In the words of Hank Hill: “Where you at?”

BTW. I have contact with a number of journalists and greatly appreciate what they do but their outlet needs to do better. The CCISD area has a couple of local media outlets including Community Impact, The Houston Chronicle, The Galveston Daily News, and the The Southbelt Leader. None of these media outlets have ever dug deep into the candidates for CCISD trustees. I can give a pass to Community Impact because that isn’t what they do although maybe they should reconsider. The 2025 election was a great example of our local media being missing in action.

No media outlet dug deep into the candidates past, abilities, or fundraising for the position. Trustee Scott Bowen has a history (documented by videos) of supporting school vouchers and advocating against public schools in Austin. He has a history of associating with extreme organizations and people. There is enough background on him to fill up a post titled “A Threat to CCISD Education” and yet no local media reported on it. Joe Machol, Bowen’s recruit, was probably the worst candidate in CCISD history to run for the Board and yet the media was silent. He had no money, no background in education, no campaign, and no business running for Trustee.

These positions are important to the community especially parents of school kids. The information about these candidates should be researched and provided to the community so they can make informed decisions. They should know their past, their qualifications, and their source of funding no matter how disturbing it may be. Over the last few years school districts across the country have been infested with extremists funded by white wing organizations like Patriot Mobile and Defend Texas Liberty and yet there was little if any coverage of this.

It’s disappointing that my small blog, Bay Area Houston, has to do the heavy lifting. All the information is public or available via a google search but I don’t have the coverage of the media in the Bay Area. I don’t have the audience to make an impact. I’m not an educated journalist. I’m just a loud mouth blogger. The community needs this information. They need our media outlets.

Do better. We need you.

With all the noise coming out of Seabrook I didn’t expect this.

The candidates of the Save Seabrook (SS) Squad were enjoying spicy crawfish at The Barge on election night, at least for a little while. In the end all but one lost. Angela Cervantes is the only SS candidate that won her seat on City Council. Jackie Rasco lost. J.P. Byers lost. Kyra Burton lost. Chris Hues lost. I really didn’t see this coming and I bet they didn’t appreciate the guy in the corner playing WOMP WOMP on his trombone.

As a side note former Seabrook City Councilman and former NFL referee, Joe Machol, was ejected from the game with a crushing defeat for CCISD school board. That was a win-win for both Seabrook and CCISD.

Mayoral candidate, Jim Sweeney, beat Rasco by only 13 votes out of a total of 1539. There will be a recount and possibly legal action by Rasco with wild claims of voter fraud, ballot harvesting, and other unsubstantiated claims that have never been proven across the county and country. If Harris County had handled this election there would be a paper trail that can be recounted and verified. I’m not sure what type of voting machines Seabrook uses so it might not be an easy recount and candidates could claim the machine switched votes. We shall see.

Otherwise Seabrook has elected an incredibly talented Mayor and great members of City Council. You might want to review Sweeneys resume here. Maybe the citizens were not ready to be the center of attention for local media and nosy bloggers. Congratulations to Jim Sweeney, Jared Sessum, Summer Sanford, Tyler Kubena, and Angela Cervantes.

JFK! WTF is wrong with you people?

Wasn’t Justin Hicks enough for League City? Aren’t you tired of chaos, corruption, and cruelty? Aren’t you tired of the veiled threats by the extreme MAGAts of the Republic Party? Aren’t you starving for civility and elected leaders just doing their damn jobs? If so why in the living heck would you put Scott Higginbotham on Council?

His latest Hicks move is a recent mailer he sent with his opponents home address. That is unnecessary. The opponent he attacked has responded. Voters should respond to.

This is strange. Very strange.

Seabrook has a loud and obnoxious Facebook group called Save Seabrook (SS). It’s like Elon Musk’s DOGE of Seabrook, making wild ass claims about the state of the city. It’s what MAGAts do. Tell a lie, repeat it, defend it, move on to the next one. It has been quite successful all over the country. People eat that shit up like it was spicy crawfish.

In the long run it may not serve the people of Seabrook well. Take a look at League City for example. The MAGAts took over City Council led by Mayor Pro Tem Justin Hicks. Real Conservatives lost their voice in all the chaos. Justin eventually resigned but League City provided media outlets with enough stories to last a year and a Sunday. As I said in my last post (Seabrook Shit Show) about Seabrook and Mayoral Candidate Jackie Rasco who is supported by the SS group:

So a few years ago there was an incident that required police intervention at Jackies home involving a nosy neighbor, an intoxicated expunged, a gun, $3000 worth of damage, and an arrest. You can read the entire police report here.

That was some crazy shit! Now just a few days prior to the election the SS group announced a free pound of crawfish provided by The Barge295 if you show a I voted sticker. Once they realized that is against the law to provide a reward for voting they rescinded the offer. Then someone actually made signs blaming their own stupidity on the candidate for Mayor! As I said, lie. Defend. Repeat.

The Barge used to be my go to place for crawfish but I think I will look elsewhere from now on. Not quite sure what the candidates, supported by the SS, have promised The Barge. Why do voters want chaos when they can have a Mayor who has decades of incredible applicable experience in city issues and has served the community well? The SS is supporting Rasco, Burton, Byers, and Cervantes.

Seabrook could be the next League City.

Kemah Police Department had proudly posted pic of some of their officers enjoying their time at the newly opened Trump Burger. Then they deleted them for reasons unknown. Luckily I found them. Including one of the Chief of Police Garvey. I am sure they enjoyed the Stormy Burger with nice firm buns and vey small meat.

Turns out they overruled a previous post.

Joe Machol is a former NFL referee until he was removed from officiating after some kind of ethics violations. He sued buy never returned to officiating. If interested you can read about it here.

But back to the instant replay. On further review Machol has not violated campaign finance laws for not submitting a campaign finance report. When he filed his Appointment of Treasurer (late) he stated he would not be raising or spending more than $1110 and therefore does not need to file a periodic report. That is news to me but that is why Machol has not reported.

Besides being an absolute horrible candidate for School Board, even worse than Misty Dawson, he is running a very strange campaign. His signs are generic “vote for Joe” signs with no mention of the office he is running for and the “Paid for by” statement that is required on all advertisements. He has placed some signs with handwritten notices. There’s no push cards, mailers, flyers, Facebook ads. Nothing. It is strange.

And his viral video of him losing it at a Seabrook meeting didn’t help him. Or skipping a forum. Or submitting a blank Bio.

But there is still time for a political PAC to send out mailers in support of Bowen and Machol. Machol can then plead ignorance. Watch for it.