Karen wins online poll with a whooping 44% of the vote!

Karen Derr posts a HUGE lead In the Poll from the National Hispanic Professionals Organization!!!

Below are the results of the National Hispanic Professional Organization survey on the November races. Karen Derr, who's running for At-Large Position 1 received 44% of the votes in the recent poll. Karen represents *all* the people of Houston not just special interest groups. My thanks to everyone who voted and helped show what type of widespread support Karen has!

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July 17 to 23, 2009

Analysis of survey was performed by the Carreno Group - Houston, Texas

On the question- Who would you vote for in At-Large #1
DERR 44.2%
LITT 17.3%
RODRIGUEZ 17.1%
COSTELLO 16.1%
ALLSBROOK 5.2%

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PARKER 66.3%
LOCKE 19.2%
BROWN 12.7%
MORALES 1.9%

In the May, 2009 NHPO Survey, Parker had 48.8% Locke 29.6%, Brown 13.9%, and Morales 7.7%.

On the question- Who would you like to see run for Mayor?
Sylvester Turner 43.5%
Robert Eckels 26.9%
Orlando Sanchez 18.0%
Bill King 11.6%

On the question- Who would you vote for City Controller? Ronald Green 53.7%
Pam Holm 33.0%
MJ Khan 13.3%

The #1 issue among voters in the Controllers race was the Economy 25.4% followed by Infrastructure 21%.

On the question- Who would you vote for in At-Large #1?
DERR 44.2%
LITT 17.3%
RODRIGUEZ 17.1%
COSTELLO 16.1%
ALLSBROOK 5.2%

On the question- In At-Large #2 race
LOVELL (I) 75.4%
BURKS 17.4%
Shorter 7.2%

On the question- In the at-Large #4
Freeman 42.7%
BRADFORD 39.8%
GREEN 17.5%

On the question- In the at-Large #5
Jones (I) 70.4%
Obando 29.6%

demographic BREAKDOWN OF survey takers
Ethnicity
Anglos 55.5%
African Americans 23.0%
Hispanics 13.4%
Asians 2.7%
Other 5.4%

PARTY AFFILIATION
D 66.2%
R 10.0%
I 19.4%
other 4.5%

gender
males 56.2%
females 43.8%

Age Groups
36-45 29.8%
46-55 26.0%
26-35 24.5%
56-65 12.5%
others 4.7%

household income
$50-100K 37.4%
$100-150K 25.6%
$0-50k 14.7%
$200+ 11.7%
$150-200 10.6%

highest degree attained
bachelors 44.7%
masters 23.1%
no degree 13.2%
associates 10.4%
PhD 8.6%

About the NHPO:
The National Hispanic Professional Organization (NHPO) is a networking, non-profit, membership-based organization that provides a myriad of educational seminars and professional development training to foster and promote self improvement, professional advancement and personal achievement. Founded January 1, 2004, in Houston, Texas the NHPO currently has twenty rapidly-booming chapters in nine states and is projected to add several more chapters in 2008.

http://www.nhpo.us

About the carrenogroup:
carrenogroup is an award-winning, Latino-owned public affairs firm based in the Southwest United States - the business, cultural and political heartland of American Latinos. For the past several years, the Houston Business Journal has ranked carrenogroup as one of the top PR firms in its market and in 2007 carrenogroup became a partner firm of the Worldcom Public Relations Group, the world's leading partnership of independently owned public relations agencies with offices in 94 cities on 5 continents.

http://www.carrenogroup.com

disclosure statement:
No member of the Executive Committee of the NHPO is under any type of retainer with the current field of mayoral candidates.

Survey was conducted via the internet with 1,011 Houstonians who were likely registered voters in the upcoming November, 2009 election. All non City of Houston voters were deleted from the results. City of Houston voters was determined by voter zip codes. The survey was conducted from July 17, 2009 to July24, 2009.

The carrenogroup is currently engaged as political consultants in the up coming elections.

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