HD141 4,662 20,252 We know that poll watchers with malign intent are out there. HD147 18.69% 78.72% 2.58% Now, were back at square one.. Hidalgos opponent Alexandra del Moral Mealer. Federal. HD138 59.04% 40.96% "If it was just mismanagement, it was just gross incompetence, wouldn't one think that the lack of paper would apply equally and uniformly across the map, so that there would be roughly an equivalent number of Democratic stronghold precinct neighborhoods as well as Republican precinct stronghold neighborhoods?" JP6 5,410 16,643 Biden (and Ed Gonzalez) got 900K in 2020. 33K to 36K in 2016 CD09 24.72% 75.25% 0.03% None of the other Texas cities where decriminalization initiatives have been approved Elgin, Denton, San Marcos and Austin has faced litigation. HD145 13,855 29,642 1,839 HD126 64.12% 35.85% 0.03% HD135 17,156 22,790 JP3 37,340 40,840 31 HD144 11,679 13,015 1,125 328 Denton Municipal Judge Tyler Atkinson discussed the deferred adjudication process that is available to people who receive misdemeanor marijuana charges and how the municipal court does its best to work with offenders by lowering fines, offering community service and other opportunities. JP8 50,379 27,941 16 He aint running for anything in 2024, Im confident of that. 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. JP7 14.34% 82.82% 2.84% 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. Harris County is the big problem, said state Sen. Paul Bettencourt, a Houston Republican who plans to file close to a dozen election bills this legislative session. Morris is managing partner of the Morris Law Firm - Houston office. 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. . And of course, every election is different, with candidates and exogenous conditions having an effect on who does and doesnt vote. Candidate John Grace Challenges Judge Ann-Marie Carruth for Lubbock County's 72nd District Court Seat. Houston, Texas - Today, several losing Republican candidates filed election contests to void the more than 1 million votes cast in Harris County's November 2022 election. PREVIOUSLY Segovia said the city would defer to the amendments authors. The HBA presents the results of its 2019 Judicial Evaluation Questionnaire below. JP8 48,916 27,816 1,377 8 Results of the 2020 Judicial Preference Poll. And that matters because whenever theres large amounts of money at stake, the potential for ethical issues arises. All eyes were on Sen. John Whitmire, a longtime Democrat who has announced plans to leave the chamber to run for Houston mayor after the session, and Judith Zaffirini, a Laredo Democrat who is second in seniority to Whitmire. HD138 57.11% 41.18% 1.71% 0.00% CC1 26.13% 71.58% 2.28% 0.01% Let me know what you think. Clerk Hudspeth is represented by Neal Manne. Attorney General Ken Paxtons office is urging the Texas Supreme Court to side with opponents of a proposed charter amendment that seeks to decriminalize marijuana and abortion, as well as enact a host of other police reforms. CC1 25.71% 70.39% 2.59% 1.30% I thank Speaker Phelan and Representative Morgan Meyer for upholding the law and ensuring the will of the voters stands.. HD135 17,620 22,982 7 As always, please let me know what you think. CC1 65,573 204,223 7,632 I will never not be mad about all of the lazy, uninformed, and frankly kind of racist assumptions that went into that hypothesis. JP6 5,243 17,412 Jack Morman did not have a report filed or Id have included him as well. HD137 40.42% 59.54% 0.04% Thats somebody thats supposed to have better acumen and better results than elected officials, but the reverse has been proven to be true in Harris County, Bettencourt said. 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. The Harris County Democratic Party is dedicated to the ideal that everyone deserves an equal shot at life, . She handled cases ranging from Class C speeding tickets to non-death Capital Murders. Beto versus Abbott HD143 8,856 14,935 Experience: Greg Glass practiced both criminal trial and appellate law over 40 years before his election to the bench, including 150 jury trials in both State and Federal Courts. Heres the same breakdown for the countywide races: No third party candidates here, just a write-in who got a handful of votes for County Judge, so the percentages mostly add up to 100. HD147 22.07% 77.93% The elections for secretary of state had taken on heightened importance due to former President Donald Trump's baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen. 2023-00964; Alexandra Mealer v. Lina Hidalgo. HD144 12,051 13,606 Anyway. The ones who get to wait until 2026 are Brandon Creighton (SD04), Mayes Middleton (SD11), Borris Miles (SD13), and Lois Kolkhorst (SD18). The cumulative deficit from the bad counties has been edging upward, but the Democratic potential in Harris County even all by itself, though Fort Bend should be an asset as well is more than enough to overcome it. There were 1,232 responses to the online Judicial Evaluation, representing 14.4% of eligible HBA members. Reid Epstein Mar 1, 2022 When he ran for the Senate four years ago, Democrat Beto O'Rourke . CC3 61.33% 36.59% 2.08% HD138 32,276 24,389 Maybe he could have gotten an extension if hed asked and had some reason for it, but practically speaking this thing has been dead for a month. 