You can read the entire DVPO here. Womenslaw.org has detailed information about DVPOs here. It’s a long, detailed, article.
This is some serious stuff for Council Member Joseph Lowry. The hearing for this order was in Pierce County Washington and was concerning his ex-wife. This is not a criminal charge it is only a protective order and has requirements on Lowry. The DVPO requires the following:
Lowry is considered a credible threat to the petitioner (ex-wife)
Must not make contact, or harass physically or electronically with the petitioner
Stay at least 1000 feet from the petitioner (more than 3 football fields)
Do not distribute any intimate images of the petitioner
Must get a mental health evaluation
Do not obtain, purchase, or possess weapons or concealed weapons permit
As I said this is some pretty serious stuff. The DVPO includes a summary of the testimony provided by his ex and her daughter. It is graphic. Read at your own risk. The documents filed with the court can be found at the Pierce County Courthouse Case #25-1-01188-2. They have detailed witness testimony.
The DVPO states Lowry and his attorney attended the hearing virtually so he is aware of the DVPO and does not have to be served again. According to what I have read this DVPO can be enforced across the entire country including the part about possessing weapons. How this is accomplished is not clear but it seems he will have to surrender his weapons including the 50 caliber his wife wrote about.
Lauren Flack of the Galveston Daily News is having a field day covering La Marque City Councilman Joseph Lowry. Today she reported on his Facebook page being removed and he didn’t disappoint, blaming everyone else besides himself with wild conspiracy theories. From the GDN:
Lowry believes the account was likely accessed by political opponents of his, he said. “I think they got access to it and they shut it down,” Lowry said. “Their thing is they want to silence me. They don’t want me to have a voice. “They got access. They shut it down. I mean, there’s nothing; there was no notices.”
That is looney tunes. Deleting a page in Facebook is hard even if you are the owner of the damn thing. Believe me I have tried! I eventually gave up and left mine up. No one got “access” to his site. Facebook removed it because people probably reported him for harassment on a daily basis. Or maybe Facebook was served with a threat of a suit. Lowry says the police are aware of it and an investigation is coming:
“Law enforcement is aware of it,” Lowry said. “I believe they’re working on it. They’re looking into it.”
The Police Chief begged to differ stating “Lowry is full of shit.”. Ok that’s now exactly what he said but he did say:
Police Chief Randall Aragon as of Friday afternoon said he wasn’t aware of any official report filed with the department on the matter.
It’s like a nightmare isn’t it? It just gets worse and worse. –The Color of Money
And it is getting worse for Council Member Lowry. Lowry isn’t the most lovable guy in La Marque. He enjoys posting tough guy pics of him and his guns. He used his Facebook platform, Lowry News Network, to harass people and make constant allegations about fraud and corruption. Facebook has since removed all of his pages including his personal page. He is being sued for harassment and defamation by members of City Council and a competitor. Those cases are pending. On Thursday he was a no show for a peace bond hearing. That is being rescheduled. Back in 2019 he had a $10,000 peace bond place on him by a Galveston County Judge. On Monday there is a special La Marque meeting which may shed light on his COVID application for $50,000. And yesterday it got worse. Much worse.
A Washington State Judge has issued a 5 year Protection Order in favor of his ex wife. (Read it here) But there is more. He ordered Lowry to get a mental health evaluation. This domestic violence protection order prohibits Lowry from purchasing or possessing firearms and the worst part of all this for Lowry is that the order is valid in all States. So if I am reading all of this right, Lowry has to get rid of his guns, has no voice on his Facebook platform, and is being recalled. That is bad. And sad.
I hope this mental evaluation of Lowry will help him to focus on his company and employees and move on. He should take a step back and resign from City Council and let this nightmare end.
Update: Lowry was a no show at the hearing. It will be rescheduled.
Today is another peace bond hearing for La Marque City Council Member Joseph Lowry.
