While our Senator Money Mayes Middleton was spreading his Christian faith to the CHINO’s (Christians in Name Only) around the state, another candidate for Texas Attorney General raised his racist head. Aaron Reitz (R) went on the attack of Middleton’s target with racist comments. From Yahoo:
Aaron Reitz, among the GOP candidates running to be Texas Attorney General, on Monday suggested without evidence that the leader of the Texas House Democrats, who is Asian, had lied during his citizenship application process and should have his citizenship revoked.
Aaron joins Middleton in making racist comments towards State Representative Gene Wu. Middleton not only made the racist comment, he double down on it and refused to apologize. As I have said in the past, the (R) behind a names no longer refers to party affiliation. It means Racist.
The new chair will take control of the Party in June, right smack dab in the middle of our coordinated campaign. To change our leadership midstream is just plain stupid. You can watch the entire forum here.
I took one for the team and watched the 90 minutes forum between the Harris County Democratic Party Chair Mike Doyle and his challenger Traci Gibson. Beside being an incredible stupid idea to change leadership mid stream the forum can be summarized easily. Mike Doyle has long, successful, political experience while Gibson has ideas for political experience. Mike knows what he is doing. He has an approved budget of $3.5 Million. He has raised money. He has brought the Party out of a huge deficit. He has reached out to clubs, organizations, and groups. He isn’t perfect but he has good experience. I trust hm. Can he do better? Sure. Maybe the Party should tell clubs like the Bay Area Democratic Movement on how effective texting is or how effective writing postcards are at getting people to vote. That might be something the HCDP could work on.
Gibson on the other hand has little experience and I believe she has exaggerated her few political accomplishments such as working her precinct. Her precinct has 2277 voters and only 51 (not 51%) turned out in 2025. That’s not working your precinct. I do not believe she registered voters as she claims but that can be found out via open records and I could be incorrect. Her lack of a Democratic voting record is troubling and her justification to this issue was more troubling. Not voting in your Party’s 2024, 2022, or 2020 primary is NOT an advantage as she claims. Her claims of working for the party is not believable. She claims to have worked robo calls. I’m not sure how you “work” robo calls and, by the way, robo calls are statistically worthless. It makes me think she didn’t work anything.
Traci also thinks she will take control in March but it is June, right in the middle of our campaign. Traci is good at being Miss obvious with simple minded comments like “we need to work together” and “We have to reach out to the youth” and “We have to win in 2026” and “We need work together” (Did I say that twice?”). It makes me think AND/OR DUH! Her endorsements are also bothering with only two organizations endorsing her, the Harris County Black American Democrats, and Area 5 which is puzzling. Why? She claims the City Controller, Chris Hollins has endorsed her. I have not seen any proof of that, and if that is actually true it is very disturbing.
We have an opportunity to win back the House and hold this damn administration accountable. Changing effective leadership is not the way to do it. Traci should work her precinct during this election and maybe run again after November. The HCDP has agreed to hire a fundraiser. Maybe if Traci loses she should ask to use her fundraising skills for this position, learn the workings of the party, get some experience, and then run.
Yesterday the President of the United States posted a racist video depicting President Obama and his wife as apes. As the only Black Senator in the Republican Party said it was the “most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House”. According to Trump it did not come from “the White House”. He has acknowledged it came directly from him and he has refused to apologize for it, although he has removed the post from his account.
Meanwhile State Senator Money Mayes Middleton has remained silent, refusing to address it, and continuing to accept his endorsement. Currently Middleton is running for Attorney General and is on a state tour bragging about his Christian values and his endorsement by Donald Trump. The “CHINOs” (Christians in Name Only) are eating him up. They love the fact that he himself has made racist comments to a sitting colleague, State Representative Gene Wu, and has accepted an endorsement from a felon, a liar, a cheater, an adulterer, a racist.
State Representative Dennis Paul is also silent while running for Middleton’s vacant Senate seat. He also brags about his endorsement from Trump.