2023-01076; Aaron Adams v. Judge LaShawn Williams. HD137 37.74% 57.73% 2.88% 1.65% Two more things: One is that the undervote rate was higher in judicial races. Now well look at the next highest profile race, in which the result was a surprise to some people who didnt connect Democratic performance at the top of the ticket with the other local races. HD129 61.17% 38.83% Find ways to partner with Democratic parties in neighboring counties. Harris County 183rd Criminal District Court Judge: incumbent Chuck Silverman and challenger Gemayel Haynes. San Antonios police unionhas criticized the Justice Charter as an overreach into police policies as well as violations of state and federal law. HD139 11,536 31,304 1,246 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. ====================== HD140 30.50% 66.12% 3.37% 2022 Election. At the last CEC meeting, he made oblique reference to stepping down as the meeting was coming to an end. Again, I want to stress, the goals that Act4SA and Ground Game Texas are advocating are good and laudable and I support them. First day to file for a place on the Primary ballot for precinct chair candidates. HD137 38.54% 61.46% Be that as it may, I will be very interested to see how this turns out, and whether something similar happens in Houston. The Evaluation results for each judge appear on a separate page. HD148 43.27% 52.03% 3.30% 1.40% I dont have this data for every year, but we can do with a sample: As noted, there will be a different voter registration figure this fall, likely a bit higher for each but with more growth in the non-Houston part of Harris County. In 2020, Donald Trump only won two State Rep district with 60% or more, HDs 128 and 130, and he won nine overall with HDs 134 and 135 being won by Dems. Houston/not Houston. I think that thats still going to be a conversation with City Council.. HD141 18.77% 81.23% Ferrell has served as a member of the Board for the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association since 2017. ============================== Experience: Linda Mazzagatti worked for seven years as the Harris County Assistant District Attorney. CC2 47.51% 48.77% 3.72% Lunceford's opponent, Democrat Tamika Craft, won the election by 0.26 percent of the vote. You can see here for some background and here for Judge Hidalgos latest response to the mattress guy if you want. CC3 225,304 134,394 7,641 primary, Frederick, MD tanker explosion leaves 1 dead; Shuts down part of US-15, Philadelphia Eagles WR Zach Pascal robbed at gunpoint in Maryland, ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING: Man shot in apparent accidental shooting in Houston, police investigating, CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Houston homeowner speaks out after being victim of terrifying attempted carjacking, Tom Sizemore, 'Saving Private Ryan' Actor, Dies at 61 after suffering brain aneurysm, Mother who drowned her 2 children, hid bodies under a neighbor's home given 40-year prison sentence, Watch: Fishermen spot sharks in huge feeding frenzy off Louisiana coast, Mother arrested after 4-year-old found outside alone, 1-year-old found laying in soiled linen, Strong to severe storms possible Thursday evening across SE Texas. HD138 30,154 25,204 1,732 4. HD138 59.16% 40.84% Its too early to draw any firm conclusions one way or another, Loya said. JP7 12,325 64,437 1,904 JP2 42.30% 53.77% 3.93% The 2018 HBA Judicial Preference Poll Results and news release are posted below. HD142 26.15% 71.40% 2.44% 0.01% The Current has a rebuttal to the unenforceable argument. The Press has more. As you know, the Harris County Democratic Party will soon have a new Chair. Thats a lot! Thats the subject of the following email I got in my inbox yesterday, and I cant do any better than that for a post title. CC3 227,842 132,864 But hey, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema preserved the filibuster, so.). HD140 5,605 13,078 466 Republicanshave also introduced billsto further investigate election fraud, to limit the states early voting period from two weeks to one, and to set earlier deadlines for handing in mail ballots. JP1 34.60% 63.28% 2.12% 0.01% 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. These