ROBERT FICKMAN'S 2022 HARRIS COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY JUDICIAL ENDORSEMENTS Friends - The Harris County District Attorneys Office has SHAMEFULLY encouraged assistant district attorneys and pro- prosecution candidates to run against some of our best incumbent judges in the Democratic Primary. felt welcomed and heard on lobbying trips to Washington, D.C. San Antonio will vote on marijuana decriminalization, drew their lots to see who would have to run again in 2024, other challenges filed by other losing losers, Precinct analysis: County executive offices, Bell County to sue over Killeens marijuana ordinance, Precinct analysis: The not-as-good statewide races, Precinct analysis: The better statewide races, Superintendant House speaks about the looming TEA takeover. HD140 32.14% 67.86% I strongly suspect well be hearing from the Legislature on the latter, and quite possibly on the former as well. Committee appointments are expected to be made in the next couple of weeks. Education: University of Texas at Arlington and University of Texas at Austin. As with the first Beto post, Im just going to dump all the data and will add my comments at the end. As for Whitmire, what this means is that if hes elected Mayor this year, things will be messy in SD15 the next year. But in San Marcos, Hays County District Attorney Wes Mau has asked for the Texas attorney generals opinion on that citys decriminalization ordinance. 4. HD144 11,679 13,015 1,125 328 This legislation would apply only in those counties and not in the 122 that elect county clerks or tax assessors tasked with running elections and handling voter registration. Judge Sepolio is represented by John Raley. For whatever the reason fewer people split their tickets, even though they had no choice but to vote (or not) in every single race. Nothing else of great interest in this group Id expect both Ed Gonzalez and Christian Menefee to start posting bigger numbers soon. Ogg 161,659 19,356 48,489 242,159 Unfortunately, more than 20 other election contests are still pending in Harris Countymost of those races had greater vote margins than Mays. CC3 61.36% 36.95% 1.68% 0.00% None of the other Texas cities where decriminalization initiatives have been approved Elgin, Denton, San Marcos and Austin has faced litigation. HD145 29.99% 64.40% 4.11% 1.50% See here and here for the background. County Commissioner Court. Plus, the idea of it makes me gag, so its just as well. Meteorologist Lena Maria gives us a look at what we can expect as we gear up for the opening weekend of the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo! The judge hearing the case is in San Antonio which complicates matters re time to get there and back for hearings. HD129 37,473 24,455 1,607 766 HD148 45.83% 54.14% 0.02% The two glaring exceptions to this are HDs 133 and 134, both wealthy, well-educated, predominantly white districts that, in keeping with recent trends, are a lot more Democratic than they used to be. Phony Defunding Claims II: Electric Boogaloo. There were 1,276 responses to the online Judicial Evaluation, representing 13.6% of eligible HBA members. HD128 71.88% 28.10% 0.03% The high score with these three is Jay Klebergs 51.11%. At a high level, its federal races, then state races, then county races, then city and other local entities if applicable. Hensley said that certain parts of the ordinance simply couldnt be implemented because it violates state and federal law. HD131 20.93% 79.03% 0.04% JP4 173,174 120,696 5,428 13 Harris County has a new system called managed assigned counsel (MAC) that helps a little with keeping anyone from having too many cases, but outside of the occasional news coverage and the State Bar, a process thats completely opaque to most of us, theres little oversight of the system as a whole. Education: Alabama State University and Southern University Law Center. Hidalgo versus Mealer As Ive said, Harris County is more Democratic now. JP3 47.09% 52.91% HD134 42.49% 57.51% Harris County Commissioners Court on Thursday voted to sueTexas Comptroller GlennHegars office in response to hiscomments accusing the countyof defunding law enforcement. HD141 18.34% 81.66% That helps, and I have hope it can be better than that in 2024. Hegars claim is a repeat of a fight thatalready played outbetween the comptroller and Harris County last August. A proposed City Charter amendment that seeks to ban police from using no-knock warrants and chokeholds, as well as expand the citys cite-and-release policy for low-level, nonviolent crimes, has enough certified signatures supporting it to appear on the ballot in San Antonios May municipal election. HD132 36,413 23,479 Turns out there was: You may have noticed that the ballot is arranged in a particular order. HD140 5,685 11,976 991 277 In 2008, Jason left his civil practice to accept a position as an Assistant District Attorney in Harris County, where he went on to serve as the Chief Prosecutor in two different County Criminal Courts. These losing candidates should move on too.. Looking back at those earlier years, Beto fell short of the top performers in