Top position soon available. Inquiries to County Judge Lina Hidalgo.
Uncounted mail-in ballots discovered in Harris County add uncertainty to two Democratic races https://t.co/vKGdGsNlqB by @MitchellFerman via @TexasTribune #tx2022 #txlege
— Joshua M. Blank (@JoshuaMBlank) March 7, 2022
In the Democratic race for the seat to represent parts of downtown and northeast Houston in the statehouse, incumbent state Rep. Harold V. Dutton Jr. leads challenger Candis Houston by 136 votes, 50.8% to 49.2%.
And the race to determine the Democratic candidate for attorney general of Texas could also be impacted. Rochelle Garza, a former American Civil Liberties Union lawyer from Brownsville, led a crowded primary field and is already locked into the runoff election, but her Democratic opponent could hinge on the Harris County tally.
Former Galveston Mayor Joe Jaworski leads civil rights attorney Lee Merritt by 1,418 votes overall.
Isabel Longoria's fate is sealed, but the forensic autopsy of all of the Election Night snafus could reveal that the county's $54 million investment in new black box vote machines from Hart InterCivic has been an unforced error. And though commissioners court approved the purchase, it will be Hidalgo that faces the music in November.
There's mistakes, there's incompetence, and then there's fraud, and when it comes to Ken Paxton, that means it's just another Monday.
Texas AG @KenPaxtonTX's agency helped a company it was suing cash in on insurance money, @Dexinvestigates writes.
— Lauren McGaughy 🌟 (@lmcgaughy) March 4, 2022
A Delaware jury has found that deal defrauded the insurance company. https://t.co/D9T5f5y7f5 #txlege
The only thing I could possibly say to the evangelical Christians who keep voting for him is that even their God's patience has limits. How many times would you expect Paxton to be forgiven for his sins? Every time?
Wise up, conservatives. You're not owning anybody but yourselves with this charlatan.
Michelle Davis has a comprehensive listing of every Democrat and Republican in a statewide or statehouse runoff. Gus Bova at the Texas Observer writes about the shifting political sands in the RGV, where Latinas both blue and red aim to replace the old guard of conservative Latinos (generally Democrats). And KXAN summarizes the attorney general's races and previews the runoffs.
Still to come: environmental news, cops behaving badly, criminal and social justice updates, and a heaping helping of calm-me-downs.
