This is strange. 

At the start of the race Justice of the Peace, Precinct 5, Place 1 in the Harris County Democratic primary there were 3 candidates who entered the race per the Secretary of State website, Israel Garcia, Roel Garcia, and Eman Afshar. Shortly afterward Afshar was listed as “Rejected”, as in the Harris County Democratic Party rejected his application and refunded his fee.

Yet he remained on the ballot receiving 21% of the vote and forcing a runoff. According to a letter from the party Afshar’s application had been questioned, specifically the names on his petition submitted to the party. In the end his application was rejected and he was provided an opportunity to file a timely appeal. From the letter:

Well that was fun?

The Good.
Democrats came out to vote in record numbers to take their party back from the socialists candidates running as Democrats. As I have said in the past, we need to stop non-Democrats from running in our Party.

MJ Hegar and State Senator Royce West will be in a runoff. MJ recieved 22% of the vote with Senator West with 13.8%. Cristina Ramirez received 13.7% of the vote and missed the runoff.

Sri Preston Kulkarni will represent the Democratic Party in CD22 after beating Pearland Councilman Derrick Reed, and hammering Nyanza Moore. Sri is a great candidate and his campaign will be one to watch. Reed should consider running for another office. He is an impressive candidate. Moore should go back to Fox News.

New comer, Christian Menefee, squeaked out a win to move onto the general election by 50.17% for Harris County District Attorney. DA Ogg, Sheriff Gonzalez, and Ann Bennett, easily won.

The Bad.
Three of our outstanding Judges, Weiman, Kirkland, and Moore, were defeated. It boggles my mind why anyone would have challenged these individuals and why anyone would vote to replace them. They are great judges. They earned their positions on the bench. They were doing a great job and representing Harris County very well. Why would anyone challenge someone like that?

And The ugly
In the race for Harris County Constable, the cousin of Constable Chris Diaz Jerry Garcia, did his job by taking 10% of the vote. Jerry Garcia, who has absolutely no experience in law enforcement, quit the race right after sealing his name on the ballot. The other Jerry Garcia, a life long law enforcement official still beat Diaz by 39-34. This is so dishonest. Diaz should do the honorable thing and concede the race. In the runoff there will only be one Jerry Garcia on the ballot. I wonder if Diaz cousin will endorse him?

Is there more to report? Probably. Maybe later.

This can’t be good for the Socialists running in the Democratic Party.

Last week Sanders came in second place in South Carolina with 19% of the vote. That was 7% less than he did in 2016. Here in Texas Sanders received 3% less than he did in 2016. He isn’t expanding his base.

Locally the socialist running for Harris County DA, Audia Jones, got hammered with only 22% of the vote. Jessica Cisneros, another socialist running against Rep Henry Cuellar, lost in CD28. Cuellar needs to be replaced, but for gosh sakes, next time find someone from the Democratic Party to challenge him. Sema Hernandez, running for US Senate, came in 7th place with 8%, which was expected.

A bright spot for the socialists was Jose Garza in Travis County a county that Sanders won. He is now in a runoff with District Attorney Moore after receiving 44% of the vote to 41% for Moore. Travis County has a choice to make. Do you want a socialist for DA? Or a Democrat. You can’t have both.

Garza and Jones were funded in part by the single donor Real Justice PAC. This individual, Cari Tuna from San Fransisco, is funding candidates in District Attorney races. As other socialist candidates across the country they tend to have a chance in super blue areas. Travis County is pretty blue.

Now will the Democratic voters in Travis County give up their District Attorney’s office to a socialist?

Sri Preston leads the field of candidates in the Democratic Primary by 10-1 with a total of $1.2 million followed by Council Member Reed with $156,000 and Moore with $149,864. Their lastest haul is $97,160, 14,398, and $7,336.

Audia Jones is like Bernie, bro. She is an independent socialist running as a Democrat calling her self a “Democratic Socialist” which is like a “Conservative Republican”. Neither one exist.

Jones is running for District Attorney and if she could pull out a win the office would most likely be put into the hands of a well financed republican and they have one. Our DA’s office should protect law abiding citizens and be fair to all parties. Jones seems to be more concerned about those who break the law instead of those who obey the law.

Speaking of breaking the law…..Jones is being funded in part by a socialist PAC called Real Justice. Real Justice has one donor from California. Real Justice is donating in-kind donations to three candidates running for DA in Texas. They donated about $35,000 to Audia Jones for staff and texting. Candidates report In-Kind donations on a specific form. Audia hasn’t done this.

Real Justice, at the very least, reports this in the comments section for each in-kind donation provided to Jones. If they didn’t we would have never known about the contributions since Audia did not list them in her reports.

You can’t expect to enforce the law if you can’t follow the law.

Bernie Sanders, an independent socialist, running as a Democrat in the Democratic primary has a very long way to go to win the nomination for President. With the Democrats divided between Biden, Bloomberg, Amy and Pete, the socialist of America see an opportunity. So, what in the hell do we have to lose by nominating a socialist to represent the Democratic Party? Let me start:

Supreme Count for a lifetime
Roe v Wade
The House
The Senate
State Houses
Redistricting for another 10 years
Gun safety legislation
Immigration reform
Protection against Right to Work laws
Climate Change legislation
Affordable health care
Protections for the gay community

The socialist running in 2018 got HAMMERED across the country. Of the 80 candidates recruited and endorsed by Justice Democrats (Bernie’s socialist group) only 7 won in deep, deep, blue areas. Their record of raising money and losing is documented here.

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.

Do you really think a socialist like Bernie can lead this country to victory? Ask the 73 socialist who ran in 2018.

If you really think a socialist can run and win outside of a deep, deep, blue area, you might want to look at their record of losing. I have and it is a clear indication how Bernie will do if nominated. BTW America is not a deep, deep, blue area.

Justice Democrats is a group founded by the far left, socialist, group called The Young Turks. From Wikipedia:

Justice Democrats is an American progressive political action committee founded on January 23, 2017, by Kyle Kulinski of Secular Talk, Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks, and Saikat Chakrabarti and Zack Exley, former leaders from the 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign….The organization formed as a result of the 2016 United States presidential election and has a stated goal of reforming the Democratic Party by running “a unified campaign to replace every corporate-backed member of Congress” and rebuilding the Democratic Party “from scratch” starting in the 2018 congressional midterm elections.^[6][7] 

Last election they endorsed 80 candidates to take over the Democratic Party. 73 of them lost. 7 won in deep, deep, blue districts. This year based upon their poor performance and lack of winning they are endorsing only 9 candidates, plus the 7 that won last time. From a previous post, “Justice Democrats’ record of losing elections”:

Based upon their lack of success in the 2018 elections, Justice Democrats should be the last group to find a candidate to challenge Cuellar, if a challenge is warranted. 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.


That is a huge drop off. Maybe candidates are realizing being associated with socialism is about as popular as herpes at a hot tub party. In Texas Justice Democrats endorsed Jessica Cisneros running against Cuellar. Cuellar should be replaced but with a socialist?