Houston, which in 2008 and 2012 was Adrian Garcia and which in 2018 was himself, but he did better in non-Houston Harris County. HD132 56.16% 41.60% 2.24% A video of how to expunge ones record in Denton is embedded in the story. Democrats can persuade at least some Republicans to vote for their statewide candidates, but only under some conditions. Education: Baylor University, Eastern University in Pennsylvania, South Texas College of Law HoustonEndorsements: andreabeallforjudge.com/endorsements, Campaign website: andreabeallforjudge.com. HD127 60.79% 37.55% 1.65% 0.00% HD134 39.36% 57.68% 1.90% 1.05% Public Education HD127 62.30% 37.70% HD137 8,475 12,264 For sure, if this passes it will be a quick matter before they have to rule on a temporary restraining order one way or the other about enforcement. HD145 13,535 29,065 1,855 677 HD150 62.20% 37.80% ====================== For the most part, Hidalgos performance in each district is about what youd expect in comparison to Beto. - Houston suspends sister city ties with Russian cities on the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine, - Mayor Turner's office accuses Pappas of 'smear campaign' on Hobby deal, says city followed its rules, - Houston leaders divided on support for controversial affordable housing projects, - Five years after Santa Fe massacre, relatives still denied records of loved ones' last moments, - Kingwood operators released sewage in creek that feeds into Houston's drinking water, HPD alleges. Go read those posts if you havent or if you dont remember them. She was as an Assistant Criminal District Attorney in Polk County. HD147 9,684 35,282 1,243 1 HD129 36,347 26,966 1,802 There is no justification for denying the public information about a controversy just because it involves litigation, Aleshire said. (*as of 12/5/2021), Education: University of Houston and South Texas College of Law. The day before Harris County Commissioners Court was set to certify the results of the November election, the Texas Attorney General's Office filed a last-minute petition to throw out 2,000 provisional ballots cast during an extended hour of voting on Election Day. HD140 5,929 12,518 These elections took place concurrently with several other federal, state, and local elections.. Ed Emmett first proposed the idea for Harris County. HD135 17,116 22,492 963 1 According to Mealers petition, there is no dispute that there were several dozens of polling locations who at some point in the day, ran out of paper and turned voters away.. JP5 50.61% 47.07% 2.32% Anything we can do in a collaborative, how can we help? manner that respects the people who have been doing their own work there for a long time to help with that will help us all. Nuff said. He and County Attorney Jim Nichols met with Commissioners Bobby Whitson, John Driver, Bill Schumann and Russell Schneider in executive session for an hour on Thursday. His math is wrong. Its not like voters were told they couldnt vote or that they had to go home. Phelan was one of the few lawmakers to address the Uvalde shooting when the legislative session began Tuesday, promising sensible, meaningful change. Republican leaders have focused on bolstering mental health resources and improving the physical defenses of schools both of which have bipartisan support as the session starts. At the other end of the scale is the problem known as Galveston: 23K to 27K in 2012 HD141 4,682 20,256 After Hensleys presentation, council member Jesse Davis mentioned that it has been an all-or-nothing-type situation with the decriminalization issue and suggested finding a middle ground by implementing parts of the ordinance that doesnt violate state law. HD127 40,378 24,663 Harris County Republican Party Chair Cindy Siegel indicated there could be more election contests to come. After losing his gubernatorial bid against Texas Gov. HD130 46,320 18,701 1,229 If anyone on the Republican side thought that the other Democratic judges might become collateral damage, theres no evidence to support that. More or less the same story here, with the distinction between Houston and not-Houston being smaller than in prior years. The path to retaining these judges is there. Last January, FBI agents raided U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellars home and office in Laredo, emerging with a computer and plastic bins and bags containing personal items in a stunning spectacle that occurred just weeks before a tough primary election. HD139 12,291 31,372 Judge Williams is represented by Anthony Drumheller. Adding to the confusion, Hegar and the county are separately at odds over Heaps current budget, which was adopted by the Democratic-controlled Commissioners Court last fall. CC2 95,951 97,604 7,402 2,627 Were ready, City Clerk Debbie Racca-Sittre said inside City Hall as she and a colleague sealed and time stamped four boxes filled with more than 5,000 pages of petition signatures. I dont know who counts as a person close to him, but as with Rep. Allred, Id like to hear the words come from his own mouth before I start to take it seriously. As an attorney, Martin opened her own law practice, focusing on felony criminal cases. 