Raising Campaign Cash: Vidal Martinez for County Judge (Qanon republican)

January 19, 2022

 The Qanon Republican Party has their candidate.

Vidal Martinez is running for County Judge against Lina Hidalgo probably because they couldn’t find a woman with the last name of Hidalgo to confuse voters. Martinez raised $514,585 with $100,000 coming from a personal loan. Of the remaining $414,585, 14 donors contributed $340,000 or 82% of all her donations. The remaining 18% donated $74585. Unlike other candidates Martinez relied on the deep pockets of every day, common, peasants donating $1000 or more. Her top 14 donors are:


Raising Campaign Cash: Lee Merritt for Texas Attorney General

January 19, 2022

Lot’s of socialist money being poured into this campaign. 

The socialists of America has figured out a way to infiltrate the Democratic Party by running in deep, deep, deep, blue districts such as in Hays County (Austin). They pick and choose just a few candidates unlike what they did back in 2016 when they adopted the “Run Everywhere, Lose Everywhere” approach. From an early post:

Out of 80 candidates endorsed by , only 7 won. 2 were incumbents in deep blue districts. 1 was unopposed.  4 were all in very blue districts wiping out their general election opponents. It’s not like they were endorsing in tough competitive states like Texas, although those that did, lost. All of them. One raised over a $1 Million and lost 70-30 in the primary.

It looks like they have picked Lee Merritt to run in Texas for AG. Texas is far from being deep, deep, blue. It’s a possible swing state if that. In his latest report Merritt raised a total of $404,615 which is pretty good for a primary. $185,333 are unitemized. More on that later.

Of the remaining 2146 donations of $219,281 that were itemized, only $70,085, 31%, were from Texans. $149,196, 69%, came from out of state donors. $60,751 came from donors from California. $22,298 came from Real Justice PAC a socialist Organization based out of California. Real Justice raised $25,880 with $21,445 coming from cash donations, which is hard to believe. I’ve written about Real Justice before:

According to the Texas Ethics Commission Real Justice PAC has raised $298,050 with $200,000 coming from one individual, Cari Tuna from San Fransisco. Only $10,200 came from Texans, and only $600 came from Harris County.

About that $185,333. Merritt listed unitemized contributions of $185,333. According to the Texas Ethics Commission all donations over $90 must be reported as well as all donations submitted electronically. So this $185,333 must be donations of $90 or less and in cash. That is a lot of cash.




Raising Campaign Cash: Republican Candidates running for Harris County Judge

January 19, 2022

Nine republicans have filed for Harris County Judge. Most have no idea of what they are doing and their fundraising reflects this. The republicans found a Latina named  Martinez to challenge Hidalgo probably because they couldn’t find someone named Hidalgo to run in order to cause confusion.

Martinez deserves a post all by herself and that will come soon. It will be very interesting. Kibosh loaned himself $60,000, raised $15,000 which included a $10,000 donation from his own pocket. Martian Dixon seems to have some fundraising capability.


Raising Campaign Cash: Judge George Risner for County Commissioner

January 19, 2022

Judge George Risner has drop his reelection plans to run against current County Commissioner Adrian Garcia in the Democratic primary. Based upon his lack of fundraising he might want to consider sitting this one out.

According to his financial report Risner raised only $2250, spent $1899, and has a balance of $51,550 which includes a personal loan of $51,550. The math doesn’t add up but that is a minor problem. Prior to running for Commissioner Risner raised $90,975 for his judicial seat. He received $6906 in in-kind contributions. His cash on hand is illegible. I’m not sure if he can transfer these funds from a judicial account to a COH (Candidate/Office Holder?).

Commissioner Garcia raised almost $587,000 and has $2.1Million cash on hand. Garcia has been endorsed by the Gulf Coast AFLCIO and local Democratic clubs.


More Dicks running for office as republicans

January 18, 2022

Eric Dick, the current Harris County Department of Education Trustee, is now running for Harris County Treasurer giving up his seat. His wife, Danielle Dick, is now running for his vacant seat. She has filed an Appointment for Treasurer for Joe Synoradzki the same treasurer Eric uses. Joe works at the Dick Lawfirm.

Danielle will probably use the same method of fundraising Dick has used, that is self financing. Dick over the last few elections has not raised much money depending upon his own personal funds to litter the city with Dick pics signs. Hopefully she will learn from her husband’s mistakes and will not use deceptive mailers implying she is being endorsed by elected officials that will never endorsed her or Dick.

Do one likes a dick. Don’t be a dick:

Dick has a preliminary hearing scheduled at the end of this month in front of the Texas Ethic Commission for his deceptive media content. As you might remember Dick paid for a mailer to the African American community during the 2019 City Council runoff. This mailer did not have the required “Political ad paid for by…” statement. It also looked like prominent Black elected officials such as former President Barack Obama, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, and others were endorsing his run for Houston City Council. 




