JP6 21.05% 75.94% 3.00% HD138 30,328 25,534 1,383 Ted Heap, Constable Precinct 5 Individual seeking a County office as an Independent candidate must file for a place on the ballot with the Harris County Judge: Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo 1001 Preston, Suite 911 Houston, Texas 77002 Phone: 713-274-7000 Fax: 713-755-8379 Slapping around Harris County is the point. JP3 45.91% 52.02% 2.06% 0.01% The litigation exception typically is upheld by courts, so McIngvales lawsuit is unlikely to produce the requested records, he said. Better statewide races As happened last fall, Hegar and County Administrator David Berry have used different methods to project out Heaps seven-month budget to a full year. Any suggestion that the Harris County Elections Administrators Office lacks transparency is false, it said. In counties like Brazoria and Montgomery, population growth near the Harris County border has led to some burgeoning Democratic turf, mostly around Pearland for the former and around the Woodlands for the latter. In a unanimous vote on Thursday, Bell County commissioners agreed to file a lawsuit against Killeen over the citys adoption of Proposition A, the ballot measure that was approved by voters in November to decriminalize marijuana in Killeen. If theyre going to act Id expect it to happen before SA City Council votes to put the measure on the ballot on Thursday. HD135 42.01% 55.20% 2.79% The 2022 General Election is being held on November 8. HD148 40.88% 56.34% 2.78% Experience:Katherine Thomas currently serves as an Assistant District Attorney Felony Prosecutor at the Harris County District Attorneys Office. CD38 170,772 87,662 46 We have an open seat Mayoral race this year, and history says those are our biggest ones. CC1 72,584 195,779 6,893 300 intermediate appellate court seats. Patrick 171,319 312,803 34.40% 51.84% Hidalgo versus Mealer Please give a few bucks if you can and help them all out. discovery of voted ballots after the polls close. You can see the four races that Dems lost, one district criminal court and three county criminal courts. We have until noon on Tuesday to respond to the Texas Supreme Court. The 2018 HBA Judicial Preference Poll Results and news release are posted below. In 2020, eleven Democratic judicial candidates were unopposed. HD126 35,244 23,460 1,482 Now you can just go somewhere else. The 30-year-old native of Katy is the youngest person and the first African American to serve as the party chairperson, according to a news release. He also volunteered his time in Veterans Court working with court staff to develop treatment programs for veterans facing mental health and addiction issues. In a statement Tuesday, Harris County Attorney Christian Menefees office said: The requests for these documents were handled the same as any other requests for documents related to ongoing litigation against the county. 2023 FOX Television Stations, Breaking Bond: In-depth look at three Criminal Dist. HD127 60.79% 37.55% 1.65% 0.00% This quick dismissal shows these election contests are largely about political posturing and undermining our democratic processes. See here and here for the background. HD143 35.46% 64.54% The PDO doesnt have to handle every indigent case Im sure there will the need for specialized services going forward. The intent is for it to be one single proposition. HD138 32,829 22,780 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. Anyway. According to the Public Information Act, the attorney generals office has 45 working days from the day after the request to respond. Because respondents can correct the ballot now, [TALs] mandamus is appropriate.. My point is simply that it would not take anything like a historic turnout percentage to produce a record number of total voters, just simply because there are more voters now. I wont speculate about 2026 at the very least, Republicans will have four incumbents to try to defend, so theyll want to do something but I dont see them having a $25 million budget. HD129 38,523 24,788 In her most recent role, she serves as a Vehicular Crimes Prosecutor. Under the new rules, quorum-breakers can now be subject to daily fines and even expulsion from the chamber. Progressive groupslast month submitted roughly 38,000 petition signatures to get the proposedcharter amendmentincluded on the May municipal election ballot, a move San Antonio City Attorney Andy Segoviasigned off on last week. HD126 37,148 21,466 