JP7 17.86% 82.10% 0.03% HD126 37,264 21,436 SD13 21.23% 78.74% 0.04% She serves on the Houston Bar Associations Gender Fairness Committee as well as the HAY Center Committee. I still think, based on past history, that SCOTx would prefer to not get involved at this time, but Im somewhat less confident of that now. CC3 61.36% 36.95% 1.68% 0.00% Carla Wyatt, County Treasurer, Alexandra Mealer, County Judge HD134 31,902 47,475 1,190 6 HD148 16,238 20,657 STANDING COMMITTEE ON JUDICIAL EVALUATIONS - COOK COUNTY 2022 PRIMARY ELECTION JUNE 28, 2022 . Although the petition garnered support from McKee-Rodriguez and an array of progressive groups from around the state, its likely to face stiff resistance from others. And more money will be hard to come by after the county adopted a lower-than-planned tax rate last year following a bitter political fight. As for Joe Danna, is there ever a time when he isnt running for Sheriff? First day to file for a place on the Primary ballot for precinct chair candidates. HD133 60.51% 39.49% HD127 39,533 24,297 1,535 651 We are subject to the authorities of those that appointed us, said Remi Garza, Cameron County elections administrator and the Texas Association of Elections Administrators legislative committee co-chair. Its too early to draw any firm conclusions one way or another, Loya said. Four months after a majority of voters approved Proposition B, Dentons misdemeanor marijuana decriminalization ordinance continues to be a difficult issue for city staff to implement completely, according to City Manager Sara Hensley on Tuesday. Slapping around Harris County is the point. HD140 5,850 12,681 647 HD143 8,538 14,611 1,218 What I did was add up the Republican and Democratic votes for each candidate in those races there were four that year, as there were this year and then took the difference. It was the good ol boys system, 100 percent, [Jed Silverman, president of the Harris County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association,] said. HD146 9,172 31,975 MORE ON ELECTIONS: Election-denying Houston Republican Mike May takes his case to the Texas House after 6,000-vote loss. Voter mobilization group Ground Game Texas, which championed Harker Heights original ballot initiative, said its launched a new petition drive to override the council ordinance, which passed Nov. 22. Republican judicial candidate Erin Lunceford filed a petition Wednesday seeking a new election in Harris County's 189th judicial district court race after losing by 2,743 votes out of more than 1 million ballots cast. HD127 62.30% 37.70% Maybe he could have gotten an extension if hed asked and had some reason for it, but practically speaking this thing has been dead for a month. Were evaluating the lawsuit and will let the courts sort it out.. HD146 9,159 31,995 4 Cause No. Thats exactly what happened in 2020, as noted above. HD139 28.11% 69.53% 2.35% 0.00% HD128 32,499 12,847 Greg Abbott in 2022, he told the audience in his concession speech that this may be one of the last times I get to talk in front of you all.. JP8 48,916 27,816 1,377 8 Gonzalez 0 4,032 0 9,258 The website, called Hard to Vote, leads with a recorded message from McIngvale: Do you believe you were denied the opportunity to vote in the November 2022 election? HD131 6,114 24,275 906 Were still working on the first part of that equation. JP8 61.62% 34.71% 2.56% 1.12%, Dist Patrick Collier Lib HD147 9,910 35,410 =================================== 2018 Judicial Preference Poll Press Release, 2018 Judicial Preference Poll Email Alert to HBA Members, 2017 Judicial Evaluation Poll Press Release [PDF], 2016 Judicial Preference Poll Results [PDF], 2016 Judicial Qualification Press Release [PDF], 2016 Judicial Candidate Qualification Questionnaire Results [PDF], 2015 Judicial Evaluation Questionnaire Results, 2014 Judicial Preference Results (Download PDF), 2014 Judicial Candidate Qualification Questionnaire Results, 2013 Judicial Evaluation Questionnaire Results, 2012 Judicial Preference Poll Results (Download PDF), 2012 Judicial Preference Poll Press Release (Download PDF), 2012 Judicial Preference Poll Candidate Website List (Download PDF), 2012 Judicial Qualification Questionnaire Results, 2012 Judicial Qualification Questionnaire Press Release, 2011 Judicial Evaluation Questionnaire Results [PDF], 2010 Judicial Preference Poll Results [PDF], 2010 Judicial Qualification Questionnaire Results [PDF], 2008 Judicial Preference Poll Results [PDF], 2008 Judicial Candidate Qualification Poll [PDF], 2023 