Bay Area Houston

(You can find Campaign Finance Reports at the Texas Ethics Commission’s website.)

This is getting old. He bought his House seat. He bought his Senate seat. Now he is trying to buy the Attorney General seat. He is the Oligarch of Texas politics.

Bay Area’s Senator Money Mayes Middleton is running for Texas Attorney General and he is doing exactly what he did to win his State Representative seat and his State Senate seat, self funding his campaign. According to his report Middleton has a $10 MILLION loan to himself along with a meager fundraising total of $166,308.

When he ran for his Senate seat he raised $1,685,523 with $1.6 MILLION coming from Money Mayes himself leaving just over $35,000 coming from political suckers or those who are trying to suck up to Mayes for favors. When he ran for the House he raised $3.2 MILLION, with $2.4 MILLION coming from his own pocket. He won 56-43. His opponent raised $4000. Now he vowed to use $10 MILLION of his money to buy the AGs office.

$140,662 of the remainder of his fundraising totaling $166,308 came from 15 individuals/PACs giving $5000 or more. You can see the list below.

And you wonder why I call him “Money”?

After 10 years sitting on the Insurance Committee in the Texas House Dennis Paul is moving on to run for the Texas Senate. Like his fundraising for State Representative his fundraising for State Senate isn’t impressive. His acceptance of $5000 from the PAC of Independent Insurance Agents of TX is troubling.

During this last period Paul raised $132,300, most of it coming from out of the district. 92% of all his donations, $121,750, came from out of the district including $12,000 from California, Washington DC and Georgia leaving only 8% coming from his constituents. 58% of his donations, $76,250, came from PACs. His largest contribution, $25,000, came from the Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC which works to limit the rights of consumers. The complete list of donors are below:

Not a very good start.

After 6 years of controversy on the CCISD School Board ending in a much deserved ass kicking, Bowen has filed to run for State Representative for the Bay Area. Today was his first campaign finance report for this seat.

Bowen raised $30,182, spent $6,605, has a Cash on Hand of $48,576. As with his CCISD campaign he loaned himself $25,000. Of the $30,182 raised, $18,664 was donated by just 10 people giving $1000 or more. Of the $30,182, $26,592 came from outside of the district.

Some notable donations include $2,500 from League City Mayor Nick Long, failed candidate for State Representative Thomas McNutt gave $5,000. McNutt lives in Corsicana. Christopher Russo gave $1041.02. 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. 

Missing from his list of donors is Senator Money Mayes Middleton. Here is a list of all his donations for this period:

LOL. Just like Ken Paxton and his mistress, I nailed it.

Yesterday I said “if anyone thinks his divorce, or his mistress, or his impeachment, or his indictments make him unfit for his office or for the nomination for Senate they need to think. Again” and sure enough from the Houston Chronicle this morning a comment from the former Texas Republic Party Chair:

“I’m a Catholic and I don’t believe in divorce,” Rinaldi said. “But I think the political climate we’re in right now is one where Christians, conservatives believe they’re in an existential battle for their country, and I think in this battle, they’re choosing the candidates time and time again that will help them win this fight for the values of America.”

He continued “As a devout conservative Catholic I must put aside my christian values concerning adultery, f*cking a porn star, paying her off, and being convicted for it, stealing secret documents, stealing from veterans, lying, cheating, dehumanizing Mexicans, separating children from their mothers, mocking the disabled, making racist comments, inciting a riot on our Capitol, pardoning those who stormed our Capitol, spreading false information about COVID, ignoring judges orders, and pardoning child sex offenders.”

Ok, that last part he didn’t say out loud. Republican “Christians” are truly fucked up people. They will flock to the fucker and nominate him to represent the State of Texas in the United States Senate. This is who they are.

You simply can’t make this stuff up.

“As a conservative republican I think Paxton getting a divorce because he was caught screwing a hot blonde chick makes him even more worthy of my vote.”

Ok. I made that up but if anyone thinks his divorce, or his mistress, or his impeachment, or his indictments make him unfit for his office or for the nomination for Senate they need to think. Again. Republicans consider these to be badges of honor. Paxton is just following the values set by Trump and his party and he will be rewarded in March 2026.

Senator John Cornyn was direct in his criticism of the situation: “The sanctity of marriage is a pillar of our republican conservative values. Anyone who violates this should never be considered for higher office.”

LOL. I made that shit up also. Cornyn is screwed.

It’s almost funny.

The Houston Chronicle summed it up pretty well:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is dropping his appeal of a $6.7 million judgment for four whistleblowers who were fired after they reported him to the FBI for alleged corruption.

Last year Texas Attorney General settled a whistleblower case against him for about $3 Million. He expected the taxpayers to pay the bill but the Texas House had questions and demanded answers. They investigated and released a pretty damning report that led to his impeachment with an overwhelming vote against him. You can read the CliffNotes of the report here. Take a minute. It really is bad including his affair.

The republican cowards in the Senate, except for one, let him off the hook but they still didn’t pay the $3M settlement so it went back to trial. The 4 whistleblowers were awarded $6.7M over twice the previous amount. Paxton has dropped the appeal.

And guess what suckers have to pay the $6.7M? You guessed it. This settlement and his love affair should solidify his election in the Republic Party primary for Senate.

You really can’t make this stuff up!

Garrett W. Fulce of Sugar Land hosts “Seeing Red,” a right wing podcast. He claims he is a conservative and is not very happy about Fort Bend Judge KP George announcement about switching to the Republic Party. Fulce wrote an op-ed in the Houston Chronicle titled “KP George needs to say the magic words: ‘I resign'”. It’s a short, funny read. From the OP-ED:

• Rejecting George as a Republican isn’t about ideology. It’s about character. George’s party affiliation may have changed, but his character remains consistent: self-serving, manipulative, and deceitful.

Yeah. Right. “self-serving, manipulative, and deceitful” sounds like someone else who is the leader of the GOP. Anyone in the republic party speaking out against KP George is like Osama bin Laden speaking out against terrorism. Give us a break. That in itself is “self-serving, manipulative, and deceitful”.

KP George is the Fort Bend Judge and has been caught up in multiple serious controversies leading to a number of indictments and the Democratic Party calling for his resignation. Instead of resigning KP switched to a party that would welcome him and they did. Why not? Their great leader is a convicted lying, cheating, self-serving, manipulative, and deceitful, felon. Their Texas AG was impeached by an overwhelming number of republicans in the House. They are worshipping convicted felons who stormed the capitol on January 6 some who beat law enforcement. They have no respect for the rule of law or decisions by judges. To them “Law and Order” is the new LOL.

The GOP is the Gang of Phelons and KP George has found a new welcoming home. Good luck and don’t let the door hit you on the way out.