Landing a Campaign
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 is the entire read: Harris County Democrats vote overwhelmingly to admonish DA Kim Ogg (houstonchronicle.com).
The Harris County Democratic Party can go after our Democratic DA, but they can’t do a darn thing to help Democratic H-Town At-Large City Council candidates. Talk about priorities. Dummies. Pitiful.
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The Houston Landing has a good piece on the H-Town race for mayor. Here is the start of the article by Matt Sledge:
In September, Sheila Jackson Lee started running her first attack ad against her lead opponent in the Houston mayor’s race.
John Whitmire, the ad said, was backed by “Trump Republicans who want to make abortion a crime.”
It was the kind of attack that Whitmire’s campaign expected. With her own approval rating deep underwater, Jackson Lee needed to sink his credibility with voters to have a chance of winning. Within 30 minutes of seeing the video ad, state Sen. Carol Alvarado called one of Whitmire’s campaign consultants with an idea.
Alvarado offered to cut an ad for Whitmire, a man she counts as one of her mentors, with fellow Latina Democrat U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia. Within days, Whitmire used a share of his $10 million campaign pot to blanket the airwaves with video of them defending his Democratic bona fides.
Here is the entire read that I encourage you to read: How John Whitmire won big in the Houston mayor’s race (houstonlanding.org).
I don’t need to tell you that Sen. Alvarado is one of the brightest political minds in the country. I mentioned some of what Sledge wrote in my take on Monday. It is pretty much spot on.
The featured photo is from election night with Sen. Alvarado emceeing. Today’s headline is a play on the Houston Landing doing this piece on the campaign.
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What is going on in Gaza is terrible. See this from the Chron:
About 80 people came to City Hall on Tuesday to demand local officials pass a resolution supporting a cease-fire in Gaza. Their chants rang through the chamber as they told Houston City Council members they “can’t hide” from the conflict.
Protesters have been coming to Houston City Council public comment meetings the past four weeks to call a cease-fire resolution, but this week over 30 of them signed up to speak. The council has yet to introduce, let alone pass, such a resolution.
Their effort in Houston is part of a larger movement calling on local governments to pass cease-fire resolutions. Many protesters have felt largely unheard or ignored by government officials in Washington, D.C.
City councils in cities like Detroit, Seattle and San Francisco have passed resolutions calling for cease-fires in Gaza as the war between Israel and Hamas continues. The United Nations General Assembly voted Tuesday to demand a cease-fire in the conflict, the Associated Press reported. Members of Hamas led attacks on Oct. 7 in Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking some 240 hostages. The bombardment by Israel has killed more than 18,000 Palestinians, Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported, with 70% being women and children.
Outgoing Mayor Sylvester Turner told speakers both Tuesday and last week that council does not pass these types of resolutions. When asked by the Chronicle, Turner’s team did not offer further explanation.
“City council, unlike Commissioners Court and other legislative bodies, does not do resolutions,” Turner’s spokesperson Mary Benton wrote in an email Tuesday afternoon.
A resolution for a cease-fire, if proposed, would be purely symbolic. City Council has no authority to conduct any sort of foreign policy.
Here is the entire read from the Chron: Dozens of protesters demand cease-fire resolution at Houston City Council session (houstonchronicle.com).
What a mess.
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12 days before Christmas. The 12 days of Christmas actually start on Christmas Day. In the tune, the last four days are the most confusing. After eight maids a-milking there are nine ladies dancing, ten lords a-leaping, eleven pipers piping, and twelve drummers drumming. Just so you know, when the current lyrics of the tune were published, ornithologists pointed out that partridges don’t hang out around pear trees. Got it?
