Hegar said in a statement that the county will be barred from increasing property tax collections plus revenue from properties added to the tax roll last year until it resolves the discrepancy. If youre in San Antonio, Id love to hear from you about this, so please send an email or leave a comment. The case was dismissed because May failed to timely pay the security of costs required by Texas law. CC2 101,745 103,117 48 HD139 12,291 31,372 In the Ag Commissioner race, Sid Miller got 507K votes to top Abbotts total, but he was aided by not having any third party candidates. Ill let you know if I hear anything more on that, and you let me know what you think. Let me know if you have any questions. JP7 15.67% 81.91% 2.42% The Evaluation results for each judge appear on a separate page. Ive heard reports of machines that didnt work, ballot shortages, voting locations suddenly closing. CC2 97,762 100,816 4,930 24 2020, in the race for District Judge, 333rd Civil District Court in Harris County, Texas. Phelan ruled in favor of Geren both times. The Current has more. One is that the many millions of dollars spent by the Mealer/Mattress Mack cohort did have some effect, specifically in the criminal court races, with that effect being slightly larger in the county courts than in the district courts. HD129 59.33% 38.88% 1.79% 0.00% Judge Lawton-Evans is represented by Anthony Drumheller. 2022 Election. HD141 17.82% 77.79% 3.09% 1.31% Luke Warford, who had a Green opponent as well as a Libertarian opponent, fell short of a majority in Harris County, getting 49.95% for a plurality. The main thing I want to point out is just that we have more voters in Houston now than we did in 2015. HD134 28,262 51,502 1,828 2009 178,777 935,073 19.12% HD126 61.80% 36.07% 2.12% 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. Odus will serve through the end of this month, and the next CEC meeting on March 19 will be when his successor is named. That resolution passed overwhelmingly with little debate or fanfare. HD142 28.89% 71.09% 0.02% HD144 12,065 13,483 Ananda Tomas, executive director of police reform group ACT 4 SA, told reporters that her group and its allies collected 38,200 signatures in favor of the San Antonio Justice Charter. You may have heard me say something like this in the past, but were going to have to change our state government if we want things like this to go differently in the future. Ive said this before, but Mitt Romney won 11 State Rep districts in 2012, and he won them all with over 60% of the vote. The chart below is the vote percentage for both parties in each of those races individually. Now we wait to see what if anything SCOTx does. The tense discussion on Jan. 4 lasted just shy of an hour and a half, and Phelan spent most of it discussing potential mental health legislation, participants said. The charter changes would essentially direct the police department not to spend resources pursuing most abortion and low-level marijuana possession cases. All eyes were on Sen. John Whitmire, a longtime Democrat who has announced plans to leave the chamber to run for Houston mayor after the session, and Judith Zaffirini, a Laredo Democrat who is second in seniority to Whitmire. Customers come in and tell me that all the time, McIngvale said. CD36 70,392 41,817 24 HD149 12,214 18,772 The 2018 HBA Judicial Preference Poll Results and news release are posted below. HD148 15,938 19,168 1,217 514 She got 553K votes, which is 42K less than Beto. You know the mantra: Nothing will change until that changes. JP7 12,325 64,437 1,904 CD38 170,772 87,662 46 I also think that SCOTx would prefer to wait until the voters have their say, as then they have a chance to duck the question. Im just eyeballing everything and not being too particular about it, this is close enough for these purposes. HD144 12,242 14,069 9 PPP/Emilys List, July 2: Biden 48, Trump 46, UT-Tyler/DMN, July 12: Biden 48, Trump 43, Morning Consult, July 28: Biden 47, Trump 45, Morning Consult, August 3: Biden 47, Trump 46, 2023 Off the Kuff | Powered by WordPress, Year Votes Registered Turnout According to the Public Information Act, the attorney generals office has 45 working days from the day after the request to respond. JP8 62.50% 