Posted on 09/30/2019 6:32:35 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
I gotta wonder if this parody of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would even be allowed on broadcast TV today if it weren’t a Seinfeld rerun.
I didn’t even live in Houston or Harris County the 30 years I worked there. Lived in Brazoria, Fort Bend and Montgomery Counties.
I am thrilled to my toes to be gone from the whole area. I can’t think of one single good thing to say about it. My wife still pines for her house but I was glad to get rid of it. High and dry, out in the woods, on 5 acres by a lake. Ground so poor you could not raise a fuss on it. Only could have grass by flogging the water to the sand out in the woods. The home invaders had not yet found us but were getting close. The subdivision we lived in was gated and well armed. I don’t think it would have stopped them.
We had plans for tacticals with sand bags to set up fields of fire at cross roads for a SHTF scenario after a hurricane.
Coming back home from north down I-45 after Katrina made a huge impression on how fast resources can disappear. I was overseas then and told my wife to get out before all the foolishness began. We stayed for Ike and it was ok but not something you would want to do for entertainment. Had floods but they never touched us at elevation 210. We actually had a hill to live on!
Thrilled to be gone.
Crenshaw's victory margin wasn't tiny, but it wasn't huge either. I'm gonna bet he doesn't know which way Houston will swing in 2020 (i.e. whether Trump will have Hispanics voting against him in record numbers), and he's just covering his bases.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Dan Crenshaw | 139,188 | 52.8 | |
| Democratic | Todd Litton | 119,992 | 45.6 | |
| Libertarian | Patrick Gunnels | 2,373 | 0.9 | |
| Independent | Scott Cubbler | 1,839 | 0.7 | |
| Total votes | 263,392 | 100.0 | ||
At least as far as Harris County elections go, good Democrats aren’t running either. Most of the new judges and other county officials are a disaster.. Even hardcore Democrat lawyers I know are regretting the results of the last couple elections. Some of the stories are crazy: the county civil court judge who inadvertently resigned when he announced his candidacy for Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, and then the farce in the Commissioners Court when he was replaced with some unknown friend of the county judge; the criminal court judge who walked out in the middle of his first docket because he had enough and had to be coaxed back to the bench. May of the newer civil district judges from the last two elections are utterly incompetent, irredeemably lazy, or both. The bar is about to hang the new district clerk from the nearest lamp post.
But not many Republicans are running either. At least two of the four Republican court of appeals judges in Houston up for re-election are retiring at the end of their terms next year. I only know of one Republican candidate to fill either seat, and I’ll just say he isn’t my first choice.
He probably did. I was invited to a fundraiser at Buzbee’s house for a Democrat judicial candidate, though that Democrat is probably a closet conservative on most issues but is a Democrat because he is gay (like our DA). I was still surprised because the incumbent Republican judge was well-liked on both sides of the aisle.
I’ll have to ask my uncle about this guy; my uncle is a pastor in Houston and he knows a lot of people.
LOL we live ten mins from downtown. Its the house my husband was raised in. We go to Tyler on weekends to refurbish an historic house my mom left us. It’s in the brick street district. Pretty cool. My husband is watching lots of clearing videos pond building, pole barns etc... he got 118 acres in E. Tx. a short drive from Tyler.
We hear you.
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