Houston City Councilman Mike Knox is in a tough race for re-election. His opponent, Raj Salhotra, is young, energetic, very knowledgeable about the job he is running for, and can raise money, lots of money.
Knox isn’t as young and he can’t raise money so he has resorted to what republicans do best. Lie and label his opponent as a socialist. It just gets old. From Jasper Scherer, Houston Chronicle reporter:
Knox couldn’t help throwing in Congressman Beto O’Rourke’s name in his insult. Unfortunately for Knox, Beto is pretty popular in Houston and Texas and it might bite him in the ass in Dec. Maybe Knox will ask Trump to come campaign for him. Ask Kentucky Governor Bevin how that worked out for him.
If you didn’t get a chance to see Tony BuzzedBee’s premature victory speech take 15 minutes of your time to do so. It is epic. Go ahead. I’ll wait.
Yeah. That is Tony Buzbee. The only difference between Buzbee and Baker, Houjami, Romero, Taylor, Vasquez, Broze, and “Dementia” Smith is money. Buzbee is just as politically ignorant as the others but when you have $10 Million of your own money to spend, you can get more than .5% of the vote.
We had way too many people running for office resulting in run off elections in December. Many of these candidates had no business running. Running for office is not about “running for something”, “running everywhere”, or having the courage to run. Any politically ignorant fool with a few dollars for the filing fee can run for a political office. Many did. Tony Buzbee did.
Chris Brown retained his job. Look for him to run for Mayor in 4 years. Dave Martin wiped out his opponent.
Councilman Mike Knox will face Raj Solhotra who has the ability, to not only hit the ground running as a City Council Member, he also can raise money. Lots of money. He has $78,000 COH while Knox has $11,000.
Council Member Robinson will once again face Willie Davis for Position 2. Davis is an extreme right wing, religious leader. Robinson is one of those who puts his head down and gets the job done. And he has done it very well.
Council Member Kubosh was forced into a run off with Janaeya Carmouche. Janaeya has the ability and knowledge of the city but lacks in fundraising to get her message out. Kubosh is $256,000 in the hole and has had trouble fundraising.
I was surprised about Position 4. I thought Nick Hellyar was far above the competition over Baldwin and Plummer. All three are good candidates I just thought Nick was much better. Plummer now has to run against one of those who shouldn’t be running Anthony Dolcefino. He is poor Buzbee, politically ignorant with little fundraising.
And position 5. Eric Dick is now in a run off with Sallie Alcorn. There couldn’t be a more striking contrast between the two candidates. Alcorn has the experience, the enthusiasm, and the fundraising capability to be an outstanding City Council Member. Dick, on the other hand, is another Buzbee. He is self financing to the tune of over $250,000 and has absolutely no business running for City Council. To Dick this is a game.
The run off is Dec 14. I hope to attend the Tony Buzbee celebration to see another meltdown.
In his latest report Dick raised only $1,435 but he loaned himself $75,000 as well as spent $93,248 out of his own pocket. It’s a pattern for Dick. In 2015 he spent $74,652 out of his own pocket in his race for Houston City Council. His $75,000 investment didn’t work out very well. He lost.
Dick is continuing his Buzbee method of raising money. He isn’t. Instead he has an outstanding loan of $75,000 and he has spent $99,000 of his own money in this period alone. He is in this race for $267,000 of his own money. His spending includes salaries to a number of people with the same address of 3701 Brookwoods, which the owner is listed in the HCAD website as DICK INVESTMENT FAMILY LP. His treasurer, Jay Hamburger is also listed at that address as well as Dick himself.
He paid $25,000 to the Texas Conservative Media, the same group Tony Buzbee gave $35,000 to and got an endorsement. Unlike Tony, Dick didn’t get dick from Polland.
He paid $17,500 to PFS at the address of PO Box 7137 Houston TX 77248. That address is for the Carmona Law Firm. I cannot find a PFS. It is listed as “advertising”.
He paid $21,250 to Famous Group at 13201 Northwest Freeway Houston TX 77248. I could not find any organization called Famous Group or anything at that address besides Well Fargo.
He paid $12,500 to WS Services at 4325 Tulsa Houston TX 77092 which is a storage facility. Again I can’t find a WS Services.
He paid $15,250 to Blaze Campaign Consulting with an address of 5380 W 34th Houston TX 77092 which is a UPS store. I can’t find Blaze Campaign Consulting.
The laws for filing campaign finance reports are pretty easy. You must record the name and address for all expenditures. It really isn’t that hard. His report is an ethic complaint in the making.
Tony has a lot of money to dole out since he is self funding his campaign for Mayor for $10 Million. Most of that money is being spent out of state and there are a few interesting tidbits. After seeking the endorsement of the Christian anti-gay group led by Steven Hotze, Buzbee denied it on a televised debate. Hotze withdrew the endorsement. Buzbee has donated $500 to the Gay Caucus in Houston. He likes to play both sides but easily gets caught doing it. Buzbee likes to target the Mayor with baseless allegation of “pay to play” but Buzbee has his own type of pay to play. Buzbee donated $35,000 to Gary Polland the editor of Texas Conservative Review. Gary has now endorsed him. Imagine that. In his 8 day out report Buzbee spent $2.5Million (of his own money) with $2.4 Million going out of state. $1.9 Million was paid to Axiom Strategies and AX Media with the same address in Kansas. $386,000 was paid to The Prosper Group in Indiana, $114,00 was paid to Madison McQueen in California. At least he has paid his grassroots services employee very well with $134,000 in the first two weeks of October.
