La Marque City Council Townhall Oct 4
September 13, 2025
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Stop Political Violence? Start in La Marque Texas.
September 12, 2025
The warning signs are all there.
And they all point to La Marque city councilman Joesph Lowry. La Marque City Councilwoman Kim Yancy held a press conference late Friday evening to address the harrassment of citizens of La Marque, Texas City, and Dickinson by Lowry. On que Lowry arrived spewing his unfounded allegations of illegal activity as he has been doing for years. The video provided by Harvey Freeboard can be viewed here. At 10:30 the press conference starts. At 24:00 Lowry begins his disruption. At 26:34 Lowry is stared down by Mr. Beard.
Lowry is an elected official yet acts like a character from South Park. During the event one of his targets of harrassment towered over his fat ass challenging his continuous lies causing Lowry to sweat like a pig and retreat to his mini van to call his police friends for help. They came and questioned those who were under attack first.
Yancy was right concerning the political violence in La Marque and blaming those who tolerate it, support it, and laugh about it. She questioned why law enforcement has refused to address the multiple complaints against Lowry. Lowry enjoys harassing people. He enjoys the division he creates. He revels in it. He blogs about it on his Lousy News Network as if he is a journalist.
The La Marque police, the Galveston Sheriff, and the DA must get off their racist, lazy assess and stop this harassment before they are held accountable for any political violence.
The signs are there. Do something or shut the fuck up about “stopping political violence”.
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Press Conference in La Marque Today
September 12, 2025From L Marque City Council Member Kim Yancy:
GM. We need your prayers. I am having a press conference outside at 6pm in front of La Marque City hall today (Friday, September 12th) regarding the political turmoil & abusive racist rhetoric being tolerated and protected in our County. Please come. The Press is invited.
I can only guess who this is about.
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La Marque Councilman Suffers a Broken Arm During Budget Meeting
September 12, 2025
La Marque City Council held a special meeting to address their financial crisis. More on that below.
Councilman Joseph Lowry suffered broken arm while running around the room patting himself on the back yelling “I TOLD YOU SO! I TOLD YOU SO!”. Lowry was rushed to the hospital and was pronounced stupid.
But seriously. I took one for the team and watched the entire meeting. It wasn’t pretty. You can watch the meeting once it has been posted on the Council YouTube channel. Good for the Council and the members of the administration for keeping a cool head and swiftly moving to address the problem. The City addressed the situation with a press release which you can read below. Here are the important points that were made during the meeting:
- For a number of reasons the city overspent and has resulted a severe shortfall in their budget.
- This shortfall left the city with enough funds to continue operations for just a few months
- Immediate action had to taken to prevent defaulting on obligations
- The Council focused on what action to take and not on who to blame (Lowry)
- The City Manager stated very clearly that there was no fraud, no abuse, no one was running a cabal (not her words) no one was stealing money. All the baseless allegations that have been made over the last few years were just that, baseless.
- One of the reasons there is a shortfall was due to FEMA dragging their feet on reimbursements to the city. That is in the millions of dollars
- Another was the lack of revenue due to a number of reasons
- And another was the lack of accurate reporting to the Council
- They discussed the mismanagement of information concerning the budget between various administrative departments and City Council
- They needed a solution which included temporarily raising the tax rate, short term loans to cover operation expenses, and of course cuts to services.
- The City has already proposed solutions to address the shortfall and voted to move forward. Of course the individual who created the problem in the first place voted no.
So They have voted on a solution while Lowry sits back and types left handed continuing to baselessly blame the Cabal of La Marque.
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Challenging Dennis Paul: A Call for True Conservative Values
September 10, 2025
Probably not.
