A school board Chair, a GOP Chair, Moms for Liberty and a three way

December 6, 2023

I can’t make this stuff up. Literally.

So the party of family values, the party of demonizing the gay community has it’s very own little secret that has blown up into calls for resignations of the Florida Republican Party Chair and the Chair of the Sarasota County School Board.

In a nutshell: The Florida Republican Party Chair, Christian Ziegler, has been accused of rape. He is currently under investigation. His wife, the Chair of the Sarasota County School Board, Bridget Ziegler, has been drawn into this because the accuser claims she was involved in three way sex with the Zieglers. Why is this dripping with hypocrisy if this is all true? Glad you asked.

Bridget is the co-founder of Mom for Liberty, the group that has been the driving force behind book bans targeting the gay community. According to the accuser she was having a three way with the Zieglers and the details are quite disturbing. Christian claims the sex was consensual and he has a video to prove it. (Yes he took a video of himself having sex) It should be bad enough that the Chair of the Republican Party was involved in adultery but that just qualifies you for being the GOP nominee for President. Regardless, even the Governor, Ron DeSantis, has called for his resignation.

And school board members have also called for the resignation of Bridget saying

She’s vilified the LGBTQ community, while at the same time having a sexual relationship with her husband and another woman. We don’t care who she has sexual relationships with. She’s a grown adult. The issue is, you can’t have a bisexual relationship and at the same time vilify the LGBTQ community

Ziegler is under investigation. Film at eleven. Literally.

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Texas GOP votes to continue relationship with Nazi sympathizers

December 5, 2023

It’s 2023. It wasn’t a hard vote.

You just can’t make this stuff up. The Texas State Republican Executive Committee (SREC) members declined to ban associations with the PAC Defend Texas Liberty by a close vote of 32-29. I wonder how CCISD Trustee Scott Bowen voted.

The Texas Tribune sums up the vote:

Two months after a prominent conservative activist and fundraiser was caught hosting white supremacist Nick Fuentes, leaders of the Republican Party of Texas have voted against barring the party from associating with known Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers.

This shouldn’t have been a hard vote. The leader of Defend Texas Liberty was caught meeting with known nazi sympathizer Nick Fuentes and exposed their associations with other white supremacist organizations and individuals. But the executive committee pulled out every excuse they could think of, much like they did when defending George Santos, Donald Trump, Ken Paxton and others. The Speaker of the House, Dale Phelan tweeted:

Despicable. @TexasGOP/SREC can’t even bring themselves to denounce neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers or cut ties with their top donor who brought them to the dance. There is a moral, anti-Semitic rot festering

As noted earlier, CCISD Trustee Scott Bowen also has some uncomfortable ties to the individuals The Texas Tribune reported on. I’ll find out how he voted.

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Poll watcher in Clear Lake looking for wealthy, white folks illegally voting

December 4, 2023

I think I have seen this guy before.

Back in 2018 one of the poll workers at the Clear Lake Library was wearing an nra hat. This was just 2 days after the Pittsburgh mass shooting at a synagogue. Not only was it a violation of the election laws, it was a real dick move. He was confronted, Fox News 26 ran a story, and the County Clerk (a republican) told him to take it off. From Fox 26:

Harris County Clerk Stan Stanart, who oversees the county’s elections, was alerted to what was going on. “They shouldn’t have anything on their shirts, hats or anything that is of political nature or perceived to be political by anybody.  We’re a neutral gatekeeper of the whole election process,” explains Stanart.

I think he came back for more in 2023. This looks like the same guy. I bet the election judge is his wife as was in 2018. His wife defended him wearing the hat. She was also put in her place.

Eventually the redshirt dude was harassed enough and he removed his hat and returned looking like a douche. Not quite sure what he was trying to accomplish in a predominately white voting area. Maybe he should have taken his big nra ass to a minority polling location. He might not have been harassed.

LOL.

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Raising Campaign Cash: Houston runoffs

December 4, 2023

Sides are being taken.

Financial reports have been posted for the Houston City Council races, Mayor and Controller. Here is a rundown.

