Smokin Joe Machol has served on the Seabrook City Council for a number of years. He was recruited by Trustee Bowen to run against Trustee Cejka for reasons unknown. Machol has little if any applicable experience for the position especially when running against a sitting Trustee who has served honorably. He has defined himself at a recent forum as the person you may not want on a school board. He skipped one of only two forums open to the public opting to attend a council meeting for a seat he will have for only the next month or so.
The following video from a town hall meeting might add another reason why Smokin Joe Machol should not be put on the school board. Imagine having someone on the board acting like this in front of students and parents. His comments start at 2:18:16.
CCISD Trustee Scott Bowen is taking heat for his latest unethical stunt. His mailer claims his opponent “Promised” a $300 million bond. She didn’t. Not once. There were three forums where bonds were discussed and she never promised a bond, for very good reasons. A board member cannot promise a bond. Only voters can approve a bond. A board member can vote to put a bond on the ballot just like Scott Bowen did in 2023 but they can’t promise squat. Scott knows this but sent out his lying mailer anyway. Scott’s opponent, Rebecca Lilley quickly responded with the following video. It’s good.
Breaks Campaign Pledge Every candidate for CCISD Trustee, including Bowen, signed a Code of Fair Campaign Practices pledging not to be a dick when campaigning. Here is what Bowen agreed to. His form can be found here.
Violation of Texas Ethics Laws Bowen’s mailer is paid for by Scott Bowen for CCISD Trustee. I could not find the campaign finance reports for this PAC. According to his recent campaign finance report he has spent over $18,000 on his campaign, most coming from his own pocket. Who is funding “Scott Bowen for CCISD Trustee”? Who funded this mailer?
UPDATE: Middleton has pledged $25 Million of his own money for this race. Since entering politics he has raised $6,930,462 of which $5,737,392 is his own money.
In Texas money talks. Ask our Senator Money Mayes Middleton.
Senator Money Mayes Middleton has entered the race for Texas Attorney General and he has $10 Million of his own money to back his campaign. This isn’t the first time he has used his vast wealth to buy a seat of power. He is filthy rich and will use that filth to buy yet another seat of power.
Ask former Representative Wayne Faircloth of Galveston County. Faircloth served only one term then was challenged by Middleton in the primary. Middleton spent $1.7 Million of his own money to win that primary. He spent another $800,000 of his own money in the general election. In a competitive race a candidate would have needed about $500,000. His challenger in the general election raised only $4,000.
After accomplishing nothing in the House, he ran for the Senate again spending nearly $2 million of his own money and winning that seat. Again he hasn’t accomplished much except to spread the word of our Lord Jesus Christ. He ignored pocket book issues such as the rising cost of home insurance, the electricity grid, and inflation. But at least he has filed bills to give easy access to guns to mentally ill people, allow students to pray in school, posting of “In God We Trust” and the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
Middleton has pledged $25 Million of his own money to win the Attorney General seat. He has the deep pockets and will overwhelm any real conservative. Republican primary voters will fall in line.
Machol, a former NFL referee, was flagged for delay of game.
Not only did Machol fail to attend a candidate forum, he failed to submit a bio for the event. Instead of attending the forum and answering very tough questions from the audience, Machol chose to attend the Seabrook City Council meeting. Machol has only a month left on Seabrook City Council and the council meeting was more important to him than the office he is running for. An office that requires the next 3 years of his attendance if elected.
Besides not showing up, how hard is it to submit a bio for the event? This forum was sponsored by the local PTA organization. These are parents and teachers that would be interested in hearing from Machol besides giving the same old answer for every question, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Catholic prayers in school. The District will have very serious issues to resolve next year that no amount of prayers will address. At the very least he should have submitted a bio.
Instead he just forfeited the game and should leave the field of candidates. Permanently.
Hopefully the moderator of tonight’s forum will press Scott Bowen on his support of the school voucher bill. Last year Bowen authored a resolution for the State Republic Party in support of vouchers and calling for Greg Abbott to declare it an emergency bill requiring quick passage. (He was caught on video) That resolution was not unanimous. A number of delegates were vocal about Bowen changing the resolution to better suck up to the Governor but it passed anyway. Last night Scott’s wet dream, the voucher bill, passed the House and is one step closer becoming law.
During the hours and hours of testimony were many experts in the field testifying against the voucher bill. Even Republican office holders associated with the Texas Republic Party spoke out against vouchers! The only ones who spoke in favor of vouchers were those who would benefit from the bill including Catholic schools, private schools, and home schoolers. And Scott Bowen.
As reported earlier our State Representative Dennis Paul has been flooded with calls against the voucher bill. He voted for the bill anyway ignoring his constituents and siding with Scott Bowen.
Hopefully the voters in CCISD will reward Bowen and remove him from the Board.
