In fact, when something controversial enough happens to be the subject of a lawsuit, that is exactly when the public most needs to know what the record shows. Harris County Judge is on the ballot in the 2022 Texas Primary Election. His claims, which the story notes he does not try to verify, arent worth the effort to copy and paste, but this tidbit caught my eye: Without citing any examples of disenfranchised voters, the petition asks the court to declare the elections office made mistakes substantial enough to affect the outcome of the election. Its not like voters were told they couldnt vote or that they had to go home. 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. Third, I kind of suspect that in the same way that the TEA probably doesnt actually want to take over HISD, the SOS probably wants no part of administering Harris County elections. Ed Emmett first proposed the idea for Harris County. 2. HD138 30,328 25,534 1,383 If they keep making it harder to vote, and they keep making it costlier to make an honest mistake in voting, and that cost is almost entirely borne by Democratic-leaning voters of color, its suppressive. HD135 42.19% 55.44% 2.37% 0.00% Eagleton 51,665 23,158 119,650 59,159 HD129 56.03% 41.03% 2.95% At this point, I dont know if he really is thinking that the time is right or if hes the 2023 version of John Sharp, destined to always be brought up in this kind of story because it would be weirder to not mention him. Harris County Commissioners Court on Thursday voted to sueTexas Comptroller GlennHegars office in response to hiscomments accusing the countyof defunding law enforcement. Education: University of Texas at Arlington and University of Texas at Austin. HD147 20.96% 76.35% 2.69% 0.00% judges sued to undo 22 election. 4 Cause No. HD138 32,881 22,695 I hope it at least amuses you. JP2 42.30% 53.77% 3.93% The petition is filed in Harris County, but the case will be heard by a judge from outside the county, according to Menefee's office. HD138 52.82% 44.15% 3.03% Like Castro, Allred is in a (now, post-redistricting) blue district and hes building up seniority while also being seen as a rising star within the party. Those challenges do not amount to voter suppression, Stein said, but merely suggest that Harris County should operate fewer, better-resourced polling locations. Whether it will get a similarly chilly reception from City Council or Commissioners Court remains to be seen. ====================== The appellate courts cover multiple counties. The high score with these three is Jay Klebergs 51.11%. HD147 21.11% 78.89% Not out of disbelief or derision but curiosity, to get a better understanding. This is nothing but a pretext. Ive made the decision to pay less attention to the Lege than I have in the past because I dont need the mental torment. Bell County commissioners, along with the district attorney, are determined to settle the question of whether Killeens Proposition A is lawful, making the governing body the first in Texas to sue one of its own cities over decriminalization of misdemeanor possession of marijuana. By Carolina Sanchez. One judge whose race is being challenged, David Fleisher, lives in 133. They felt welcomed and heard on lobbying trips to Washington, D.C., and several of them campaigned heartily for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto ORourke, who lost his challenge to Gov. unfair distribution of election supplies. If I were the New York Times, Id spend the next six months visiting brunch counters in those districts to talk to more-in-sadness-than-in-anger Mealer voters, who will turn out to have been almost uniformly Ed Emmett voters in 2018 but who will insist that they really wanted to support Hidalgo, they largely agreed with her on how she handled the pandemic and all, but for reasons they cant quite articulate they just couldnt. HD150 57.96% 39.56% 2.47% The commissions oversight powers allow it to appoint, terminate or accept the resignation of the countys election administrator. The other notable thing is that with the lone exception of JP/Constable Precinct 5, Hidalgo still carried every district Beto carried. Democrats acknowledge that Texas has not been an easy state for the party. JP2 44.39% 55.61% Threat management. HD131 6,519 24,611 13 If the margin is 60-40, the net gain is about 500 votes. Nelson was promoted to Chief Prosecutor in both misdemeanor and felony divisions, where she supervised junior Assistant District Attorneys and had a caseload of serial Sexual Assaults, Capital Murders, Injury to Child (fatality), and Murders. See here for the background. HD129 38,729 24,583 Jerry Garcia, Constable Precinct 2 Stones letter agreed with that assessment and accused San Antonio officials of abuse[ing] their discretion by certifying and including this charter amendment on the ballot., In awritten responseto TALs petition Tuesday, Segovia defended his decision to place the amendment on the ballot as written because city officials plausibly