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. JP3 35,962 40,821 Finally, in regard to Sen. Gutierrez and Rep. Talarico, I mean, Im sure someone mentioned their names as possibilities. Ms. Wyatt is represented by Neal Manne. HD131 6,062 24,496 HD149 38.14% 57.59% 2.92% 1.35% Taylor alleged 80 percent of polling places with paper shortages on Nov. 8 were in areas considered Republican strongholds. JP6 5,571 16,529 A lack of funding is one big factor, but money isnt the only reason. I think the methodology will be clear. That short fiscal year has made it difficult to make year-to-year funding comparisons, and has resulted in the county and the comptrollers office using different methods to analyze whether the constables funding has increased or decreased. Judge Jones is represented by Oliver Brown. JP5 137,161 147,432 7,185 One of the things were going to have to explore is: Why arent the elected tax assessor-collector and the elected county clerk which are, quite frankly, both Democrats why are they not running the election, where theres some public accountability?. HD127 40,131 24,789 1,092 0 I assume this would go further than that, but its not clear to me exactly how the referendum differs from the existing ordinance. HD128 32,461 12,922 A lot has happened since then, all related to the ongoing whistleblower lawsuit, but if we were expecting to see Paxton get frog-marched by the FBI one fine day, were still waiting. Odus will serve through the end of this month, and the next CEC meeting on March 19 will be when his successor is named. Sylvia Trevino, Constable Precinct 6 It is not fair for the voters to tell us to break the law. HD148 45.25% 54.75% JP6 24.53% 75.47% HD128 31,566 13,692 1,110 CC2 49.65% 50.32% 0.02% The Houston-area Senators who will be on the ballot in 2024 are Carol Alvarado (SD06), Paul Bettencourt (SD07), John Whitmire (SD15), and Joan Huffman (SD17). (Is it possible there are a few people who actually didnt vote because of the paper-outage delays? HD130 71.35% 28.65% The Y-axis is the percentages. HD145 14,403 29,681 HD143 9,087 15,412 6 Anyway. As for Joe Danna, is there ever a time when he isnt running for Sheriff? Kleberg 296,878 257,563 60.34% 43.45% According to the Public Information Act, the attorney generals office has 45 working days from the day after the request to respond. HD150 60.90% 39.10% HD126 63.48% 36.52% 2023-00936; Mark Montgomery v. Judge Kelley Andrews. Its not hard to imagine him as a deputy whip or a powerful committee chair in a couple of cycles. The Current has a rebuttal to the unenforceable argument. 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Another way of looking at this is that there will be a lot of people who havent voted in a prior Mayoral election but will be participating this year, both because of the increase in registrations and the usual comings-and-goings over the years. In counties like Brazoria and Montgomery, population growth near the Harris County border has led to some burgeoning Democratic turf, mostly around Pearland for the former and around the Woodlands for the latter. Thats a lot! HD129 61.26% 38.72% 0.02% CC1 26.13% 71.58% 2.28% 0.01% HD137 8,600 12,670 9 They were wrong back when they tried this the first time the comptroller and his allies and theyre wrong again now, County Judge Lina Hidalgo said before the court met in executive session Thursday. HD140 30.99% 65.76% 3.24% 0.02% Harvey is currently assigned to the Major Offenders Division where she tries cases and is on-call to assist the police in investigations and writing warrants. SD06 45,259 81,877 39 I Am Not A Lawyer, but I dont know offhand of any successful recent efforts to split up a ballot proposition like this. ============================= HD148 15,221 20,981 1,035 JP1 58,698 126,202 5,083 CD07 53,108 77,625 29 Dist Mealer Hidalgo W-I HD150 60.86% 37.36% 1.77% 0.01% The Harris County judicial system had been in Republican hands for decades before the move away from Republican control began in 2014, when 13 percent of the Harris County judiciary went blue. JP6 24.96% 75.04% HD126 61.80% 36.07% 2.12% HD143 35.46% 64.54% HD130 71.91% 28.07% 0.02% Even at the highest end of the estimate of locations that had issues, more than 90% of them did not. HD139 13,492 30,143 11 Experience: Kim McTorry worked as a prosecutor at the Harris County District Attorneys Office. Beto got to 58% in 2018. One is that every Democratic candidate won Fort Bend County in 2018, by over 12K votes in each case. Did I mention that the primary runoff and the special election would take both place in May, but on different dates, again as it was in HD147? Mealer 198,286 336,434 40.19% 56.59% HD129 60.85% 39.15% HD134 42.55% 57.45% HD138 32,276 24,389 Beto versus the spread. JP8 59.30% 37.90% 2.80%, Dist Paxton Garza Lib It also opened a public defenders office in 2010, though many judges refused to use it, insteadcontinuingto appoint overloaded private attorneys. In the Ag Commissioner race, Sid Miller got 507K votes to top Abbotts total, but he was aided by not having any third party candidates. He