borders (Incumbent) 

ELLIS COUNTY CONSTABLE PRECINCT 4

Mark Bounds

STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 10

Brian Harrison (Incumbent)

DISTRICT JUDGE 13TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

James E. Lagomarsino (Incumbent) 

Joseph Aguilar 

DISTRICT JUDGE 443RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT

Ken Lundberg

Grace Pandithurai

Greg Wilhelm

DISTRICT JUDGE 378TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

William “Doug” Wallace (Incumbent)

U. S. REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 6

Republican Primary 

Jake Ellzey (Incumbent) 

James Buford 

Cliff Wiley

Democratic Primary 

John Love III

For more reading about the upcoming national elections and politics, including the state’s censoring the US elections read my Democrats and Republicans Down the Rabbit Hole column on the back page of this newspaper or in the Opinion section of the newspaper’s website.