Progressive groupslast month submitted roughly 38,000 petition signatures to get the proposedcharter amendmentincluded on the May municipal election ballot, a move San Antonio City Attorney Andy Segoviasigned off on last week. HD137 38.73% 58.25% 3.03% DEMOCRAT. On the other hand, the Lege is out there as well, with a giant hammer to wield against cities and counties that do things the Republicans dont like. Cuellar emerged largely unscathed soundly winning his November reelection for a 10th term in office. Judge Craft is represented by Steve Kherker. She won the jackpot. HD142 8,851 24,073 1,025 411 Campos and the Texas Signal have more. HD148 16,333 19,766 HD143 36.72% 63.28% JP3 47.09% 52.91% JP5 50.37% 49.63% CC4 48.90% 51.10% I consider what Harker Heights City Council did to be defensible, but I would not feel the same way if this effort succeeds and they override it again. After the last Family Court race is the County Judge, the top race in the county, and then the County Civil courts, the County Criminal courts, and finally the County Probate courts. Dist Paxton% Garza% Lib% JP4 59.26% 40.74% Stan Stanart is represented by Elizabeth Alvarez. =============================================== HD135 16,804 21,988 1,227 559 HD138 56.38% 40.10% 2.38% 1.13% Radack 0 71,246 0 794,652, Court R Avg D Avg R pct D pct If anyone thought that eliminating straight ticket voting would give Republicans more of a chance to win these farther downballot races because Dems would lose interest or get tired or whatever, they were wrong. ==================================== Some Texas voting rights groups worry the Legislature will use the problems in Harris and those lawsuits as an excuse to advance bills such as these. Ferrell has served as a member of the Board for the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association since 2017. In Galveston and to a lesser extent Waller, the growth has been in redder areas, and we need to find the allies there who likely feel isolated and help them connect with and amplify each other. Menefee 36,826 30,700 0 193,291 One is that every Democratic candidate won Fort Bend County in 2018, by over 12K votes in each case. HD146 20.78% 75.62% 2.21% 1.39% Thats the order displayed in the table above, so each line represents a group that came entirely after the group above it. CC1 80,014 194,272 79 The chamber passed the overall rules package by a vote of 123-19, with Democrats making up most of the opposition. The Republicans picked the judges with some of the smallest accounts. HD128 68.08% 29.53% 2.39% As with the first Beto post, Im just going to dump all the data and will add my comments at the end. If youre in San Antonio, Id love to hear from you about this, so please send an email or leave a comment. This week, Speaker of the Texas House Dade Phelan dismissed the election contest filed by Mike May, the candidate who lost to Representative Jon Rosenthal in the 2022 election for house district 135. Dist Chris% Warford% Lib% Grn% So, if you are willing to make a donation to CIA that would be great. Cannabis reform advocates are pushing back against the city council of the Central Texas city of Harker Heights, which recently rejected a voter-approved ballot measure decriminalizing low levels of pot possession there. CC4 46.71% 49.40% 2.64% 1.25% HD134 31,902 47,475 1,190 6 Incumbent Republican Governor Bill Lee was re-elected to a second term with almost 65% of the vote, improving on his performance from 2018.. These are nuisance suits but the Judges and Lina have had to hire attorneys to represent them against the claims. CC1 27.46% 72.54% The two big red counties are Brazoria and Galveston, and they have acted distinctly differently over the last few elections: 32K to 36K in 2012 The Republicans are gonna do what theyre gonna do, and we cant stop them. HD144 45.24% 54.76% Putting them in the position of oversight would definitely change the dynamic.. Theres already more than 2.5 million registered voters in Harris County, up about 100K from November 2020, and I expect there to be over 2.6 million by next November. As always, please let me know what you think. New rules get adopted each session, this can always be revisited in the future. Hey, I knew what I was getting into when I started blogging. As of today, the office has not received an opinion on how to proceed with these particular public information requests. CC2 45.75% 51.23% 3.02% HD126 63.38% 36.62% From the inbox, sent to me by former HD133 candidate Sandra Moore: Below is a list of the judges and electeds being sued by the Republicans. She handled cases ranging from Class C speeding tickets to non-death Capital Murders. With that margin, three of the four Dem candidates would have won by a couple thousand votes. CC2 94,272 105,549 6,218 Let me know what you think. SD06 35.59% 64.38% 0.03% CC3 58.04% 39.20% 2.76% There wont be any citywide propositions in 2024, not if we have them this coming November, but Ill try to use the precinct data I have here to analyze that election. Dudding 294,958 255,993 59.69% 43.03% HD137 38.33% 59.01% 2.65% 0.01% I didnt look closely at new Commissioner Briones report, but Id bet a nice lunch that a substantial chunk of her cash arrived after the election. According to Hegar, Heaps office was allotted about $46.6 million for the 2023 fiscal year. Dan Patrick (481K votes) and Ken Paxton (480K) were the two low scorers among Republicans. Hudspeth 293,030 256,624 60.84% 44.00% Trevino 3,150 4,270 0 26,871 None of us got 70% of the votes. In 2018, Sanchez joined the offices Post-Conviction Writs division where he currently serves by investigating claims made by convicted persons challenging the legality of their convictions. The local police reform advocacy groupACT 4 SAaims to collect 35,000 signatures anticipating that some wont be verified to submit to the City Clerk before the early January deadline. HD132 36,340 23,537 Sure, maybe a couple. Theres more, but I dont have the mental energy to continue, so go read the rest for yourself. 