Sports Authority
Early Voting in Person starts a week from today. As of this morning, the Harris County Clerk has received 16,656 mail ballots.
This past Friday, I dropped by the post office in Pasadena, the one close to City Hall. It is a pretty big post office. Inside, I noticed the sign in the featured photo by the mail slot. Good for the post office folks.
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On “What’s Your Point” yesterday, a couple of GOP panelists called for Fort Bend County Judge K.P. George to resign for being indicted on a misdemeanor. Activist attorney Nyanza Moore chided the GOP panelists for not asking for Donald Trump’s removal from the top of the GOP ticket after being convicted on 34 felonies. The GOP panelists responded to Nyanza with blabbering gibberish. Way too funny.
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From Next Door this past weekend:
I just noticed something very interesting about NBC tv shows on DVR via Xfinity. They have the auto stop when fast forwarding through commercials, with yellow bars on the screen. BUT it stops at every Harris commercial with a woman saying she almost died because she couldn’t get medical care because of the TX abortion law. I’ve tried to FF through them, but the bar turns blue during that one commercial, so it restarts. I have to watch it. No matter how many seconds I wait to start FF. Then it will let me FF through the commercial after it. And even FF during the blue bar during the show.
Isn’t this election interference to force people to watch one candidate’s ads? VERY SUSPECT!
And for the record, if someone almost died from not getting the care that she needed, that’s on the doctor. The law has exceptions for health and life of a mother. And DNCs with a dead fetus/baby are legal. But it’s a nice way to get out of a lawsuit, if you can convince your patient.
I am sure there is a good explanation for this. I don’t think whoever posted this up to date on the current law on reproductive rights in Texas.
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There are changes happening at the Sports Authority. See this from the Chron:
The Harris County-Houston Sports Authority on Friday fired CEO Janis Burke after 18 years with the organization, a high-profile termination that came hours after Mayor John Whitmire and Houston’s sports executives gathered at City Hall calling for new leadership at the agency.
The board authorized Burke to begin negotiating a settlement with its Houston law firm. The board also voted to let board chair J. Kent Friedman appoint a temporary CEO, though they did not name Burke’s replacement.
In a statement, the board thanked Burke for her “exceptional and groundbreaking” run as CEO.
“Over her time, she has worked diligently and tirelessly not just to improve our world-class facilities but to make Houston and Harris County destinations for a wide range of marquee and international sporting events, creating over $2 billion of economic activity for this community,” Friedman wrote. “Her efforts have elevated the state of our region to heights it has never been in the sports industry.”
Here is the entire read: Harris County-Houston Sports Authority board fires CEO Janis Burke (houstonchronicle.com).
If they really want to change things up over there, how about appointing a new chair. Kenny has been there too long. Oh, well.
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The Jets, Mets, and Yankees will all be playing on national TV today.
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Nothing to report on the Astros.