are nuisance suits but the Judges and Lina have had to hire attorneys to represent them against the claims. There is a legitimate question about what a City Council is supposed to do with a voter-passed ordinance that one can reasonably read to be in violation of state law, at least in part. 18 Cause No. Maybe theres a general impression among (at least some) voters that Republicans cant be trusted on Family Court benches, in the way that Republicans tried to push than message about Dems on Criminal Court benches. HD133 60.51% 39.49% HD142 25.76% 70.06% 2.98% 1.20% There were a lot of contradictory polls and a lot of dubious conventional wisdom, including questionable pronouncements about voters getting worn out before they reached the end of the ballot, and how that would be bad for Democrats. A native Houstonian, Jen graduated from Barnard College at Columbia University and earned a master's degree from University of Texas at Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs. Of the other six races for statewide executive offices, three were similar in nature to the Governors race and three were friendlier to Republicans. I think the methodology will be clear. After the House reelected Phelan by a nearly unanimous vote, he cautioned freshmen to please do not confuse this body with the one in Washington, D.C.. HD127 40,530 24,529 CC4 47.29% 50.67% 2.04% 0.00% 3 Cause No. I will pass along information about the fundraiser when I have it. That is slightly less than it was in 2018, the last year of straight ticket voting, when nearly 97% of the people who voted cast ballots in these races, plus the two countywide HCDE races; to put it another way, the undervote rate in these races was generally between 2.5 and 3 percent. Two-thirds of the people I talked to sign [the petition], said Ananda Tomas, executive director of ACT 4 SA, whichlaunched the petitioneffort in October. JP4 59.99% 39.99% 0.02% How often do we see that 70% pass anywhere? JP8 49,447 27,431 ====================================== (I am not taking the Justice of the Peace courts into consideration here, as they are not countywide and you only have one of them on your ballot.). CC3 233,567 133,554 63 HD140 30.03% 63.27% 5.24% 1.46% JP8 59.30% 37.90% 2.80%, Dist Paxton Garza Lib The League of Women Voters of Texas in astatement last weeksaid such legislation, if passed, is fraught for potential abuse, infringes on the rights of county governments to select their own elections administrator, and demeans the meaning of local governance.. He would almost surely run as a Dem in this heavily Democratic precinct. As Ive said, Harris County is more Democratic now. Those commissions are made up of the county judge, the tax assessor-collector, the county clerk and the chairs of local political parties. 2023-01066; Dan Simons v. Judge Sedrick Walker. Marilyn Burgess, District Clerk There are also a lot of offices that include parts of Harris and parts of one or more neighbors: CDs 02 and 22, SBOE6, SDs 07 and 17, and all of the Firth and 14th Courts of Appeal benches, of which there will be ten Democratic incumbents on the ballot next year. Under Hegars calculations, Heaps annualized budget would have been about $48.9 million over 12 months nearly $2.3 million off from the $46.7 million figure calculated by the county. 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. We destroyed the record for turnout in a non-Presidential year in 2018, and then even though turnout was down relative to it in 2022, it was still easily the second-highest off-year total, both in absolute numbers and percent of registered voters. Anastasio left the DA's office to work complex defense, representing the indigent and others who stood accused of crimes. (*as of 12/5/2021), Education: University of Houston and South Texas College of Law. JP4 59.26% 40.74% HD139 28.14% 69.18% 2.68% At least in those cases, you can make the claim that the Libertarian received votes that might have otherwise gone to the Republican. He also worked as General Counsel for a multinational corporation. You might have thought in looking at the numbers for 2016 and 2018 that a split result could occur, given the wide ranges. Mark Montgomery, former candidate forHarris County Criminal Court at Law No. HD146 8,914 32,076 990 0 HD139 29.24% 70.76% Its also why there was such fierce opposition to the creation of such an office in Harris County even though most other large counties in Texas had them. CD08 50.26% 49.73% 0.02% HD146 22.29% 77.71% HD135 39.89% 57.75% 2.36% Experience:Katherine Thomas currently serves as an Assistant District Attorney Felony Prosecutor at the Harris County District Attorneys Office. JP4 57.89% 42.11% HD139 28.11% 69.53% 2.35% 0.00% 41K to 42K in 2020. HD148 45.25% 54.75% Judge Weems is represented by John Raley. Lets see how this breaks down. Rep. Charlie Geren, R-Fort Worth, then cited the new provision to call points of order procedural challenges on two amendments proposed by Rep. Bryan Slaton, R-Royse City, to restrict Democratic committee chairs. 