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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.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand this is excessive.

Harris County Constables are asking for a pay raise from $178,000/year to $293,000, a 65% increase. It is almost double their salary from 2004. This is excessive for a number of reasons.

• There are 8 Constables each responsible for only 1/8 of the County
• The Sheriff who is responsible for the entire County earns $223,000
• The Constable is an administrator job. Even though they carry a gun, law enforcement is not in their job description. They don’t patrol. They don’t confront bad guys. They sit at a desk.
• The County is trying to balance their budget which has a $200 Million shortfall
• No one except for CEOs of insurance companies, gets a 65% increase in pay. Not you. Not me.

Every Constable including our own Phil Sandlin requested the raise. If you don’t know who Phil Sandlin is you are in good company. For $178,000 a year citizens in the community should at least know who you are and what you look like. County Commissioners agreed to the increase by a vote of 3-2. I’m not in favor of this. I think it is excessive and not deserving especially when we are running a deficit. The Houston Chronicle has details.

“The eight constables should take what the sheriff makes and divide it by eight,” said Murray Newman, a criminal defense attorney who’s voiced concerns surrounding the constables previously. “That’s what they deserve to be making. They are supplemental law enforcement, not the marquee players.”

Just an FYI. I have reached out to Traci and have not received a response.

According to the Texas Ethics Commission Traci Gibson has filed an appointment of treasurer for her run for Harris County Democratic Party chair. At a time when unity is needed anyone running for Chair has be questioned. I would like to know why she is running but she has refused to respond.

The current Chair has been in office for just a short time and there is absolutely no reason to challenge him especially by someone with little or no experience for the job. Mike Doyle, the current Chair, has served the party very well. According to an email circulating with the precinct chairs she is a new precinct chair with no voting record in the 2020, 2022, or 2024 Democratic primary and yet she now wants to lead the party. She hasn’t been in the field. She hasn’t been involved with county politics. With these qualifications she is not qualified to run.

I’m waiting for a response from her as well as finding out who is financially supporting and encouraging her to run.