Cornerstone: HBF Impact & Gratitude Report, Law Week Contests, Readings & Activities (All Ages). HD145 30.71% 69.29% Experts cited myriad reasons for the continued silence around the case: The FBI search may have yielded no evidence, indictments could be sealed, the case could still be developing or there may have been delays because law enforcement did not want to interfere with the recent November elections. So as I said, this was expected. We broke the record for total numbers of voters in any election in 2016, then shattered it in 2020. HD140 5,929 12,518 Much of this is also covered in this Trib story. Basically, the discussion was going on in consideration of the ordinance that had been passed by the City Council of Killeen and the actions of the result of that particular vote, Bell County District Attorney Henry Garza told the Herald. Susan Hays did pretty well compared to the other Dems in that straight up two-way race: Miller was definitely a slight notch up from the first three. We do not have any additional information prior to them receiving that work session report.. Beyond Harris County, lawmakers are looking at a slate of statewide elections reforms, starting with returning the penalty for illegal voting to a felony instead of a misdemeanor. HD133 52.56% 45.14% 2.30% JP7 12,496 64,441 JP4 57.09% 39.45% 2.41% 1.05% Those challenges do not amount to voter suppression, Stein said, but merely suggest that Harris County should operate fewer, better-resourced polling locations. That is nonsense and not our job.. I dont think well face that kind of concentrated spending in 2024, but it will be a Presidential year, so anything goes. The families left discouraged, unsure of their next steps in a state where Republicans, most of whom oppose any firearm restrictions, control the Legislature. Every election year, we host educational forums with candidates running for office in Houston and Harris County. Erin A. Nowell. How awful it was for democracy that these swarms of Democratic voters were mindlessly hitting one button and putting all these non-judges onto our benches. Many of them target Harris County, which Republicans have spent the past two years chastising for back-to-back elections blunders. HD147 22.07% 77.93% HD140 5,605 13,078 466 Under the new rules, quorum-breakers can now be subject to daily fines and even expulsion from the chamber. CC2 99,401 100,543 HD150 34,841 21,318 1,294 HD149 12,214 18,772 Education: University of California, Berkeley and University of Alabama, School of Law, Campaign website: veronicanelsonforjudge.com. Indeed, three of the four races were actually in the Dem +34K to +38K range, with one outlier. HD129 59.33% 38.88% 1.79% 0.00% Other non-judicial statewide positions that appeared on the ballot include the races for Comptroller, . We have 26-pay-period accounting and Comptroller Hegar should know that, the judge said. Harris County Elections officials look over ballots in the central count area at NRG Arena on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022 in Houston. HD142 8,580 25,228 859 Stones letter agreed with that assessment and accused San Antonio officials of abuse[ing] their discretion by certifying and including this charter amendment on the ballot., In awritten responseto TALs petition Tuesday, Segovia defended his decision to place the amendment on the ballot as written because city officials plausibly read the proposed charter amendment language to encompass only one subject as required by statute.. JP5 50.37% 47.67% 1.96% 0.00% HD146 19.52% 77.78% 2.70% HD142 9,167 24,621 HD138 30,328 25,534 1,383 For his part, Berry noted that the county had already been forced to adopt the property tax revenue freeze for its current budget because Commissioners Court was unable to reach a quorum needed to set a tax rate. ============================== We will have a couple of Houston referenda on the ballot this November so the higher end is more likely to me, but there is a range and a lower end is possible as well. JP5 52.14% 47.86% Submit application to: Harris County Board of Elections, 1001 Preston, Houston, Texas . I did not get around to doing the 30-day and 8-day reports from 2022, so what you see here in these reports is not contiguous for those who were on last Novembers ballot. The intent is for it to be one single proposition. He is the chair of the felony district courts' Bail Bond Committee. Houston, Texas - Today, several losing Republican candidates filed election contests to void the more than 1 million votes cast in