3. Odus will serve through the end of this month, and the next CEC meeting on March 19 will be when his successor is named. HD141 4,682 20,256 HD127 62.30% 37.70% HD135 17,148 22,783 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. ELECTION MAP: See if your Harris County neighborhood voted for Greg Abbott or Beto O'Rourke in the 2022 midterms. Authored by state Rep. Tom Oliverson and state Sen. Paul Bettencourt, both Harris County Republicans, the bills are among several already filed this legislative session in reaction to the long lines, late openings and reports of shortages of ballot paper on Election Day inHarris County. JP1 34.12% 61.81% 2.81% 1.26% HD142 9,167 24,621 Weve looked at the Governors race, in which Beto was the top Democratic performer. HD148 43.77% 52.85% 3.38% 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. CD29 33.51% 66.46% 0.03% Make of that what you will. But we dont plan to let him abuse his power. 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. =================================== JP2 44.02% 55.98% Incumbent Republican Governor Bill Lee was re-elected to a second term with almost 65% of the vote, improving on his performance from 2018.. I wish them all the best anyway. 2023-00955; James Lombardino v. Judge Audrie Lawton-Evans. People wait for eviction cases to be heard at a Harris County courthouse in January 2022. Elections Harris County election results 2022: County judge, commissioners, propositions. Campos and the Texas Signal have more. 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. In all likelihood, these votes would more or less split fifty-fifty, as a microcosm of the larger election, but lets go ahead and assume the friendly turf claim as well. HARRIS COUNTY, Texas - Several Harris County Criminal District Court Judges are up for re-election in 2022. Harris County 228th Criminal District Court Judge: incumbent Frank Aguilar and challenger Sam Milledge II. Nuff said. With the exception of County Judge, which is the first county office to appear, the other county races come after any county judicial elections, which we know in a non-presidential year is another two dozen, on top of all of the state judicial races youve just slogged through. In the meantime, let me know what you think. Theres already a lot of money in the campaigns, which if nothing else should mean plenty of advertising. HD141 19.04% 80.96% I believe Ground Game Texas is on the right side of the issue and as noted Id vote for one of their propositions if it were before me, but the power imbalance is what it is, and theres not a clear way around it. 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. Something like this was surely inevitable. Ten of them, in fact, five each on the First and Fourteenth Courts of Appeals, the first such victories since winning a lone bench in 2008. Adrian Garcia, County Commissioner, Precinct 2 Monday is the first day of early voting in the Texas March 1 primary election. JP5 52.11% 47.89% I then did the same thing for Harris and Fort Bend counties, to see how big the Democratic surplus was in each race. The Evaluation opened on Oct. 21 and closed on Nov. 8. Before I begin, please note that all of this involves a lot of back-of-the-envelope math and more than a few assumptions made along the way. I obviously wouldnt expect the Secretary of State to crack down on, say, Bell County as theyre slavering to do to Harris, but it could be that the first example to be made is in a red place. Both sides of this argument are defensible, so it really is a question of whether SCOTx wants to step in now or just wait for the inevitable lawsuit later. Experience: Chuck Silverman practiced law for more than 30 years in state and federal trial and appellate courts. Not to be needlessly pedantic here believe me, this is extremely needed pedanticism but if they went to another location then by definition their vote wasnt suppressed because they did in fact vote. Luke Warford, who had a Green opponent as well as a Libertarian opponent, fell short of a majority in Harris County, getting 49.95% for a plurality. Now we wait to see what if anything SCOTx does. CC2 45.52% 51.84% 2.64% C Civil 515,292 545,092 48.60% 51.40% Every election year, we host educational forums with candidates running for office in Houston and Harris County. HD149 12,239 18,708 CIA plans to hold a fundraiser, hopefully on Feb 19. CC1 71,746 202,649 JP5 50.37% 49.63%