read the proposed charter amendment language to encompass only one subject as required by statute.. STANDING COMMITTEE ON JUDICIAL EVALUATIONS - COOK COUNTY 2022 PRIMARY ELECTION JUNE 28, 2022 . The debate is about the extent, not the existence. HD135 41.41% 54.19% 3.02% 1.38% The county will now have to spend substantial resources handling these contests, time that could instead be spent serving the people of Harris County, added County Attorney Menefee. HD133 60.51% 39.49% Whatever happens, this should be the last word, until and unless the state gets involved. Ill post updates and candidate names as I get them. JP2 23,249 29,149 10 Im sure lots of new judges think they can do a better job of managing that, but history is against them. The table above is the average vote and percentage for the different types of judicial races. The Press has more. HD131 19.53% 77.80% 2.66% 0.00% Now we wait to see what if anything SCOTx does. "Mr. Tatum, your day of reckoning has just started.". And whatever else you may think about Dan Patrick, hes not an idiot. The City Clerks office has 20 business days, until Feb. 8, to verify the signatures. HD140 5,904 13,079 ============================== HD127 39,533 24,297 1,535 651 CD22 62.20% 37.79% 0.01% The impending takeover of HISD by the TEA dates back to 2019, when Wheatley High School triggered a state law by failing to meet accountability standards for seven consecutive years. HD147 23.72% 76.25% 0.03% HD129 38,091 26,236 2022 Election. In April 2013, Sanchez joined the Harris County District Attorneys office in the misdemeanor division. For months, a small but vocal minority of House Republicans have been calling for the end of the chambers longtime tradition of having committee chairs from both parties. 19 Cause No. 2023-01103; Kyle Scott v. Carla Wyatt. 41K to 42K in 2020. Before coming to the Chronicle, Jen spent three years covering City Hall for Houston's NPR station. Beto got 800K in 2018. Judge Williams is represented by Anthony Drumheller. I really wish I could make that happen. Theres no overall downward trend. He also reaffirmed that the odor of marijuana wasnt initiating probable cause and search and seizure issues, though it was part of the process in some cases. This quick dismissal shows these election contests are largely about political posturing and undermining our democratic processes. 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. HD149 11,923 19,315 824 HD133 61.63% 38.37% But Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, and his allies moved successfully Wednesday to prevent the matter from even getting to a vote on the floor. CC2 45.75% 51.23% 3.02% We know that Ken Paxton loves to sue Austin, loves to make an example of Austin elected officials and has not done so, Siegel told the daily. For those of you whose memories stretch back as far as 2018, yes those were the three best races for Dems after the Beto-Cruz race for Senate as well. Mark Goldberg is represented by Elizabeth Alvarez. 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. The charter changes would essentially direct the police department not to spend resources pursuing most abortion and low-level marijuana possession cases. Clerk Hudspeth is represented by Neal Manne. He may or may not seek to run for something else do remember that the minute he says something to that effect hell have to resign, so all we would have before then is speculation but either way I wont be surprised to see some competition for the Precinct 1 slot. In the 2020 Democratic primary, the Caucus endorsed 60 candidates, and 38 of those either won their races outright or advanced to a run-off. Taylor said. CD36 70,392 41,817 24 The Evaluation results for each judge appear on a separate page. . HD143 8,856 14,935 According to the Public Information Act, the attorney generals office has 45 working days from the day after the request to respond. HD150 57.85% 39.38% 2.76% Not much else to say at this time for 2024, but I will note that at least some of the Democratic judges whose election is being challenged by a sore loser are raising funds for their legal defense. She serves on the Houston Bar Associations Gender Fairness Committee as well as the HAY Center Committee. In the meantime, let me know what you think. Herman 0 96,574 0 518,009 I think the methodology will be clear. She drew a short straw, and I think that contributed to her decision to run for Governor. HD145 32.67% 67.33% The roots of the Texas Constitution are in local self control [and] self determination. But the Republicans in the Lege dont care about that. HD139 11,438 31,372 1,145 The 2022 HBA Judicial Preference Poll Results and news release are posted below. Just eyeballing the 2018 results I may go back and do these calculations for that year, just as a point of comparison I think the Dems that year did better overall than in other races, though they had about the same range of results. HD133 57.20% 39.75% 2.02% 1.02% HD140 5,859 12,433 