wondered why the city didnt provide the demographic breakdown of those citations during Hensleys presentation because historically, minorities have been unfairly targeted by law enforcement. To the extent that it did work, the voters seemed to understand the difference between criminal courts and not criminal courts. These are all criminal justice reform measures, and if the law is usually interpreted broadly then I dont think theres a leg to stand on. JP3 35,715 40,576 2,117 The Texas Supreme Court has declined to disqualify those votes. Some people will skip races that are not of interest to them, I will absolutely stipulate to that. The families left discouraged, unsure of their next steps in a state where Republicans, most of whom oppose any firearm restrictions, control the Legislature. Alexander Mealer is represented by Elizabeth Alvarez. 2020, in the race for District Judge, 333rd Civil District Court in Harris County, Texas. HD130 69.92% 28.23% 1.86% Hensley, who gave a presentation to the Denton City Council, said that since Nov. 1 about a week before Denton voters passed Prop B 52 citations and/or arrests were made by Denton police for misdemeanor marijuana possession or paraphernalia related to marijuana. CC2 45.52% 51.84% 2.64% Sixty years after the U.S. Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright enshrined a persons right to a lawyer in criminal proceedings, data shows that few indigent clients in the country actually get a good one. Theres no explanation for it hes just flat wrong. HD132 59.59% 38.35% 2.06% CD38 66.07% 33.91% 0.02% =============================================== Stan Stanart is represented by Elizabeth Alvarez. Ive been frustrated working within the system and working in City Hall to try to get things like this done, District 2 City Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez told charter supporters. One is Fort Bend, which was positive for Dems in 2018 and 2020, but not in other years. Luong is also the presiding judge for the Felony Veterans Treatment Court for Harris County, a specialty court that was created to handle felony criminal cases involving veterans. Like I said, this is plenty good enough for these purposes. Harris County 185th Criminal District Court Judge: incumbent Jason Luong and challengers Andrea Beall and Kate Ferrell. HD134 35,653 45,142 16 Putting them in the position of oversight would definitely change the dynamic.. We worked hard to make this happen. JP5 50.37% 47.67% 1.96% 0.00% HD143 8,346 15,595 594 The school security measures have some value, and Id be all right with them for the most part if they were part of a larger deal that included real gun reform, but theyre not. Ananda Tomas, executive director of police reform group ACT 4 SA, told reporters that her group and its allies collected 38,200 signatures in favor of the San Antonio Justice Charter. All those requests were ignored. Candidate John Grace Challenges Judge Ann-Marie Carruth for Lubbock County's 72nd District Court Seat. 2023-00930; Mark Goldberg v. Judge Erika Ramirez. If they got new information that caused them to reopen the investigation, they wouldnt want to convey to anybody that No, we will never look at this again, Bash said. HD143 37.22% 62.78% HD128 71.67% 28.33% Race for Harris County judge still too close to call Published: November 8, 2022, 11:56 AM Updated: November 9, 2022, 1:04 AM Tags: Decision 2022 , Harris County , Voting , Lina Hidalgo . Michelle Fraga is represented by Elizabeth Alvarez. There hasnt been nearly as much growth in Houston as there has been in the non-Houston parts of Harris County, but its still up over 150K from 2015. Segovia said that if the amendment is approved, the city would not be able to make any other changes to its charter until the November 2025 election, thanks to a state law restricting the frequency of charter amendments. See here for the previous entry. Judge Horwitz is represented by John Raley. Solicitor General Judd Stone submitted a letter to the court Wednesday callingthe proposala grab-bag of provisions that flagrantly violates a state law prohibiting multi-subject charter amendments. Boeing employee bought lottery ticket because it was at $747M, a nod to the aircraft. I filter out precincts with ten or fewer votes cast in the Houston proposition elections, which is arbitrary and still yields more total votes than in the prop races themselves, but its close enough for these purposes. He would almost surely run as a Dem in this heavily Democratic precinct. CC4 114,966 121,049 5,955 Hidalgos opponent Alexandra del Moral Mealer. Kyle Scott is represented by Elizabeth Alvarez. HD144 12,051 13,606 This story is mostly about Ted Cruz and whether he might run for President again in 2024; the tone of the story is that he probably wont. HD137 8,017 12,261 612 350 8(lost to Judge Erika Ramirez), Bruce Bain, former candidate for the269th District Court(lost to Judge Cory Sepolio), Michelle Fraga, former candidate for the281st District Court(lost to Judge Christine Weems), Elizabeth Buss, former candidate for theHarris County Criminal Court at Law No. HD129 36,386 26,643 1,914 