Voters Reject Partisan Politics in Texas Schools including CCISD

May 5, 2025

If I woke up with my head sewn to the carpet I would not be more surprised.

CCISD voters made a huge statement last Saturday and rejected partisan politics in our schools by soundly beating Trustee Scott Bowen and his recruit, Joe Machol. They beat back Bowen’s Billionaire Buddies. I bet the voucher bill signed on elected day contributed to these defeats. Bowen authored the Voucher Bill resolution for the Texas Republic Party. CCISD was not alone in taking a stand against extremists.

Mansfield ISD defeated 3 MAGA incumbents including the President and Secretary by large margins. In Katy ISD James Cross crushed the sitting MAGA President Victor Perez. “Perez, an outspoken conservative, has led the charge for banning books since taking office.” (Houston Chronicle) In Keller ISD (see background here) MAGA Trustee Micah Young decided not to run and for good reason. He would have been crushed. He was funded by the right wing Patriot Mobile PAC with $50,000. MAGA incumbent, Tammy Nakamura, funded by Patriot Mobile was defeated in Grapevine Colleyville ISD. Patriot Mobile spent $70,000 on her race.

Patriot Mobile has spent an outrageous amount of money on their candidates. Two lost. One resigned. Maybe parents, teachers, and taxpayers have had enough of dark money in school boards.

Maybe.


Local Candidates Face Election Upset in Seabrook

May 5, 2025

With all the noise coming out of Seabrook I didn’t expect this.

The candidates of the Save Seabrook (SS) Squad were enjoying spicy crawfish at The Barge on election night, at least for a little while. In the end all but one lost. Angela Cervantes is the only SS candidate that won her seat on City Council. Jackie Rasco lost. J.P. Byers lost. Kyra Burton lost. Chris Hues lost. I really didn’t see this coming and I bet they didn’t appreciate the guy in the corner playing WOMP WOMP on his trombone.

As a side note former Seabrook City Councilman and former NFL referee, Joe Machol, was ejected from the game with a crushing defeat for CCISD school board. That was a win-win for both Seabrook and CCISD.

Mayoral candidate, Jim Sweeney, beat Rasco by only 13 votes out of a total of 1539. There will be a recount and possibly legal action by Rasco with wild claims of voter fraud, ballot harvesting, and other unsubstantiated claims that have never been proven across the county and country. If Harris County had handled this election there would be a paper trail that can be recounted and verified. I’m not sure what type of voting machines Seabrook uses so it might not be an easy recount and candidates could claim the machine switched votes. We shall see.

Otherwise Seabrook has elected an incredibly talented Mayor and great members of City Council. You might want to review Sweeneys resume here. Maybe the citizens were not ready to be the center of attention for local media and nosy bloggers. Congratulations to Jim Sweeney, Jared Sessum, Summer Sanford, Tyler Kubena, and Angela Cervantes.


CCISD Voters Reject Billionaire Influence in School Board Election

May 4, 2025

Last night the Conservatives, Democrats, and Independents of the district found common ground and returned Trustee Jessica Cejka to the school board and elected Rebecca Lilley. People said loudly “PARTISAN POLITICS DO NOT BELONG IN OUR SCHOOLS!”.

CCISD voters have bucked the billionaires from Dallas, Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks. These two have spent millions financing candidates for school boards across the state including CCISD. Scott Bowen took their money as did his recruit Peter Lauzon. Both have lost. Lauzon was primarily funded by Wilks PAC, Defend Texas Liberty with $5000. DTL also gave $5000 to another candidate. She returned it.

Bowen spent almost $20,000 of his own money in his losing effort while others spent a couple of thousand. Joe Machol who challenged Jessica Cejka didn’t have much of a campaign and spent little if any. He did get a bit of help from the Harris County Republic Party with some texting.

Thanks to the voters CCISD will be a shining example across the state. We stood up to the billionaires. We put kids, parents, teachers, and tax payers over political parties. It doesn’t matter what party you align with just as long as you run for the right reasons. Congratulations to Jessica and Rebecca and to the voters of the district!


Justin Hicks II might return to League City Council

May 3, 2025

JFK! WTF is wrong with you people?

Wasn’t Justin Hicks enough for League City? Aren’t you tired of chaos, corruption, and cruelty? Aren’t you tired of the veiled threats by the extreme MAGAts of the Republic Party? Aren’t you starving for civility and elected leaders just doing their damn jobs? If so why in the living heck would you put Scott Higginbotham on Council?

His latest Hicks move is a recent mailer he sent with his opponents home address. That is unnecessary. The opponent he attacked has responded. Voters should respond to.


Houston, We Have a Problem. Again.

May 3, 2025

NASA’s problem is Elon’s profit.

