From the recent financial reports:

Buzbee has spent considerable amount of money on commercials, most from out of state resources. Eric Dick spent $99,000 of his own money. Again. He raised $0 and has an outstanding loan of $75,000. Council Member Mike Knox continues to struggle with fundraising while his opponent has not. Houston Fire Fighters Union’s endorsed candidate for Mayor, Dwight Boykins, raised only $7581.

More on Buzbee’s spending later.

This is what happens when you attempt to play both sides as Tony Buzbee has.

A GPAC registered with the Texas Ethics Commission, Citizens for a Greater Houston, has raised money to attack Tony Buzbee with a mobile billboard. According to their Oct report they raised $10,000 from two donors, Ann Trammell and Robert Clay. The GPAC address is the same as the Treasurers, Bobby Orr and Orr Commercial, a commercial real estate firm.

I would bet all three of these individuals have a republican voting record. They don’t seem to be too happy and are advertising a website www.therealtonybuzbee.com about Buzbee’s donations to the Democratic Party but fail to mention his massive donations to their lord and savior Donald Trump. Here is something from their site:

The website ends with “Is this the kind of role model we want for Houston kids”? Maybe if Buzbee porked a porn star, paid her off to keep silent, then lied about it to win an election Citizens for a Greater Houston would have more respect for him.

I remember when I thought I was a Republican.

After attending Texas A&M in the Corps of Cadets and serving in the Army, I came to Houston to join Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse. I was a tort reformer, coming after those rotten, greedy, trial lawyers, like Buzbee, until I needed one of those lawyers. I learned that tort reform was a joke on us, and the Republican Party who made the joke was not on my side. It was a hard lesson to learn.

Republicans don’t like trial lawyers. Ask Governor Abbott was paralyzed after running under a tree being cut down. He sued, hit the lawsuit lottery, then, using his office as Attorney General, made it much harder for others to use the same courts to find justice. Abbot gave me the idea for a joke that I have used many times at hearings in the Capitol.

When do you stop bashing trial lawyers? —–When you need one.

Ask Greg Abbott. It’s going to be sad watching the tort reformers of the Republican Party vote for the people they hate, the trial lawyer, Tony Buzbee. It might also be funny to watch Texas A&M send a cease and desist letter to Buzbee for the use of Block T in his “Aggies for Buzbee” signs.

When do you stop bashing Tony Buzbee? —-When he loses.

In their endorsement of Mayor Turner for a second term the Houston Chronicle make a comment about Tony Buzbee:

The candidate most likely to push Turner into a runoff, trial lawyer Tony Buzbee, has self-funded his campaign to the tune of $10 million. He’s brought passion and, well, creativity, to the typical ho-hum dryness of mayoral politicking. While he may have turned heads, and perhaps noses, with his colorful animal metaphors – horse manure and hogs, oh my! – we’re looking for substance, experience, and true vision.

That pretty much says it all about Tony Buzbee, in a nice way. He is rich, able to invested $10 million of his own money to buy an election. He has colorful drawing the attention of republicans looking for another savior even though he is one of those blood sucking, greedy, trial lawyers. He is politically ignorant with little understanding of how government works. He will say anything to anyone to get what he wants. And he is full of shit. 

Tony Buzbee is the Donald Trump of Houston. If Trump hadn’t shown his colors for the last 3 years Buzbee might have a chance to be Mayor. Constant, daily, lies about your opponent and claiming rampant corruption worked for Trump. Maybe the citizens of Houston is just plain tired of a politically ignorant, lying, assholes ruining their government.

Maybe. Hopefully.

If you are considering running for office, you might want to find a treasurer that knows the laws or at the very least understand that you have to report how much money you raised and how much money you spent. It’s so easy, a caveman can do it.

There are a number of candidates who must think running for office is a game especially some running for Mayor. Naoufal Houjami, Victoria Romero, Johnny Taylor, Roy Vasquez, and Derrick Broze haven’t filed their reports yet. Demetria Smith has filed a report with zero funds raised, spent, and COH. None of these candidates understand the seriousness of running for Mayor of the 4th largest city in the United States. They haven’t been invited to debates and rightfully so. They are not viable candidates.

Sam Cleveland, running for District E has raised only $5682 with $352 COH.

That didn’t end well.

Greg Groogan of Fox26 and Mario Diaz of KPRC ran a story about an “intern” that was hired at a salary of $95,000. Buzbee jumped on this controversy like Donald Trump jumped on a porn star. He held a press conference. He called for the Texas Attorney General to start an investigation. He called the Texas Rangers. And so far they haven’t returned any of his calls and for good reason.

The “intern” according to the Houston Chronicle, has a master’s degree in legal studies from Texas State University and a law degree from Texas Southern University. He also has very significant experience. From the Chronicle:

Turner released a statement Tuesday explaining that the position is part of the airport system’s “Executive Internship Program” and said Agumagu’s salary “is commensurate with his education and experience.” Houston Airport System Director Mario Diaz created the program “to attract new talent in the field of aviation” and to serve as an entry to a city management training program, according to a 2018 memo released by the city Tuesday.

The bottom line is this is 1995 all over again like Wayne Dolcefino’s botched investigation story against Turner that ended in a lawsuit. From a previous post.

Wayne Dolcefino was an investigative reporter (sic) for KTRK-TV. He had a boner for Sylvester Turner back in 1995 when Turner first ran for Mayor. Dolcefino was eventually sued and lost for a story about insurance fraud and a jury awarded $5.5 Million. 

Groogan and Diaz have been nominated for the Wayne Dolcefino Investigations Gone Wrong award. Buzbee is still waiting by the phone wiping the egg off his face.