HD128 32,461 12,922 Hudspeth 293,030 256,624 60.84% 44.00% Beto versus Abbott Restraint and tolerance for any kind of dissent are not in their playbook. Even under the most ludicrously generous assumptions, the math just plain doesnt work. All those requests were ignored. HD133 60.29% 39.71% HD128 67.93% 29.60% 2.47% Her reporting has aired nationally on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Here & Now. DECISION 2022: Primary election results for local races in Harris County and surrounding counties Published: March 1, 2022, 1:39 PM Updated: March 2, 2022, 10:02 PM Tags: Decision 2022 , Texas . As such, if we have the same rate of turnout as we did in 2015, we would see over 311K Houston voters from Harris County, or more than a 40K increase from 2015. HD132 56.16% 41.60% 2.24% JP6 5,571 16,529 HD135 16,804 21,988 1,227 559 Now is not the time to re-litigate.. Part of this is that we have a vibrant Democratic club structure in place, with a lot of that participation coming in the formerly red areas. Greg Abbott on Nov. 8. Find Race Results. A provision in the Texas Constitution states that no charter or any ordinance passed under said charter shall contain any provision inconsistent with the Constitution of the State, or of the general laws enacted by the Legislature of this State.. HD126 61.88% 36.32% 1.80% 0.00% CIA plans to hold a fundraiser, hopefully on Feb 19. The judge in the Lunceford contest was assigned on December 13, I dont know what has happened since then. HD145 33.23% 66.77% TEXAS SUPREME COURT, PLACE 3. HD138 32,276 24,389 But Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, and his allies moved successfully Wednesday to prevent the matter from even getting to a vote on the floor. CC2 99,401 100,543 See here for the background. As always, please let me know what you think. ====================== HD148 44.01% 55.99% See here for the background. John Bash, a defense attorney who previously worked at the U.S. Department of Justice and served as a U.S. attorney in Texas, said that the DOJ is under no obligation to publicly announce that a case is closed or that a subject related to the case is not a target. HD144 11,849 14,344 A big part of what the countys organizing, and the growth of the local clubs, has done is to dispel that notion and allow people the chance to enhance their communities. But even if they miss that goal, voters can expect to see the slate of proposed changes, collectively known as the Justice Charter, to the city charter on the November 2023 ballot because the signatures collected are valid for six months. CC4 49.47% 50.53% JP1 38.13% 61.85% 0.02% JP3 46.84% 53.16% One judge whose race is being challenged, David Fleisher, lives in 133. "This case will focus on the details of every aspect of the November 8 election in Harris County. She serves on the Houston Bar Associations Gender Fairness Committee as well as the HAY Center Committee. Burgess 290,267 255,860 60.14% 43.81% 2023-00936; Mark Montgomery v. Judge Kelley Andrews. Scroll down to find results for statewide, congressional, and state legislative . The Current has more. HD134 44.12% 55.86% 0.02% HD137 38.33% 59.01% 2.65% 0.01% 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. At issue is a new state law passed by the GOP-controlled Legislature,Senate Bill 23, that bars large counties from cutting law enforcement spending without getting approval from voters. Its unclear whether that estimate would be enough to flip even the narrowest margins, as in Luncefords race, which Craft won by 2,743 votes out of more than 1 million ballots cast, or 0.26 percent of the vote. HD127 62.90% 37.09% 0.01% Two, the Family Court judges were the stars of the 2022 elections for the Democrats. Theyre either for the initiatives or they just want to put it up to a vote because they think that this is something we should vote on.. Find an event near you . Ananda Tomas, executive director of police reform group ACT 4 SA, told reporters that her group and its allies collected 38,200 signatures in favor of the San Antonio Justice Charter. I do know that at least one more loser has filed a losers contest, but I dont care to give any of this any more validity. I dont have any great insight here, nor do I have much confidence that Dems could take action to mitigate against this. HD144 44.67% 50.89% 4.44% I dont know if Speaker Phelan will be persuaded or arm-twisted into changing his mind about making whatever minor