Republican Candidates for Dennis Paul’s vacant seat so far have said nothing. Both claim to be Christians and “conservatives” with Bob Mitchell declaring himself a “Trump Conservative” which at this point may not be helpful in a general election. In the Republican primary it may put him above Scott Bowen. Both have been asked for a comment. If I receive one from either I will post.
In any other advanced, decent, country posting a racist video would be the end of your political career. In the Republican Party it moves you ahead in the polls.
I’ve seen this behavior before. Someone pushes the boundaries of the law or the workplace, making racist comments, sexual harassment in the workplace, making unsubstantiated allegations, making threats, etc, etc. and then all of a sudden they are born again Christians. This looks like what is happening to La Marque City Councilman Joseph Lowry.
Lowry has a long, long history of doing all of the above including making false DBAs for Council Member and one of his favorite targets. But all of a sudden Lowry’s behavior has changed and he is on a pity me tour. His “Lowry News Network” website has gone cold. He was on his best behavior acting like a productive member of the City Council at the last meeting. And just recently he posted an AI generated “Oh pity me I’m born again” post on Facebook. It’s typical behavior when something or someone has legally slapped the hell out of him.
My bet is that his behavior has caught up with him. He probably has been approached by the new Police Chief or the District Attorney, or maybe the Judge in Washington State who issued a Domestic Violence Protection Order against him. Or maybe his deposition in the various civil suits have caught up with him, exposing his conduct of harassment. So now he is asking for forgiveness or maybe a get out of jail card.
This should be interesting. I45Now is sponsoring a forum between the two republicans for State Representative of the Bay Area. Come learn how they intend to abolish property taxes, end Sharia Law, and expand the school voucher program. You can submit your questions here: https://form.jotform.com/i45NOW/SH129GOPForum
BTW They are all white, male, Republicans on City Council which doesn’t really matter, but Council Member Chad Tressler has broken away from Trump.
I did not see that coming. League City Councilman Chad Tressler posted a long article condemning Trump and his party for leaving him. The last time he posted something this controversial was against his Council mate Justin Hicks who by the way is living a great life after resigning in disgrace from City Council. His post highlights the obvious about Trump, his socialist policies, economic disaster, tariffs, our relationship with our Allies, law and order (LOL), and more. It is a clear break ending with the old line of “I didn’t leave the party, the party left me” but also with basically “Both sides do it”.
Both sides don’t do it. We don’t tolerate candidates who make racist remarks, mock the disabled, call people petty names or tolerate those that do. Unlike the Republican Party the far left of the Democratic Party is kept in check. Their crazy ideas like the Green New Deal and Medicare for All cratered with little support from the Democrats. The craziest thing Biden did when in office was trying to pass college tuition forgiveness, which also died and rightfully so.
But Tressler’s party is Trump’s party and there is NOTHING conservative about it. Their crazy ideas have either become law via Congress like the Big Deficit Bill, or via Trump’s executive orders. Their economic policies are driving up our deficit, stressing our dollar. Their claim to being the party of law and order is laughable (Jan 6, ICE) They tolerate Trump’s lies every single fucking day and the republicans in Congress have lost their balls to keep him and his administration in check as the Constitution was designed to do. That is actually the problem. If Republicans in Congress had been doing their gdamn jobs the party wouldn’t be in this fucking mess.
But Tressler is making good points for breaking away, although a bit too late. Maybe other elected officials who are wanting to continue their political careers should do the same because with Trump in charge the Republican Party is about as popular as herpes at a hot tub party. Kudos to Councilman Tressler for breaking away.
Cameron Rollwitz, a member of the extreme left wing of the Socialist Party, is running for Texas Senate in the Bay Area, Senate District 11. Maybe he thinks following the new Mayor of New York, who is a socialist, will work in deep red SD11. It’s not. It never will. Voters in SD11 are not like New York voters or Austin voters. Many of them are ignorant MAGAts and scare easily especially when approached by a socialist or “progressive”.
