Republicans endorse Galveston Sheriff Candidate under investigation.

June 13, 2024

No Place But Texas. Literally.

Republican candidate for the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office, Jimmy Fullen was under investigation by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement. They have recommended revoking his peace officer license. You can read the entire recommendation here. (It’s bad) This would make him ineligible to be Sheriff, if elected, but don’t worry. This is Texas where law and order seldom is heard. KPRC has reported on Fullen here.

Fullen is endorsed by most every republican in the county including Senator Money Mayes Middleton who let Ken Paxton off in his impeachment trial. I watched the entire impeachment trial. Every single minute of it. How anyone could have ignored his criminal behavior is beyond me. Nevertheless the Republican Party is circling the wagons and will protect him like a porn star using a condom.

The TCOLE has recommended revoking his license. In their recommendation they note:

Specifically, Respondent [Fullen] omitted, failed to disclose, or provided false or untruthful information related to job experience, having been disciplined at work, having been fired or asked to resign from a place of employment, having been accused of discrimination, having been the subject of a written complaint at work, having failed to make or been late on a court-ordered payment, having been part of a civil lawsuit, and failing to disclose two arrests. 

OUCH. You can read the entire letter to Fullen here. He has 20 days to respond. He has two choices, agree to the order or schedule a formal, public hearing. There is a website detailing his conduct at The Real True Jimmy Fullen. If half of this is true, and it is all based upon public information, he is a perfect Republican candidate for Sheriff.

Law and Order in Texas. It’s like Beavis and Butthead.

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League City Council guts their Code of Ethical Conduct

June 11, 2024

Guess whose fingerprints are all over this.

League City Council has become a treasure trove of news stories and recently they are not good ones. Banning books, firing librarians, bankruptcies, firing city attorneys are just a few. Here is another. Someone in League City government has redlined the Code of Ethics suggesting changes to how the city will “hold its elected officials and the appointed officials and employees to the highest standards of ethical conduct.” 

You would think that a city of “conservative” citizens would demand a rigid, law and order, approach to ethical conduct from their elected leaders. (LOL) If that is the case they will be shocked to see the proposed changes to their Code of Ethics. You can read the entire 6 pages here. Here are just a few of the changes:

  • Guts the Rules of Ethical Conduct section
  • Removes ethics standards specifically for League City
  • Removes disclosures of gifts to elected officials
  • Removes “Conducting themselves with integrity”
  • Removes conflict of interest concerning city business
  • Removes section titled “Rules of ethical conduct”.
  • Removes limitation on gifts to city officials
  • Removes the entire complaint process against city officials.
  • Removes the ethics review panel

There is so much more, or less, to read. Take a minute and read it.

League City. No Place for Ethics.

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The Quorum Vote at the Texas Democratic Convention

June 10, 2024

And you wonder why we lose?

While the MAGAts of the Republican Party are working to give everyone easy access to guns, destroying our faith in our judicial system, and limiting the rights of women, the delegates of the Texas Democratic Convention was arguing about having a protest vote in our primaries. It was ugly, petty, and pathetic.

There were 4 resolutions/rule changes pulled from consent and were to be debated on the floor of the convention including paying the TDP chair, supporting rank choice voting, and a rule concerning precinct chairs. There was wide support for these. Then there was the rule to add an “Uncommitted” to our presidential primary ballot much like some other states like New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. That stemmed from the Palestinian wing of the party.

Prior to debate the Chair declared that we did not have quorum and all hell broke loose. Hinojosa, speaking to the delegates like they were 2nd graders (some deserved that), continued to say “I will continue when you are finished.”. Eventually they were finished and the process to overturn the chair’s decision was explained, over and over again as per Roberts Rules of Order, which the convention is conducted under. So someone finally motioned to challenge the Chair, it was seconded, and we had to have a roll call vote with each Congressional District reporting yay or nay per county. We have 254 counties in Texas with 38 CDs. Three hours later, we had the vote to overturn the Chair. YEAH!

But….the vote also showed we did not meet the rules of quorum so the 3 hour process was moot and the Convention was adjourned as per the rules. During the 3 hour bitch session many delegates had to leave due to airline and bus schedules thereby breaking quorum.

This is what we argued about. A protest vote. Even if this passed what would it do besides providing negative national attention to our nominee? Go ahead and google protest vote news. I’ll wait. Much like 2016 the whiny little bitches of the Democratic Party have to have a way to publicly whine about everything or anything. If you don’t like immigration policies, protest vote. How about consumer issues? Or woman’s rights? Gay rights? Veteran issues? Gun violence? Pick your damn bottle of whine and protest vote. Give the media a great sound bite which they will exploit. Help to weaken our candidates chances of winning like you did in 2016.

