Bay Area Houston

The signs are out on the streets yet City Council has not authorized an election to replace Justin Hicks who resigned last week after month of turmoil. Scott Higginbotham, who lost to Council Member Tom Crews in 2024, got a jump on City Council and has put up signs throughout the city. In that election he lost by just a few hundred votes while his buddy Justin Hicks easily won by 10 points, not vote, points. Go figure. I had expected the Higginbotham/Hicks team to win. Maybe Higginbotham didn’t have enough baggage like Hicks had. As I said in a previous post:

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.

Higginbotham self financed his campaign with over $20,000 and a donation from Nick Long’s PAC. He has an Ethics Commission investigation for this donation. Higginbotham gave Long’s PAC $5000 who then gave $5000 to Parabellum Media LLC in support of Higginbotham. It’s very strange and worth looking into.

But make no mistake about it. Higginbotham is endorsed by Hicks, the Mayor and Council Member Tom Cones who refused to call for Hicks’ resignation. Higginbotham’s ethics complaint might be resolved this month before the election. Until then it is clear Hicks 2.0 is going to be on the ballot.

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