Remember when President Obama cancelled the Constellation Program in 2009? I do. The Tea Party People (pre-MAGAts) at NASA threw a fit! Constellation was a massive, underfunded, program designed to continue the Space Station, return to the Moon and go to Mars. The Obama Administration cancelled the Mars portion (for good reasons) and began investing in the private sector (Space X) for transportation to the Space Station leaving travel to the Moon to NASA.

The right wingers of NASA at JSC went absolutely ballistic. At least one manager was “promoted” to staff after sending an email calling for voting Obama out of office. Others were clearly not happy. Some quit in disgust. Before Elon Musk became a dick the idea of using SpaceX vehicles became cool and was accepted by the NASA community. But now? Massive cuts to NASA are coming in the 2026 budget released by Trump. Most of that money will now go to Musk and SpaceX. Here are the highlights from NASAWatch:

Orion, Gateway, and STEM will gut NASA/JSC. These are programs assigned to JSC. Gateway is a Space Station around the Moon and the first module was recently delivered. It’s dead. Orion is the vehicle that will send humans to the Moon and Mars. It’s gone after the 3rd flight. NASA has worked on that project for over a decade. STEM Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, is an educational program for aspiring young scientists and engineers. Space Launch System (SLS) is a heavy lift rocket designed to send Orion to the moon. It is being designed in Alabama and has had one flight.

$6 Billion out of a $24 Billion budget is massive. Management at JSC has encouraged those who voted for the felon, civil service and contractors alike, to stand up and volunteer to quit their jobs. Needless to say none will take that offer. (I’m kidding).

What will JSC have left? Operation of the Space Station serviced by Elon Musk up until 2030 when Trump wants it decommissioned. Then NASA/JSC will transition to Musk. Musk will provide private sector space travel using our tax dollars. LOL. Seriously. Trump is simply privatizing space travel using our money.

Maybe the NASA MAGAts will throw a fit before being thrown out the door.


Seabrook Sh*t Show Part 2

May 2, 2025

This is strange. Very strange.

Seabrook has a loud and obnoxious Facebook group called Save Seabrook (SS). It’s like Elon Musk’s DOGE of Seabrook, making wild ass claims about the state of the city. It’s what MAGAts do. Tell a lie, repeat it, defend it, move on to the next one. It has been quite successful all over the country. People eat that shit up like it was spicy crawfish.

In the long run it may not serve the people of Seabrook well. Take a look at League City for example. The MAGAts took over City Council led by Mayor Pro Tem Justin Hicks. Real Conservatives lost their voice in all the chaos. Justin eventually resigned but League City provided media outlets with enough stories to last a year and a Sunday. As I said in my last post (Seabrook Shit Show) about Seabrook and Mayoral Candidate Jackie Rasco who is supported by the SS group:

So a few years ago there was an incident that required police intervention at Jackies home involving a nosy neighbor, an intoxicated expunged, a gun, $3000 worth of damage, and an arrest. You can read the entire police report here.

That was some crazy shit! Now just a few days prior to the election the SS group announced a free pound of crawfish provided by The Barge295 if you show a I voted sticker. Once they realized that is against the law to provide a reward for voting they rescinded the offer. Then someone actually made signs blaming their own stupidity on the candidate for Mayor! As I said, lie. Defend. Repeat.

The Barge used to be my go to place for crawfish but I think I will look elsewhere from now on. Not quite sure what the candidates, supported by the SS, have promised The Barge. Why do voters want chaos when they can have a Mayor who has decades of incredible applicable experience in city issues and has served the community well? The SS is supporting Rasco, Burton, Byers, and Cervantes.

Seabrook could be the next League City.


Fact Checking CCISD Trustee. Again

May 1, 2025

It’s Scott Bowen again.

Scott’s latest mailer criticizes his opponent for her support of masking during the COVID Pandemic that killed over 1 million Americans. She was clear in her support and for good reason. She works in the medical profession and saw the death and suffering of many who were stricken with COVID. Scott on the other hand made fun of those who were trying to keep kids safe.

At a board meeting on 10/25/21 Bowen visibly made fun of a parent (video here) who was wearing a mask. It wasn’t funny and he got the message. At the next meeting Bowen had to publicly apologize for being a dick. (video Here)

Scott should remember what happened to his friend, Scott Apley. Apley was a member of the Texas Republican Executive Committee as was Scott. Apley was a City Council Member for Dickinson. Like Scott he was a COVID denier and Like Scott he rallied against the mask mandate during COVID.

Scott Apley got COVID. He died at the age of 35. He left a wife and a newborn.


Will CCISD Voters Reject Out of District Billionaire Influence? Again?

April 30, 2025

Michael Smith, the editor of Galveston Daily News said it best:

Our hope is voters are rejecting the incursion of hate-mongering, covert money, outside money, partisan ideology and partisan agendas of all sorts in their decisions about electing local people to volunteer posts.

