乔恩·罗森索尔击败共和党激进派博·弗伦奇，成为36年来首位在得克萨斯州监管2000亿美元石油产业的强大委员会中赢得席位的本党成员。
Jon Rosenthal defeated Republican firebrand Bo French to become the first member of his party in 36 years to win a seat on the powerful panel that oversees the $200 billion Texas oil industry.
据美联社报道，州议员、自称“钻探宝宝钻探”民主党人的罗森索尔以52.6%对45.5%的优势击败弗伦奇。美联社在94%的选票计票完毕后宣布罗森索尔胜选。
Rosenthal, a state representative and self-described “drill-baby-drill Democrat,” defeated French by a margin of 52.6% to 45.5%, according to the Associated Press. The AP called the race for Rosenthal with 94% of the votes counted.
得克萨斯州铁路委员会由三名委员组成，监管的石油产量超过除沙特阿拉伯以外的所有欧佩克成员国。该委员会的职权从100多年前监管货运费率，扩大到处理钻探许可证、井口检查以及执行安全和污染规则。该机构为1960年欧佩克的创始人提供了模板。
The three-member Texas Railroad Commission regulates an industry that pumps more crude than every OPEC member except Saudi Arabia. Its purview expanded from overseeing freight rates more than 100 years ago to handling drilling permits, well inspections and enforcing safety and pollution rules. The agency provided the template for OPEC’s founders in 1960.
今年这个通常默默无闻的监管机构的选举因弗伦奇的种族主义社交媒体帖子而引起全国关注，该帖子遭到广泛谴责，包括一些共和党同僚的谴责。
This year’s race for the typically obscure regulatory agency garnered national attention after French’s racist social media post, which drew widespread condemnation, including from some fellow Republicans.
这条来自9月的帖子描绘了德克萨斯大学橄榄球球迷庆祝对俄亥俄州立大学逆转获胜的场景。弗伦奇说，这张图片显示“有多少美国人被外国人取代”。“这无处不在，而且比我们任何人想象的都要严重得多，”弗伦奇写道。
The post from September depicted University of Texas football fans celebrating a comeback win against Ohio State. French said the image showed “how many Americans have been displaced by foreigners.”“It’s everywhere and far worse than any of us could imagine,” French wrote.
在竞选的最后几周，罗森索尔与弗伦奇的差距缩小了，休斯顿大学的一项民调显示这场竞选势均力敌。达拉斯南方卫理公会大学政治学教授卡尔·吉尔森说，罗森索尔成了“反对博·弗伦奇选票的容器”。
Rosenthal had closed the gap with French in the final weeks of the campaign, with a University of Houston poll showing the race in a statistical dead heat. He became “the receptacle for anti-Bo French votes,” said Cal Jillson, a political science professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
罗森索尔作为机械工程师的职业生涯包括在SLB和NOV公司等全球最大的油田服务承包商中的任职经历。休斯顿大学教授蕾妮·克罗斯在最近一次采访中表示，他在奥斯汀州议会大厦也以建立共识而闻名。
Rosenthal’s career as a mechanical engineer included stints at some of the world’s biggest oil field contractors such as SLB and NOV Inc. He also earned a reputation as a consensus-builder at the state capitol in Austin, Renee Cross, a professor at the University of Houston, said in a recent interview.
“Rosenthal能与另外两位共和党籍铁路委员合作得很好，”休斯顿霍比公共事务学院高级执行主任Cross说。“我无法想象，Rosenthal凭借他的背景进来，就变成一个狂热的自由派，试图推行与德州做事方式不符的事情。”
“Rosenthal could work well with the other two railroad commissioners who are Republicans,” said Cross, senior executive director for Houston’s Hobby School of Public Affairs. “I just can’t see Rosenthal with his background coming in and just becoming this wild-eyed liberal trying to impose things that just aren’t consistent with Texas’s way of doing things.”