37.50%, Dist Mealer Hidalgo W-I There wont be any citywide propositions in 2024, not if we have them this coming November, but Ill try to use the precinct data I have here to analyze that election. HD138 31,928 22,708 1,350 641 HD138 56.38% 40.10% 2.38% 1.13% There were a lot of contradictory polls and a lot of dubious conventional wisdom, including questionable pronouncements about voters getting worn out before they reached the end of the ballot, and how that would be bad for Democrats. The petition, which names Lunceford as the contestant and Craft as contestee, claims numerous violations of the Texas Election Code, including a failure to provide a sufficient amount of ballot paper to 25 polling locations. You can see here for some background and here for Judge Hidalgos latest response to the mattress guy if you want. I am optimistic that the Commissioners will have the desire and the space to add to the public defender budget. CD38 66.07% 33.91% 0.02% JP4 166,204 128,604 7,578 Its big, its hard to do, and most importantly now everything that goes wrong is your fault. Breaking it down this way revealed three things to me that I might not have noticed otherwise. Early voting results will be released at 7 p.m. CST on March 1, 2022. They may have other priorities and Im open to that, I just want to be heard. CC3 221,887 132,181 8,202 3,726 JP2 22,125 28,127 2,055 JP6 22.60% 71.48% 5.91% HD129 38,545 24,668 Beall led the race by 13% in the primary. I know that the Republicans are claiming that these problems took place at mostly Republican locations another claim that is dubious at best and seemingly contradicted by news reporting on Election Day but even the most partisan locations arent unanimous. In non-election years, the HBA conducts its Judicial Evaluation Questionnaire, in which members are asked to evaluate all elected and appointed judges on a number of professional and ethical questions. HD144 44.67% 50.89% 4.44% HD148 43.79% 53.61% 2.60% 0.01% JP2 23,249 29,149 10 HD149 39.85% 60.15% Andy Taylor, general counsel for the Harris County GOP, is representing Lunceford. The Houston-area Senators who will be on the ballot in 2024 are Carol Alvarado (SD06), Paul Bettencourt (SD07), John Whitmire (SD15), and Joan Huffman (SD17). . Rep. Allred may see it differently, but I think hes not likely to make this leap. HD148 15,221 20,981 1,035 Were the only city in the whole state that sends them out and [posts them] online, Atkinson said. More than seven months after a teenage gunman killed 21 people at Robb Elementary School, the speaker of the Texas House was in Uvalde for a private meeting with relatives of the victims. HD145 14,403 29,681 Slightly more than half of Texas counties appoint nonpartisan election administrators to run their elections. HD142 8,957 24,548 997 Who wants that? https://mailchi.mp/3860a20fae8b/we-need-your-help?e=cf7bb2b770&fbclid=IwAR3bf6Pdu4mhPHiTnPDtpzT361sMx5VyDAxSnUXy7qM7EbTLGfZabSUiT4w, Clubs in Action PAC (@CIAHTX) 8:32 PM 27 February 2023. HD148 43.27% 52.03% 3.30% 1.40% CC1 71,746 202,649 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. As a precinct chair, Ill get to participate in the process to pick the next Chair, who will then need to stand for election in the 2024 primary. HD149 12,278 18,681 882 The best the Uvalde parents can hope for is a state ban on straw-person sales, which is already a federal crime. CC1 27.54% 72.46% Harris County has a new system called managed assigned counsel (MAC) that helps a little with keeping anyone from having too many cases, but outside of the occasional news coverage and the State Bar, a process thats completely opaque to most of us, theres little oversight of the system as a whole. CC1 27.46% 72.54% No one cares about that, but because it is a story about 2024 and Ted Cruz will be running for re-election to the Senate in 2024, it contains the following bits of speculation about who might run against him: Cruzs focus on his Senate bid follows a tough 2018 reelection fight against former Democratic Rep. Beto ORourke, who lost by 2.6 points. He also worked as General Counsel for a multinational corporation. The past obstruction on Commissioners Court to implementing reforms like this has been eliminated thanks to the 