Rollwitz doesn’t have any money. He has $107 cash on hand for a race that will require $1 Million. Rollwitz can talk a great game. Calling for “Texas Medicare for All” which is not only a bad idea, a pipe dream, it is a legal nightmare. Bernie Sanders has tried to get some type of M4A for 40 years and has failed. Medicare is a federal program, not a State program. It’s not that the idea has merit it’s that Rollwitz has absolutely no political skills or experience to spearhead this effort and make this a reality.
The talking points of the election season is the cost of living in the district. Health insurance, auto, home, are skyrocketing making it difficult to buy a home or to sell a house or to buy a house. Groceries continue to rise and yet he is running on high speed rail, internet access, and unattainable ideas like M4A. WTF?
Rollwitz has been able to convince a few organizations to endorse him over his opponent including The Caucus and the far left Houston Progressive Caucus. Rollwitz voting record is questionable because I can’t find his voting record. His comments and signs are concerning. Is he a Democrat or not? It really doesn’t matter. If by chance he would win the nomination he will never get a chance to debate his republican opponent and if he did he would embarrass the crap out of the party. He is not a serious candidate and deserves nothing from his opponent.
Rollwitz should drop out and take his own advice. Go build your own party and keep us informed.
As my dad would say when I had the hood of the car propped open “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”
Our School Board is running well. There is no drama. There are no partisan conflicts. There is no Scott Bowen. This is good. Ever since Scott was removed from office the Board seems to be running on all cylinders, not perfect, but running well. Trustees Arturo Sanchez, Position 3 and Jamieson Mackay, Position 2 have filed for reelection. This is good for the community, the district, parents, teachers, and students.
Personally, as my dad would say, if it’s not broken, don’t fix it. And don’t run against a Trustee that is doing the job under extreme conditions. For the last 30 years education funding has been cut and that continues to this day with candidates (Scott)calling for abolishing public education funding without providing an alternative solution. Our Trustees will have a huge challenge in the next few years with vouchers expected to be expanded further eroding funding for our schools. This is the time for solid, experienced, leadership on the Board. We just can’t afford to change. Literally.
Unfortunately former CCISD Trustee Scott Bowen won’t go away. He has recruited another highly partisan candidate to run against Arturo Sanchez. Gabriel Frank Gonzales II, a precinct chair in the Republican Party, has filed to run against Sanchez. There are many reasons not to vote for Mr. Gonzales including his relationship to Bowen, his work history, and his position at a Charter School. God bless Gonzales for running but we really don’t need a challenge to a highly respected Trustee.
This isn’t the first time Bowen has recruited candidates to run against sitting Trustees. He recruited four unqualified candidates and the voters rejected them all and for very good reasons. Then in 2025 they rejected Bowen, for very good reasons. So once again, we will have to go to the polls to protect our public schools.
More on this later.
I believe Mr. Gonzales is pictured above on the right at an event for Bowen and State Representative Dennis Paul.
The case #202107817 filed in Harris County is set for trial on Feb 9, 2026 in the 333rd Judicial Court. This is Martin, Tomczak vs Six Brothers Concrete Pumping concerning “corporate and personal bullying”. Sound familiar? It was filed 5 years ago, was dismissed, then reinstated. Court cases are open to the public. It will be interesting to see if Lowry will take the stage then act like the victim. He is good at that.
La Marque City Councilman Joseph Lowry is being sued by a number of individuals as well as “all residents of Galveston County, Texas.” That is interesting. Case # 24-CV-2218 | Walter Burt, Et Al vs. Joseph Lowry trial date was set for 1/26/26 but has now been delayed till 5/18/26.
The Judge has issued the jury preliminary instructions. It is a very interesting read. You can read the entire instructions here. This looks like a summary paragraph:
“The plaintiffs allege that defendant has been posting harassing, defamatory, threatening and stalking statements on Facebook. The plaintiffs claim these posts have affected their daily lives and businesses. The defendant operates a news page, personal page, and numerous other pages on Facebook under various names where he posts statements about the plaintiffs.”
