Adrian Garcia, County Commissioner, Precinct 2 Campaigns maybe ought to take that into account. There may be duplications, but there are enough signatures that that gets her over the requirement, and therefore we think that you know, that it'll be decided in our candidates favor.. I would expect this to pass, as similar referenda has done in other cities. I like to say run or recruit. HD132 58.80% 37.87% 2.30% 1.03% This obviously would require the speaker to violate the Housekeeping Resolution., It was a relatively anticlimactic end to the fight over Democratic committee chairs, which were a major issue in House primaries earlier this year, a rallying cry for conservative activists and a recurring theme in speeches as the legislative session kicked off Tuesday. What you see above is the range for each, so the vote deficit for these counties goes from 105K to 112K. CC3 63.17% 36.83% color: white; } ============================= The margins are far wider in some other races candidates are contesting. Its the one instance where the David really can defeat the Goliath when David continues to be so arrogant, said Sean Walsh, a GOP strategist. There hasnt been nearly as much growth in Houston as there has been in the non-Houston parts of Harris County, but its still up over 150K from 2015. You can see here for some background and here for Judge Hidalgos latest response to the mattress guy if you want. One person could face five elections total in 2024, if the primary and the special both go to runoffs; this would happen for someone who wins the primary in a runoff and makes it to the runoff (win or lose) in the special. Hicks said the party looks to its county chapters to take the lead on local races. JP5 152,130 137,293 52 The Record-Chronicle requested demographic information on the citations from the Denton police Tuesday afternoon. Phil Sandlin, Constable Precinct 8, Teneshia Hudspeth, County Clerk Source1Source2. font-size: .9em; CC1 26.15% 73.85% JP5 137,161 147,432 7,185 color: #6db24f; 2023-00964; Alexandra Mealer v. Lina Hidalgo. HD134 44.28% 55.72% } The state party has said it wants to focus its limited resources on congressional races, rather than statewide legislative races. Life comes at you fast. .inner_percentage.Green { HD131 19.54% 77.57% 2.90% HD129 36,347 26,966 1,802 How much of that is the lack of a third choice versus some other consideration I couldnt say, but you can see it in the numbers. After a minute, I decided to go with the obvious, which was to separate the counties into those that are good for the Dems and those that are not, and see what that told me. font-size: 0.9em; HD134 34.64% 63.12% 2.24% In addition, unlike Presidential years when higher profile county offices like Sheriff and County Attorney and Tax Assessor appear (District Attorney is a state office), the ones on this ballot are low profile and mostly clerical in nature. .widget-img { Radack 0 71,246 0 794,652, Court R Avg D Avg R pct D pct color: white; } There is no justification for denying the public information about a controversy just because it involves litigation, Aleshire said. I feel confident saying that a constitutional amendment to allow this will not pass. } font-weight: 200; A lot of them just went to another polling place. County races appear towards the bottom of the ballot, after all of the federal and state races. Hegar, responding to a fresh complaint from Harris County Constable Ted Heap, said county officials had reduced the budget for Heaps Precinct 5 office by some $2.4 million in their most recent budget. JP1 37.67% 62.33% The fee cant be lowered due to appearance of impropriety issues. No one cares about that, but because it is a story about 2024 and Ted Cruz will be running for re-election to the Senate in 2024, it contains the following bits of speculation about who might run against him: Cruzs focus on his Senate bid follows a tough 2018 reelection fight against former Democratic Rep. Beto ORourke, who lost by 2.6 points. In a few cases you can see a greater number of third-party votes, which can explain a part of a Democratic vote decline, but again the overall effect is too small to be generally explanatory. } 6(lost to Judge Kelley Andrews), Matthew Dexter, former candidate forHarris County Criminal Court at Law No. } JP3 46.84% 53.16% Im going to guess hed run as a Democrat, but I cant say for sure at this time. Im sure it would be compelling reading, but I dont have the staff or the budget for that. You have to have evidence, you cant go on speculation, the signatures are valid.. In actuality, there were 486K total ballots cast, including undervotes, in the city prop races. HD134 35,653 45,142 16 HD141 20.56% 79.37% 0.07% The ones who get to wait until 2026 are Brandon Creighton (SD04), Mayes Middleton (SD11), Borris Miles (SD13), and Lois Kolkhorst (SD18). For Kelly Felton, a first-time candidate running for a Tustin Unified School District seat in Orange County, that issue was the political narratives being taught to her kids (one in 7th grade, and one who is in 10th), including critical race theory, sex education and the use of gender pronouns. (Section 172.022, Texas Election Code). .leg-hnt-section-title { HD131 6,091 25,170 Dist Mealer Hidalgo W-I HD150 60.64% 37.11% 2.25% As of today, the office has not received an opinion on how to proceed with these particular public information requests. margin: 3px 0; | Democratic Probate Court judges, all the way at the bottom of the ballot, did basically as well as their counterparts in appellate