And former CCISD Board President Laura Dupont said it even better:

The truth is, school boards only work when they reflect the communities they serve — not the agendas of party leadership. That’s why our school board elections are held in May, separate from partisan ballots. We’ve protected that nonpartisan tradition in Texas for over a century because education isn’t supposed to be political.

Over the last decade school boards across the state have been flooded with unlimited money from out of district PACs including Defend Texas Liberty funded by two West Texas Billionaires. In most part they have been successful in winning and controlling school boards bringing chaos, corruption, and cruelty into schools. Do your own research on Keller ISD, Katy ISD, and Friendswood ISD. Friendswood is an example of voters rejecting outside money. The losing candidate raised an outrageous $50,000 from 2 out of district donors. (FYI FISD has only 6 schools. CCISD has over 40)

In the past CCISD voters have rejected this outside money and political influence by rejecting Trustee Bowen’s recruited candidates, Christine Parizo, Misty Dawson, and Pete Lauzon. All three were woefully uneducated in education. Bowen’s buddy, Joe Machol, is also a very poor choice for our kids and Scott Bowen is responsible for this political sideshow and outside influence into the district. On Saturday voters have a chance to put an end to outside, political influence and solidify CCISD as a shining example of putting parents, teachers, students, and tax payers above partisan politics.

As Ms Dupont said:

Local elections matter more than ever. The best way to protect our schools is by electing leaders who are there for the right reasons.

Election Day is May 3 this Saturday.


Fact Checking a CCISD Trustee on Election Fraud. Again.

April 29, 2025

It’s Scott Bowen. Again.

During the last CCISD Candidate Forum sponsored by the League City Regional Chamber of Commerce candidates were asked a very simple question: (video here starting at 02:04) “if you lose a close race, would you contest the results?”. Rebecca Lilley was clear with her answer: “Absolutely not. Whatever happens, happens, and I believe that that will be the final result.”

Scott Bowen echoed the Republic Party canned answer: “On contesting results, this time around Harris County and Galveston County are running our elections. I’m glad they are. At the same time, a few years ago, there was a Harris County result that actually was overturned due to problems with that election. I’m hoping that doesn’t happen again, and I don’t think it will, but I think you never say never. So we just hope for a clean and fair election.”

Fact Check:
After losing in the 2022 elections, Scott Bowen’s party sued 22 winning candidates claiming voter irregularities spearheaded by Mattress MAGAt Mac. They did not sue Harris County who actually conducted the election. They sued the actual candidates requiring them to raise money in their defense. After investigations by the courts as well as the Secretary of State, every single suit was dismissed.

The Secretary of State Investigation
According to the Secretary of State, Jane Nelson, a Republican: “The allegations of election fraud in the 2022 Harris County election are total bullshit.” That’s not her exact words buy you get the idea. You can read the entire 147 page report if you want but in short there was no fraud. There was no voter irregularities that would have changed any election. Nothing. Zero. Zip. Nada. They couldn’t even find one single voter who was denied voting. Not one.

Texas Rangers Investigation
Even the Harris county District Attorney, Kim Ogg, had to admit no charges were being filed after an extensive investigation by the Texas Rangers. She had an embarrassing press conference claiming they filed a misdemeanor charge for an unrelated crime. It was eventually dismissed also. Some believed she should have been investigated herself for a baseless investigation.

CCISD Election 2022
This isn’t the first time Bowen’s party has done this. In fact the first time they used this tactic was in CCISD in 2022. Misty Dawson, a Bowen recruit, sued her opponent claiming voter irregularities after losing by 40 votes. She did’t sue the District who ran the election. She sued the winning candidate who had absolutely nothing to do with running the election. Bowen’s buddy caused a considerable amount of chaos concerning CCISD paying for the legal fees of the winning candidate. Even Bowen voted in favor of supporting this. Dawson eventually dropped her suit.

So expect Scott Bowen to whine like a little bitch if he loses.


Responses to: The Sh*t Show in Seabrook

April 29, 2025

Well, that was a surprise. Kind of. It appears that those in Seabrook who call for “transparency” actually dislike it. The “beehive,” as some have dubbed it, of Jackie Rasco’s supporters took issue with my mention of a police incident at Rasco’s residence. You can find the post here and the actual police report here. That post became the second most viewed in my blog’s history, with the first being after actor Mark Ruffalo retweeted my post “Texas by the numbers. (it ain’t pretty)” (We truly aren’t doing well!)

I had compared the Seabrook race to the recent shit show in League City which ended poorly for a council member who instigated the chaos in the city. Below are just a few of the responses received on the post even one banning me from posting! EGADS! I am RUINED! Early voting ends today. Good luck Seabrook. You just might become the center of discussion for the next couple of years.