2022 election. But really, a good horse laugh is all you need. The average attorney charges $500 per hour. Herman 0 96,574 0 518,009 HD147 21.11% 78.89% He also volunteered his time in Veterans Court working with court staff to develop treatment programs for veterans facing mental health and addiction issues. Republican criminal court candidates, at both the district and county levels, actually got more votes on average than their civil court counterparts, while the Democrats in those races got fewer votes than their civil court colleagues. CC3 58.02% 39.60% 2.38% CC2 47.13% 47.94% 3.64% 1.29% 2018 1,082,506 2,307,654 46.91% Were evaluating the lawsuit and will let the courts sort it out.. 9 Cause No. Published February 28, 2022. While the administrator is a moderate Democrat, this blog is independently operated and not affiliated with any political party or political action committee (PAC). HD126 63.64% 36.36% Obviously, the Democratic candidates lost the four races. Some Texas voting rights groups worry the Legislature will use the problems in Harris and those lawsuits as an excuse to advance bills such as these. In 2012, Luong returned to private practice, where he focused on representing Harris County citizens in criminal matters and handling court appointments cases, including representing indigent veterans and persons with mental health illnesses. HD142 27.56% 72.44% Tom Ramsey, County Commissioner, Precinct 3 HD146 8,285 33,018 1,148 HD150 57.96% 39.56% 2.47% Were ready, City Clerk Debbie Racca-Sittre said inside City Hall as she and a colleague sealed and time stamped four boxes filled with more than 5,000 pages of petition signatures. Threat management. I was invited to this meeting because of the effort to create and carry out block walking events. Marilyn Burgess, District Clerk ROBERT FICKMAN'S 2022 HARRIS COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY JUDICIAL ENDORSEMENTS Friends - The Harris County District Attorneys Office has SHAMEFULLY encouraged assistant district attorneys and pro- prosecution candidates to run against some of our best incumbent judges in the Democratic Primary. It was the luck of the draw for Texas senators on Wednesday as they drew lots to decide which half of them would get two-year terms and which would get four-year terms. I will of course keep an eye on them. HD144 11,869 13,567 682 4 In 2016 the legal advocacy group Civil Rights Corps sued the county on behalf of Maranda Lynn ODonnell, a 22-year . HD141 4,682 20,256 Paxton 170,642 309,499 34.36% 51.80% The good news is the vast majority of the law has actually been researched not only by me and the county attorney, (but) the city attorney in Harker Heights had the opportunity to review the matter legally and so has the city attorney in Killeen, Garza said. HD130 71.33% 28.67% Even at the highest end of the estimate of locations that had issues, more than 90% of them did not. JP7 16.80% 83.20% HD148 16,238 20,657 "If it was just mismanagement, it was just gross incompetence, wouldn't one think that the lack of paper would apply equally and uniformly across the map, so that there would be roughly an equivalent number of Democratic stronghold precinct neighborhoods as well as Republican precinct stronghold neighborhoods?" (Im not concerning myself with fractional districts like CD08.) JP2 42.30% 53.77% 3.93% HD137 37.74% 57.73% 2.88% 1.65% Progressive groups celebrated on the steps of City Hall Tuesday afternoon before delivering the boxes of signed petitions needed to get a measure in front of voters that would decriminalize both cannabis possession and abortion. Hegar 185,671 324,329 37.58% 54.52% Thats a new statutory deadline for all judicial fundraising it used to be the case that judges who were involved in lawsuits could continue past that deadline, but the law was changed in the last session, so here we are. HD138 33,875 22,977 9 CC3 233,567 133,554 63 At the other end of the scale is the problem known as Galveston: 23K to 27K in 2012 HD139 29.61% 70.39% HD147 10,964 35,240 12 The travel time alone for the attorneys will be in the thousands when ZOOM meetings are not allowed! HD148 16,203 19,567 1,251 JP6 4,941 17,062 885 JP2 22,460 28,561 Harris County, Texas contains 60 judicial