and civil court races. Were ready, City Clerk Debbie Racca-Sittre said inside City Hall as she and a colleague sealed and time stamped four boxes filled with more than 5,000 pages of petition signatures. We have multiple locations at which anyone can vote precisely as a hedge against problems at any one specific location. Judge Jones is represented by Oliver Brown. Carla Wyatt, County Treasurer, Alexandra Mealer, County Judge HD126 63.38% 36.62% } HD139 28.11% 69.53% 2.35% 0.00% Nothing else of great interest in this group Id expect both Ed Gonzalez and Christian Menefee to start posting bigger numbers soon. HD135 16,804 21,988 1,227 559 HD148 15,383 20,840 1,065 The raid cast a shadow over a competitive election year for the longtime Democratic congressman who defended his seat from a progressive in the March primary and then a well-funded and coordinated effort to flip his seat by Republicans in November. overflow: hidden; ORourke did not respond to a request for comment on whether he was considering a second Senate run against Cruz. } I turn as always to the numbers to see what they tell us. Weve just had multiple winning candidates get sued by their losing opponents, and many of them were left scrambling to pay for lawyers to defend themselves in court. Looking at what Ive written here, I need to do a post about third party votes, too. That range is consistent across years, across baseline Democratic performance levels, across different types of judicial races. 1 resource, and that benefits all voters, said Jennifer Doinoff, Hays County elections administrator. I do know that at least one more loser has filed a losers contest, but I dont care to give any of this any more validity. HD132 60.80% 39.20% HD132 36,431 23,448 } Also, the state GOP says it doesnt give directly to school board candidates, but said its training provides non-monetary support. HD144 11,551 14,029 854 } JP6 4,815 17,369 687 CD02 77,665 46,669 21 HD127 40,060 25,992 Of the other six races for statewide executive offices, three were similar in nature to the Governors race and three were friendlier to Republicans. Which comes back to the budget question. HD139 12,258 30,317 1,025 1 margin: 0; 2023-00932; Chris Daniel v. Marilyn Burgess. 19 Cause No. HOUSTON The gloves are off in two Harris County political races, with Republican and Democrat candidates for judge suing to get their opponents thrown off the ballot. event.srcElement.innerText = '[show]'; Democrats havent lost a judicial race in a Presidential year since 2012, and havent lost a majority of judicial races in a Presidential year since 2004. We have an open seat Mayoral race this year, and history says those are our biggest ones. The judge in the Lunceford contest was assigned on December 13, I dont know what has happened since then. HD135 43.39% 56.59% 0.02% Republican House Speaker Dade Phelan, whose chamber amended the bill to include the lower penalty, rejected the idea when it was first floated during a series of 2021 special sessions. State executives | JP4 59.33% 40.67% HD137 38.54% 61.46% You can find our submission guidelines here. As written the proposal, called the Justice Charter by its proponents, would ostensibly eliminate police enforcement of certain levels of marijuana possession, eliminate police enforcement of abortion-related crimes. JP1 34.97% 62.30% 2.73% HD126 61.80% 36.07% 2.12% Putting it another way, more than 96% of the people who cast a ballot in November of 2022 cast a ballot in these three races. As you know, the Harris County Democratic Party will soon have a new Chair. margin-top: 0px; HD135 17,107 22,475 1,135 Ill get into it a bit more in the next post when we look at the higher-scoring Republicans, but my sense is that these three Dems, plus Beto, received some crossovers. } . It would seem campaigns are in the trenches looking for every possible way to unseat incumbents or prevent challenges to incumbents, Stein said. There were no incumbents in this race. 18 Cause No. line-height: 1.5em; Democrats would still be running the elections. HD131 5,886 24,670 933 This sample ballot tool includes: All candidates in every upcoming election occurring within the 100 most-populated cities in the U.S., plus all federal and statewide elections, including ballot measures, nationwide. They arent any more valid, theyre just in a different venue. I dont have any great insight here, nor do I have much confidence that Dems could take action to mitigate against this. Generally speaking, she did a couple of points worse. CC3 62.89% 37.11% HD145 12,220 32,097 1,425 You might have thought in looking at the numbers for 2016 and 2018 that a split result could occur, given the wide ranges. .votebox-results-cell--check { font-size: 16px; } HD131 20.28% 79.72% Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic. With that margin, three of the four Dem candidates would have won by a couple thousand votes. In the Ag Commissioner race, Sid Miller got 507K votes to top Abbotts total, but he was aided by not having any third party candidates. JP1 36.70% 63.30% .panel-heading:hover { cursor: pointer;} But plenty of others are considering a Cruz challenge. 