Archive for December 2023

Commentary would argue that the Texas State House district where I reside, House District 145, is one of the most liberal in Texas. I am really not that surprised that my State Representative, Christina Morales, was named by Mark P. Jones, the Political Science Fellow at Rice University’s James A. Baker III Institute for Public…

I saw this in the Chron today. Remember this? Three years ago today: December 14, 2020: The largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history began with health workers getting shots on the same day the nation’s COVID-19 death toll hit 300,000. Over 1.1 million folks in the USA died from COVID-19 because dumbsh_t GOP leaders fought…

Your Harris County Democratic Party at work for you. From the Chron: District Attorney Kim Ogg was reprimanded on Tuesday night by the Harris County Democratic Party, which passed a resolution calling for her admonishment. By a vote of 129 to 61, precinct chairs approved the resolution accusing Ogg of not adequately representing the values of the Democratic Party. Here…

Local democrats are not saying much about three City of H-Town At-Large council positions going to GOPers. That is your Harris County Democratic Party at work – not. Here is from the Chron article today: Late Saturday night, as voting results continued to update, At-Large Position 3 candidate Richard Cantu hoped Election Day votes would…

Blowout. Landslide. Arsekicking. You name it. Nobody predicted a 58,000 vote margin of victory and 64% for State Sen. John Whitmire. May I say Mayor-Elect John Whitmire. The 64% is being called the best showing for an open H-Town mayoral race since Jim McConn’s 66% in 1977. Let me put it this way. It is…

John Lennon was murdered 43 years ago today in New York City.  I always try to commemorate this day. He was 40. _____ Last night, State Sen. Carol Alvarado was at a Christmas party at the White House. She was talking with President Joe Biden, and she got him to talk to her mom Ida…

Today is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. I always acknowledge this day, “a date which will live in infamy.” Here is President Franklin Roosevelt’s address to Congress on December 8, 1941: “Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives: Yesterday, December 7th, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the…

I just heard we lost a giant. Frumencio Reyes Jr. is no longer with us. A good friend and longtime political activist and leader in our community. I will have more later. _____ The Greater Houston Partnership (GHP) put out this statement yesterday. Where are the Latinos? Prove me wrong. Maybe some of these folks…

State Senator Carol Alvarado filed for reelection yesterday and here is her statement: Today I filed for reelection for State Senator, District 6. I look forward to campaigning on my record of service to the voters. This session, I achieved a personal record-breaking 38 bill passages, including the nation’s strongest catalytic converter law and crucial…

Former Cong. Liz Cheney was on Today this morning promoting her book. She said a vote for Donald Trump next year is a vote against the Constitution. Savannah asked her if she would vote for President Joe Biden and Cheney avoided answering. Sorry, you have to say you are voting for Biden. Voting a third…