613 3 HD147 18.82% 78.23% 2.95% JP8 62.20% 35.25% 2.55%, Dist Buck Kleberg Grn W-I HD131 5,886 24,670 933 The past obstruction on Commissioners Court to implementing reforms like this has been eliminated thanks to the 2022 election. Brian Staley is represented by Elizabeth Alvarez. PREVIOUSLY The root cause of that debate, however, remains unresolved, Hegar said in the statement, referring to the defunding spat from last fall. A lot of them just went to another polling place. And that matters because whenever theres large amounts of money at stake, the potential for ethical issues arises. HD133 58.20% 40.08% 1.73% After a minute, I decided to go with the obvious, which was to separate the counties into those that are good for the Dems and those that are not, and see what that told me. HD148 15,383 20,840 1,065 HD146 22.26% 77.74% Ive said this before, but Mitt Romney won 11 State Rep districts in 2012, and he won them all with over 60% of the vote. ============================== Those cases are expected to proceed over the next few months. Judge Walker is represented by John Raley. The office has since expanded dramatically, but it still takes the minority of criminal cases in Harris County. HD145 14,698 29,537 As of today, the office has not received an opinion on how to proceed with these particular public information requests. Its deeply annoying that we have to do this as a reminder, these cases are stinking piles of nothing and the losers pursuing them damn well know it but its where we are. HD144 12,051 13,606 Breaking it down this way revealed three things to me that I might not have noticed otherwise. JP1 34.97% 62.30% 2.73% Its kind of painful, but you can read the rest. SD11 60,351 32,991 17 FOX 26 Reporter Randy Wallace shows you four district court judges who have a history of granting multiple bonds to men who keep committing crimes. JP7 15.62% 84.38% Under Hegars calculations, Heaps annualized budget would have been about $48.9 million over 12 months nearly $2.3 million more than the $46.7 million figure calculated by the county. HD148 16,142 19,762 959 2 Finally, in regard to Sen. Gutierrez and Rep. Talarico, I mean, Im sure someone mentioned their names as possibilities. HD148 40.88% 56.34% 2.78% Segovia added that opponents should challenge the validity of the amendment after the election, not before. HD133 36,406 22,666 Either he actually does want to run and will eventually tell us so himself, most likely after multiple teases and hints like this could be, or he doesnt and he wont. Collier 312,803 273,337 62.81% 45.64% San Antonios police unionhas criticized the Justice Charter as an overreach into police policies as well as violations of state and federal law. Please help. HD127 40,530 24,529 Important 2022 Election Dates. The county commissioners voted to direct the county attorney and (me) to get involved in the beginning to get that question answered, Garza said. HD131 19.20% 76.50% 3.02% 1.28% Restraint and tolerance for any kind of dissent are not in their playbook. Morris is managing partner of the Morris Law Firm - Houston office. HD132 36,189 24,576 One thought Ive had about this is that the Family Courts were kind of a mess before the Dem sweep of 2018 there were some stories that made it into the papers about happenings in the Family Courts, and of course there was then-Family Court Judge Lisa Millard ruling against the city of Houston giving health insurance benefits to same-sex spouses of city employees even after DOMA had been ruled unconstitutional by SCOTUS. JP1 36.68% 63.32% This obviously would require the speaker to violate the Housekeeping Resolution., It was a relatively anticlimactic end to the fight over Democratic committee chairs, which were a major issue in House primaries earlier this year, a rallying cry for conservative activists and a recurring theme in speeches as the legislative session kicked off Tuesday. 16 Cause No. JP4 59.99% 39.99% 0.02% None of the other Texas cities where decriminalization initiatives have been approved Elgin, Denton, San Marcos and Austin has faced litigation. JP6 5,019 15,850 1,277 447 This new political blog website officially launched in late 2020 and is focused on issues important to Harris County residents. I also believe that Conroe is starting to become like Sugar Land, a small but growing urban center of its own that we ought to see as such, and seek to build alliances there. He could win, and as was the case with Beto a close loss might still be a boost to whatever other prospects he ay have, but you still have to weight that against what hed be giving up. JP2 44.02% 55.98% I do not and never will understand anyone who thinks that writing in a candidate for County Judge could possibly be productive, but thats not important right now. The numbers tell the tale. In Hensleys presentation, she pointed out that the City Council does have the discretion to amend the budget in regards to how city funds are spent. Not as good statewide races. Public