infractions into felonies, but I hope he holds out. HD144 46.51% 53.45% 0.03% Note that as yet, not a single person has been identified as someone who showed up at a voting center on Election Day, was actually unable to cast a ballot while there because of paper issues, left before the problem was resolved, was unable to go to any of the 750 other voting locations in the county, and ultimately did not cast a ballot. HD149 11,923 19,315 824 HD149 38.56% 58.67% 2.77% JP7 11,411 65,835 1,804 C Probate 511,900 540,619 48.64% 51.36%, Candidates Houston Not Hou Hou% Not% Every candidate is invited to join in the conversation and asked questions based on the jurisdiction where they are seeking office. JP3 35,923 42,332 Our position remains that the Council will put the petition on the ballot as one Justice Policy proposal because that was the way it was presented to those who signed the petition, Segovia said in an email Sunday. CC4 47.51% 50.03% 2.46% 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. The chart below is the vote percentage for both parties in each of those races individually. I love this photo he took with little baby Christopher back during his 2020 re-election bid. For sure, if this passes it will be a quick matter before they have to rule on a temporary restraining order one way or the other about enforcement. HD149 38.61% 61.39% HD133 52.56% 45.14% 2.30% Im just eyeballing everything and not being too particular about it, this is close enough for these purposes. The average attorney charges $500 per hour. I really wish I could make that happen. JP8 62.62% 35.61% 1.76% 0.01%, Dist Chris Warford Lib Grn HD132 60.69% 39.31% ============================== CC4 117,014 119,504 As you know, the Harris County Democratic Party will soon have a new Chair. It also opened a public defenders office in 2010, though many judges refused to use it, insteadcontinuingto appoint overloaded private attorneys. JP7 15.59% 81.84% 2.57% 0.00% As the title says, what do we need to do to hold onto them? ORourke did not respond to a request for comment on whether he was considering a second Senate run against Cruz. Youd think this would be a recipe for a lot of indifference, but youd be wrong. JP8 46,811 29,923 2,210 Beto versus Abbott Second, these bills I assume theyre identical in each chamber are just a mess. JP3 34,975 41,776 2,126 ====================== Family 508,801 546,195 48.23% 51.77% JP7 13,972 64,220 27 See here for the previous entry. 2022 TEXAS PRIMARY ELECTION: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO VOTE. HD135 42.90% 57.10% One more thing to note is that despite the lesser Democratic performance, these candidates all still carried the three Commissioner Court precincts that are now Democratic. Appeals 520,019 549,533 48.62% 51.38% HD135 39.89% 57.75% 2.36% HD130 44,307 20,934 1,434 Education: Western Kentucky University and Belmont University College of Law. Sometimes I dont necessarily mind Houston being a bit behind the activism curve. The case was dismissed because May failed to timely pay the security of costs required by Texas law. JP5 146,733 136,478 6,730 Ogg 161,659 19,356 48,489 242,159 Thats the order displayed in the table above, so each line represents a group that came entirely after the group above it. JP5 136,969 146,132 7,898 Im extremely doubtful that there is a legitimate legal challenge here, Stein said. More than 20lawsuitsfrom losing Republican candidates have also been filed against the county, citing those problems and seeking a redo of the election. Odus Evbagharu has led the party since 2021. CC2 93,611 106,606 5,426 All we can do about that is fight fire with fire. HD141 18.71% 81.29% 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. If we can get the baseline vote to be closer, that could be enough to push some people over the top. 22 GOP Candidates Contest Harris County Elections, Seek Records Inspection. The only logical conclusion is that across the board, some number of people who votes for Beto and Collier and Garza and Hays also voted for Glenn Hegar and Dawn Buckingham and Wayne Christian. With that margin, three of the four Dem candidates would have won by a couple thousand votes. Anyway. City Council is expected to order that the ballot proposition appear on the May 6 ballot Thursday, a formality they dont get to exercise judgment over. In 2008, Jason left his civil practice to accept a position as an Assistant District Attorney in Harris