According to the instructions there are six counts the jury must make a decision on. Count six, Breach of Contract against Kimberley Yancy is interesting. Back in 2022 Lowry was sued for harassment by Council Member Yancy resulting in an agreement to refrain from threatening or harassing comments that would give rise to criminal action on social media, newspapers, and any media outlet not explicitly stated herein. Galveston County Case # 22-CV-0993 I bet count six is referring to Lowry’s breach of this agreement. The counts are:
You might recognize some of these names. And you might be disappointed.
Traci Gibson is a newly appointed Precinct Chair with a sparse Democratic voting record. She didn’t vote in the 2020, 2022, or 2024 primary. She hasn’t been in the field. She hasn’t been involved with county politics. She woke up one morning and decided to lead the 3rd largest county in the United States as Chair of the Democratic Party. As one current Precinct Chair has said:
We should also ask ourselves: Why is she running? {But please don’t ask her why she’s running. She’s blown up on a few people for simply asking this simple question. And more importantly — who is behind her? The speed and style of her campaign suggest that she has powerful backers. Some have speculated about outside influences. Regardless of who’s funding or guiding her, it’s clear that her run is highly coordinated. Her lack of disclosure about her true intentions during meetings with Precinct Chairs — many of whom were invited under the impression that the meetings were not campaign-related — is especially troubling.
So who is funding her campaign. Gibson did outraise our current Chair who was busy raising money for our party and for the 2026 elections in November. According to her report she raised $70,028, spent $17,416, and has a Cash on Hand of $52,612. There are a couple of names on the list of donors that concern and surprise me. Here are the donors who gave $500 or more for a total of $42,000.
By the way, our Chair has provided steady leadership. He is doing what he is supposed to be doing, raising money. He pulled our Party out of a financial hole. He has served the Party honorably. As my dad used to say when I had the hood of the car open, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”.
This what happens when we allow christian nationalist billionaires control our lives.
Bay Area’s State Senator “Money” Mayes Middleton, after spending millions of his own money to secure his State House seat and State Senate seat, he now has his bank account set on becoming Texas Attorney General. In his first campaign finance report Mayes raised $973,735, spent $7,133,607, and has a Cash On Hand balance of $5,098,210. None of this makes cents but….
The $973,735, does not include Money’s personal fortune. Of the total raised $11,819,527, $10,000,000 came from his own pocket. Of the $973,735 actually raised, $720,393 came from out of the district including, Midland, San Antonio, Dallas, and others. This represents 74% of his total fundraising efforts. 54% of this actual fundraising, $526,653, came from deep pocket donations of $10,000 or more.
If elected Money has pledged to rid the State of “Sharia Law”, which doesn’t exist in the United States, and replace it with his Christian Nationalists ideologies whether you like it or not. He will promote law and order, except for the Jan 6 rioters and he will replace Ken Paxton’s on the ass of Trump. That is what money can do for “Money” Mayes Middleton.
Since announcing for State Representative for the Bay Area Bob Mitchell has raised $91,831. 60% of the total, $55,719, came from Associated Republicans of Texas Campaign Fund out of Austin. They have provided research, mailers, push cards, and polling.
$25,000 came from Joan McKinney of Norman Frede Chevrolet. These two donors make up 88% of all his donations. 74% of his donations came from out of district. At least he isn’t taking money from billionaires with ties to Nick Fuentes.
Scott Bowen continues to fund his campaigns with money from his billionaire buddies, Timothy Dunn and Farris Wilks. As you may remember Dunn and Wilks created Defend Texas Liberty PAC and funneled money into the CCISD elections after encouragement from CCISD Trustee Scott Bowen. The PAC later disbanded after being caught meeting with Nick Fuentes a known white supremacist. But they are back under a new name Texans United for a Conservative Majority. (TUCM)
Bowen raised a total of $122,751 since running for State Representative. Of that amount, 48% came from two donors. $25,000 came from TUCM and $35,000 came from Texans for Lawsuit Reform. TLR has raised millions to support candidates who will pledge to limit our rights to our civil court system. More on them later.
