Bay Area Houston

Well this is strange.

The Clear Lake area has been a long time stronghold for the Republican Party in the past. This year things are changing.

Their office on 433 Bay Area Blvd recently closed right before the election. According to the Texas Ethics Commission the Harris County Republican Party was donating $900/month for rent. As noted in the previous post the HCRP looks like they are broke. The Bay Area Republican Women’s organization also has a $0 balance according to their recent filings with the TEC. It’s as if they have folded.

It looked like another HQ was opened close to the Clear Lake Library on Bay Area Blvd but as of this weekend, that location has also closed. A call to the HCRP confirmed there are no satellite or club headquarters in the Clear Lake area. 

 Sri Preston Kulkarni has crushed it.

Sri has raised $4.6 Million compared to his challenger Troy Nehls who raised $1.3 Million. Sri has $1.7 Million cash on hand and Nehls has $360,000.

Nehls picked up his fundraising. He only had $30,000 at the end of his primary with Kathaleen Wall. In a must win district Nehls performed poorly. I would think that at the very least he would have raised $2 Million to be competitive. 

I recently wrote about the Harris County Republican Party having only $1760.05 in their account as opposed to $800,000 this time two years ago and $450,000 4 years ago. What happened? Well it might be that their Chair, Keith Nielsen was asked to resign after his racist post on Facebook. Unfortunately according to reports filed with Harris County their candidates aren’t doing very well either! 

OK. I must not be searching the Texas Ethics Commission correctly. Someone help me out.

According to the TEC website the Harris County Republican Party has only $1,760.05 cash on hand. Over the reporting period they received only $2,770 from a couple of candidates who really can’t afford it since they too have little if any campaign donations.

This can’t be right. This is the 30 day out report, the latest available, due Oct 05. In 2018 30 days before the midterm elections, they reported over $800,000 cash on hand. And in 2016 they reported just over $400,000. In 2020 they have just $1,760.05.

There still is time for the deep pockets of their party to come and donate to the Chairman who was asked to resign due to his racist post on Facebook. There is still time to dump money into a county that had almost every republican on the ballot wiped out in 2018. There is still time to dump money into a losing effort, but…

November is coming.

UFO. Unfit For Office.

Where did the Republican Party find this guy? Danna came out of the republican primary over his opponent Paul Day who had long standing law enforcement credentials. Danna on the other hand was fired as a Constable for falsifying records. According to Fox 26 Danna claimed he served a warrant on an individual. That person was actually in jail at the time and the residence where he served the warrant was vacant, for months. After an investigation, he was fired.

Now, much like Troy Nehls who was fired from the Richmond police force, he is running for another law enforcement office. As the Houston Chronicle said:

Danna was a previous candidate for constable in Precinct 1, where officials confirm he was fired in 2012 from his job as a deputy constable for falsifying records showing he served a warrant he had not actually served. Danna has for years papered unsuspecting fences with huge campaign signs to boost his name ID, but should have spent as much effort on his law enforcement resume. It appears the closest he got to being a Harris County deputy is the black and white photo on his website entitled “Deputy Joe Danna,” featuring a young boy dressed in western attire.

Where in the world did the Republican Party find people like Nehls and Danna?

OK. This is sort of old news. Paxton was indicted years ago and has spent over $70,000 of his campaign funds for legal services. I am sure he has paid much, much more. But….there is something new and it is much more serious.

Paxton’s staff at the Attorney Generals office has accused Paxton of abusing his office and accepting bribes. The Washington Post has details including:

The top attorney has now resigned
Five deputy Attorney Generals also penned the letter
The Association of Attorney Generals has called for his resignation
Allegations involve an Austin donor who has been raided by the FBI
Governor Abbott and Lt Governor Patrick has thrown Paxton under the bus

“Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is an embarrassment and a danger,” the association’s co-chairs said in a statement on Sunday. The statement added: “All state attorneys general must be above reproach. For too long Paxton has teetered on the edge. He needs to go, and an independent investigation should be launched immediately.” 

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R-Tex.) said he first learned about the “obviously concerning” claims through media reports. The state’s governor also acknowledged the letter on Sunday.

“These allegations raise serious concerns,” Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Tex.) said in a statement on Sunday. “I will withhold further comment until the results of any investigation are complete.”

He is just another trump loafer licker.

The Houston Chronicle has endorsed Democratic candidate Sri Preston Kulkarni for Congress in Texas Congressional District 22. According to the Chronicle:

Kulkarni, who notes he speaks six languages, told the editorial board that he would use his 14 years of experience of diplomacy to serve the diverse community as well as reach across the aisle to Republicans.

Nehls on the other hand didn’t even show up for the interview. Nehls only raised about $500,000 for his primary and was left with only $29,000. His fundraising and who is donating money should be very interesting. Maybe the donors are just tired of the trump candidates like Nehls whose focus is on divisive rhetoric, or the fact Nehls was fired from the Richmond Police Force only to come back as a Sheriff, or that he supervised a racial profiling traffic scheme.