State Representative Dennis Paul of the Bay Area has already been anointed by the party for State Senator replacing Senator Money Mayes Middleton. He isn’t the best choice considering his lack luster performance for the community. He has spent his 10 year career in the Texas House on the Insurance Committee and we have all suffered for it. He believes in guns for all with no restrictions on criminals or drug dealers carrying weapons in public. He has never held a town hall type of meeting with his constituents. He is a mule for Greg Abbott and carries the bills to restrict voting. He cosponsored the voucher bill. His fundraising capabilities are pathetic except for PAC donations. Unfortunately he is all the Republicans have. He is all we have.
Senate District 11 is such a gerrymandered district the winner of the republican primary most probably will win the general election. True Conservatives need to challenge Paul in the primary. They need to restore dignity to the office. They need to focus on the people in the district not just the business community. They can advocate for safe gun ownership like they have in the past. They can fully fund public education and end the voucher program. They can do something about the out of control insurance crisis, at the very least, meeting with those in the district who are suffering. They can return to their core Republican Christian values.
Is there a conservative willing to take back their party from extremists like Paul?
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State Representative James Talarico Enters Senate Race
September 9, 2025
Can he do the job? Absolutely!
Representative James Talarico came to our club meeting last year to discuss public education issues. Our usual monthly crowd of 80 or so ballooned to over 150. It was an overflow crowd, an interesting meeting, and a great speaker. Today Talarico will be announcing he will be joining the race for Senate to challenge Ken Paxton or John Cornyn.
Most probably Paxton will be the nominee. He is a perfect representation of the Republican Party and one all republicans can be proud of. He is an incredible ass kisser and would serve Trump well. He cheated on his wife. He was overwhelmingly impeached by the Texas House. He was sued, and lost, a whistle blower suit and will ask the state to pay the $6.7 Million judgement. He is openly defying court rulings. And he is now mired in a nasty divorce. So Paxton has all the values that Republicans admire. Senator John Cornyn can’t kiss enough ass to save his own. His time in the Senate is over.
Talarico is the exact opposite, not perfect, but not Paxton. He is young, 36 years old. A State Representative with experience with passing legislation. He is a former middle school teacher and a devout Christian, one who can relate to those who worship, no matter who they worship. It is an interesting combination. Talarico will probably disappoint the extreme far left but then again they thought Obama was a far lefty. Talarico will join former Congressman Colin Allred and Terry Virts in the race.
So Texans will have a choice between an impeached, lawless, adulterer and the winner of the Democratic primary. Just remember who they voted for in November 2024.
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White House to Provide Reparations to Jan 6 Felons
September 7, 2025
It’s Satire Sunday but this is NOT satire.
You have to wonder what the living fuck is wrong with Republicans. They are truly out of their fucking minds. They claim to be the party of “law and order” yet not only supported the pardon of those who beat up police they are now willing to give them millions of your tax dollars to apologize. Trump claims they were “treated so unfairly” but said nothing about the cops who lost their lives, the families who lost loved ones, or those who suffered permanent injuries. According to his new ass kissing news source, Newsmax:
“A lot of the people that are in the government now talk about it because a lot of the people in government really like that group of people,” he said, referring to the Jan. 6 defendants, who he described as protesting “peacefully and patriotically.”
Trump has already paid $5 Million to the family of Ashli Babbitt an Air Force veteran who was shot and killed as she attempted to enter the House Chamber. She is also going to receive full military funeral honors much like Trump will once his rotten ass is over. Now they are considering creating a panel much like the compensation panel for the victims of the 9/11 attacks. They would determine how much of our money to distribute based upon loss of work and mental anguish.
This is a message to those who want to disrupt the 2026 elections: “If you resort to violence you will be compensated fairly”. As they said, Jan 6 was just practice for November 2026.
WTF is wrong with you?
