No Recall

This was expected. From Houston Public Media a few days ago:

A much-hyped effort to recall Houston Mayor John Whitmire from office — the subject of multiple news stories and social media posts over the past year — fell significantly short of its goal as the 30-day window closed this week.

According to organizer Ethan Hale, canvassers collecting signatures returned “just over 2,000 or so — something like that.”

In order to place the recall question before voters, the campaign needed to collect more than 63,000 signatures in 30 days.

The campaign raised less than $5,000 of a $100,000 goal and relied heavily on volunteers.

“I think we knew the odds were not exactly in our favor, and I think we were more so hoping more of our volunteers would turn out, but didn’t really happen that way,” Hale told Houston Public Media.

I kind of think the Recall Houston folks are a bit out of touch with the voters of H-Town. I get that there are folks in town who don’t like the mayor and/or his policies. Some are very loud. I just think that the mayor enjoys strong approval from the voters.

I will just have to wait until 2027 to put out what is in the featured photo.

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This is just in from a CNN tweet:

The Supreme Court on Monday declined an opportunity to overturn its landmark precedent recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, tossing aside an appeal that had roiled LGBTQ advocates who feared the conservative court might be ready to revisit the decade-old decision.

Instead, the court denied an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who now faces hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages and legal fees for refusing to issue marriage licenses after the court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges allowed same-sex couples to marry.

The court did not explain its reasoning to deny the appeal, which had received outsized attention – in part because the court’s 6-3 conservative majority three years ago overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion that 1973 decision established. Since then, fears about Obergefell being the precedent to fall have grown.

The Supreme Court today is far different and far more conservative than the one that decided Obergefell in 2015, which is part of what had given LGBTQ advocates pause about the Davis appeal.

It is good to see this.

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MAGA Gov. Greg Abbott announced for reelection yesterday. In his announcement, Abbott said he wants to eliminate school property taxes. Without school property taxes we have no public education system. That is his goal pure and simple.

He also said this:

“Tonight, we have a message for those Democrats and their socialist backers: This is Texas. They cannot buy us. They cannot beat us.”

They cannot buy us. This is bold talk for a punk that just got bought off for $10 million in exchange for a school voucher program.

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I don’t have anything to report from Daikin Park today.