Kulkarni is a good candidate. He has excellent experience. He is very qualified, and he is a nice individual. You can’t say that about Troy.

Or Trump. 

Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls is running for Congress in Texas CD 22 a diverse community in the Sugarland area. He is a perfect example of why we need police reform and why he should never be allowed to step foot onto the floor of the United States Congress.

The recent senseless killing of George Floyd by 4 policemen has raised the issue of racism and police reform to the center of the presidential debate. One of the issues being discussed is how a law enforcement officer could be fired and then be re-hired by another law enforcement agency. Troy Nehls is a great example.

Nehls was fired from the Richmond Police Department. He is now the Sheriff of Fort Bend. How in the world can this happen? Nehls should have been banned from law enforcement not elevated. Compound this with the fact that his department was caught profiling Latinos in speed traps. 

Nehls is now running for Congress. He is a living example of why police reform is desperately needed in order to protect the public and to protect law enforcement officers.

You will never see Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw taking a photo with Donald Trump. He knows what happened to Tony Buzbee in his race for Mayor. He knows better. He is embarrassed. He should be. Unfortunately Crenshaw will suck up to this president in the background while staying away from him like he is walking around with a 2 day old dump in his shorts.

Rotten Bastard.

It’s like shooting fish in a barrel.

Are you better off than you were 4 years ago? You can’t go to the movies. You can’t travel. You can’t go to work if you still have a job. Your kids can’t go back to school safely. Your teacher friends and relatives can’t attend school safely. You can’t go to a bar because they are closed. You cant go to concerts, or indoor sporting events. You can’t attend outdoor sporting events unless they allow limited attendance. 40 million of your fellow Americans are out of a job due to the virus. The airline industry is barely flying. Many small businesses are closed.

So while you are suffocating while wearing a mask to avoid the spread of the Coronavirus, remember to stop thinking about your selfish self and ask the question: Are WE better off than we were 4 years ago? It’s not about you. It is about US.

Literally.

You can’t make this stuff up.

The HCRP put out a new logo for the upcoming election. Great Opportunity Party, the GOP. I guess they think they are the party that can give you an opportunity. Here is a list of opportunities the GOP can give:

• The opportunity to publicly display your racism on your pick-em-up truck
• The opportunity to walk around in public dressed like GI Joe wearing body armor and a finger on a loaded AR-15
• The opportunity to ignore science 
• The opportunity to ignore laws
• The opportunity to get sick and die
• The opportunity to get others sick so they can die
• The opportunity to lie, cheat, and steal 
• The opportunity to work for less
• The opportunity to work from home due to the mismanagement of the COVID crisis
• The opportunity to send your kids to COVID classes
• The opportunity to be an asshole

They just can’t keep their racist, filthy fingers off the keyboard.

Nick Moutos, assistant State Attorney General, lost his 6 figure salary for his recent racist posts. According to The Texas Tribune:

“A Texas assistant attorney general sent dozens of tweets over the past several months threatening violence against progressives, spouting racist and transphobic rhetoric, casting doubt over the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic and sharing QAnon conspiracy theories. On Thursday, he lost his job with the state agency after national media reported on his social media activities.”

Nick Moutos can join the Chair of the Harris County Republican Party, Kieth Nielsen. Nielsen lost his job as the Planning Commissioner of Pasadena after posting a racist meme of a Martin Luther King quote with a banana. 

Moutos has since gone into hiding hopefully joining all the racists in American on November 4.

It gets old. Quickly.

Yellowstone started off pretty interesting. You might think Yellowstone is about cowboys in the open, wild, wild West of Montana displaying conservative cowboy values with ranching, bull riding, rustling cattle, living the hard life, making a living wage and working hard. All that noble shit that cowboys are known for.

That isn’t Yellowstone. Instead it’s a modern day cowboy vs Indians movie with the cowboys being a bunch of really fucked up people. It could actually be just a movie about the entire Trump family on a dude ranch vacation. 

Kevin Costner is the filthy rich owner of thousands of acres of open land in Montana, butting up against an Indian Nation. He is the Cattle Commissioner with his branded (literally) ranch hands as deputies toting automatic rifles. His daughter is a drunk, power hungry, rotten, spoiled bitch. One of his sons is the family attorney with a bad hair piece and a script designed to show he knows how to lawyer. Like his sister he is an asshole.

There is a lot of killings, stealing, and coverups. The entire family gets away with it. No one is held accountable. There is no one that can’t be bought or killed if they don’t accept their offer. The live in a lawless environment even though Costner is also an appointed official in charge of law and order.

As I said, it gets old. You just can’t wait till someone slaps the living shit out of the daughter or one of the ranch hands gets his ass kicked or gored by a bull. You just want the entire fucked up family to take the family helicopter and disappear in a canyon.

So in short this is a Trump at the Dude Ranch movie. Do yourself a favor and watch something worthwhile.