Harris County's November 2022 election. As these parents know all too well, its just a matter of time before some other group of parents are in the same unfathomable position theyre in now. CD02 62.45% 37.53% 0.02% In 2024, all ten of those benches we won will be on the ballot again. HD144 45.24% 54.76% CC2 49.35% 50.65% In a statement, Menefee confirmed his office will file a lawsuit against Hegar. If Hegars goal was to make headlines while insulting the basic intelligence of Harris County residents, I guess he achieved that. Beto 317,736 277,917 63.43% 46.22% HD128 32,057 12,551 995 399 The petition is filed in Harris County, but the case will be heard by a judge from outside the county, according to Menefee's office. State Representatives. In 2020, Donald Trump only won two State Rep district with 60% or more, HDs 128 and 130, and he won nine overall with HDs 134 and 135 being won by Dems. Marilyn Burgess, District Clerk JP3 35,348 39,739 2,132 865 In an email obtained by Crafts attorneys and posted on the Harris County District Clerks website, Harris County Republican Party Chair Cindy Siegel gave candidates the partys estimate of disenfranchised voters. In 2019, I was selected by the newly-elected democrat County Court Judges to be their Staff Attorney, making her the African-American and female in that position. That may be a bad feature of the law as it now exists, but it is the law and a district court is highly unlikely to deviate from the normal course of behavior. JP1 71,793 116,463 40 HD150 35,089 21,326 After that, senators serve four-year terms for the rest of the decade. CC2 45.75% 51.23% 3.02% Stone urged the court to granta petitionfiled by the anti-abortion group Texas Alliance for Life Inc. (TAL) requesting that the city reject the proposed ballot language, and instead require a vote on each provision individually. JP4 174,785 120,166 Education: University of Houston Law Center, Endorsements: chrismortonforjudge.org/endorsements, Campaign website: chrismortonforjudge.org. We saw it with Bill White in 2010, too as Ive observed in the past, White received something like 300K votes from people who otherwise voted Republican. 33K to 35K in 2016 Tami Pierce is representing herself with co-counsel, Paul Simpson. Achieving the goal set in item #1 will require an all-hands-on-deck mobilization. McIngvale said Tuesday he believes Harris County voters were disenfranchised based on reports of paper shortages, machine malfunctions and polling locations that did not open or close on time. [1] The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas has jurisdiction in Harris County. CLUBS IN ACTION is trying to raise 95K to donate to them. I think that thats still going to be a conversation with City Council.. Dan Patrick joked. Whether the charter rules, if approved, violate that provision may ultimately be left up to legal challenges but this is entirely legal, Mike Siegel, political director and co-founder of Ground Game Texas, told the San Antonio Report. ====================== Union President Danny Diaz has pointed out that chokeholds and no-knock warrants already are prohibited, while enforcement policies for marijuana and abortion are determined at the state level. Opponents of Prop A, including Garza, say it conflicts with state law where low amounts marijuana is still a misdemeanor and therefore should not be allowed in individual cities. Beto got to 58% in 2018. Hudspeth 4,660 22,009 0 9,952 Court Judges who have opponents in the Dem. Ed Emmett first proposed the idea for Harris County. The Republicans are gonna do what theyre gonna do, and we cant stop them. Not too surprisingly, what we see in all three of these races ismore votes for the Republican candidate and fewer votes for the Democrat across the precincts, with a couple of exceptions here and there. HD139 29.61% 70.39% At this level, this is just weird. He knows this. HD134 34,947 43,974 This new political blog website officially launched in late 2020 and is focused on issues important to Harris County residents. 