Back in 2018 Hi-Tech Concrete Pumping Services applied for a Peace Bond against Joseph Lowry, Case No 25-NTM03-1457 | The State of Texas vs. Joseph Lowry. The records are buried in the Court system under the type “Non-Traffic Misdemeanor” instead of simply a “Peace Bond”. You can read the original complaint here. I had to look up the definition of a peace bond. From Texas Law Help:
According to the document filed with the court, which is in public record, Hi-Tech stated “Lowry threatens to shoot at Hi-Tech trucks and plots to cause severe damage to Hi-Tech Property”. These threats were disclosed by two witnesses, a former employee who worked out at the gym owned by Lowry and the General Manager of Hi-Tech. The judge issued a $10,000 peace bond which Lowry paid. After a year this money was returned to Lowry.
That was back in 2018. Today Lowry is in court again for another Peace Bond Hearing. The bond is being requested by Hayley Winkelmann. Hayley started the Recall Lowry petition which came up short by 6 signatures but she has refiled. Hayley is obviously concerned about her safety. Lowry seems to enjoy targeting her on his now deleted Lowry News Network. Details of why she is asking for a peace bond are not available at this time.
You can read the witness statements here and here. They are disturbing.
Bankrate issued their annual report on the America’s Best States to Retire in 2025 and as expected Texas brings up the bottom, ranked #49 just above Louisiana. Besides the lack of health care services, the weather, and the environment Texas has some of the highest rates of home insurance in the nation. Our electricity grid is fragile. Our streets are flooded with guns. And our elected officials don’t really give a shit about the citizens, instead they cater to the business community only.
You can see our ranking below and check out Texas by the Numbers (it ain’t pretty). Texas isn’t on the bottom of the list in every category. We are #1 in school shootings, lack of rural health care services, and #1 in total rapes but we have jobs. Lots and lots of jobs especially for retirees that they could apply for to pay their electricity bills. This is Greg Abbott’s Texas miracle! It’s a miracle any old fat would want to sit their sweaty fat retired ass here in Texas.
The city of La Marque has added yet another controversy. Over the last few weeks the City Manager has resigned and has been charged with two misdemeanors and a felony. The Chief of Police is under scrutiny for the information he provided on his application for his job. And City Council Member Joseph Lowry, the drama queen of La Marque, is under scrutiny for a number of issues. Today yet another wrinkle involving Lowry has unfolded.
Last Monday during the La Marque City Council Meeting Harvey Freebird stated that the Facebook news network for La Marque has gone dark. Lowry News Network, run by Council Member Joseph Lowry, has been removed from Facebook. Lowry was famous (in his own mind) for his weekly “Facebook live, Facebook live” broadcasts. Facebook Live is about as popular as herpes at a hot tub party. No one watches Facebook Live, most have no idea what it is, or wants to know what it is, but for some it is their life. And now it’s dead. According to Lowry himself Facebook deleted his account. I’ve never heard of Facebook removing an account or accounts.
Lowry’s other personal Facebook pages and user IDs are also gone. His recently created account, JoJo Lowry, is gone. What happened that required his pages to be removed is not known but Lowry has been neutered. He has lost his voice. Maybe his attorney told him to remove everything since he is being sued by multiple people in Galveston County case # 24-CV-2218. Or maybe the City has recommended that he removes his pages due to legal issues against the city. Or maybe Facebook was subpoenaed by the various lawyers suing Lowry.
Or maybe Facebook has just had enough of his shit. Regardless. Facebook Live is Dead.
Dolph Tillotson wrote an interesting opinion piece in the Galveston County News titled “Texas City voters should be skeptical about recall effort” and he is right. Take a moment to read it. Recall efforts for elected officials are time consuming, requires hard work, are very expensive, and are rarely successful. Some recalls are justified such as the recall effort against La Marque City Council Member Joseph Lowry who have been mired in self destruction with multiple censures by City Council, lawsuits, police reports, censures, back taxes, and allegations about fudging an application to receive $50,000 in COVID money. Whew! But then there is the recall effort against Texas City Mayor Derrick Johnson.
It seems like there is a pattern with some of these recall efforts, much like a playbook:
Make unsubstantiated claims against an elected official with words like “corrupt”, “cabal”, and “illegal”. You don’t need to provide any evidence, just say it. Over and over again.
Find a 2 bit blogger (like me) or a self proclaimed “journalist” to repeat the allegations, over and over again.
Post to social media all the articles and videos from these self proclaimed journalists over and over again.
