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Spears wins nomination for Tax Assessor-Collector
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 by Austin Monitor
The race for the Democratic nomination for Travis County Tax Assessor-Collector was over early Tuesday evening, when early voting returns showed incumbent Nelda Wells Spears with 75 percent of the vote. That commanding lead prompted challenger
“I congratulate
During his campaign, Maxey and others made several charges against Spears, including that her office improperly purged some voters from the registration rolls. “I was not surprised that it went negative so early,” Spears said of Maxey’s campaign. “I just knew that from the beginning, I wasn’t going to be that negative person on the other side. That’s just not who I am.”
Spears said she was pleased at her margin of victory in the Democratic primary. “The numbers during early voting were fantastic,” she said. “I thank the people of
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