Karen Sonleitner Election Victory, Travis County Precinct 2
Travis County Commissioner Karen Sonleitner discusses her narrow re-election victory in Precinct 2, winning by a margin of approximately 1,500 votes. She addresses a local news report claiming she appeared visibly shaken during the returns, explaining she briefly retreated to a restroom at the Palmer Auditorium to process the emotional evening. Sonleitner notes that despite her Republican upbringing, she remains a committed Democrat in a historically split district.
karen sonleitner· travis county· precinct 2· election returns· republicans
01:37 How can a reporter report that somebody looks visibly shaken? You would have to confirm that before it's okay to print that unless it was a column. This is a news story! I mean, were you just shaking and crying or what? Well, it had been a real emotional evening, I'll tell ya' that at the point where it started going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth as public as I am That's not something that I wanted to endure publicly so uh...I did retreat to the Palmer Women's Bathroom Now I can tell y'all Which is going to be renovated by the way. Well, anybody that wonders why they put sofas in women's bathrooms it is so that women political candidates can go hang out there for about an hour watching the returns come in. Goofy press visibly shaken. Oh what you like midnight and your behind? What do you want to do? Go out and have a little party? Exactly well I was 140 and I was still behind so its not a pleasant evening but it all worked out. How many did you win by 1000 something votes?
02:32 1500. Which most people don't remember, Precinct 2 is a very tight precinct it's pretty evenly split between Republicans and Democrats and four years ago I only won by 2000 votes so this was more of the same. So you could be a Republican though? You really could be! My parents are Republican. Your parents are yes see I always thought of you as that until you became uh well of course when you first ran for the last term, for the county commissioner's office. There had never been a Republican it was smarter to be I guess a Democrat? Well I'm a Democrat let there be no doubt about that. Everybody in Austin is trying to pull her over. But I grew up in a Republican household Yeah but you dated a Republican once did I ever mention that? You're never going to let me
