Election Integrity
The featured photo is today’s front page hard copy of the Chron. We know we can’t believe anything ICE says. Let’s see if we can get to the truth about what happened. Tragic and sad.
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I love this. See this from the Chron front page today:
State Rep. Gina Hinojosa, the Austin Democrat running against Gov. Greg Abbott, made her first major economic pitch Tuesday, saying she would push to send a $1,500 check to every Texas household if elected in November.
Hinojosa billed the proposal as relief for Texans struggling to make ends meet. She said she would issue a proclamation declaring affordability an emergency on her first day in office and call on lawmakers to approve pulling $17 billion from the nearly $27 billion in the state’s rainy day fund to spend on the checks.
“People are struggling. People need help. It’s an emergency situation,” Hinojosa said in an interview, pointing to statistics showing the state leads the nation in bankruptcies and rates of uninsured. “My agenda is to put money in your pocket. Texans know how to spend money better than the government. That’s our money. It’s there. It should go to Texans.”
The announcement comes as Democrats have focused on affordability in the run-up to the midterms, which are expected to be bruising for Republicans as voters have soured on President Donald Trump’s handling of the economy. Public polling has shown Hinojosa within single digits of Abbott, even as many voters say they are still unfamiliar with her. Abbott’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
I will say it again. The sales tax is a big contributor to the rainy-day fund. We all pay into it. It is time to aid households. I am sure many can use the $1,500.
MAGA will go after Gina Hinojosa by trying to pull out the socialism card. Go on ahead. MAGA has no problem lending a helping hand to data centers and billionaires.
Nice move by the Hinojosa campaign. A great follow-up to the State Rep. James Talarico campaign ad from the grocery store on affordability.
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Let’s see. Last week, MAGA Gov. Abbott announced he had hired MAGA former State Rep. Nate Schatzline as his election integrity advisor. MAGA State Sen. Blowhard Bettencourt touts himself as an election integrity advocate. MAGA State Sen. Bryan Hughes carried the major election bill in 2021. I wonder if they have a take on the following breaking story from the Trib:
Two weeks before this year’s primary elections, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the creation of a tip line for the public to report people or groups suspected of voter fraud.
“Free and fair elections are a cornerstone of a thriving republic, and with the authority granted to my office by the Legislature, we will stop at nothing to uncover and stop any illegal voting activity,” Paxton said in a February news release announcing the tip line.
The announcement linked to guidance from his office about election laws in Texas, which included a requirement to be a U.S. citizen, a prohibition on collecting mail ballots on behalf of others and a warning that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records or to establish a residence for the purpose of influencing the outcome of an election.”
“You must register to vote using the address where you reside,” the attorney general’s guidance stated.
Despite his own warnings, Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years, including in May’s runoff that made him the Republican nominee for U.S. senator, according to records obtained by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune.
State Sen. Angela Paxton said in a 2025 divorce filing that Paxton, whom she accused of adultery, moved out of their Collin County home a year earlier. But Paxton continues to list the home’s address in the northern Dallas suburb on his voter registration. Angela Paxton declined to be interviewed. A source close to the Paxtons said the attorney general has not moved back into the home since leaving.
It is unclear where Paxton has lived for the past two years, but reporting by ProPublica and the Tribune has linked him to a home in neighboring Denton County since February.
Three election lawyers told the news organizations that Paxton may have violated the same Texas laws his office cautioned about in its news release.
ProPublica and the Tribune reached out to Paxton’s campaign on June 3, 15 and 25, asking why he remained registered to vote in Collin County when he appeared to no longer live there and about his connection to the Denton County property. A reporter also left a voicemail on his personal cellphone on June 25. The news organizations sent his government office and campaign staff an email on Monday with a detailed list of questions, including a request for Paxton’s response to election lawyers’ belief that he may be violating the law.
It is pretty clear that the cheating, crooked Paxton is breaking the law. We need to press bozos Bettencourt, Hughes, and Schatzline on Paxton breaking the law and the election integrity thing. It looks like election integrity doesn’t apply to these bozos.
Let’s see if Paxton breaking the law is a topic this Sunday on “What’s Your Point?”
Speaking of the cheating, crooked Paxton, who in the heck goes to London with one of his girlfriends on the Fourth of July during the middle of a close U.S. senate race. One would think that on the Fourth of July, Paxton would go to a parade or picnic in a red county in Texas. Nope. If Talarico had pulled a move like this, MAGA would be all over him.
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I thought Argentina was a goner yesterday when they were behind 2 zip late in the game. Nope. What a comeback for the win.
There are no World Cup games today.
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We won last night in D.C. We are hanging in there.