How in the fuck did that work out for you, for us? The three resolutions/rule changes were good for the party and I wish we had the opportunity to vote on these. The protest vote was an embarrassment.

Grow the fuck up people.

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League City Veteran flying the upside down United States flag

June 3, 2024

Leave it to League City’s Mayor Pro Tem Justin Hicks, a christian, conservative, veteran to lead the way.

Well that didn’t take long. As a Veteran I have never supported anyone who would publicly fly a US flag upside down. I would support anyone who wears a flag, or drapes a flag over their shoulders, or wears it like a swimsuit, or even burns it. That is their Constitutional right and Veterans have taken an oath to protect their rights. I do not like it but it is their right.

Flying the flag upside down is also the right of Americans, even Veterans, but it represents much more than a flag bikini. League City Mayor Pro Tem Justin Hicks has taken the opportunity to display his ignorance of the law and has posted the republican talking points along with the upside down flag. He ran to trump’s defense as fast as Ted Cruz claiming the fix was in. It’s an ignorant, unhinged, rant by an elected official and Veteran of the United States Armed Forces.

Flying a flag upside down is Hicks right as an American and a Veteran. He should fly his upside down flag on his house to show his support for trump and his disdain for the rule of law in our country. He should proudly show his support for the porn phucker and his disdain for our court system, judges, and jurors.

Maybe Hicks should ask Judge Jeffery Norman in Galveston what he thinks about respecting the rule of law.

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Anyone Remember Uvalde?

May 24, 2024

I didn’t think so.

It’s been two years since 19 children were slaughtered at Ross Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. A scan of the news, including the Houston Chronicle, shows a couple of articles posted yesterday concerning the parents settling a suit against the State, but nothing else. The shooting has become like every other mass shooting in Texas, forgotten. Austin, Santa Fe, Sutherland, Killeen, Cleveland, Odessa, and others, all forgotten.

Since the shootings not one single elected official has been held accountable for the lax guns laws they supported that led to an 18 year old easily buying a military style weapon and killing 19 children and 2 teachers. Not one. Even the voters in Uvalde gave Greg Abbott a pass voting to re-elected him in 2022. Our schools are still not safe, and will never be safe as long as we have lax gun laws.

There will be another shooting, maybe at a school, or a parade, or a church, or a concert, or a mall. It is going to happen and like Uvalde our elected officials will do nothing and we will all forget unless it’s our family members who are killed or who will need care for the rest of their lives.

So keep Uvalde in your thoughts and prayers. It is the least you can do. Literally.

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The cost of Abbott’s gun fetish

May 23, 2024

Rotten bastard.

Abbott likes to coddle guns even those so powerful they would flip him backwards in his wheelchair. Guns are a game to Abbott no matter the cost and it is going to cost. Someone.

21 families were shattered in Uvalde two years ago. They will suffer for the rest of their lives. Those who were wounded will require mental and physical care for their rest of their lives. The community will have to pay for a new school after Ross Elementary is torn down. Law enforcement individuals have resigned or been fired for their role in the shooting. Now Uvalde will pay $2M to settle claims over the shooting. According to the Houston Chronicle:

“For two long years, we have languished in pain and without any accountability from the law enforcement agencies and officers who allowed our families to be destroyed that day,” said Veronica Luevanos, whose daughter Jailah and nephew Jayce were killed. “This settlement reflects a first good faith effort by the City of Uvalde to begin rebuilding trust in the systems that failed to protect us.” 

But it gets worse. The families are taking legal action against the law enforcement officers who botched the response to the shooting. From The Texas Tribune:

“The legal action against 92 DPS officers comes days before the two-year anniversary of the shooting in which an 18-year-old used an AR-15 to kill 19 students and two teachers in two adjoining fourth-grade classrooms.”

The parents should focus on the root cause of the shooting and sue the living fuck out of Greg Abbott for putting that gun in the hands of a sick 18 year old fuck. He and every NRA ass kissing elected official are also responsible for the shooting in Uvalde and every shooting in the State. They play with their guns. They protect their guns. They think it’s cute. These people are sick fucks.

May god damn them to hell.

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Stolen Valor: Texas Congressman Troy Nehls

May 22, 2024

Wearing medals you didn’t earn in combat is considered very offensive. But in Nehl’s case it is worse.

Congressman Troy Nehls out of Fort Bend, while he isn’t kissing Donald trumps ass, is stuck in a controversy about this combat service in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to a story by James LaPorte, a CBS reporter who specializes in national security and military affairs, Nehls continues to wear a Combat Infantryman Badge on his lapel but according to the Department of Defense:

The CBS News investigation also found his Combat Infantryman Badge from Afghanistan was revoked from his service record in March 2023 because Nehls served as a civil affairs officer, not as an infantryman or Special Forces soldier. 

