Raising Campaign Cash: Jimmy Fullen February Report

February 18, 2024

This is interesting.

In his February report Fullen reported raising $32,000 in unitemized donations. That in itself is, at first, disturbing but it looks like only a clerical error. He raised $47,115 in itemized donations, $10,000 coming from Mayor Nick Long and $10,000 coming from Tony Buzbee the guy who got trampled in the race for Houston Mayor and City Council.

Fullen reported another personal loan of $32,000 (are reported it as unitemized donations). His $100,000 personal loan that was reported in his Jan report is no longer listed or having been paid off. As I mentioned the Ethics Commission frowns on padding your campaign account with fake donations or loans. We will see what happens in the near future. If you are going to be enforcing the law you should be required to follow the law. And if you are going to be responsible for a city’s financial well being you should be responsible for your own financial well being. But I digress.

His biggest donors are listed below. Of the $47,000 raised, $37,000 came from 4 individuals. $32,000 is from out of the county. His report can be reviewed here.

DonorAmountLocation
Jason Rabalais$12,000Crosby
Nick Long$10,000League City
Tony Buzbee$10,000Houston
Scott Rice$5,000Houston
$37,000

CCISD Elections are set. 2 Seats unopposed.

February 17, 2024

Congrats to CCISD Board Members Jay Cunningham and Jonathan Cottrell! They are not opposed in the upcoming election. Welcome back.

Jeff Larson for District 4 drew an opponent, Albert Wittliff. He seems to be an interesting candidate. He was a former Special Agent at Department of Homeland Security. He doesn’t have a campaign page set up yet. Larson is running for reelection and has served on the Board for 3 years. I was not thrilled that Larson followed Scott Bowen’s lead on various issues. He even voted for Bowen for President, VP, and Secretary. Bowen lost all three votes. But, as I have said in the past, I have been told the Board is performing well and that is good for us, our teachers, and our kids.

It is great to see Jay and Jonathan returning. More information about the race in District 4 will be posted.


League City Personal Finance Statements are due

February 16, 2024

This might be interesting.

I have looked at hundreds of campaign finance reports but I have never reviewed a Personal Finance Statement (PFS). Last year the Republican controlled Legislature passed a bill requiring all elected officials in cities with a population of over 100,000 to file a PFS. This caused a member of the League City Council, John Bowen, to resign. A special election for his replacement is ongoing. For everyone else, including candidates, their reports are due and will be controlled by the City Secretary.

If you are interested in what an official has to disclose you can review the guidance for disclosure at the Texas Municipal League’s website. In short:

If you are interested, the PFS form can be found on the Texas Ethics Commission website. Here is a sample. Happy hunting!


It’s F***ing Friday: Another shooting. Had enough yet?

February 16, 2024

When will we demand action?

What will it take before we demand action on gun control from our elected officials? What will it take? Who has to die before we get up off our ass and do something? Will it take a mass shooting at a school killing twenty one 1st graders? Or nineteen 9 year olds? Or 8 high school students right here in the Bay Area? When will all you fuckin so called “Christians” put your goddamn bible down, the one you never read, and finally demand action after 26 christians were killed while praying in church? Maybe Joel Osteen might have something to say about it.

It is clear as fucking glass Greg Abbott isn’t going to get off his ass and do something about gun violence. Neither is Ted Cruz, or our own State Representative Dennis Paul. They think it is fun to pose with guns, or fry bacon on an assault rifle, or walk around like a dork with an NRA hat. It’s a game to them. It is funny and people, children, christians, police, service men, dancers, teachers, and others are dying. Real fucking funny.

So it is up to us and so far we have failed. You would have thought the voters in Uvalde would have voted Abbott off the island after the shooting at Ross Elementary. They didn’t, and they are not alone. Voters in Texas returned the very person responsible for gun violence, they guy who bragged about making Texas a sanctuary state for guns, back to office so he could continue sitting on his ass and do nothing while children and police are slaughtered.

The only thing Texans are good at is making fucking [fill in the blank] Strong t-shirts. What’s it going to take before we do something? Dennis Paul can be reached at (281) 488-8900.


Why are you running? Oscar Salazar Jr for Justice of the Peace

February 15, 2024

This is disappointing.

