Two Weeks
The runoffs in the Texas Democratic Party and MAGA primaries are two weeks from today with early voting in person starting in six days. We will know which knuckleheads get sent packing in the MAGA U.S. senate, AG, Railroad Commission, CD 9, and Harris County Judge races. We will also know who the Democratic Party nominees will be in the Lieutenant Governor, AG, CD 18, and Harris County Judge races. I am ready.
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Charles Kuffner has an interview with Cong. Al Green today. Here is part of what Charles had to say today:
Rep. Green was elected to Congress in 2004, following a different Republican mid-decade redistricting effort, after having served for 26 years as a Justice of the Peace in Harris County.
Go check out the interview here: Interview with Rep. Al Green | Off the Kuff.
You live by the mid-decade redistricting and you might get sent packing by the mid-decade redistricting. Just saying.
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I would prefer that the Talarico for Texas campaign focus on getting us out of the war in Iran if we want to bring down gasoline prices. Gasoline tax is a non-starter issue and not a vote getter. War is the issue and a vote getter.
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The featured photo is the Houston Avenue bridge on I-10 being attacked again yesterday. TxDOT needs to do way better in signage, warnings, and enforcement on this. This is ridiculous.
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Check this from the Chron today:
The greatest baseball player alive, unfortunately, a Los Angeles Dodger, was on the mound Tuesday night at Daikin Park, pitching against the Astros, but I missed a good chunk of Shohei Ohtani’s rare start in Houston, standing in line for a hot dog. Ten, actually.
Because as much as I was there to see that spectacle of an athlete who has managed to dazzle even this Astros admirer, I was really there for Dollar Dog Night, the popular Tuesday promotion that has turned slow weeknights at the ballpark into feeding frenzies, no matter who’s pitching and, perhaps, into one of Houston’s great cultural experiences.
So moved was I by the collective absurdity of one half of the stadium waiting in line for $1 tubes of processed meat while the other half fawned over one of the world’s best athletes, that I reached out to the Astros to learn how a promotion becomes a tradition, and why, in this economy, they have no plans to do away with it even as other markets have.
Anita Sehgal, a longtime Astros marketing executive who graciously fielded my phone call about hot dogs, told me the Astros piloted Dollar Dog Night in 2013 and fully launched it in 2014.
Here is the entire read: How the Astros’ Dollar Dog Night became a Houston baseball tradition.
It is a good read. A little embellishment, but still a good read.
Tonight is Dollar Dog Night at Daikin Park. I will take the dogs. I would also hope for a win.