Education HD127 38,578 26,405 1,691 HD128 32,446 12,873 706 9 Those members left for Washington, D.C., for weeks to stop the House from being able to do business in an effort to prevent passage of the bill. HD142 8,957 24,548 997 The San Antonio Report adds some details. That would mean that the Republicans netted about 1600 votes, which I need not point out is even farther away from closing the gap. Winning takes many forms, after all. C Civil 515,292 545,092 48.60% 51.40% HD134 28,262 51,502 1,828 Commissioners Court convened the special meeting to decide on a response to Hegars claim. Hegar,a Republican,said he hopes Heap and county officials can resolve the situation themselves long before Harris County begins budget deliberations for fiscal year 2024. He also predicted that county officials would once again use a convoluted approach to argue they had not reduced Heaps funding. CD38 66.07% 33.91% 0.02% JP3 34,843 42,072 1,833 Note that as yet, not a single person has been identified as someone who showed up at a voting center on Election Day, was actually unable to cast a ballot while there because of paper issues, left before the problem was resolved, was unable to go to any of the 750 other voting locations in the county, and ultimately did not cast a ballot. . HD132 36,340 23,537 CC4 112,533 119,027 6,359 3,012 Therefore, even if the public does adopt the charter amendments, the charter amendments as written will not be enforceable, he said. One of his top staffers ran against Judge Hidalgo in the 2022 Dem primary, and I imagine there will be some kind of response to that. HD135 16,373 23,514 1,050 Theres no explanation for it hes just flat wrong. But we can and should spend less on those individual appointments, and get more for those dollars via the PDO. In a statement Tuesday, Harris County Attorney Christian Menefees office said: The requests for these documents were handled the same as any other requests for documents related to ongoing litigation against the county. Ground Game Texas championed a similar proposal approved by Austin voters last May that decriminalized weed in that city. This important legislation made its way through the House after several thoughtful amendments were adopted, he said. 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JP5 50.61% 47.07% 2.32% And that brings us to Julian Castro, whose name has certainly been mentioned as a possible statewide candidate before. You may view the entire Evaluation or you may view selected courts. 4. Sixty-five percent turnout (we were at over 68% in 2020) gets 1.7 million voters total (up less than 50K from 2020), and hitting one million Dems would mean taking almost 59% of the vote for Biden, which so far is the only real reach here as he was at 56% in 2020. HD141 17.53% 79.15% 3.32% HD141 19.04% 80.96% Education: Prairie View A&M University and South Texas College of Law, Campaign website: beverlyarmstrongforjudge.com. 21 Cause No. In a closely watched election between Democrat DaSean Jones and Republican Tami Pierce for the 180th state district court, Pierce led Jones by more than 1,200 votes the morning after the election, but the final count including absentee and provisional ballots flipped the race in Jones' favor. CC1 26.37% 71.13% 2.50% HD149 12,314 18,717 714 0 CC1 65,204 204,223 7,257 HD126 61.80% 36.07% 2.12% Judge Hidalgo is represented by Neal Manne. Experience: Sherlene Cruz has worked 16 years in the criminal justice system. 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. HD131 18.69% 78.34% 2.96% JP4 57.86% 40.32% 1.81% 0.00% JP3 47.09% 52.91% One is Fort Bend, which was positive for Dems in 2018 and 2020, but not in other years. Of the bright red counties, six of them are small, and while they have steadily become redder over the years, the net effect is fairly small. While at least two other of those votes received blowback from local officials, Harker Heights is so far the first to reject voters approval outright. 2019 1,085,813 2,329,277 46.62% City Council will call for the election, which will include council district seats and other local elections, during its Feb. 16 meeting. CD07 53,108 77,625 29 Now, were back at square one.. United States representatives. On Friday the anti-abortion group Texas Alliance for Life Inc. (TAL) filed a petition requesting that the city reject the proposed ballot language, which it says violates astate lawprohibiting multi-subject charter amendments, and require each issue to be listed and voted on separately. Judicial Poll Results. I dont know how this will play out in the courts Im not optimistic for the Ground Game Texas folks, Ill say that much but even a favorable ruling may not help, as I would expect the Lege to weigh in as well, on the side of the opponents. HD130 71.41% 28.59% HD126 63.64% 36.36% Hidalgo said Hegar came to an incorrect conclusion by dividing Harris Countys 2022 short fiscal year budget by seven months and multiplying that number by 12 to get the annualized budget.