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Candidates and Fundraising for Houston’s 2025 Special Election
September 5, 2025The special election for Houston City Council At Large Position 4 will be held in November 2025. Here are the current candidates and their fundraising activities according to the City of Houston. HNF means “Has Not Filed” a campaign finance report for this position at this time. The official list of candidates can be found here.
| Candidate | Contributions | Expenditures | COH | Loans |
| Alejandra Salinas | $279,539.00 | $18,703.00 | $284,782.00 | $25,000.00 |
| Brad Batteau | HNF | HNF | HNF | HNF |
| Dwight A. Boykins | HNF | HNF | HNF | HNF |
| Ethan Hale | HNF | HNF | HNF | HNF |
| Miguel Herrera | HNF | HNF | HNF | HNF |
| Al Lloyd | HNF | HNF | HNF | HNF |
| Kristal Mtaza-Lyons | HNF | HNF | HNF | HNF |
| Sheraz Mohammad Siddiqui | HNF | HNF | HNF | HNF |
| Angie Thibodeaux | HNF | HNF | HNF | HNF |
| Sonia Rivera | HNF | HNF | HNF | HNF |
| Kathy L. Tatum | HNF | HNF | HNF | HNF |
| Jordan Thomas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Adrian Thomas Rogers | HNF | HNF | HNF | HNF |
| Cris Wright | HNF | HNF | HNF | HNF |
| Martina Lemond Dixon | HNF | HNF | HNF | HNF |
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Welcome to La Marque Texas.
September 4, 2025
If you have focused solely on the disruptions brought about by Councilman Joseph Lowry (his history is here) you probably think La Marque is a hell hole of corruption, run by a Mexican cartel, and swirling in debt. It’s not. Not even close.
Lowry has been bashing the city, the employees, and even some who live in La Marque claiming fraud and corruption for over 2 years and yet there isn’t a single ongoing investigation. He has become the Chicken Little of La Marque. And it is getting old. Prior to his election there were few, if any, negative stories written about La Marque. Ever since there has been numerous articles written by the Galveston Daily News and multiple Houston TV stations, with none on the baseless allegations being spewed by Chicken Little.
Take a look at some interesting facts about La Marque Texas:
- La Marque was founded in the 1890’s. Originally it was called The Highlands
- La Marque received the All American City Award in 2025
- Population is 20,498 as of 2024.
- White (Non-Hispanic): 35.3%
- Black or African American (Non-Hispanic): 30.8%
- Hispanic: 28.7%
- Asian: 1.5%
- Native American/Other: 0.7%
- Multiracial: 2.9%
- The city has a budget of $23,500,000 for 2026
- The city is managed by a Council with a Mayor and 4 Council Members
- City Council meetings are held every 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month
- The city has 558 businesses operating in the city
- Majority of the schools in La Marque are within the Texas City ISD with a few in Dickinson
La Marque is the All American City of 2025. Don’t listen to chicken little.
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The Texas Fair Plan: Socialized Insurance in a Disappearing Market
September 3, 2025
I thought Republicans hated socialism.
The Texas Fair Plan is basically socialized home insurance. It is an insurance policy financially backed by the State of Texas and operated by the Texas Fair Plan Association. The TFP is like the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association the first socialized insurance plan in Texas. TWIA was created back in 1971 and was to be the “insurance of last resort”. Currently it is almost the ONLY resort available to the 14 counties on the Texas coast. TFP was created in 1995 and covers the entire State. It is also the “insurance of last resort” but is becoming the ONLY resort in the Bay Area.
If you want to know the details about the TFP read this article The Texas Fair Plan: What It Is and What It Covers published by the Merlin Law Group. You can also visit the TFP website at TexasFairPlan.org. Here are some quick notes:
- The Texas Fair Plan is a state sponsored insurance policy. (Socialized insurance)
- Property owners must apply through an agent
- To qualify for the TFP property owners must have been rejected by two of the free market insurance companies
- The TFP has very limited coverage
- No water or sewer backup coverage
- $5000 limit on water events such as broken pipes in the home
- Doesn’t cover the 14 counties for windstorm damage. That is usually covered by TWIA
- The total insurable value of the contents of the house maxes out at 50% of the total value of the house
If you are struggling with the rising cost of your home insurance you might want to reach out to an agent and see if you qualify. Personally I think the Bay Area is going to be like the coastal areas where the mighty free market will be allowed to flee the market leaving us with the Texas Socialize Insurance Association. Maybe this is a good option if it can be improved.