33K to 35K in 2016 Three Local Gay Judges Lost their Elections - OutSmart Magazine Cant let Mattress Mack undo election wins. Start with a goal of 1 million Democratic votes for Joe Biden in 2024, and really aim for 1.1 million. JP6 21.59% 74.55% 3.87% The story goes into detail about how absurdly vague the provisions are, which could put a whole lot of election administrators in solidly red counties in danger if something goes wrong, as things sometimes do. What Im really aiming for is a net of at least 300K for Biden in Harris County; he was at plus 218K in 2020, after Beto was at plus 200K in 2018. 2023-00927; Bruce Bain v. Judge Corey Sepolio. Its perfectly appropriate for the chamber to have sanctions for that kind of action, and its not that different, at least to my mind, than what was passed after the 2003 walkout. She now manages McTorry Law, PLLC, where she is a criminal defense attorney. Judges who had not actively served at least six months on their current bench as of the date this questionnaire was prepared do not appear on the Judicial Evaluation. I dont have any great insight here, nor do I have much confidence that Dems could take action to mitigate against this. JP2 40.63% 56.87% 2.50% He also questioned the existence of and the accountability measures for the election administrator position in Harris County. I hope it at least amuses you. October 30, 2022 That resolution passed overwhelmingly with little debate or fanfare. I was worried that if Hidalgo lost, there was a real chance Dems could lose not one but both of the Commissioners Court races as well. A study funded by the Texas Indigent Defense Commission in 2015concludedthat attorneys could only reasonably handle at most 128 felonies or 226 misdemeanors a year. McTorry served in the Special Crimes Unit as an elite member of the Human Trafficking Division and Sex Crimes Division. Respondents have no discretion to force voters to approve or reject, all or nothing, charter provisions dealing with issues as varied as theft, graffiti, or prohibiting cooperation with state agencies regulating abortion providers, wrote attorneyEric Opiela, a former executive director of the Republican Party of Texas. CC4 114,198 127,074 The maximum that a judge can receive from a PAC is $5000, so that is the goal for each judge and for Lina. Texas House leadership on Wednesday shut down a long-building push to ban Democratic committee chairs, deploying procedural legislative maneuvers to defeat multiple proposals on the issue. Emphasis mine, and see here for the previous entry. He also worked as General Counsel for a multinational corporation. 2023-01202; Stan Stanart v. Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth. A lot of them just went to another polling place. By clicking Sign Up, I confirmthat I have read and agreeto the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. HD144 44.67% 50.89% 4.44% The Press has more. Cuellar maintains that he was never the target of the investigation and will ultimately be cleared of wrongdoing. Note how even the lowest scorers this year exceeded Obamas performance in non-Houston by three or four points in 2008 and four or five points in 2012, while doing about as well in Houston. HD143 8,631 15,710 We should find ways to collaborate and cooperate to help our candidates in these races. HD126 36,872 22,678 More or less the same story here, with the distinction between Houston and not-Houston being smaller than in prior years. Deadline to post candidate requirements 1 Form 1-15 (PDF) Monday, March 1, 2021. CC4 113,958 122,094 4,918 8 2 Cause No. Taylor said. It was the good ol boys system, 100 percent, [Jed Silverman, president of the Harris County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association,] said. 3 Cause No. JP7 12,496 64,441 CC1 73,858 195,066 At a high level, its federal races, then state races, then county races, then city and other local entities if applicable. HD137 40.29% 59.71% These dates are subject to changes from the 2021 legislative session. Not as good statewide races. HD129 55.82% 41.41% 2.77% CC4 49.47% 50.53% My office will be involved in the case every step of the way to ensure peoples votes are protected.". Andy Taylor, general counsel for the Harris County GOP, is representing Lunceford. Greg Abbott on Nov. 8. The total number of votes in these elections is comparable the number declines gently as you go down the ballot, but more undervoting does not explain the shifts in percentages. She has 32 years of experience in Harris County, state, and federal criminal and civil courts and has presented thousands of cases to citizens on grand juries. Election 2022 Voters' Guide: Who's Running for Judge in Texas? 