Mayor. Whitmire raised $1.7 million. Sheila Jackson Lee raised $498,000. There is a PAC supporting Whitmire that raised $576,000. More on them later. It’s clear the various PACs, at least 16 of them donating the max $10,000, believes Whitmire will win and many have joined them. These PACs include the Firefighters, Houston Apartment Association, Police Union, and many business PACs. PACs can only donate a maximum of$10,000. Individuals can donated only $5,000. SJL has only 1 PAC that donated the max allowed. Raising money doesn’t aways results in a win. Ask Tony Buzbee. Speaking of…

District G. Buzbee threw in another $300,000 of his own money into his campaign for a total of $850,000 in personal loans. He raised $48,000. City Council Member Mary Nan Huffman raised $158,000. As with Whitmire I think the PACs are banking on a Huffman win.

Controller. Hollins raised $330,000. Orlando Sanchez raised $82,000. Here are the rest:

CandidateRaisedExpendituresIn-KindCOHLoans
Sheila Jackson Lee$498,414$341,575$1,055$235,189$0
John Whitmire$1,783,437$2,995,793$35,452$3,318,439$0
At Large 1
CandidateRaisedExpendituresIn-KindCOHLoans
Melanie Miles$9,490$87,756$0$66,377$50,000
Julian Ramirez$50,422$41,130$3,348$8,241$20,000
At Large 2
CandidateRaisedExpendituresIn-KindCOHLoans
Nick Hellyar$185,984$169,364$3,488$44,891$0
Willie Davis$21,920$11,654$0$13,874$1,500
At Large 3
CandidateRaisedExpendituresIn-KindCOHLoans
Twila Carter$108,330$92,589$0$79,191$4,000
Richard Cantu$30,210$15,106$0$38,723$0
At Large 4
CandidateRaisedExpendituresIn-KindCOHLoans
Letitia Plummer$48,396$77,125$0$26,069$0
Roy Morales$11,288$1,092$0$16,844$21,979
Controller
CandidateRaisedExpendituresIn-KindCOHLoans
Chris Hollins$330,956$161,689$0$315,346$0
Orlando Sanchez$82,897$127,089$1,500$56,592$198,128

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A “Democratic Socialist” entering the Harris County DA’s race?

December 1, 2023

Four years ago a “Democratic Socialist” entered the race for Harris County DA. She lost in the primary.

With the current District Attorney, Kim Ogg, on the ropes and being challenged by at least one candidate in the Democratic Primary I’m wondering if a socialist will enter the race. One did in Travis County and actually won back in 2020. I just don’t think Harris County is that far left. Democratic Socialists are not Democrats. They are socialists running in our primary especially in deep, deep, blue areas and they have seen some success putting in six members of The Squad in Congress. (Five very unsuccessful members. With 24 years in combined office they have passed 4 bills.)

In the past the socialists would run everywhere and would lose everywhere. Back in 2016 I wrote about Justice Democrats, an organization with Democratic Socialist ties:

Out of 80 candidates endorsed by JD, only 7 won. 2 were incumbents in deep blue districts. 1 was unopposed.  4 were all in very blue districts wiping out their general election opponents. It’s not like they were endorsing in tough competitive states like Texas, although those that did, lost. All of them. One raised over a $1 Million and lost 70-30 in the primary

In 2018 they focused on specific deep blue districts running young “progressives” and was more successful. I wonder if they are considering to try it again in Harris County. They might be waiting to see how the Mayor’s race ends up.

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Harris County Democrats continue to whine about DA Kim Ogg

December 1, 2023

Even the Houston Chronicle is getting tired of the controversy. They are just re-using photos.

You won’t get me to defend Harris County DA Kim Ogg but the Harris County Democratic Party needs to vote on their resolution condemning Kim Ogg, stop whining, shut the hell up, and start working on raising money and preparing for the 2024 elections. You made your point. You don’t like DA Ogg for many good reasons. Most of us don’t but this stupid publicity stunt needs to end. Vote and move the fuck on.

