Posted on 04/22/2020 1:53:27 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
In the 2018 election, the people of Harris County – the home county for the City of Houston – made the idiotic decision to deny another term to Ed Emmett, one of the finest County Judges who ever served in that capacity anywhere in Texas. Instead, in their not-so-infinite wisdom, Harris County voters elevated a 27 year-old Soros disciple named Lina Hidalgo to the position of leading a county with a population of roughly 4.6 million people.
Today, the tab for that massive bit of mindless stupidity came due, as young Ms. Hidalgo decided that it would be a great idea to lord her power over the public, now making it a crime to go outside without a mask covering their nose and mouth. Thus have Democrats now, in the span of just a few weeks, gone from screaming that masks are not an effective deterrent to the spread of the Wuhan Virus to making the lack of having one covering your face a criminal act punishable by a fine or arrest.
From a Houston Chronicle report on the Judge’s draconian edict:
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo on Wednesday will order residents to cover their faces in public, county officials with knowledge of the plan said, the latest effort by local government to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.
The new rules, which will require residents 10 and older to cover the nose and mouth when outside the home, will take effect Monday and last 30 days, three county officials said. Acceptable garments include a homemade mask, scarf, bandana or handkerchief. Medical masks or N-95 respirators are not recommended as they are most needed by first responders and health workers.
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First, let’s note that Hidalgo issued this edict less than 24 hours after Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner informed the public that the city of 4 million had recorded only about 20 new cases of the Wuhan Virus on Tuesday, and no one had died from it.
The big question now becomes, who is going to enforce this order, because both the Harris County Deputies’ Organization and the Houston Police Officers’ Union have weighed in to question the order and indicate they would urge their members not to waste their time enforcing it.
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This is a community whose law enforcement officers are already stressed to the max thanks to recent actions by Democrat judges to refuse to sentence many violent offenders to prison time, releasing them back into the community to commit more mayhem. As HPOU President Joe Gamaldi notes in his letter above, “Violent crime is up this year (murders up by 35%), property crime is up (burglaries by nearly 30%), and HPD officers are staffing testing centers across the city. We do not have time to be pawns in Hidalgo’s game of attempting to control the actions of law abiding, tax paying individuals of our community. Especially since this idiotic order, is possibly an unconstitutional one, from the County Judge.”
It is fair to note that Texas’s Republican Governor, the increasingly disappointing Greg Abbott, has the authority to step in and overrule Hidalgo’s edict, as does Attorney General Ken Paxton, who could quickly rule it to be unconstitutional. But Abbott’s lack of leadership over the past couple of weeks as he scrambles to cover his butt politically leaves Texans pretty much hopeless that he will do anything here. Paxton is a different story, though, and it would not be surprising if he were to decide to step in with a quick ruling, if for no other reason than to provide even more political cover for the hapless Governor.
In any event, there’s trouble, right there in the Bayou City.
That’s trouble with a “T”, and it rhymes with “D” and that stands for depraved, demented, despicable, disgraceful Democrats.
That is all.
I’m missing something too.
Is the judge issuing an order unprompted? Or did the Houston mayor order it, and the judge is backing the Mayor’s order?
I’ve got no problem with mask rules. I think they make sense and are temporary.
Thank You.
So she’s like the County Manager, or County Mayor.
Does Amazon sell Guy Fawkes masks?
You mean, Houston’s criminal community didn’t just “CHE-ULL” as the Mayor asked them to? I’m shocked.
I have been locked up for so long I HAVE NO IDEA where I can even get a freaking mask
Like AOC but with more power
Not even a lawyer.
Missouri used to be the same way. The County Commission was called the County Court and the commissioners were called County Judges. It got changed when a state senator couldn’t stand the idea that a political opponent was called ‘judge’.
She got that from Bexar County judge Nelson Wolff and San Antonio mayor Ron Nirenberg, almost word for word. Too bad the local sheriff and police chief don’t have the guts to stand up to it like Houston did.
Another Democrat Nazi thug.
Judges should not be elected. The proper role of the judiciary assume judges have no judicial obligation to be “popular”. Their role is to follow the law and the Constitution, not “please” voters or any politicians in the hope of being reelected. Having them elected in the first place is always more dangerous in my view, than having them appointed, regardless of the fact that the appointed process offers no guarantees. At when they are appointed, their rulings do not have to comport with popular sentiment to secure keeping their office.
Get ready to weep: Soros OWNS our “justice” system. His money pours into ALL D.A. and judge races and his record is way above .500. Forget about FedGov Justice Department. They are pure swamp.
What dream location did you flee to (I’m always looking for a good spot to retire to)?
Is there a case before her?
Or is she just issuing “orders” for the general public, from the bench?
Leftists want you dead, folks. If they do it by using government to take away your livelihood so you starve, they have no problem with that.
By weapons and ammo, folks and get out there and go to work.
JoMa
I could have done better but the die was cast long ago before I lost so many family members so I am right back where I started from but without most of the people I expected to finish out life with. Must not be too bad because I haven’t gotten disgusted enough to sell out and leave.
Worse than that. She is the top administrator of the county of 4.6 million.
In way over her head.
Instead, in their not-so-infinite wisdom, Harris County voters elevated a 27 year-old Soros disciple named Lina Hidalgo to the position of leading a county with a population of roughly 4.6 million people
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