Larry R. Busby: 2,681
Sidney W. Moore: 803
McMullen County Sheriff
Larry Garcia: 207
Bruce Thomas: 325
Larry R. Busby was re-elected as Live Oak County Sheriff yesterday.
Busby, a graduate of Texas A&I University (now TAMU-Kingsville) has been Sheriff of Live Oak County for nearly 28 years. He has a total of 33 years of law enforcement experience. Busby taught school for eight years prior to entering law enforcement.
Busby has his Master Texas Peace Officer license, his Texas jailer’s license, a Texas peace officers instructor certificate and a police firearms instructor certificate. He is chairman of the Coastal Bend Peace Officers Association scholarship committee and on the legislative committee of the Sheriff’s Association of Texas. He is past chairman and current member of the Coastal Bend College Law Enforcement Advisory Committee and chairman of the Del Mar College Law Enforcement Advisory Committee.
Other activities include founding and current board member of the Live Oak County Boys & Girls Club and resource member of the child welfare board. Busby is active in Lions club and as well as many other organizations.
The other county candidates had no opponents. Incumbent County Commissioners Jim Bassett (Pct. 3) and Richard Lee (Pct. 1) will remain in office for another term. Incumbent Constables James Doughty (Pct. 1), Mari Gonzales (Pct. 2) and James M. Baker, Jr. (Pct. 3) had no opponents and will remain in office for another term. Incumbent County Tax Assessor-Collector Virginia Horton and incumbent County Attorney Gene Chapline had no opponents and will remain in office for another term.
All election results are unofficial until canvassed.
In the state elections, incumbent State Rep. (District 35) Yvonne Gonzalez-Toureilles ran unopposed as well as incumbent District Judge Janna Whatley, and incumbent District Attorney Martha Warner. In the 13th Court of Appeals, Place 6 incumbent Justice Dori Contreras Garza (Dem) ran against Caroline Bertuzzi (Rep).
Check out our website www.mysoutex.com for other election results, including the presidential race between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain.
On election night, the editor and other members of the community waited at the LOC Courthouse for the election numbers to be posted. The county clerk's office posted the early votes. A while later, they came back and posted the numbers precinct by precinct and informed the gathering the column total is the number of votes the candidates received. The editor relayed the totals to the Beeville office for publication and left the courthouse as did the others.
The next morning the county clerk's office said the election totals were wrong because the "early votes" were worked into the precincts and should not have been re-added into the total. County Clerk Karen Irving said, "We posted the wrong set of results. We had a long, 16-hour day."
As soon as the correct election numbers were made available by the clerk's office, the editor posted the correct results and will run a correction in the next edition of The Progress.
Yet for many of us we wonder if in the 30years the Liveoak Sheriff has done everything possible to uphold the law.How many cold cases have been dismissed because of lack of money to investigate or because it is in the best interest of the Sheriff to succumb to cronyism.
I have no ill-will against Larry,I wish him well
I do have questions about how this county conducts business too Many unanswered questions linger.
Words of heed:If one says he will retire,never assume one's ready for rehire,Ones indecision of heart and mind, vent smoke and start a fire! but if by chance the mind faint,remember, you dabbed the taint.