Oscar Salazar Jr is running for Justice of the Peace Precinct 2 Place 1 (Scarsdale area) against the incumbent Justice Jo Ann Delgado in the Democratic primary but Salazar isn’t a Democrat. Salazar is the owner of Morning Kolaches. If you want great Kolaches that is the place to be. According to the Houston Chronicle, who has endorsed Judge Delgado, there is no requirement to be a lawyer to run for a Justice of the Peace:

Challenger Oscar Salazar, Jr. is a Marine veteran who owns a chain of kolache shops. He doesn’t have a law degree, but JPs aren’t required to have one. Delgado isn’t a lawyer either, but she came to the bench after working as a clerk in the courts for 23 years, including ten years as a chief clerk for JP Richard Vera in the 1980s.  

Salazar hasn’t voted in a Democratic primary. He voted in the Republican primary in 2016 and I can only guess who he voted for. That should disqualify Salazar but our primaries are open and anyone including a trumper can file.

And one did. Delgado has been doing a great job. Vote for Delgado if you are in that precinct.


Disturbing endorsements in the Harris County DA’s race

February 15, 2024

The Houston Chronicle listed the endorsements of the two leading candidates in the Harris County District Attorneys race.

It’s the who’s who of who’s who and the who’s who of who’s that? Some of these endorsements can be disturbing to some, for instance DA Ogg is endorsed by the C Club. The C stands for Conservative or Confusing. They are proud of their support by Michael “Hit and Run” Berry the local white wing, loud mouth, talk show host who was caught in a gay bar, on camera. The Texas Observer has a great article on what happened:

According to the bouncer at T.C.’s Show Bar in Montrose, Michael Berry left the club, where he was attending as a patron, at 11:00 PM on January 31. The bouncer, Tuderia Bennett, said Berry drove in reverse for 70 feet, hit Bennett’s car, and drove away. 

But I digress…..If the C Club is actually a fiscal conservative club then they have endorsed some pretty good candidates such as Mayor Whitmire. If the C is for Confusing then they are spot on in their support of Council Member Willie Davis who was the least qualified to run for City Council. The Chronicle lists the C Club as endorsing Kim Ogg. I’m not sure how to address this.

Ogg’s other endorsements include the Who’s Who of law enforcement including members of the Houston Police Union who have recently endorsed some pretty good candidates. She has the endorsement of Mayor Annie Parker, and others including:

Ogg has collected several endorsements from members of the law enforcement community, including Harris County Afro-American Sheriff’s Deputies League, Houston Police Officers’ Union Executive Director Ray Hunt, HPOU President Doug Griffith, Pct. 3 Constable Sherman Eagleton, Pct. 2 Constable Jerry Garcia, former Harris County Sheriff’s Office Captain Frank Stilley, former HCSO Major Greg Summerlin and former Houston Police Department Chief C.O. “Brad” Bradford. 

Sean Teare, on the other hand, has the endorsement of the Who’s Who of Who’s That? The list includes various Democratic clubs and little known organizations. Texas Organizing Project, an organization that provides great ground work for candidates, has endorsed Teare but lately they have endorsed extreme left candidates and has been financed by known socialists. I don’t think Teare is an extreme anything. He is well qualified for the job. He has great experience. From the Chronicle:

He’s also been endorsed by Area 5 Democrats, NAKASEC Action Fund Texas, the Women’s Association of Lawyers, Houston Black American Democrats, the Working Families Party and Harris County Tejano Dems.

Working Families Party is a far left, socialist group. Like the C Club I wouldn’t put too much into their endorsement. I had to google NAKASEC. Teare is also endorsed by a number of elected officials including Judge Hidalgo, Commissioner Rodney Ellis, State Representative Gene Wu.

For the record I have been pretty clear about who I would support. DA Ogg has been in office for 7 years. She seems to have an ongoing feud with Judge Hidalgo. She has every right and duty to investigate the situation with the COVID contract but it’s the way she has handled the situation. It’s divisive. It’s troubling. The cooperation between the DAs office and Commissioners Court has to get better.

Bu then again maybe I just need to chill out with a cold Bud Light and Michael Berry.


The high cost of Texas gun culture. Robb Elementary Uvalde

February 14, 2024

Most Uvalde residents don’t seem to care about the 19 children killed at Robb Elementary School but maybe they will care about how much this shooting is going to cost them.