districts, four probate courts and one county court. The City Clerks office has 20 business days, until Feb. 8, to verify the signatures. HD128 32,433 12,955 HD132 36,189 24,576 HD149 12,496 19,196 4 There is a legitimate question about what a City Council is supposed to do with a voter-passed ordinance that one can reasonably read to be in violation of state law, at least in part. Because respondents can correct the ballot now, [TALs] mandamus is appropriate.. In the meantime, let me know what you think. Which makes this entire spectacle little more than a plea for attention and a waste of everyones time. HD143 35.04% 59.96% 5.00% Well just have to see. Theyll fight and theyll make noise and theyll employ the rules and pick up the occasional small-bore victory, but in the end they have no power. JP4 57.86% 40.32% 1.81% 0.00% HD134 44.28% 55.72% HD138 33,169 22,469 Individual seeking a County office as an Independent candidate must file for a place on the ballot with the Harris County Judge: Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo 1001 Preston, Suite 911 Houston, Texas 77002 Phone: 713-274-7000 Fax: 713-755-8379 felt welcomed and heard on lobbying trips to Washington, D.C. San Antonio will vote on marijuana decriminalization, drew their lots to see who would have to run again in 2024, other challenges filed by other losing losers, Precinct analysis: County executive offices, Bell County to sue over Killeens marijuana ordinance, Precinct analysis: The not-as-good statewide races, Precinct analysis: The better statewide races, Superintendant House speaks about the looming TEA takeover. I took the average number of votes each partys candidates got in these races I omitted the one Appellate Court race that had a third candidate in it so that wed have a cleaner comparison and the average vote percentage for each group, which you see in the table. HD134 32,915 46,611 1,330 There were problems with elections back when the County Clerk specifically, Stan Stanart was in charge of running them. She now manages McTorry Law, PLLC, where she is a criminal defense attorney. And if we do assume that statement to be a fact, then it is still the case that every single one of those Republican losers are still losers, with most of them still losing by more than a full percentage point, which is well above the standard for recounts that the loser doesnt have to pay for. The other notable thing is that with the lone exception of JP/Constable Precinct 5, Hidalgo still carried every district Beto carried. In the meantime, let me know what you think. The two big red counties are Brazoria and Galveston, and they have acted distinctly differently over the last few elections: 32K to 36K in 2012 12(lost to Judge Genesis Draper), Brian Staley, former candidate forHarris County Civil County Court at Law No. JP6 23.28% 72.80% 3.90% 0.02% Thats consistent with what Ive said before about how Democrats have overall grown their vote in the former strong Republican areas, while falling short on turnout this year, at least in the strong Democratic areas. Lets look at the numbers. That system has led topersistent allegations of favoritismat the expense of defendants. JP5 47.01% 50.53% 2.46% The Elections Administrator of Harris County has the responsibility of carrying out statutory electoral functions outlined by federal and state laws. Voters have moved on. Dist Mealer Hidalgo W-I JP1 34.97% 62.30% 2.73% HD141 4,753 20,212 Dist Chris% Warford% Lib% Grn% We worked hard to make this happen. I also think the next Chair will have some work to do to improve performance and get ready for the 2024 election. Not that Im complaining. Get more election results on our homepage and Vote 2022 . If you dont know or dont remember all of the things I had to say about this line of thinking back then, you can probably surmise it from what Ive just said here. The county commissioners voted to direct the county attorney and (me) to get involved in the beginning to get that question answered, Garza said. HD135 41.41% 54.19% 3.02% 1.38% HD142 9,939 24,454 7 HD127 40,530 24,529 Education: Spelman College and Howard University School of Law, Campaign website: katherinethomasfor184thjudge.com.
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