Bay Area Houston

Ouch. That wasn’t expected.

League City voters are interesting. They returned Tom Crews to City Council squeaking by his well funded opponent, Scott Higginbotham, by just a few hundred votes. Tom is a well know conservative. Unlike his opponent, he isn’t a MAGAt conservative much like Justin Hicks. Voters also returned Hicks to City Council by a large margin. All of that is strange. It was a good win for Crews and for the City.

Crew’s opponent spent $21,500 of his own money plus an additional amount of money from Mayor Nick Long’s Political Action Committee. Long lost on this race. His PAC did not contribute to Justin Hicks. Justin ran on his credentials of being a MAGAt conservative and decorated Iraq war veteran. The voters gave Hicks a pass on his inability to be honest about his campaign finance reports, hold a job, pay his bills, or his filing for bankruptcy. Someone with this type of record should never get near an elected office. Yet the same voters who put Hicks back in office also re-elected a true conservative, Tom Crews. They voted from one extreme to common decency.

League City Council will remain a white, male, MAGAt council with the exception of a couple of true conservatives. It will be interesting to watch Long try to bury the hatchet with those he opposed. I wonder what Council will do this next year? Maybe go after the businesses that hire illegal aliens?

Ethics complaints filed with the Texas Ethics Commission are still pending against Hicks and Higginbotham Election results can be found here.

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