Buzbee has spent considerable amount of money on commercials, most from out of state resources. Eric Dick spent $99,000 of his own money. Again. He raised $0 and has an outstanding loan of $75,000. Council Member Mike Knox continues to struggle with fundraising while his opponent has not. Houston Fire Fighters Union’s endorsed candidate for Mayor, Dwight Boykins, raised only $7581.
This is what happens when you attempt to play both sides as Tony Buzbee has.
A GPAC registered with the Texas Ethics Commission, Citizens for a Greater Houston, has raised money to attack Tony Buzbee with a mobile billboard. According to their Oct report they raised $10,000 from two donors, Ann Trammell and Robert Clay. The GPAC address is the same as the Treasurers, Bobby Orr and Orr Commercial, a commercial real estate firm.
I would bet all three of these individuals have a republican voting record. They don’t seem to be too happy and are advertising a website www.therealtonybuzbee.com about Buzbee’s donations to the Democratic Party but fail to mention his massive donations to their lord and savior Donald Trump. Here is something from their site:
The website ends with “Is this the kind of role model we want for Houston kids”? Maybe if Buzbee porked a porn star, paid her off to keep silent, then lied about it to win an election Citizens for a Greater Houston would have more respect for him.
ABC13 reported a break in Tony Buzbee’s campaign office with Buzbee jumping in with:
“This is not the kind of news that I want to wake up to in the morning,” said Buzbee in the statement. “But it just confirms that my campaign continues to gain momentum and we are on the right track.”
After a brief investigation the Houston Police Department issued a statement saying there was no sign of a break in and nothing was stolen. Buzbee issued another statement which seemed to be written by Donald Trump blaming the press. From the Houston Chronicle:
“So, bottom line, we don’t think this was another Watergate, as much as the press would like it to be,” Buzbee said. “Onward!!”
The press was only reporting there was a break in, then after the investigation they reported there wasn’t. There wasn’t much Watergating except to reference the $21 Million in art stolen from his home and that his gun jammed while the robbers drove off on a scooter. (Which sounds like a bucket full of shit) The Press gave wind to Buzbee to claim this “break in” proved he wasn’t 20 points behind Turner after spending $10 million. He should be thanking them for the free air and print.
Although nothing was stolen, over a hundred Buzbee campaign signs were returned.
After attending Texas A&M in the Corps of Cadets and serving in the Army, I came to Houston to join Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse. I was a tort reformer, coming after those rotten, greedy, trial lawyers, like Buzbee, until I needed one of those lawyers. I learned that tort reform was a joke on us, and the Republican Party who made the joke was not on my side. It was a hard lesson to learn.
Republicans don’t like trial lawyers. Ask Governor Abbott was paralyzed after running under a tree being cut down. He sued, hit the lawsuit lottery, then, using his office as Attorney General, made it much harder for others to use the same courts to find justice. Abbot gave me the idea for a joke that I have used many times at hearings in the Capitol.
When do you stop bashing trial lawyers? —–When you need one.
Ask Greg Abbott. It’s going to be sad watching the tort reformers of the Republican Party vote for the people they hate, the trial lawyer, Tony Buzbee. It might also be funny to watch Texas A&M send a cease and desist letter to Buzbee for the use of Block T in his “Aggies for Buzbee” signs.
When do you stop bashing Tony Buzbee? —-When he loses.
In their endorsement of Mayor Turner for a second term the Houston Chronicle make a comment about Tony Buzbee:
The candidate most likely to push Turner into a runoff, trial lawyer Tony Buzbee, has self-funded his campaign to the tune of $10 million. He’s brought passion and, well, creativity, to the typical ho-hum dryness of mayoral politicking. While he may have turned heads, and perhaps noses, with his colorful animal metaphors – horse manure and hogs, oh my! – we’re looking for substance, experience, and true vision.
That pretty much says it all about Tony Buzbee, in a nice way. He is rich, able to invested $10 million of his own money to buy an election. He has colorful drawing the attention of republicans looking for another savior even though he is one of those blood sucking, greedy, trial lawyers. He is politically ignorant with little understanding of how government works. He will say anything to anyone to get what he wants. And he is full of shit. Tony Buzbee is the Donald Trump of Houston. If Trump hadn’t shown his colors for the last 3 years Buzbee might have a chance to be Mayor. Constant, daily, lies about your opponent and claiming rampant corruption worked for Trump. Maybe the citizens of Houston is just plain tired of a politically ignorant, lying, assholes ruining their government. Maybe. Hopefully.
Eric Dick is on the Harris County Department of Education and as predicted has made a fool out of himself and his fellow republicans. He filed a complaint against fellow board member and fellow republican, Mike Wolfe, for sexual harassment. Dick also filed an ethics complaint against Wolfe for not reporting a $28,000 loan from Dick. Dick really doesn’t play well with others. See Dick speak:
The investigation clearly shows that Mike Wolfe is a pervert. He should resign immediately. If he refuses, I beg the County Attorney to file a law suit to remove him. It is unacceptable to serve as an elected official when you sexually harassed someone.” – Eric Dick
Now see Dick run for Houston City Council and like Buzbee can’t raise money. In his latest report Dick raised only $1,435 but he loaned himself $75,000 as well as spent $93,248 out of his own pocket. It’s a pattern for Dick. In 2015 he spent $74,652 out of his own pocket in his race for Houston City Council. His $75,000 investment didn’t work out very well. He lost.
Like Buzbee he is financing his campaign with $168,2348 out of his own pocket trying to win a seat he is not qualified to hold especially when there is an extremely well qualified, enthusiastic, candidate in the same race.
BTW the Houston Professional Fire Fighters Association has endorsed Dick. They don’t know dick.
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