It is sad. After the worst shooting in the history of Texas that shattered the lives of 21 families the voters in Uvalde stood up, took matters into their own hands, and voted for the very elected officials who refuse to stop gun violence. They voted for Greg Abbott who signed bills proclaiming Texas is a 2nd Amendment sanctuary city. They voted for elected officials who are good at offering worthless thoughts and prayers but nothing else. And now it’s going to cost them. According to ABC:

Mata and other victims’ families are waiting for the buildings to be torn down, while the community grapples with mixed emotions over plans to demolish the school and replace it with a new one elsewhere in Uvalde.

Robb Elementary School is scheduled to be demolished and taxpayers are on the hook to pay for the demolition, and the building of a new school. The cost of a new elementary school is estimated to be over $30 Million. Texas has a habit of breaking things then making Texans pay for it. After breaking the electricity grid in 2021 Greg Abbott demanded upgrades to the system, upgrades that should have been performed decades ago. Then he signed a bill to pass that cost onto consumers. Texans bent over and took it.

Greg Abbott and his gun nut buddies provided an 18 year old easy access to an AR15 and he killed 19 children at Robb Elementary. Now you get to pay for it.

No Place But Texas.


Raising Campaign Cash: Dan Simons for Harris County DA

February 13, 2024

You’re probably asking yourself “Who the fuck is Dan Simons”?

Dan is the Republican nominee for Harris County District Attorney. He is an attorney and a man of the people posing with his convertible Porsche on his website. According to his website he specializes in DWI cases. He ran for judge in 2018 and lost. He ran for judge in 2022, lost, then filed suit. That suit was dismissed.

While the Democratic candidates competing in the primary have raised millions in donations, Simons has raised $15,000 of which $15,000 came from his own pocket. I’m wondering if even Mattress MAGAt Mac would come to his rescue in the general election.

He won’t.


Who helped the Lakewood Church shooter?

February 13, 2024

I’ll give you one guess.

After the Uvalde shooting that took the lives of 19 children I met State Representative Dennis Paul on the greenbelt while walking our dogs. I began my conversation with “WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU DENNIS?”. Needless to say the conversation went downhill from that point forward. Dennis Paul and his cowardly republican buddies gave that shooter easy access to a firearm and he used it shattering the lives of many families and the Uvalde community.

Paul doesn’t care who has easy access to firearms no matter who gets killed. According multiple reports this senseless shooting that took the life of a 7 year old child might have been prevented. The shooter had a history of mental problems, was going through a tough divorce process including custody issues. She has a history of criminal activity which ended in surrendering of some firearms. Yet because of easy access to firearms she was able to buy an AR15. Luckily a couple of off duty law enforcement officers shot and killer her, as well as her son.

Maybe some kind of red flag law would have prevented this shooting. Maybe some kind of change in our gun nut culture could have prevented this shooting but don’t look to Paul to make that happen. Last year Paul was all weepy about a young women, a member of the Executive Committee of the Texas Republican Party, who was shot and killed by her husband. He also killed himself leaving three young children without parents. She too was going through an ugly divorce. Paul offered thoughts and prayers.

This latest shooting and future shootings could be prevented if Paul and his fucked up buddies would get off their goddamn knees and do something. So as I asked before WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU DENNIS?


Ted Cruz calls for thoughts and prayers after church shooting

February 12, 2024

Well, how are those thoughts and prayers doing fer ya?

This shooting could have been so much worse. The shooter picked the wrong place in the church to open fire and was killed by two off duty policemen. The child she brought with her is in critical condition possibly also shot by the police. As we have said over and over again, thoughts and prayers will not stop people from killing people then they have easy access to firearms and with the gun culture we have in the United States.

Cruz has contributed to that fucked up culture. He thinks it is funny, cute, to cook bacon on the barrel of an assualt style weapon and post it on YouTube. He thinks it is cute to dress up like Fidel Castro and take photo ops at the border claiming there is an invasion of immigrants and yet doing nothing about it. Last night someone tried to do something about it and all that sick fuck Cruz could do was say he and his ugly ass wife was praying for those affected.

Fuck you Ted. You are partially responsible for this shooting as you were for Uvalde, Santa Fe, Fort Hood, Sutherland Church, El Paso Walmart, Midland-Odessa and Allen mall shooting. You have made us unsafe at schools, churches, parades, rallies, football games, and every public event.

Do us a favor and shut your fucking mouth.


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