If you know where our Congressman, Brian Babin, will be during the next week and a half, please contact me at johncoby@sbcglobal.net so I can tell others. Many individuals would like to ask him some very serious questions concerning their retirement accounts, the economy, homeland security, and protecting and adhering to the Constitution of the United States.
Congress is on a 2 week recess and will be in district meeting with their donors and/or business people. They do not have time to organize a town hall meeting with the low life scum called “constituents” so we need to meet him on his ground. We had a town hall last Monday and invited him and/or his staff. Neither showed up.
So, if you know where Babin will be speaking give me a heads up and I’ll give everyone the location so they can meet with him face to face. Call me at 281-536-2457 or email me at johncoby@sbcglobal.net.
UPDATE: This fundraiser did NOT have prior approval by Clear Lake Intermediate. It has been shut down. I am sure they can find more appropriate donations that would bring in a good amount of money.
At least it’s not an AR15.
Yesterday a number of parents of children killed in school shootings testified against bad bills concerning gun safety. Also there was a school shooting in Dallas. Luckily, as of now, no one was killed but 4 were injured. Instead of offering an apology for flooding our state with guns Greg Abbott offered useless prayers and hollow promises to the families. From CBS News:
Cecilia and I ask our fellow Texans to join us in praying for the victims’ swift recovery and for the entire Wilmer-Hutchins High School community.
Locally the Leadership Development Corps booster club at Clear Lake Intermediate is having a raffle for a gun and a gun club gift certificate. The gun isn’t an AR15 like the kind that was used for killing 19 children in Uvalde or a sawed off shotgun that was used in the Santa Fe shooting. (BTW the bill parents were speaking against would make sawed off shotguns legal.) This gun is a Canik METE 9mm handgun. Like a sawed off shotgun it is easy to conceal.
You have to wonder what these booster club members are thinking. I was in ROTC in High School. I was the Commander of a military drill team. Our booster club would have never considered raffling off a gun for money. My son was in LDC at CLIS. The parents would have never considered such a raffle. He was a flag bearer and continued that role in the Navy. (He even presented the flag at the NCAA Mens Final Four.) LDC is a great organization but these parents need to read the room.
This forum will be a day after the school voucher bill will pass the House. Hopefully candidates will defend their stance on their support of the bill.
Joe Machol is a Seabrook City Council Member. He should know the laws governing elections, but he is either ignorant or deliberately thumbing his nose at the Texas Ethics Commission. Machol has failed to appoint a Treasurer in a timely manner. The law is clear, you must have a Treasurer appointed before you raise or spend money. Machol already have signs and buttons made and yet no appointment of Treasurer was filed. He has since filed one appointing himself.
He has failed to file a campaign finance report. Even if you have no donations (including from yourself) or expenditures you are required to file a report. This should concern everyone in the CCISD district. Who is paying for Machol’s campaign? I would not be surprised if Trustee Scott Bowen promised funding to him from a third party like the Harris County Republic Party or the State party. This way Machol can plead ignorant when mailers are received by voters from the party. I wouldn’t be surprised if their mailer has both Bowen and Machol running as a coalition.
I have asked Mr. Machol about this. I am holding my breath for an answer.
Instead of working to settle our stock market our Senators are working hard to bring one of the Space Shuttles to Houston. It’s not like we miss it, because we really don’t and it may not be all you think it might be. Houston failed in their bid to house a Shuttle back in 2010 when the program ended. From what museum experts tell me, it is a museum piece and the bid had to show how it would attract visitors and how it would be paid for. For Houston, failure was an option. (Ugh) And they failed spectacularly. According to the Houston Chronicle:
One went to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, another went to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Space Shuttle Discovery went to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Virginia.
Another, the Enterprise, went to New York and was put on the Intrepid aircraft carrier. The Enterprise never flew. It was used only for gliding and landing tests. It had no engines. You can view it on the carrier (above), walk underneath it, and observe it from a platform. Like the other shuttles you can’t touch it. You can’t walk in it. You can’t look into the cockpit. It is all hands off. But….Space Center Houston received the Woody.
The Woody is a replica of the Shuttle and was housed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was moved here after Kennedy’s winning bid to secure a Shuttle. Woody sits on top of a 747 at Space Center Houston and is actually a very interesting exhibit. You can walk through the bay, look into the cockpit, and actually touch it unlike the other ones.
Sure it would be great to have a real Shuttle but at what cost? Who will pay to move it to Houston and mount it on the 747? Is that even possible? It would have to be removed from the Smithsonian, moved to an airport, mounted on a modified 747, flown to Houston, removed from the 747, moved to Space Center Houston, and then mounted on the 747. The Woody would have to be removed and either dismantled or moved to another location. It ain’t going to happen.
Cornyn was in office in 2010. He should have paid more attention to the bidding process so Houston could have secured a Shuttle.
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