I really thought the Republican Party hated socialism.
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Ding Dong Killer Charged with Murder
September 2, 2025That’s a no brainer.
Well the gun nut mentality ushered in by the Texas Republican Party has destroyed another couple of families. A 11 year old playing Ding Dong Dashing was shot and killed by a 42 year old homeowner. Two fucking families destroyed by the cowards of Texas who will not stand up and demand action from our elected officials. Instead they keep voting for the people who value guns over kids, who have created a gun nut society, and who have given easy access to guns to those who should not have them including someone who is stupid enough to shoot a kid in the back.
Gdamn. What in the living fuck is wrong with us? Conservatives used to respect the legal ownership of firearms. Now they don’t have a problem with allowing anyone to walking around with a loaded AR15 in public, dressed up like GIJoe with body armor, gun silencers, and 100 magazine clips. Here in Texas anyone, including felons, gang members, and drug dealers can open carry because there is no restrictions on who can carry and the police are not allowed to question anyone who carries.
That is where we are at here in Texas. Because we are a bunch of fucking cowards families will continue to be destroyed. Texans don’t really care.
Unless it happens to their family.
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Investigation Looms After Failed Recall of Texas Mayor
September 2, 2025
This did not turn out as planned.
A recall petition of Texas City Mayor Dedrick D. Johnson has failed to obtain the necessary verified signatures. Unfortunately that may not be the end of the issue. According to a letter from the City the petition effort has been handed over to the Galveston County District Attorney. You can read the letter below.
As I said in a previous post: It seems like there is a pattern with some of these recall efforts, much like a playbook:
- Make unsubstantiated claims against an elected official with words like “corrupt”, “cabal”, and “illegal”. You don’t need to provide any evidence, just say it. Over and over again.
- Find a 2 bit blogger (like me) or a self proclaimed “journalist” to repeat the allegations, over and over again.
- Post to social media all the articles and videos from these self proclaimed journalists over and over again.
- Get a local company to soil their name with some of the local voters and promote the recall effort
That’s what happened in Texas City. So now the focus is on those who submitted the petition. If the allegations of confirmed, these are very serious crimes and could land people with felonies and in jail.
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It’s Open Season on 10 Year Olds
September 1, 2025
No Place But Texas. Literally.
You can thank your republican leadership for creating this open season on human beings. How incredibly stupid can you be to pull out a gun after someone rings your door bell, chase the ding-dongers down the street, and then shoot them in the back multiple times. That’s what happened in Houston this weekend. From CNN:
As the boy ran from a house on Racine Street just before 11 p.m., someone chased after him and shot him in the back, according to KHOU.
The boy died. The shooter wasn’t protecting his property from a 10 year old. He wasn’t defending himself from the loud noise of a door bell. He wasn’t even sitting in his lounge chair holding his gun waiting for an excuse to use it. Instead he had to make a decision to arm himself after someone randomly his door bell at 11 PM. Is ding-donging annoying? Of course it is and the kid should be taught a lesson but to chase him down, shoot him multiple times in the back, and kill him? That is fucking criminal. Literally.
So far the shooter has been questioned and released. Who knows? Maybe the kid had an AR 15 while ding-donging. Maybe he was waving his arms in a threatening manner as he was running away. Maybe he had a vicious dog with him. Maybe he was running away with a neighbors TV.
Or maybe he was just a 10 year old pulling a prank. Way to go Texas.
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NASA’s Congressman Heckled at Rice Event
August 28, 2025
To be perfectly honest, there wasn’t much to heckle him about….until….
