Last of Election Coverage - San Marcos Daily Record

"The Deciders Voters make their voices heard Tuesday" - This is the last article prior to election and still no bio or questions for the public to evaluate the candiates

"Narvaiz wins another term: Jones holds onto council post"
"Returning to the city council with Narvaiz will be Council member Place 4 Christopher Jones, who defeated challenger Lisa Marie Coppoletta by a vote of 6,165 (55.60 percent) to 4,923 (44.40 percent)."

"Narvaiz keeps majority: Provisional ballot check leaves mayoral election results intact"
The election breakdowns from my race not reported, but what is new with the Daily Record?!

World United Music Festival Cancelled - Newstreamz

World United Music Festival cancelled
Posted on November 16, 2008 at 10:24 pm

"Music fans who were looking forward to three days of fun found a rude shock as the World United Music Festival was abruptly canceled. Festival staff were told by Jerry Payne, the organizer of the WUMF , that the remaining lineup of musicians would no longer be allowed to play and ticket holders were to be refused entry. People already attending the festival were asked to leave."

Story is located here:
http://newstreamz.com/2008/11/16/world-united-music-festival-cancelled

City Council election becomes official - University Star

City Council election becomes official
Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Page Two 2008 election San Marcos

"Susan Narvaiz maintained a majority vote in her bid for a third term as Mayor of San Marcos following a review of provisional and overseas ballots Monday by the Early Voting Ballot Board.

The election will become official following the canvassing of election returns by the City Council on at 5 p.m., Monday.

Out of 201 provisional ballots cast in Hays County, 14 qualified to be counted and five of the 14 were City of San Marcos ballots. In addition, 16 ballots were cast by residents who were out of the country, including four who were counted in the city election.

The San Marcos City Charter requires a majority vote (50 percent plus one vote) to elect a member of the City Council.

Following the review Monday, the City Council races in the Nov. 4 election had the following results:

Mayor: Susan Clifford Narvaiz: 6,451 (50.08 percent) Daniel Dan McCarthy 2,563 (19.9 percent) Dave Newman 3,868 (30.03 percent) City Council Place 3: Fred Terry 8,822 (100 percent) City Council Place 4: Lisa Marie Coppoletta 4,925 (44.40 percent) Christopher Jones 6,168 (55.60 percent)

Of the votes counted Monday, Narvaiz picked two additional votes, McCarthy gained one vote and Newman gained one vote."

The rest of the story is located here:
http://star.txstate.edu/content/city-council-election-becomes-official

Guest Coach - Texas State Football - Video Clips

The Jumbotron


With our mascot BOKO

Guest Coach - Texas State Football - Stills

This would be my first actual football game.  I went to a half of one once in high school.  I had an absolute blast.  We got a tour of the facility, had an awesome dinner and got to see Texas State win!

Mayoral candidates invest finances toward campaign - University Star

Mayoral candidates invest finances toward campaign
Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 10:18 am 

By Theron Brittain
News campaign financing San Marcos elections

"Campaign expenditure reports show mayoral candidates spent thousands of dollars in the months leading up to the Nov. 4 election.

The reports, filed Oct. 27, reveal how much the two candidates, Susan Narvaiz and David Newman, invested in their chances. A third candidate, Dan McCarthy, pledged in August to spend less than $500 during any given reporting period. State law exempted him from filing regular financial reports because of his pledge.

Newman reported $870 in total political contributions for the period roughly covering the end of September to the end of October. He spent $1,351 on his campaign for the same period. Narvaiz, whose election was confirmed Monday, outspent Newman, taking in $4,455 in total political contributions and spending $10,261 in the same period.

Narvaiz received 50.08 percent of the 12,878 votes casted, Newman 30.03 percent and McCarthy 19.89 percent.

Narvaiz and Newman’s campaigns spent the majority of their funds on advertising. Gloria Salazar, campaign treasurer for Narvaiz, said she hoped the extra capital helped make the campaign more effective.

“One of the largest expenses for the campaign was getting the new signs,” Salazar said. “And then we did something that we had not done as much of in the past campaigns — we did continuing advertising with The University Star to try to reach out to the students. We were doing ads weekly.”

Salazar said she was pleased with the financial support the mayor received over the last year, which totaled around $68,000.

“It’s just a real wide range,” Salazar said. “It came from business people. It came from individuals. It came from everywhere. We tried to reach out to all parts of the community.”

Dan Praver, Newman’s campaign treasurer, performs financial services for clients in San Marcos and said there was a one-to-one correlation between advertising and market share. Praver said Newman spent most of his financial resources on advertising, and he listed campaign buttons, printing supplies, paint and hardware as expenses.

“We spent money on spray paint and hardware to put together signs,” Praver said. “We bought some signs from Sign Crafters, and we bought some signs from a company called Super Cheap Signs. In fact, for the first accounting period, that was about a third of where the money went.”

Newman said he spent between $6,000 and $7,000 on his campaign. He provided $3,000 to $4,000 from his own finances.

“I received about half of my campaign finances in contributions and about half of it I put up myself,” said Newman, who ran on his own finances through the end of the election. “I spent about $2,000 in television ads and about $1,000 in printing costs. I spent about $3,000 on campaign signs.”

Newman ran ads on a variety of television channels, including CNN, FOX, ESPN and a few on MTV. Newman said he never had a proper fundraiser but might have held one if a runoff occured.

“We ran a pretty financially-tight campaign,” Newman said. “I was hoping the word was getting out there through the debates and media coverage. I didn’t have the money to saturate the print media like I wanted to. There are some things I think we could have done differently, but within the time frame I think we did most of what we could.”

Chris Jones won re-election to Place 4 on the City Council with 55.6 percent of 11,088 votes cast. Jones reported $3,800 in contributions and spent $854 on his campaign for the month of October. Jones’ opponent, Lisa Marie Coppoletta, operated under the same state exemption as Dan McCarthy. She received 44.4 percent of the vote.

Salazar said funds left over from Narvaiz’s campaign would be used to help defray costs resulting from the mayor’s duties and could be used in future campaigns.

“When you’re in office, and especially for our counsel where they do not get paid, there are expenses they have to incur throughout the term that are not covered,” Salazar said. “There are either out of pocket expenses or, for certain things, they are able to cover them through any monies they have left over from their campaign.”

Newman said he used all his contributions in the race."

Narvaiz keeps majority in provisional vote tally - San Marcos Mercury

Narvaiz keeps majority in provisional vote tally
Posted on 10 November 2008
From the city of San Marcos

"Susan Narvaiz maintained a majority vote in her bid for a third term as the San Marcos mayor following a review of provisional and overseas ballots Monday by the Early Voting Ballot Board.
The election will become official following the canvassing of election returns by the City Council on Monday, November 17 at 5 p.m.

Out of 201 provisional ballots cast in Hays County, 14 qualified to be counted and five of the 14 were City of San Marcos ballots. In addition, 16 ballots were cast by residents who were out of the country, including four that were counted in the city election.

The San Marcos City Charter requires a majority vote (50 percent plus one vote) to elect a member of the City Council.

Following the review Monday, the City Council races in the November 4 election had the following results:

Mayor
Susan Clifford Narvaiz: 6,451 (50.08%)
Daniel Dan McCarthy 2,563 (19.9%)
Dave Newman 3,868 (30.03%)

City Council, Place 3
Fred Terry 8,822 (100%)

City Council, Place 4
Lisa Marie Coppoletta 4,925 (44.40%)
Christopher Jones 6,168 (55.60%)

Entire story is available at this link: http://www.sanmarcosmercury.com/archives/4930