2019 Judicial Evaluation Questionnaire Results. Oh, and if this is one of the final straws that leads to Constable precinct redistricting, I wont complain. CC2 97,146 99,729 7,605 All of that was discussed in the story as well, so go read the rest. There were 1,276 responses to the online Judicial Evaluation, representing 13.6% of eligible HBA members. This is all bullshit and should be seen as such. HD126 61.80% 36.07% 2.12% But a lot of them were disenfranchised by not having the first place open and ready to go like it should have been. At Tuesdays Denton City Council work session, Police Chief Doug Shoemaker was also on hand during Hensleys presentation to answer questions and reassured council members that misdemeanor amounts of marijuana would continue to be a low priority for police. We worked hard to make this happen. Now you can just go somewhere else. Both of the candidates running in the November 8, 2022, general election for Texas 208th District Court in Harris County Beverly Armstrong (D) and Heather Hudson (R) completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey. HD147 9,910 35,410 CC3 233,567 133,554 63 14 Cause No. 2015 979,401 2,054,717 47.67% And whatever else you may think about Dan Patrick, hes not an idiot. And as you can see, while there is that dip in percentage that we have discussed for the county criminal courts, it bounces right back for the probate courts. JP2 41.00% 55.97% 3.03% CC1 29.16% 70.81% 0.03% Once again, Comptroller Hegar has abused his authority, the county attorney said. There is no reason not to do it, so lets do it.. Our 2022 Candidates. HD138 59.16% 40.84% Thats an enormous increase over 2015. Unfortunately, more than 20 other election contests are still pending in Harris Countymost of those races had greater vote margins than Mays. HD126 58.56% 38.98% 2.46% Dan Spjut is represented by Elizabeth Alvarez. What you see above is the range for each, so the vote deficit for these counties goes from 105K to 112K. HD139 27.65% 68.39% 2.68% 1.27% HD129 60.98% 39.02% HD129 61.17% 38.83% For his part, Berry noted that the county had already been forced to adopt the property tax revenue freeze for its current budget because Commissioners Court was unable to reach a quorum needed to set a tax rate. The Tennessee primaries took place on August 4, 2022, with Lee and Democrat Jason Martin winning their respective parties' nominations. HD150 62.88% 37.10% 0.02% This is about 493K ballots cast for those two candidates, which doesnt count third party and write-in candidates or undervotes; I didnt tally them all up but wed be at around 510K total ballots defined as being Houston. Now, given the vast sum of money spent by wingnut richies to smear Democratic judges, it may be that was at least as big a challenge as undervoting was. HD145 12,220 32,097 1,425 HD140 32.85% 67.15% JP5 145,487 137,664 5,652 10 These candidates embody the progressive values we look for in our elected leaders and reflect the diversity of our county. We look forward to our Democratic nominee retiring Ted Cruz from the U.S. Senate and finally allowing him some time to finally relax at his preferred Cancun resort, said Ike Hajinazarian, a spokesperson for the Texas Democratic Party. 2022 United States secretary of state elections - Wikipedia The 2022 Texas Primary Election is fast approaching. The contests being filed request that the more than one million votes cast in Harris County be voided and the county hold another election for the races being challenged (e.g., Harris County Judge, 189thDistrict Court, 180thDistrict Court, etc.). Ive said this multiple times before, but as a reminder for the slow kids in the class, many counties have election administrators, including many Republican counties like Tarrant and Lubbock. Again, I want to stress, the goals that Act4SA and Ground Game Texas are advocating are good and laudable and I support them. How awful it was for democracy that these swarms of Democratic voters were mindlessly hitting one button and putting all these non-judges onto our benches. The dropoff in votes cast for each party from appellate to probate, and from county civil to probate, is about the same; the dropoff from district civil to probate favors the Dems. HD137 37.74% 57.73% 2.88% 1.65% If not, Ill be disappointed but not surprised. In 2022, the county passed a shortened seven-month budget that was in effect until the new schedule began in October. But Democrats didnt do as well in a number of dark blue districts in 2020 as they had in 2016 and 2018, and as we saw in 2022 it was in those districts where Beto fell short, often well short, of his 2018 performance. The same is true for 2018, except with the exact opposite result: 2018 bad counties 83K to 90K HD137 8,263 12,428 646 HD126 36,849 21,629 1,070 1 SD13 21.23% 78.74% 0.04% He suggesting the court has long favored stopping such charter amendments before theyre voted on, something thats still possible if it can prevent San Antonio from including it on the ballot this week. It was the luck of the draw for Texas senators on Wednesday as they drew lots to decide which half of them would get two-year terms and which would get four-year terms. To make its case, Mealers legal team will have to find evidence that more than 18,000 voters were unable to cast ballots on Election Day, and that all of those voters planned to vote for Mealer, Stein said. Those commissions are made up of the county judge, the tax assessor-collector, the county clerk and the chairs of local political parties. ====================== The county eventually began paying court-appointed attorneys hourly. A federal judge has handed Texas' elections overhaul a partial defeat days ahead of 2022s first primary. Thats a new statutory deadline for all judicial fundraising it used to be the case that judges who were involved in lawsuits could continue past that deadline, but the law was changed in the last session, so here we are. HD132 59.51% 38.75% 1.73% 0.00% HD145 14,410 29,702 So as a public service to you, and as my way of telling the candidates what will influence my vote, these are my priorities for the next HCDP Chair. Harris County election results 2022: County judge, commissioners There are multiple precincts that are partially in Houston and partially not in Houston. 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