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.
What is her authority to issue such an order?
And, who whispers in her ear?
The point being that she's a South American socialist. She grew up outside of America with very different ideas about what freedom means.
Soros inclined mofos.
there’s maybe 80 deaths spread across the 4th largest county in the US & Texas as a state has some 511 deaths per the governors presser yesterday.
This Soros Columbian needs to drive around and figure out how she can stop the spread of the gangs from her homeland into nice Houston neighborhoods. A week ago on a neighborhood platform multiple gunshots were heard near a 50”s subdivision with plain brick homes selling for upper 400’s.
Houston’s residents, stupid is as stupid does.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. So-to-speak.
Best sight I ever saw was that shit hole in my rear view mirror for the last time. I’ll never lay another tire on I-45 / US 75 as long as I live.
Poor Texas, turned blue and never knew what hit them. Some Texans still don’t know it happened.
The County’s deputies and Houston PD have already given the County Judge a big “F/U”. They are not going to enforce this rule.
Any 27-year old is lacking in experience, knowledge, wisdom, and general life experience, and this dummy is going to be passing judgment on others, especially on those that do have lived a much fuller life than she has?
Scathing Rebuke by the Houston police. See their letter at the link below:
Houston Police Department taking on the Judge ruling fining the public for not wearing masks.
https://mobile.twitter.com/zenoc_oshits/status/1253024037950947330
Dear Texans...you know what to do. Do it!
These leftists state officials will continue to give aid and comfort to the enemy until they are tried, convicted, sentenced, and publicly hanged.
For those that don’t know, in Texas, the leader of county government is styled ‘judge’.
I escaped the Houston area in the early 1990’s. I first moved to a nice neighborhood just north of FM 1960 in Humble in 1986, but I saw that wasn’t far enough to escape the river of crap that was headed north. So, I moved 200 miles all the way out to the farm and took my money, guns, and sanity with me. Except for the fact that I still have relatives there, I’ve never looked back.
Fine. As long as I am working at home, Harris County is a no-go zone for me.
And when it is time to go back to the office, Harris County is for work only. I will not spend one dime in that county as long as Hidalgo is Party Secretary.
Any commie who is in the head office for a political subdivision I address as Party Secretary. I have no respect for Marxists.
Birthplace.. Bogota, Colombia,, 27 years old? Just what Tejas needed on the bench. Another activist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Hidalgo
Birthplace.. Bogota, Colombia,, 27 years old? Just what Tejas needed on the bench. Another activist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Hidalgo
It’s not about whether the master effective or not, it’s about making sure people obey the will of the government. before the government needed more mass so they wanted people not to use them, now they want to force people to use them. Whether they’re healthy or not is irrelevant.
bttt
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