At the end of Congressman Brian Babin’s softball interview at Rice University Babin had to make the mistake of lying to the small crowd and he was called out for it. It was ugly. Babin was defending the NAZI saluting Elon Musk and DOGE claiming they had found millions of people over the age of 115 collecting Social Security checks. (It’s not true.)
A number of groans came from the audience with someone in the front row (me) yelling “That is not true Congressman!” A number of people chimed in calling him out on his stupid comment. A disabled individual went off on a tangent about going to Mars causing a problem for security. I continued with comments towards Babin such as “Your boss is a liar, you don’t have to be one too.” Others in the small audience were vocal and not happy that he resorted to what Republicans are good at, lying. The moderator then ended the event.
As Babin was leaving the podium I asked if he would come to his district and meet with his constituents. His response was “I’m not going to do that”. Babin has been in office for over 10 years and has never met with his constituents besides with the business community.
Fucking coward.
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Another Shooting. Another Opportunity to Tuck Tail by Americans
August 28, 2025Let’s face it. Americans are cowards.
Following the tragic shooting in Minneapolis, which resulted in the loss of two innocent lives and left 17 others permanently injured, it is undeniable that Americans have demonstrated a lack of courage in addressing gun violence.
This pattern of inaction is not unique to Minneapolis. It has been a recurring theme, especially in Texas. After the shootings in El Paso, Santa Fe, Uvalde, and Sutherland Springs Church Americans have consistently failed to take decisive action to curb gun violence.
Instead of demanding actions, Americans resort to superficial gestures such as engaging in prayer sessions, purchasing “Texas Strong” t-shirts, and then doing what they do best. They forget. Then in November they vote for the very people who provided easy access to military-style firearms to the mentally ill shooters.
Republicans will not curb gun violence and the only people who can make it happen are the American voters but instead of demanding action they tuck tail and forget like the fucking cowards they have become.
Godamn us all.
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La Marque Council Member Embarrassed at Council Meeting (Video)
August 27, 2025
Note to the Mayor and other Council Members: Do yourself a favor and just ignore CM Joseph Lowry. Don’t feed into his stupidity and pettiness. Let him make his baseless allegations and move on.
Once again La Marque City Council Member Joseph Lowry gets put into his place on Facebook Live, Facebook Live! By now you would think he has had enough of the humiliation. The discussion was accepting the independent audit of the City’s financials. All but Lowry voted to accept it. As the acting City Manager stated the audit is required by State law, is about 178 pages long, and has no evidence of malfeasance, corruption, or anything unusual. Of course that didn’t stop Lowry from talking, once again, about a “forensic” audit.
Lowry has been spouting off about corruption, bribes, recorded phone calls, malfeasance, corruption, cabals, etc etc for years now without any evidence whatsoever. As the Mayor said “You are the only one saying this. Not the Police. Not the Sheriff. Not the District Attorney”. The Mayor, once again, told Lowry is he has evidence of cabal-ness he needs to bring to the Council so they can evaluate and take action including requesting a “forensic” audit. So far Lowry has squat. He is a one man clown show.
The second slap in the face was concerning limiting the rights of citizens to address the Council. Lowry claimed people were coming to complain about him. He had the gall to claim “It wasn’t like this in the past.” The Mayor slapped his fat ass by stating “The reason they are coming is because of you! You are the problem.” (not the exact words) Lowry wanted council to be more professional which was met with eye rolling and laughter.
You can watch the first beat down starting at 1:19:18 and the second one at 1:31:00
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BREAKING: EMS Called to the White House
August 27, 2025
Multiple members of the President’s Cabinet were involved.
Multiple units of the Washington DC fire department were called for an incident involving the President and his Cabinet. According to the report: “The Fire Department Station 42 was called late Tuesday night to assist the Cabinet Members. Our first responders, who are trained in the use CPR, were able to revive many of the individuals but some required hospitalization.