6 Cause No. For the First and Fourteenth, those counties are Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston, Grimes, Harris, Waller, and Washington. ====================== HD147 21.11% 78.89% While the substance of this proposed charter amendment conflicts with multiple substantive provisions of state law, this mandamus proceeding concerns a procedural problem: the charter amendment plainly violates Texas laws longstanding prohibition on municipal charter amendments that contain more than one subject, Stone wrote. See here for some background and here for an earlier version of the story. My first thought is that Im not really clear what these guys are aiming at. "Several of them are considering election contests.". Experience: Sam Milledge II worked for the Clark County Public Defenders Office from 2009-2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Which makes this entire spectacle little more than a plea for attention and a waste of everyones time. ============================== HD135 17,150 22,829 Reid Epstein Mar 1, 2022 When he ran for the Senate four years ago, Democrat Beto O'Rourke . JP2 22,256 29,898 ==================================== Judge Payne is represented by John Raley. HD129 38,729 24,583 JP5 52.55% 47.43% 0.02% Jeanie Ortiz, a former Harris County prosecutor,reportedto the state that she earned the $1 million while working on about 400 felonies and 200 misdemeanors. Were answerable to the people. No big mystery here. I dont know what else to say. Something like this was surely inevitable. HD135 40.00% 57.44% 2.56% I put all the county numbers for these races into a spreadsheet, which is my default starting move for a post like this, especially when Im not exactly sure where Im going with it. About 40K people on average skipped these three races, compared with a bit less than 23K for RRC. How much of that is the lack of a third choice versus some other consideration I couldnt say, but you can see it in the numbers. JP3 44.25% 53.43% 2.33% HD140 5,850 12,681 647 Ferrell is a former Assistant District Attorney who prosecuted thousands of misdemeanor and felony cases. CC3 225,304 134,394 7,641 That looks like a significant difference, but its still less than four percent of the total turnout. If we have the same turnout rate as we did in 2003, were looking at over 353K voters from Harris County. HD141 4,635 20,039 691 3 CC3 62.97% 37.03% HD131 18.64% 79.15% 2.21% You can see here for some background and here for Judge Hidalgos latest response to the mattress guy if you want. In 2016 the legal advocacy group Civil Rights Corps sued the county on behalf of Maranda Lynn ODonnell, a 22-year . Judicial Poll Results. I still have a couple more of these posts to work through. Im limiting myself to Harris County, which accounts for about 97% of Houston election totals. JP3 37,340 40,840 31 First day to file for a place on the Primary ballot for precinct chair candidates. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Cant let Mattress Mack undo election wins. We have until noon on Tuesday to respond to the Texas Supreme Court. 2023-00955; James Lombardino v. Judge Audrie Lawton-Evans. While there are no challenges on the Republican ballot in the Texas Primary Election, there are plenty on the Democratic ballot. Commissioners Court convened the special meeting to decide on a response to Hegars claim. Hidalgos office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 1. CD22 13,292 8,076 2 We did (barely) win two of the four races in 2020, with one exceedingly close loss and one less close loss, but we went 0 for 4 this year. CD29 33.51% 66.46% 0.03% Im just eyeballing everything and not being too particular about it, this is close enough for these purposes. CC3 233,567 133,554 63 HD150 34,989 21,381 JP5 47.01% 50.53% 2.46% Despite appearing so much lower on the ballot, the per-district vote totals in these races are about the same for the two major parties. HD139 28.11% 69.53% 2.35% 0.00% You may note that now two elections into the no-straight-ticket-voting era, the range of outcomes in both sets of these counties is the smallest. If not, Ill be disappointed but not surprised. Start with a goal of 1 million Democratic votes for Joe Biden in 2024, and really aim for 1.1 million. SD11 60,351 32,991 17 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. HD144 11,869 13,567 682 4 Experience: Amy Martin served as clerk to Judge Cheryl Johnson at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Andsomeofthemare hoping to give Attorney General Ken Paxton stronger authority to prosecute election crimes, after the states highest criminal appeals court ruled in 2021 that he could not unilaterally take on such cases. 2023-01066; Dan Simons v. Judge Sedrick Walker. Months later, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has yet to sue to stop it. My point is that 10-20 years ago, as Democrats were starting to assert power in Harris County, it was still quite common for Dems in the then-dark red areas to believe they were the only ones like themselves there. Lets look at the numbers.
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