2023-01103; Kyle Scott v. Carla Wyatt. But we have a public defender now, and yet we still have judges who make a whole lot of appointments to the same handful of attorneys. There are also a lot of offices that include parts of Harris and parts of one or more neighbors: CDs 02 and 22, SBOE6, SDs 07 and 17, and all of the Firth and 14th Courts of Appeal benches, of which there will be ten Democratic incumbents on the ballot next year. JP1 30.90% 66.43% 2.68% For example, the Proposition B ordinance states no city funds will be used for THC testing of misdemeanor amounts of marijuana. Deadline to post candidate requirements 1 Form 1-15 (PDF) Monday, March 1, 2021. After the introductions in a room at the local community college, a family member started with the groups main question: Will the Legislature raise the minimum age to purchase an assault-style weapon from 18 to 21? These losing candidates are finally laying bare what we all know to be true for them, its not about improving elections or making sure our elections are secure, its about playing games with our democratic systems and refusing to accept the will of the voters.. No other information was available for this candidate. Experience: Chris Morton worked as Assistant District Attorney with Harris County for four and half years in the Trial Division, prosecuting thousands of cases ranging from the most minor of traffic tickets to the most serious of offensescapital murder. Tuesday's sweep . Commissioners Court convened the special meeting to decide on a response to Hegars claim. HD149 37.19% 60.24% 2.57% It is not clear when the lawsuit will be filed. Taylor said. I dont know who counts as a person close to him, but as with Rep. Allred, Id like to hear the words come from his own mouth before I start to take it seriously. ==================================== People wait for eviction cases to be heard at a Harris County courthouse in January 2022. Odus Evbagharu has led the party since 2021. Because respondents can correct the ballot now, [TALs] mandamus is appropriate.. She handled cases ranging from Class C speeding tickets to non-death Capital Murders. That range is consistent across years, across baseline Democratic performance levels, across different types of judicial races. I consider what Harker Heights City Council did to be defensible, but I would not feel the same way if this effort succeeds and they override it again. And that assumes that literally every one of those 2600 non-voters would have voted for the Republican candidate. Judge Finch is represented by Anthony Drumheller. HD140 32.14% 67.86% 2022 Harris + FB 9K to 38K. That looks to me to be the effect of the larger Libertarian vote in those races there were about 29K Lib votes in these two races, while there were about 16K third party and write-in votes for Governor. ==================================== HD127 57.86% 39.41% 2.73% Thats a new statutory deadline for all judicial fundraising it used to be the case that judges who were involved in lawsuits could continue past that deadline, but the law was changed in the last session, so here we are. ====================== Milledge II is the head of the firms Federal and State Criminal Law, Entertainment, and Personal Injury divisions. JP6 5,253 16,428 881 4 CC1 26.37% 71.13% 2.50% One judge whose race is being challenged, David Fleisher, lives in 133. I really wish I could make that happen. CC3 227,110 133,538 JP8 48,118 27,102 2,000 871 Hays 308,304 269,169 62.61% 45.36% Three candidates running against them were more than happy to talk to us. The decision led to an outcry from top Republicans, including Abbott and Patrick, who called for the case to be reheared. Have I got that right? HD145 12,368 32,031 1,449 She is currently a Senior Litigator at the Harris County Public Defenders Office. I was on several endorsements interviews with some of these judges through a different organization. Beto versus Abbott HD135 16,804 21,988 1,227 559 Threat management. HD126 61.80% 36.07% 2.12% Breaking it up into its components means there will be multiple lawsuits instead of one. HD146 22.29% 77.71% Dan Spjut is represented by Elizabeth Alvarez. They start with the appellate courts, the 1st and 14th for those of us in Harris County, then the District Courts in numerical order, which means that Criminal District Courts and Civil District Courts are mixed together. See here for the background. JP8 59.47% 37.70% 2.83%, Dist Miller Hays HD135 42.95% 57.05% Theyre trying to do something about that, but they really cant, not right now. Indeed, were approaching the ten-year anniversary of potential statewide candidate Julian Castro territory, as those stories were being written at the start of the 2014 gubernatorial campaign. CC3 233,567 133,554 63 We have an open seat Mayoral race this year, and history says those are our biggest ones. Sylvia Trevino, Constable Precinct 6 SD18 18,199 17,006 4 HD126 36,287 21,192 1,384 648 Hillary got 700K votes in 2016.
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