The goal: To capitalize on COVID pandemic frustrations and concerns over critical race theory and other issues among parents of school-aged children and win not only school board seats, but also, eventually, legislative and congressional races by re-engaging core Republican voters and attracting independents. But Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, and his allies moved successfully Wednesday to prevent the matter from even getting to a vote on the floor. .key-messages li:last-child { margin-bottom: 0px;} 2020 Harris + FB 108K to 156K. We have to talk about the many millions of dollars spent by various wealthy wingnuts against Judge Hidalgo and Democratic criminal court judges. font-style: italic; CC2 49.76% 50.24%
Looking back at those earlier years, Beto fell short of the top performers in Houston, which in 2008 and 2012 was Adrian Garcia and which in 2018 was himself, but he did better in non-Houston Harris County. padding-left: 0; I understand that, but we dont have the authority.. .race_header { Hidalgos opponent Alexandra del Moral Mealer. Its purpose is to inform voters about the legislators political positions. Judges are being sued in their individual capacity. That is why each person named in a suit has to retain their own attorney. .votebox-results-metadata { GOP leaders are discussing a range of election security measures, from higher penalties for voter fraud to broader power for the attorney general to prosecute election crimes. The Harris County Republicans Party (HCRP) is a volunteer organization. HD133 35,551 23,419
JP5 147,814 135,680
width: 250px; The Republicans picked the judges with some of the smallest accounts. How much of that is the lack of a third choice versus some other consideration I couldnt say, but you can see it in the numbers. What I would hope is that these efforts actually engage seriously with issues that matter to voters and not on sort of manufactured stuff about transgender athletes, or pick a topic, that these culture wars that conservative candidates in other places are running on, Polikoff said. HD148 16,142 19,762 959 2
Caroline Harris completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. This is all bullshit and should be seen as such.
. This is how I learned how little was in their campaign accounts. Dan Simons is represented by Elizabeth Alvarez. } line-height: 1.5em; } One fine day well win enough elections to make it stop, but until then this is what were gonna get. justify-content: center; The travel time alone for the attorneys will be in the thousands when ZOOM meetings are not allowed! HD126 63.38% 36.62%
HD133 57.20% 39.75% 2.02% 1.02%
HD131 19.54% 77.57% 2.90%
HD138 57.30% 40.47% 2.23%
I dont expect the candidates for HCDP Chair to have fully formed answers to these problems, but I do hope they agree that these are urgent matters and deserve attention. HD141 4,527 19,765 784 332
display: inline-block; House and Senate bills filed by Republican lawmakers in response to Harris Countys mismanagement of its recent elections could give the Texas secretary of state the authority to step in, suspend county election administrators when a complaint is filed and appoint a replacement administrator. But in San Marcos, Hays County District Attorney Wes Mau has asked for the Texas attorney generals opinion on that citys decriminalization ordinance. HD149 38.61% 61.39%
HD140 30.03% 63.27% 5.24% 1.46%
Part of this is that we have a vibrant Democratic club structure in place, with a lot of that participation coming in the formerly red areas.
The amendment about sanctions for quorum-busting drew more No votes, almost entirely from Dems. The two glaring exceptions to this are HDs 133 and 134, both wealthy, well-educated, predominantly white districts that, in keeping with recent trends, are a lot more Democratic than they used to be. HD133 34,548 25,581
It is believed that the purpose of these suits is to drag out the cases, have judges dip into personal resources, and be exhausted financially and emotionally by the time of their next race. Dist Hegar% Dudding% Lib%
CD36 62.72% 37.26% 0.02%
HD140 30.99% 65.76% 3.24% 0.02%
Well see him in court.. The Republican Party would not disclose its goals for recruited candidates, other than as many as possible. HD135 43.39% 56.59% 0.02%
A scorecard evaluates a legislators voting record. I know the job title is Harris County Dem Party Chair, but we abut a lot of other counties, and in quite a few places the development just sprawls over the border, making the distinction between the two of lesser value. Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? As weve discussed, there is consistently a three-to-four point range between the top-scoring Democratic judicial candidate and the lowest-scoring one. CC4 117,014 119,504
If the margin is 60-40, the net gain is about 500 votes. Which would be so outlandishly unlikely as to appear to be its own conspiracy. But hey, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema preserved the filibuster, so.). Family 508,801 546,195 48.23% 51.77%
And the public remains largely in the dark about what set off the investigation. Some people will skip races that are not of interest to them, I will absolutely stipulate to that. Jack Morman did not have a report filed or Id have included him as well. Texas House leadership on Wednesday shut down a long-building push to ban Democratic committee chairs, deploying procedural legislative maneuvers to defeat multiple proposals on the issue. Many of them target Harris County, which Republicans have spent the past two years chastising for back-to-back elections blunders. top: -5px;
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HD138 32,324 23,310 968 2
HD143 9,087 15,412 6
Ted Heap, Constable Precinct 5 Just eyeballing the 2018 results I may go back and do these calculations for that year, just as a point of comparison I think the Dems that year did better overall than in other races, though they had about the same range of results. HD150 34,989 21,381
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Ogg 161,659 19,356 48,489 242,159
JP3 45.27% 50.89% 2.73% 1.11%
HD140 5,859 12,433 613 3
CC1 29.16% 70.81% 0.03%
Not much else to say at this time for 2024, but I will note that at least some of the Democratic judges whose election is being challenged by a sore loser are raising funds for their legal defense. JP3 34,975 41,776 2,126
HD137 8,475 12,264
} JP7 12,496 64,441