According to the first responders the incident began during the President’s Cabinet meeting lasting over 3 hours. “When we arrived we immediately called for extra support. The scene was horrible with many gasping for air and pleading for help.”
“Our brave first responders took decisive action, provided CPR and mouth to mouth resusitation and tried to pry each and every one of them off of Donald Trump’s ass, but they were stuck. I’ve never seen so many people on their knees sucking someone’s ass so hard that they got stuck. We continue to struggle with the situation. The fact that Trump continued to walk around with so many of the Cabinet Members stuck to his ass didn’t help.”
You can watch the entire ass kissing session below. It might make you vomit and laugh at the same time.
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La Marque Gag Order Hearing Scheduled for August 28 for Joseph Lowry
August 25, 2025
Thursday August 28, 11:30am. Be there. It will be wild.
There is a gag order hearing this Thursday concerning the civil suit against La Marque City Councilman Joseph Lowry by a number of individuals including CM Kimberley Yancy, former CM James Ross, CJ Beard, and Walter Burt. When this suit was filed a request for a Temporary Restraining Order against Lowry to prevent him from posting damaging allegations pertaining to the plaintiffs. This was eventually denied, but tomorrow there is a hearing concerning a proposed gag order. This is an in person hearing so I can only assume Lowry’s fat ass will be there.
You can read the proposed gag order here and the motion for the gag order here. The motion is full of examples of why there should be a gag order against Lowry.
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In Defense of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo
August 25, 2025
Do better ABC13.
ABC13 of Houston ran a bullshit “investigative” story titled “Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo spent about $43K on Paris trade mission, per campaign report“. For those who read only the title of a story to form an ignorant opinion let me give you a heads up. It’s a bullshit title, but an accurate article, if and only if you take the time to read. Here is a snippet:
Judge Hidalgo used donations to her political campaign to fund the trip. “The rules are very flexible on how the office holders can use their funds, just so long as they’re publicly disclosed,” said Jonathan Neerman, a campaign finance advisor who previously served as the Chairman of the Dallas County Republican.
Yep even a Republican says the title of the investigation is bullshit. Candidates and elected officials can use their campaign cash for official business. Many do it then submit receipts to the State, County, or City for reimbursement. And at least one, former State Representative Joe Driver, a Republican, has been caught cheating.
Driver spent his donors money on lavish hotels for official business. He then applied for reimbursement from the State but instead of returning the $50,000 to his campaign account, he kept it. He eventually plead guilty, received 3 years probation, but kept his $62,000/year pension and his state sponsored healthcare for himself and his wife.
Now that is an investigative story! Go read or watch the entire ABC13 story. There is nothing illegal or unusual about what Judge Hidalgo did.
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Harris County Constables’ 65% Pay Increase is Excessive
August 22, 2025
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand this is excessive.
Harris County Constables are asking for a pay raise from $178,000/year to $293,000, a 65% increase. It is almost double their salary from 2004. This is excessive for a number of reasons.
- There are 8 Constables each responsible for only 1/8 of the County
- The Sheriff who is responsible for the entire County earns $223,000
- The Constable is an administrator job. Even though they carry a gun, law enforcement is not in their job description. They don’t patrol. They don’t confront bad guys. They sit at a desk.
- The County is trying to balance their budget which has a $200 Million shortfall
- No one except for CEOs of insurance companies, gets a 65% increase in pay. Not you. Not me.
Every Constable including our own Phil Sandlin requested the raise. If you don’t know who Phil Sandlin is you are in good company. For $178,000 a year citizens in the community should at least know who you are and what you look like. County Commissioners agreed to the increase by a vote of 3-2. I’m not in favor of this. I think it is excessive and not deserving especially when we are running a deficit. The Houston Chronicle has details.
“The eight constables should take what the sheriff makes and divide it by eight,” said Murray Newman, a criminal defense attorney who’s voiced concerns surrounding the constables previously. “That’s what they deserve to be making. They are supplemental law enforcement, not the marquee players.”
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