80% of his donations, $97,638 came from out of the district with about $1000 coming from out of State. Over $1000 came from Chris Russo. As was posted before:
Chris Russo. (More on Chris below) Director of Texans for Strong Borders. Was seen chauffeuring Fuentes to and from the meeting at Pale Horse Strategies this month. Multiple people, who asked not to be named to avoid drawing the attention of white nationalists, told the Tribune that Russo has ties to Fuentes’ so-called “groyper” movement.
Bowen also has a $50,000 outstanding loan. There are better choices for House District 129. Do your own research.
Alex Mealer, formerly known as Alexandria Del Moral Mealer, is running for Texas Congressional District 9. She is pictured here dressed up like a cartel member. Like a tough guy. Macho. This pic is from her TV ad. She is running against State Representative “Little Baby” Briscoe Cain. Both of them are gun nuts. Both have little regard for those killed by gun violence including the 19 children killed in Uvalde. It is sickening but this is the republican shoot first, forget later, party.
Mealer ran against Lina Hidalgo back in 2022 and lost by a slim margin. Mattress MAGAt Mac spent millions trying to get her elected. After losing, as many republicans did she whined and sued. And lost. So now she is going to run as a cartel member. There are better candidates to vote for. Go do your own research.
Don’t hold your breath for Councilman Lowry to file a suit against the city. He is like a constipated two year old. He can’t do shit.
The Chicken Little of La Marque Texas has failed. Womp Womp. The Galveston County News had an excellent article about the failed recall of the Mayor. If you can, take a few minutes to read it, but let me summarize. Lowry is blaming the City Clerk for not giving him enough signature sheets. He had plenty and wasn’t able to even fill those up. He is blaming the city and threatening a lawsuit as I posted earlier, demanding 100 billion dollars. (actually it is $750,000) He acknowledged the recall effort failed. According to the article:
Lowry late Tuesday had not provided documentation supporting his allegation of criminal conduct. The city clerk had not been charged with any offense, and no law enforcement agency had announced an investigation related to the matter.
So now what? Lowry ain’t going to sue anyone for anything. If he does he will have to go through a process called discovery and disclose all of his so called “evidence” of the crimes the Mayor committed as Lowry claimed on the recall petition. Lowry ain’t that stupid. If he is and does file suit then his 5 years of undercover investigative journalism against the Mayor will finally pay off, for everyone but Lowry. It will probably show he was passing around false information on the petition, possibly a felony offense. But don’t hold your breath. He has made threats before and hasn’t done shit. Much like Chicken Little yelling “The sky is falling” Lowry is yelling “Criminal Activity”.
As I said before, if elected former CCISD Trustee Scott Bowen will take a knee to Greg Abbott.
Following Greg Abbotts lead Scott Bowen is literally running on abolishing property taxes, the taxes that are used to fund CCISD, your city, your county, flooding projects, roads, law enforcement, etc, etc. It’s as if everything will magically become “free” like a socialist. Bowen championed Abbott’s school voucher gimmick while on the CCISD school board. CCISD voters threw his ass out because of that. Now as a candidate for State Representative he will continue his fight to cut school funding. Take a minute to watch this cringe worthy Facebook Ad.
Ending property taxes with the stroke of a pen might get the brain dead excited but eventually you have to ask “Who is going to pay for all of this free stuff?”. I’ll give you a hint, you are. Somehow you will pay for the free stuff. Money has to come from somewhere. Yes property taxes are high. This is a result of the leadership by the Republican Party over the last 30 years. This isn’t a new problem in fact this problem was created by the Republican Party and now Scott Bowen is going to ride in and solve a problem his party created?
Anyone with a lick of sense would address the problem at the root. Property taxes are based on home values. Home values have skyrocketed leaving most with no chance of owning a home. Couple that with the crippling cost of home insurance and you have a serious problem that must be addressed.