Get a local company to soil their name with some of the local voters and promote the recall effort
Hire block walkers to obtain recall signatures
The recall effort against Johnson seems to have all of the above working against him. I’m surprised that a company that relies on business from the community would offer their name for the recall effort. I’m not surprised that a blogger or self proclaimed journalist is involved. That is what they do. And then there is Texas Hometown Solutions. From Tillotson’s opinion piece:
Texas Hometown Solutions is a paid political canvassing company that, under the name Texas Hometown Strategies, has been involved in three other change efforts in the county over the past few years — a mayoral recall and tax rollback in La Marque and a mayoral recall in Dickinson, said Bryan Rivera, president of operations.
You can see who has donated to this organization below. The recall requires over 1200 verified signatures. Updates will be coming.
Jetton ,Jacey R.
Texas Hometown Strategies ,
26,250.00
Jetton ,Jacey R.
Texas Hometown Strategies ,
26,250.00
The Charles Butt Public Education Political Action
On Monday there will be a joint meeting with City Council and the Economic Development Corporation (EDC) to discuss the process used to distribute about $1 Million in COVID related funds. Over the last few months there has been an emphasis on being truthful when filling out applications for work or to receive funds from the city. When posted, the agenda and other files can be found here.
The City Manager has been accused of not providing truthful information in his application for his job. He has since resigned and has been charged with two misdemeanors. The Chief of Police might have some explaining to do concerning his application for employment. If the same standard is applied he might also lose his job. And now Council Member Joseph Lowry is under scrutiny for an application he submitted to the EDC in order to receive $50,000 in COVID relief money. COVID wreaked havoc on the entire world. Businesses were trying to stay afloat. People died, needlessly. The Federal Government gave grants to cities to help ease this impact until a vaccination could be developed.
According to the requirements to receive these funds a business must be within the city of La Marque, must not be a home business, must have 50 or less employees, and must pay taxes to the City. The EDC has the right to demand repayment of these funds if they find incorrect information was provided to the city. So the question is “Did Council Member Lowry provide factual information to receive the funds?”.
According to his application (see below) he claimed his address for his concrete pumping business as his home. His physical business is in San Leon. It seems like a pretty simple issue to resolve. Maybe there is an explanation for why Lowry used his home address for his business. Maybe there is a reason the EDC approved this. Or maybe the EDC made a mistake and should have rejected the application.
Monday’s meeting ought to clear this up for everyone involved.
The Houston Chronicle wrote about Bridget Wade fundraising totals. Wade is seeking her second term on the Houston Independent School Board and is probably in lock step with the State appointed and very unpopular superintendent. The Chronicle didn’t get into the details of her report but I will.
Wade raised $75,115. 61% of her total funds, $45,832, was donated by 9 individuals. You can see the list below. $14,000 came from 14 individuals donating $1000 leaving $15,832 donated by those giving less than $1000.
At least she hasn’t received money from the two Texas billionaires or from Patriot Mobile. I remember when running for a school board position required a few thousand dollars, a few signs, and some push cards. Voters usually had a choice between two or more well qualified candidates. It was always a win for the school district. Now it has become a partisan shit show with money pouring in from white wing MAGAts, billionaires, and PACs. It’s sad and has resulted in controversies such as Keller ISD, CCISD, Katy ISD, and others.
BTW CCISD is now back to normal after voters ousted the individual responsible for the chaos.
The controversies continue in La Marque. This time it is the Police Chief Randall Aragon but remember in America you are innocent until proven guilty. (LOL)
Unfortunately La Marque has overtaken League City as the drama queen of Galveston County. The City Manager recently resigned and has been charged with a couple of misdemeanors and one felony. Council Member Joseph Lowry has been a flurry of lawsuits, recalls, police reports, censures, back taxes, and allegations about fudging an application to receive $50,000 in COVID money. Now the Police Chief is under scrutiny concerning his own fudging
It is believed, based upon a search for Aragon’s Law Enforcement license, that he claimed to have had a valid license when in fact it had been inactive since 2015. A letter from the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) raised considerable issues with his appointment including the lack of a background check. You can see the documents below.
What is a bit funny is that Lowry, who is also under suspicion for incorrect information on an application, questioned the city about Aragon’s hiring. You can see that email below. Of course he claims Aragon is “corrupted” like every other elected official in the Galveston County. LOL.
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