Posted on 10/30/2009 11:17:16 AM PDT by darth
Democrats have held the Houston City Mayor's office and most of the City Council seats for a long time. However, in next Tuesday's election, Roy Morales, a Republican, is running against several well-funded democrats.
I expect the democrats to split the liberal vote. Morales can win if all the conservatives get off their duff and VOTE. Turnout will be very light in this off-year election which means that conservative votes will be more important than ever.
See Gary Polland's excellent website which rates the candidates based on their conservative value scores:
http://www.texasconservativereview.com/
Houston got a lot of Katrina refugees and a lot of them are still there. I wonder if this may have had a significant effect.
I’m beginning to think the way to defeat the left is for all FReepers to run for office as leftists, we can parrot them easily. Keeping a straight face might be tough. We’ll split the liberal vote 10 ways.
Houston PING
Too bad most the Republicans that work in and around Houston don’t actually live in the city limits.
Prop 1 --- Against for sure
Prop 2 --- Seen recommendations both ways??
Prop 3 --- Seen recommendations both ways??
As far as my research indicated, I don’t think Houston has ever had a GOP Mayor (unless perhaps during Reconstruction when it was a relatively small town of around 9,000). Dallas has a GOP Mayor now, but a RINO.
It worked in Albuquerque earlier this month. The incumbent Mayor (overstayed his welcome) and a local perennial Dim candidate split the vote enough for the Republican to win outright. First one since 1981.
Too late now, but maybe a tea party the day of the election would help our turnout.
Election day tea party! wow!
Anyone considered the impact of a whole pack of conservative hispanics running for office in the Southwest? Hmmmm....
Dan Patrick, my state Senator (dist 7), a good conservative and definitely a champion of lower property taxes, recommends voting FOR all the ammendments.
Link to his letter and a .pdf which examines the pros/cons of each ammendment:
http://www.danpatrick.org/amendments-oct2009.html
http://www.tlc.state.tx.us/pubsconamend/analyses09/analyses09.pdf
#1 is definelty a new tax amendment, though it is to fund a buffer zone around military zones.
I think you’re right - unfortunately - in regard to Houston right now. Sometimes I think it might be worth it to recruit a real hard-core limited government conservative to run for mayor as a Democrat just to see how far he/she could get doing it as a Democrat. Houstonians are not - based upon my observations, for what it’s worth - quite as liberal as the urban populations of most other big cities (even Southern ones like Atlanta).
On the statewide front, however, I think we have a real window of opportunity right now (in this historic tea party inspired climate) to drag the Republican Party away from its big-government, statist tendencies if all of us conservatives and freedom-loving, Constitution-loving people just band together and reject the establishment politicians (like Rick Perry and Kay Baily Hutchinson) who have proven time and time again that they’ll do nothing to substantively dismantle the organs of the welfare/regulatory state or stand up to the power of the federal government to control and coerce us. If we just keep electing these folks all they will do - AT THE VERY BEST - is delay for a little while the march to collectivist tyranny.
Instead, we should get behind candidates like Debra Medina (for governor) who are actually committed to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, and abiding by the Constitution. Here’s something from Debra just this week...
We must demand that our elected officials support and respect the 10th amendment and Texas sovereignty. The U.S. Constitution not only protects citizens’ freedoms in the Bill of Rights, it also divides power between the federal and state governments and ultimately reserves final authority for the people themselves. Texas must stop the over reaching federal government and nullify federal mandates in agriculture, energy, education, healthcare, industry, and any other areas D.C. is not granted authority by Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.
Early in our history, many argued against forming a union fearing that the federal government would gain too much power over the state. Thomas Jefferson reassured the states that that could never happen. The states, he said, being sovereign and indepent, have the “unquestionable right to judge of the infraction.” It is our right as a state. It is our duty as a state to recognize when Washington D.C. is stepping outside its constitutional bounds. Jefferson further commented that nullification by the states of all unauthorized acts is the rightful remedy.
The Constitution of the United States is a contract between “We the People” to form a limited federal government composed of sovereign states. It creates a republican form of government. Any power not expressly granted to the federal government is reserved for the states and for the people. Like any party to a contract, Texas must stand up and push back against any attempts to abuse the Constitution or abuse the inalienable rights granted by our Creator”
... to read the rest go here
http://www.medinafortexas.com/getPost?p=156
It can’t hurt that his name is Morales.
It won’t happen. I saw a TV piece on Morales recently. He is campaigning on a shoestring budget, about $5,000 in the kitty, if I recall correctly.
All the conservatives moved out of Houston city limits decades ago. They all live out in the burbs.
Hey TW, not that I’m rubbing your nose in this one, but remember I elluded to this fact a few weeks ago???
All I can say to all of this is welcome to the party folks...
Be neat to see Roy win this one on the shoe-string budget he has on this one...
I’ll be at his party Tuesday evening as soon as I turn in all my election supplies...
Every flippin’ Houston Republican had better get their butts out there and get this one done...There is NO excuse this time...
LOL - I like that.
And it would be fun imitating a liberal and watching all of the clueless sheeple falling for it.
Not all of 'em. ;-)
For example, District 7 (Culberson) is in the city limits and is considered one of the most conservative districts in the nation.
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