Bowen has a history of causing chaos on the CCISD school board. He has a history of being unable to lead or working with others. He has no idea what he is doing, or going to do besides taking a knee for Abbott.
Jesus folks. There is a better candidate for State Representative running against Bowen.
La Marque City Councilman Joseph Lowry, AKA Chicken Little, is at it again. According to Lowry he has been running in circles for 5 years exposing criminal activity, bribes, cabal-ing, yada yada and yet like a constipated two year old he ain’t doing shit. Now he is threatening a lawsuit against the citizens of La Marque because he needs a distraction from his failed recall petition.
Lowry has posted a confidential pre-suit notice to social media. (so much for being confidential) It looks like an AI generated legal document. He is good at using AI. He makes claims about the City Clerk, the Mayor, and others claiming civil rights violations, yada, yada. He is demanding restitution of $750,000 from the citizens of La Marque. It’s hard to read. It makes you want to sit back and tell Chicken Little to cluck off and STFU. Seriously. This is embarrassing. Hell I’m embarrassed for writing about it.
This pre-suit is about Lowry’s failed attempt at obtaining enough signatures for a petition to recall the Mayor. Lowry has until Tuesday to submit his petitions for the County to verify. As I said earlier he has probably failed and is now looking for a scapegoat. I doubt he will make his petitions public for the citizens of La Marque to see, but if he files suit he will be forced to submit to discovery. If you want to waste some time you can read the entire document at The Mark, a Facebook page documenting Lowry’s daily stupidity. I suggest doing something more productive like eating day old sushi at your local gas station.
The City Council meeting on Monday ought to be interesting.
La Marque City Councilman Joseph Lowry might have failed to obtain enough signatures to force a recall of the Mayor and he is madder than a wet hen. Mr. Chicken Little went to social media to blame the City Clerk claiming he wasn’t given enough signature sheets. These sheets cannot be copied and must be obtained from the city and have a city stamp.
According to a whiny ass video, Mr. Little posted to Facebook, the clerk gave him enough petition sheets for 750 signatures. (I thought he only needed about 500 signatures) He now claims he asked for more and she refused. Of course he claims she is a “criminal”. He claims he whined to the police and they wouldn’t take any action. He then starts whining about the tax increases and some other crap once again calling everyone a criminal including the Mayor, Council Members, and the Clerk. He even starts blaming the District Attorney’s office and demands action. The video is 6 minutes of red faced stupidity. He might want to check his blood pressure.
I wouldn’t trust Mr. Little’s word. He is probably just trying to blame someone else for his stupid stunt that probably has failed miserably. I bet he obtained less than 100 signatures. Of course he can make the signature sheets public record to prove that I am full of wit but you have a better chance of Lowry passing up a donut shop without stopping.
The City Clerk needs to tell Chicken Little to cluck off. Lowry was last seen running around in circles, flapping his arms and yelling about someone being a criminal.
According to the Texas Department of Insurance the Commissioner, Cassie Brown, will be retiring in 2026. She held the position after only 4 years and will leave the state in a horrible situation with rates skyrocketing across the state especially in the Bay Area. Brown was appointed by Governor Abbott. She will leave her position on February 2. Abbott will appoint a new one to serve until the election in November.
Brown was the speaker for the Clear Lake Chamber of Commerce back in the Summer.
After telling the business community how wonderful the TDI has protected the consumer from the rising cost of insurance and explaining why rates are so high, she left the stage, took no questions, and quickly left the building. Many in the crowd were not happy especially those at my table.
Insurance on all levels will be on the ballot this November. We need to demand action from our candidates. I have made it clear that this insurance issue is NOT a political issue. It affects all of us no matter what side of the aisle you are on. It affects owners, businesses, schools, insurance agents, realtors, and others.
It’s not a political issue but only our politicians can address this and if our elected officials refuse to address the problem, then we need new politicians. Elections are coming in November of 2026. Know who is running and vote your pocket book and your values. Demand all candidates running for office address the issue with their plans to solve the problem.
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