In the end it will amount to a hill of refried beans. It will have the same affect as writing a letter to DA Ogg condemning her policies and getting some publicity out of it. It’s a complete waste of time and energy all while the Party is working to raise money, recruit candidates, and prepare for a major election in 2024. Instead of pitching in on these efforts they are whining about a fucking resolution.

So put the damn thing on the floor. Vote. Move the fuck on. Quit whining and sign up to volunteer for the campaign of her primary challenger.

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League City fires City Attorney

November 29, 2023

The fallout from the League City book ban continues.

League City Attorney Nghiem Dan is out and the Deputy Michelle Villarreal is in. The vote was 4-3 in a clearly divided city council. From the video it looks like Captain Snowflake, Justin Hicks, seconded the motion and voted in favor. How surprising.

Mayor Nick Long had a rambling rant prior to the vote acknowledging the book ban was the cause of the issue being brought forward. As two council members said this is going to cost the city. I wonder if there is a cause for a lawsuit and if so who would file it.

There is an open seat on council with 5 individuals signing up. Maybe this vote should have been tabled until this seat was filled. Probably the council members voting yes knew this motion would not pass with a new member on board. As one council member said this vote should have been put off until the council seat was filled.

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When Trump is gone from this world….

November 28, 2023

Judgement day for trump will eventually come.

His family will not let him go quietly. They will request a state funeral that will last for 5 days. His coffin will be draped with the United States flag and put on a horse drawn carriage. A riderless horse with a single boot placed backwards in a stirrup will follow the carriage.

Trumps body will be place in the rotunda of the United States Capitol if Congress approves it. Luckily trump will not be buried in Arlington. His family will decide where he will be buried. Flags across the nation will be at half mast. MAGAs from across the country will come to see trump’s casket carrying their confederate flags, wearing the red hood, possibly considering storming the capitol again.

And then trump will meet his day of judgement. On this day this rotten, filthy, lying, cheating, racist, immoral, adulterer will be refused entry into hell by satan.

At least satan has limits.

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Local Elected Officials vote in support of vouchers for rich kids

November 20, 2023

They are voting against the wishes of the community.

State Representatives Dennis Paul of Clear Lake, Terry Wilson of Galveston, and Little Baby Briscoe Cain of Deer Park joined a handful of State Representatives and voted against an amendment to strip vouchers out of an education bill. Paul and Wilson also voted to not impeach Texas Attorney General Paxton. At least Baby Briscoe had enough common sense to be sensible. Only 23 House Representative voted to give Paxton a pass.

The amendment to remove vouchers from the bill was supported by 63 Democrats and 21 Republicans. Vouchers would give parents $10,000 of your tax dollars to send rich kids to a private school. It’s not a popular idea especially in the rural areas where schools are significantly underfunded. In Clear Lake the district is against vouchers. The Clear Lake Chamber of Commerce is against vouchers as is the Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership.

For me I can’t see how this is even constitutional. If someone is paying $2000 in school taxes, why should we give them $8000 more from our taxes just so their kids can attend a private school? Why should they get more than they put in? If vouchers were going to pass they should get no more than they put in. You put in $2000? You get $2000 and nothing more.

Private schools are not cost efficient and most parents can not afford the tuition or the transportation even with the voucher. Vouchers have nothing to do with school “choice”. It is nothing more than give away to rich kids.

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Why is NASA continuing to do business with SpaceX/Musk?

November 20, 2023

T-Minus WTF?

What the fuck NASA? Major companies across the country are pausing or cancelling ads on Twitter (now X) after Elon Musk endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory. These companies include Apple, Paramount, Comcast, IBM, Warner Bros., the European Commission and the movie studio Lionsgate. The tweet even got a response from the Whitehouse:  “We condemn this abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate in the strongest terms, which runs against our core values as Americans.”

And yet….billions of tax dollars are continuing to be spent on SpaceX services. NASA should take a stand and consider their own “pause” of tax dollars to Space X until they rid themselves of this disease. This cannot be tolerated. Twitter has turned into a hate filled cluster fuck. It’s a breeding ground for keyboard warrior racists with the opportunity provided by Twitter to spread their hate.

NASA shouldn’t be tolerating this. At all.

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