County, where he went on to serve as the Chief Prosecutor in two different County Criminal Courts. HD137 8,369 12,377 HD149 37.19% 60.24% 2.57% CC3 224,673 135,288 6,151 14 JP7 15.20% 80.93% 2.46% 1.42% On Wednesday, each of the chambers 31 lawmakers walked to the front of the chamber and drew lots by picking an envelope that held a pill-shaped capsule. On Friday the anti-abortion group Texas Alliance for Life Inc. (TAL) filed a petition requesting that the city reject the proposed ballot language, which it says violates astate lawprohibiting multi-subject charter amendments, and require each issue to be listed and voted on separately. JP1 58,698 126,202 5,083 Thats not as robust as what Dems did in 2018 as we know, but I cant blame Collier and Garza for that. Not to be needlessly pedantic here believe me, this is extremely needed pedanticism but if they went to another location then by definition their vote wasnt suppressed because they did in fact vote. Beto versus Abbott As for Beto, Im pretty sure weve seen the last of him on the statewide stage, at least for the foreseeable future. Harris County has a new system called managed assigned counsel (MAC) that helps a little with keeping anyone from having too many cases, but outside of the occasional news coverage and the State Bar, a process thats completely opaque to most of us, theres little oversight of the system as a whole. HD139 28.11% 69.53% 2.35% 0.00% My first thought is that Im not really clear what these guys are aiming at. The Press has more. Dist Civil 518,475 545,206 48.74% 51.26% The Current has more. The debate is about the extent, not the existence. In response to each of the requests for public information, the elections office responded by seeking an opinion from the Texas Attorney Generals office allowing it to withhold the information due to ongoing litigation, the lawsuit states. HD146 19.66% 77.97% 2.36% Ms. Wyatt is represented by Neal Manne. JP4 59.33% 40.67% HD146 22.29% 77.71% Elizabeth Conley/Staff photographer. I guess what Im saying is that while theres still no reason yet to get on the Julian Castro might really run for something statewide this time! train, theres also nothing obvious out there that would be an obstacle to it. HD140 5,850 12,681 647 HD148 45.64% 54.36% CC2 99,209 100,166 Take Action. According to Mealers petition, there is no dispute that there were several dozens of polling locations who at some point in the day, ran out of paper and turned voters away.. She is currently a Senior Litigator at the Harris County Public Defenders Office. In the increasingly blue Harris County, more Republicans voted early (105,482) than Democrats (96,725). But in San Marcos, Hays County District Attorney Wes Mau has asked for the Texas attorney generals opinion on that citys decriminalization ordinance. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff Why did those eight hundred and some people vote in the Treasurers race but not the County Clerks race? In the old days, when you had to vote at your precinct location, you really were screwed. Judge Sepolio is represented by John Raley. HD134 32,915 46,611 1,330 CC1 23.64% 73.61% 2.75% HD146 9,455 31,723 Judge Lawton-Evans is represented by Anthony Drumheller. STANDING COMMITTEE ON JUDICIAL EVALUATIONS - COOK COUNTY 2022 PRIMARY ELECTION JUNE 28, 2022 . Matthew Dexter is represented by Elizabeth Alvarez. ======================= Turns out there was: You may have noticed that the ballot is arranged in a particular order. Judge Draper is represented by John Raley. Beto got to 58% in 2018. Hensley said that certain parts of the ordinance simply couldnt be implemented because it violates state and federal law. If not, Ill be disappointed but not surprised. Experience: Sherlene Cruz has worked 16 years in the criminal justice system. I think that thats still going to be a conversation with City Council.. HD126 36,931 21,555 1,269 JP6 22.60% 71.48% 5.91% HD142 8,580 25,228 859 After watching Congress attempt to function last week, I cannot imagine why some want Texas to be like D.C, Phelan said. Harris County Elections Administrator Cliff Tatum did not respond to Votebeats request for his comment about the legislation. Opponents of the so-called Justice Charter have filed an emergency petition asking the Texas Supreme Court to require separate votes for each of its provisions, including decriminalizing marijuana and abortion and banning police chokeholds and no-knock warrants.