Posted on 11/10/2023 2:08:12 PM PST by Political Junkie Too
HOUSTON – Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo [aka County Supervisor] fired back Friday after the Texas Rangers [police force, not baseball team] opened a new public corruption investigation tied to “concealed” records subpoenaed during a grand jury’s review of the federal indictments of three of her high-level staff members.
The records subpoenaed are related to the investigation launched last year into how the county’s nearly $11 million COVID-19 outreach contract was awarded to a local woman’s LLC.
In a news conference streamed live on Click2Houston.com, Hidalgo said she wanted to call out the truth, as well as “what’s false.” She accused Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg of abuse of power, saying the DA is pulling a “stunt” in an effort to get re-elected...
“This is just the same dirty politics she’s been playing at for years, and her patterns are extremely clear. There’s a lot of evidence of that,” Hidalgo said. “It’s no coincidence this comes out in the middle of now her re-election and one that’s not going well for her. She’s up for election March 5 and I happen to know her opponent, Sean Teare. He is a well-respected, very experienced, strong opponent who not only just released a poll showing that he’s ahead, but he has severely outraised her.”
Hidalgo called the new tampering investigation disruptive and accused Ogg of using her office for political gain.
Hidalgo said she was warned by her political advisors that Ogg would reportedly make her re-election efforts about the judge and said her endorsement for Teare made it easier.
(Excerpt) Read more at click2houston.com ...
I want to see this spill over into the mayoral runoff election in December.
Get Sheila Jackson Lee's position on this on the record before the election.
-PJ
Lina Hidalgo is crooked. Kim Ogg is a progressive ‘let all criminals go’ Soros backed DA. Both need to be replaced.
-PJ
Two losers, right
I thought it was the other way around. But, as with Barky and PedoJ, what difference does it really make?
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