-- The blue worm is turning for Bob.
Yes, one point. Yes, kos getting all giddy. Go ahead and read the replies for a sense of what's happening on the ground, and try to ignore the consultants, wannabe consultants, and associated "Ahmanexpurt" pundificating.
(I'm surprised Kuffner is so slow on this. Just the other day he said he wasn't buying that the race was close and that he'd need to see a poll with O'Rourke in the lead. He should eventually resemble some eagerness once he finishes with campaign finance reports, I guess. I have to say it again: that blog is a shell of its former small-handed, pear-shaped, obsessive-compulsive, number-nerdy self. Which is to say it is still all of those things, just completely unreadable now.)
Texas Democrats fell in love with Bob early on, and are now so frenzied with Betomania they're about to leave a wet spot on their chairs. Yes, that is as disgusting as it sounds.
He's rolling out
positive TV ads, he's already
spending more on Facebook than anyone except Trump, and the debates are coming. The race will be
much closer than I thought just a few weeks ago.
--
Nancy Pelosi is in town again today, with SJL and Congresswoman-in-waiting Sylvia Garcia.
Pelosi and Jackson Lee will participate in an event organized by Jackson Lee called the Mom’s Summit. That event starts at 10 a.m. at the Houston Community College central campus at 1300 Holman Street. Later, Pelosi attends a town hall meeting with Garcia’s campaign that is focused on immigration, gun violence and health care. That event is at 2 p.m. at Talento Bilingue, 333 S. Jensen Drive, Houston.
Keep an eye out for other local Congressional hopefuls who might be in attendance, like
Dayna Steele,
Mike Seigel, and
Sri Preston Kulkarni. These are the Dems who have presented themselves as progressives, and could be more likely to join the 50 others (including 9 incumbents,
list here) who say they will
not support Pelosi for Speaker should the Ds take back the House.
On the other hand, expect to see Blue Dogs like
Todd Litton and incumbent Al Green.
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher, in avoiding giving John Culberson a cudgel to hit her with,
refuses to say whether or not she will support Pelosi; so do Texas Democrats
Colin Allred,
Adrienne Bell,
Gina Ortiz Jones, and
MJ Hegar.
Steven David (the sacrificial lamb for House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady), who desperately needs some publicity of any kind, ought to show up.
There will be a ton of local candidates, judicials, and perhaps a few statewides as well. Attendance and the Tweeting of photos can be inferred as endorsements. "Make of that what you will."
Update: No noteworthy sight-ems.
This, though.
While Pelosi had no public events with Fletcher or Democrat Todd
Litton, who is running in the 2nd Congressional District in northern and
northeastern Harris County, she cited them as two of the best chances Democrats have of picking up Republican-held seats around Houston in the November elections.
Republican Congressional candidate Dan
Crenshaw, who is running against Litton, said he has no worries about
Pelosi coming in to help his opponent, to whom she contributed $7,000
earlier this year. Litton previously picked up campaign donations from
Pelosi, the California Democrat who hopes to become Speaker of the House
again in 2019 if Democrats win back control of the U.S. House. Crenshaw
said instead of being worried about Pelosi’s influence, he’s hoping it
will fire up his supporters.
-- Last, Michael Avenatti, better known as
Stormy Daniels' lawyer, was in H-Town yesterday.
Celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti, who gained national fame for
representing porn star Stormy Daniels in her defamation lawsuit against
President Donald Trump, appeared in a Houston immigration court Tuesday
to reunify a 9-year-old immigrant boy with his mother, who had been
deported to Guatemala.
The attorney and cable TV fixture visited early-voting Iowa over the weekend after
announcing a potential presidential bid. In Houston, he urged the
goverment to immediately release Anthony Tobar Ortiz so that he could
return to Central America with Avenatti that same day.
A lot more about the child's case he argued at the link. I join the opinion that the mainstream media is doing the same favor for Avenatti
that they did for Trump about four years ago.