Raising Campaign Cash: Scott Bowen CCISD Trustee

January 4, 2022

Scott Bowen is up for re-election. He is the lead for the Qanon takeover of CCISD.

During his last election Scott raised $12,371 which, in political terms, is a shit load of money for a school board race. But….$7936 came from his own pocket, with $7000 coming in the form of a personal loan. He raised another $4158 from contributions plus $277 in an in-kind donation.

$1000 of his contributions came from a candidate for Texas House in Corsicana, Thomas McNutt, an extreme right wing candidate who lost in the primary to a more extreme right wing candidate. 

Bowen has reported $5529 in unpaid expenditures.


Raising Campaign Cash: Christine Parizo for CCISD

January 2, 2022

Christine Parizo unsuccessfully ran for the CCISD board, losing by 25 points and demanding multiple recounts that cost the district. The recounts confirmed her massive loss.

Parizo raised about $4700 with a $1000 donation from Jeffery Lafleur from Great Falls Virginia, home of the Loundoun County Public School District. Eric Williams, the current CCISD Superintendent, comes from the Loudoun School District. Parizo has no love for him. Jeffery probably doesn’t either. Parizo also received $400 from the Citizens for CCISD PAC funded by State Representative Money Mayes Middleton.

Current CCISD Trustee, Scott Bowen donated $769 in an in kind donation. Norman Pappou donated $310, and Justin Hicks, a League City Council Member, donated $650, both in-kind donations.

Parizo loaned herself $2000. Did I mentioned she lost by 25 points?


Texas State Representative "Money" Mayes Middleton brags about endorsement from a known racist

January 1, 2022

 

From Reform Austin

From Reform Austin:

“Honored to have received the endorsement of President Donald Trump in my race for Texas Senate!” said Middleton “President Trump is continuing his work to elect conservative Republicans across America. I look forward to continue fighting for our values in the Texas Senate.” 

Money Mayes Middleton values the endorsement from Trump, the most racist president the United States has had. He doesn’t seem to have a problem with calling people “Pocahontas”, or calling Latinos “rapists” or siding with white supremacists. Money Mayes christian values doesn’t have a problem with porking a porn star while married, paying her off to keep her mouth shut, and then lying about it to get elected. Money Mayes christian values doesn’t seen to have a problem with constantly lying, making fun of the disabled, cheating people out of their hard earned money, or leading an insurrection against the government. 

Money Mayes claims to be a “conservative” but he isn’t. He is a republican. There is a HUGE difference between a conservative and a republican.


Raising Campaign Cash: Citizens for CCISD

December 28, 2021

If you are wondering who maybe sponsoring the disruptions at the CCISD board meetings look at who is donating to the Citizens for CCISD PAC.

According to the Texas Ethics Commission Citizens for CCISD was created  back in 2017 and raised $4800 mostly coming from one donor State Representative “Money” Mayes Middleton. Money Mayes is one of the few candidates who is wealthy enough to completely finance his entire campaign for State Representative spending millions of his own money to win. From a previous post:

According to his latest report Middleton has raised over $1.7 Million (not 1.5) with $1.5 coming from his own pocket, 87% of his entire fundraising efforts. He has $45,099 COH. $1.7Million to win a primary.

$1800 was contributed to the PAC by a few individuals such as Philip Ratisseau, $660, Michael Lee, $400 and others.

Citizens for CCISD donated to Christine Parizo $400 and Kevin Oditt $400. The other expenditures were for various expenses.


State Representative Dennis Paul. Whining and lying about his cancelled fundraiser

November 4, 2021

Dennis Paul, a republican from Clear Lake, had to change his annual fundraiser from a Harris County park to Galveston County and we all got to listen to him whine and lie.

According to Dennis Paul, he incorrectly blames Harris County for his staff’s mistakes and lies leading up to his event being cancelled by his own staff.

“Despite having a contract in place for months with Commissioner Adrian Garcia’s office in Precinct 2, we were notified late last week that we would not be able to have any sort of fundraising activities at Clear Lake Park. I would like to think that this was a simple miscommunication, but it seems par for the course for Democrats in Harris County.”

Dennis Paul thinks he is special and entitled to have a fundraiser on County property. (I can’t and you can’t.) When you rent the pavilion you are specifically asked if you are a non profit or charity and whether money will be exchanged, items will be sold, or money raised. Only non profits can exchange money like the Rotary Shrimporee has done in the past for many many years.

Paul’s staff forget, or possibly just lied to Harris County about their event was not for profit. Republicans have mastered the art of lying like a dog. Imagine if our facilities could be used for profit making events. The Landolt Pavilion is a great location and facility and is very reasonable. If for profit organizations were allowed to rent the venue we common folk wouldn’t have an opportunity to rent it ourselves for family reunions, charity events, or company picnics.
But Paul thinks he is special and above the rules because under republican rule the rules were allowed to be broken for many years as they did for his predecessor, John Davis, until he pour grease down the drain and clogged up the water system. 
Paul has since moved his event to another location which is much easier to protest at.