So while soldiers were getting shot at Nehls was sitting behind a computer screen. But it gets worse for Nehls. According to the article Nehls claims he was awarded two Bronze Star Medals. “Service members can be awarded the medal for heroic actions in combat or for meritorious performance under what the Army describes as “combat conditions.”  The Pentagon says he was only awarded one. It gets worse. According to the article:

Military records obtained by CBS News show that Nehls’ Bronze Star medal listed in his files was awarded to him in September 2004 by now-retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste for his service in Iraq. The award citation obtained by CBS News reads in part: “Captain Nehls trained and mentored nine Iraqi staff members and four coalition soldiers assigned to the Kirkuk Business Center, which became known as the best business center in all of Iraq.” 

He received the Bronze Star for training and mentoring. His second Bronze Star Award states “Major Nehls’ personal courage and commitment to mission accomplishment in a combat zone, under the most extreme of circumstances, greatly contributed to the success of Operation Enduring Freedom.”

The Pentagon does not have a record of this award. Troy Nehls. Fort Bend must be proud.

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Katy ISD Trustee Morgan Calhoun in the news. Again

May 15, 2024

It wasn’t enough for Katy ISD Trustee Morgan Calhoun to post a a pic of her family on a Katy ISD Instagram account coddling the same type of weapon that killed 19 children in Uvalde, 27 christians in Sutherland Springs, 8 kids in Santa Fe, 5 police in Dallas, and 21 first graders in Sandy Hook.

And it’s bad enough the Houston Chronicle as well as all local media didn’t report on it. If a teacher had posted a picture like this the Chronicle would have been all over it. But now the Chronicle has woken up a bit.

Now Calhoun is taking fire (no pun intended) for her comments about tracking the immigration status of students. Even the MAGAts who supported her display of firearms as a Happy Easter post was critical of her ignorance of federal and state laws. From the Houston Chronicle story:

It is against state and federal law to ask the immigration status of a student, Superintendent Ken Gregorski noted.

Speakers at the Katy School Board meeting reminded Calhoun that the election held in early May had record turnout and Calhoun’s MAGAt buddies lost their races. Katy parents are not putting up with the takeover of Katy ISD. Calhoun is a Mexican MAGAt and was funded by a PAC that raised over a million dollars. It’s said that a Mexican American can be a MAGAt, one that supports a porn phucker, a liar, a cheater, a filthy human being like Donald Trump.

Maybe someone ought to ask if she is here legally.

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Texas Senate to address rising insurance costs. Sort of….

May 14, 2024

Better late than never.

After decades of the failure of insurance reform the Texas Business and Commerce Committee in the Senate will address the rising cost of home insurance. Sort of. Lt Gov Dan Patrick has issued what is called “Interim Charges” to the Senate. Specific committees are asked to research an issue prior to the upcoming legislation session. Here is what he issued concerning home insurance:

Addressing the Rising Cost of Insurance: Assess the impact of rising property and casualty insurance costs on Texas property owners, real estate lenders, and commercial and industrial development. Identify ways to increase consumer transparency to better inform coverage decisions and make recommendations to ensure a competitive and affordable insurance market for consumers.

The entire list of charges can be viewed here. In the past the staff will solicit input from the community. They will have hearings then issue a report later in the year. I intend to provide input as well as attend the hearings. I would be very cautious about this study. The issue is clear. Our premiums are through the roof as well as our deductibles. This isnt about “transparency” or about learning how to choose an insurance company. This is about the failure of insurance reform back in 2003 that was suppose to “ensure a competitive and affordable insurance market for consumers”.

This study will be heavily influenced by the insurance industry and supporting organizations like Texans for Lawsuit Reform, and Texans Coalition for Affordable Insurance Solutions. TCAIS was the main organization formed to influence the 2003 reforms. They were funded by the insurance industry and claims to be advocating for consumers.

We need to keep an eye on this study.

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School Vouchers. It’s wealthy welfare.

May 12, 2024

And guess who will pay for that welfare?

The voucher program supported by our local state representatives is pretty simple to understand. The State will give $6000 to a family to send their kid to private school instead of public school. Guess who will pay for this?

You will. (Duh!) Let’s say that family pays $2000/year in school taxes and decides to take their kids out of public schools. They will receive $6000 from the state, $4000 MORE than what they put in. WTF? Why do we, those who pay school taxes, have to subsidize their decision to leave public schools? Look if vouchers are going to pass then those who want a voucher should never get more than they put in. That is also very simple to understand. That is what is called wealthy welfare.

Let’s just call vouchers what they really are. Welfare for the wealthy.

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