The names are the exact same names in the exact same order, which would be statistically impossible for people to show up to separate (signing) rallies, six days apart, in the same exact order, Schaffer said. Luis Echegaray advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 52 on March 1, 2022. Two more things: One is that the undervote rate was higher in judicial races. If we have the same turnout rate as we did in 2003, were looking at over 353K voters from Harris County. Siegels email was sent on Jan 3, three days before the deadline to file election contest lawsuits. Under Hegars calculations, Heaps annualized budget would have been about $48.9 million over 12 months nearly $2.3 million more than the $46.7 million figure calculated by the county. For his part, Berry noted that the county had already been forced to adopt the property tax revenue freeze for its current budget because Commissioners Court was unable to reach a quorum needed to set a tax rate. Garza 312,022 272,513 62.83% 45.61%
height: 22px; Maybe Im wrong about that, I dont know. Adrian Garcia, County Commissioner, Precinct 2 JP2 22,268 28,432 1,306 7
CC4 49.46% 50.52% 0.02%
Democrats havent lost a judicial race in a Presidential year since 2012, and havent lost a majority of judicial races in a Presidential year since 2004. HD132 35,684 22,981 1,395 627
A lot has happened since then, all related to the ongoing whistleblower lawsuit, but if we were expecting to see Paxton get frog-marched by the FBI one fine day, were still waiting. 2015 979,401 2,054,717 47.67%
Clerk Burgess is represented by Neal Manne. Rep. Shawn Thierry, who experienced some of these problems herself a few years ago when she was giving birth, is and has been working on getting legislation passed to address the issues, which includes things like expanding health care access, gathering better information, and strengthening the maternal mortality review process. After losing his gubernatorial bid against Texas Gov. John Wahl was elected to a second term as Chairman. Nothing else of great interest in this group Id expect both Ed Gonzalez and Christian Menefee to start posting bigger numbers soon. Slapping around Harris County is the point. text-align: center; Not much else to it, Im afraid. I dont think well face that kind of concentrated spending in 2024, but it will be a Presidential year, so anything goes. JP3 44.25% 53.43% 2.33%
If even one is bounced, Abbott could appoint a replacement for those in the criminal courts. Sure, maybe a couple. Chris Daniel is represented by Elizabeth Alvarez. If Hegars goal was to make headlines while insulting the basic intelligence of Harris County residents, I guess he achieved that. This post is about the first three, and those are the races for Lite Guv, Attorney General, and Ag Commissioner. HD129 55.82% 41.41% 2.77%
JP1 36.68% 63.32%
From the County Attorneys press release, they may take awhile to be resolved. JP3 47.09% 52.91%
Now, were back at square one.. padding-top: 3px; ===============================================
What you saw (on Thursday) was really the beginning of getting this particular question before a court: What is the effect of a local municipal ordinance when it comes into conflict with state law?. CC1 27.46% 72.54%
HD138 32,881 22,695
CD07 53,108 77,625 29
Phony Defunding Claims II: Electric Boogaloo. One is Fort Bend, which was positive for Dems in 2018 and 2020, but not in other years. And that brings us to Julian Castro, whose name has certainly been mentioned as a possible statewide candidate before. 2018 1,082,506 2,307,654 46.91%
CC1 76,230 193,216
HD128 32,499 12,847
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We look forward to our Democratic nominee retiring Ted Cruz from the U.S. Senate and finally allowing him some time to finally relax at his preferred Cancun resort, said Ike Hajinazarian, a spokesperson for the Texas Democratic Party. HD135 17,148 22,783
Judge Lawton-Evans is represented by Anthony Drumheller. You can also contribute to any candidate you like directly just google them or find their campaign Facebook page to get to a suitable Donate link for them. Patrick McGuinness and Caroline Harris advanced to a runoff. I consider what Harker Heights City Council did to be defensible, but I would not feel the same way if this effort succeeds and they override it again. The GOPs lack of attention on the superintendent race is a reflection of the partys record statewide and the daunting odds of unseating a Democratic-backed incumbent, given the 2 to 1 Democratic advantage in voter registration.Instead, Republicans have become a party that focuses on presidential politics and local campaigns, said Dan Schnur, a politics professor at UC Berkeley, USC and Pepperdine. } JP7 14.34% 82.82% 2.84%
HD127 57.86% 39.41% 2.73%
Again, I dont know exactly why. But the experience reminded Wilson why she volunteers her time to read, review and analyze stories of women who have died from pregnancy and childbirth. HD127 62.90% 37.09% 0.01%
Additional Losing Candidates File Election Contests in Harris County. HD139 12,541 30,343
.votebox-covid-disclaimer { background-color: #6db24f; Weve had so many hard things happen to us that have contributed to our health by the time were of childbearing age.. JP6 5,490 16,504
UPDATE: As soon as I had hit Save on this draft, I see via Stace that attorney and former HD132 candidate Silvia Mintz has announced her candidacy. Interns wanted: Get paid to help ensure that every voter has unbiased election information. What I did was add up the Republican and Democratic votes for each candidate in those races there were four that year, as there were this year and then took the difference. In fact, when something controversial enough happens to be the subject of a lawsuit, that is exactly when the public most needs to know what the record shows. HD127 40,131 24,789 1,092 0
The focus on school board races, he said, is a logical outgrowth of that strategy.. text-align: center; All of that was discussed in the story as well, so go read the rest. (Except for Steve Radack, who still has a nice chunk of change in his account.) I went back to 2012 to add in another Presidential year data point. HD135 42.23% 57.77%
} Houston/not Houston. The thing that strikes me about Allred is that hes in a similar situation that his colleague Rep. Joaquin Castro was in 2017 and being talked about a run against Cruz in that cycle. Elizabeth Conley/Staff photographer . Nuff said. | HD133 57.48% 41.00% 1.52% 0.00%
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