12(lost to Judge Genesis Draper), Brian Staley, former candidate forHarris County Civil County Court at Law No. The county will now have to spend substantial resources handling these contests, time that could instead be spent serving the people of Harris County, added County Attorney Menefee. The cumulative deficit from the bad counties has been edging upward, but the Democratic potential in Harris County even all by itself, though Fort Bend should be an asset as well is more than enough to overcome it. He has spoken with plenty of those disenfranchised voters himself, he said. } I also think that SCOTx would prefer to wait until the voters have their say, as then they have a chance to duck the question. January 2022 reports are here, July 2022 reports are here. This would allow the surviving spouse of a service member who is killed or fatally injured (rather than killed in action) to receive a property tax exemption. Wyatt 1,950 2,110 0 2,258 HD128 70.08% 27.72% 2.20% HD140 5,929 12,518 Under Hegars calculations, Heaps annualized budget would have been about $48.9 million over 12 months nearly $2.3 million more than the $46.7 million figure calculated by the county. HD138 30,154 25,204 1,732 HD135 17,116 22,492 963 1 $('.collapse').collapse('hide'); HD127 57.86% 39.41% 2.73% JP7 12,934 64,034 JP7 12,417 64,481 HD147 22.58% 77.42% HD126 64.12% 35.85% 0.03% Achieving the goal set in item #1 will require an all-hands-on-deck mobilization. Be that as it may, however one may choose to interpret the lack of news about this situation, I feel compelled to note that the FBI has been investigating Ken Paxton since November of 2020, and served subpoeanas to his office in December that year. margin-top: 1px; } Opponents of Prop A, including Garza, say it conflicts with state law where low amounts marijuana is still a misdemeanor and therefore should not be allowed in individual cities. Ive looked but never found patterns that I think satisfactorily and consistently explain the variations. PREVIOUSLY HD144 12,242 14,069 9 2023-01076; Aaron Adams v. Judge LaShawn Williams. HD150 34,884 21,411 1,016 3 House Bill 2020andSenate Bill 823would allow the secretary of states office to take action in a county if a complaint is filed by one of several officials and organizations involved in elections, and if theres good cause to believe that a recurring pattern of problems with election administration exists.. CC4 117,014 119,504 Caroline Harris earned a graduate degree from the University of Texas Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. I would suggest that its worth the effort to put some money into the Dem-friendly areas of Brazoria in 2024, for the purpose of squeezing out as many Dem votes as possible. At this point, three months out, they seem as plausible as Bigfoot sightings, but lets take Cindy Siegel at her word and assume the existence of 2600 actual people who were actually unable to cast a ballot on Election Day. Of course, we were in a time and of a political makeup in which Dems were getting creamed in non-Presidential years. HD130 46,489 18,687 More or less the same story here, with the distinction between Houston and not-Houston being smaller than in prior years. SD11 64.64% 35.34% 0.02% Now is not the time to re-litigate.. HD146 23.77% 76.21% 0.03% font-weight: 300; See here for the previous entry. The party has also conducted one-on-one sessions with prospective candidates. Having a high profile referendum on the ballot helps drive extra turnout. HD127 62.08% 37.92% HD130 46,537 18,686 . Christian Menefee, Harris County Attorney HD132 37,180 23,721 7 Currently we work hand-in-hand. The number of registered voters in Harris County, and thus in Houston, will certainly change between now and November. . Precinct 3 Commissioner Tom Ramsey, the lone Republican on the court, voted against the measure. } else { border: 1px solid #a2a9b1 !important; Public policy. Sixteen senators had Lady Fortune on their side and drew four-year terms, and fifteen unlucky souls will have to run for reelection in two years. I want to know what the next Chair intends to do about that. HD139 13,492 30,143 11 The April workshop and virtual event in July had at least 100 attendees each. color: #888;

One year later, there have been no arrests or charges filed related to the case. Under Texas law, the Texas House of Representatives presided over this contest because it was filed by a candidate for that body. Patrick 171,319 312,803 34.40% 51.84% font-weight: bold; HD141 17.53% 79.15% 3.32% JP6 24.53% 75.47% A provision in the Texas Constitution states that no charter or any ordinance passed under said charter shall contain any provision inconsistent with the Constitution of the State, or of the general laws enacted by the Legislature of this State.. Whether it will get a similarly chilly reception from City Council or Commissioners Court remains to be seen. The government moved forward at that point, but its not necessarily surprising that we havent seen any other announcements or any other information thats gone public, said Edward Loya Jr., a Dallas-based attorney and former federal prosecutor. } Those members left for Washington, D.C., for weeks to stop the House from being able to do business in an effort to prevent passage of the bill. JP3 45.27% 50.89% 2.73% 1.11% CC1 29.16% 70.81% 0.03% Brown. In counties like Brazoria and Montgomery, population growth near the Harris County border has led to some burgeoning Democratic turf, mostly around Pearland for the former and around the Woodlands for the latter. Youve got the nations third-largest county that has had multiple problems with multiple election officers, to the point where one had to resign, and the problem is that its too big a piece of the electorate to ignore.. See here for some background and here for some background and here Judge! 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