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NOTE: I am supporting Annise Parker for Harris County Judge.

There is a runoff in both parties for Harris County Judge. Orlando Sanchez and Warren Howell will be running for the Republican Party nomination. Annise Parker and Letitia Plummer are running for the Democratic Party nomination. All have submitted the required campaign finance reports. Plummer was late on filing the 30 day out and the 8 day out. Howell has not filed an 8 day out report.

Democrats:
Annise Parker has outraised her opponent without the need of loans. She has always been a strong fundraiser in the past. Plummer has historically had trouble with raising funds as well as filing on time. She has a $7,000 personal loan and only $407 cash on hand.

Republicans:
Orlando Sanchez has a large personal loan of $219,513 listed in his January report but it was not listed in his 8 day or 30 day out report. He has only $1,600 cash on hand. Howell is spending his own money on his race with a $272,650 personal loan. He raised only $15,000 for the race. Howell has not filed an 8 day out report.

Notes:
The republican nominee will not need to raise any money. Greg Abbott and various PACs will be pouring millions into this race with the hope of securing the Harris County Judge position. Unfortunately their hand picked candidate, Marty Lancton the Houston Fire Department Union President, came in 4th place in the primary. The billionaires in North Texas will most probably put millions into this race.

Case in point the brochure funded by the Latino Labor Leadership Political Action Committee.

The LLL PAC was created in 2006 with a couple of thousands in donation. In 2025 donations of over $131,000 was received mainly from non Latinos such as $10,000 from the law firm Pusch and Wynn. In total since 2006 they raised over $290,000. Most of their donations came from non Latinos. $36,000 was donated by Amir Mireskandari a consultant for Kim Ogg and a fundraiser for her. Very few of the total donors are Latino.

This group raised enough money to publish a “Voters guide” which looks very similar to another voters guide published in 2022. Neither were from Harris County or the Harris County Democratic Party. From a previous post concerning dirty tricks in elections:

In the Democratic primary of 2020 and organization call Fort Bend United run by Shapnick Khan distributed an endorsement brochure titled “Harris County Democratic Voters Guide” (see below). Harris County had nothing to do with this voters guide, by law. Harris County Democratic Party had nothing to do with this, by bylaws. But it sure did look nice, and well written. Their endorsements included absolutely horrible candidates running against Commissioner Adrian Garcia and Judge Lina Hidalgo. Fort Bend United has since filed a campaign finance report showing a $0 COH. The Treasurer, Shapnick Khan also created a PAC called Texas Progressive Executive Council in 2021. He raised no money and it is now listed as “Inactive”

I have not seen the endorsements in this brochure. Do yourself a favor and throw it away.

NOTE: I have been very critical about Traci Gibson’s run for Chair. I have attempted to talk with her about why she is running and she refused.

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.

What the living f***?

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.

Stupid. Petty.

Gdamnit. We have a must needed win coming up in November. It’s not an option. We have an out of control dictator wannabe and a republican Congress who lost their balls and won/t hold him accountable. We have to right the ship, take over the House, and keep this god awful mistake of a human being from doing more damage to the country yet the Harris County Democrats are wasting their time and energy on a petty resolution against Mayor Whitmire.

Now far be it from me to defend Whitmire. He has been a huge failure as Mayor. Many expected him to use his 50 years of influence to fix our budget and get our gdamn trash picked up on time. He has failed but I am not going to waste my time fighting over a resolution in the Party to guarantee he will never be endorsed by the very party that doesn’t endorse candidates. It was nothing more than a complete waste of time and we might have lost more than expected.

A small minority of the Precinct Chairs passed a resolution to stop the Party from endorsing Whitmire in future elections. FYI Whitmire’s performance and his age has guaranteed that will never happen. What the Chairs didn’t realize is the harm they might have done to us in November. All we got was a flood of bad press making us look like the Petty Party of Politics. Governor Hot Wheels Abbott is going to spend 20 million to take over Harris County. We need every gdamn vote we can get to get a new County Judge, Commissioners, and Congressional leaders.

To pass a petty resolution by the far left of the party may turn off those voters who are looking for adult leadership. Independent voters are the biggest idiots on the planet and will look to the tinniest, most insignificant, petty, excuse to vote for someone else, like “I just don’t like her” or “emails”. The last thing they will vote for is another Lina Hidalgo spewing pettiness and driving off even members of her own party. Voters have had enough of the cowardliness of the Republican Party and the pettiness of the Democrats.

They want grown ups to lead. As I have said in the past Hidalgo and Whitmire both need to grow up at least for the next year. Do us a huge favor and do your damn job, shut the hell up, and don’t give voters yet another reason to stay home.

Or pass another worthless resolution to strip me of my political power. That I don’t have.

Why are you running? Is a question Democrats are asking and getting no answers.

I mentioned earlier that a relatively newcomer to the Harris County Democratic Party has thrown her name into the hat for Chair. “Newcomer” is a bit generous. Traci Gibson is a young, educated, attorney but her lack of any other qualifications for the job is troubling. Troubling enough for a couple of precinct chairs to send out emails warning others about signing her petition to get on the ballot.

Gibson was recently appointed to be a precinct chair. She has no on the ground experience working her precinct except for getting the title. She has no experience working with the party or advocating for the party or candidates. She has a very troubling voting record, that is, she has none. She hasn’t voted in the last 3 Democratic primaries. She also has a tendency to snap at individuals who ask a very simple question “Why are you running?”. I should know. I was one she snapped at.

But don’t take it from me. Here are some comments from emails sent by various precinct chairs:

Gibson says she has the “strategies and skills” to make Democrats dominate the next HC election. Seriously, from someone who has zero documented experience in politics, recently changed her voter registration to Harris County and just became a precinct chair at the last CEC?

Ms. Gibson did not vote in the 2024 Democratic primary, OR the 2022 primary OR the 2020 primary. Please stop and think about that for a moment — while we Precinct Chairs were out there sweating and block-walking, making phone calls, handing out literature, holding candidate rallies and manning the polls, during three of the most important and stressful primaries in recent history, Ms. Gibson made a conscious decision not to vote as a Democrat.

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} [told you!] 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.