According to the Texas Courts website, "district . JP2 44.36% 55.62% 0.02% Ive said this multiple times before, but as a reminder for the slow kids in the class, many counties have election administrators, including many Republican counties like Tarrant and Lubbock. In 2020, eleven Democratic judicial candidates were unopposed. She was Chief Prosecutor in the Felony Trial Bureau, the Civil Rights Division, the Post-Conviction Writs division, the Robbery Division. HD137 35.76% 61.22% 3.02% Democrats acknowledge that Texas has not been an easy state for the party. Bun B, Badu, J.J. Watt celebrate RodeoHouston Southern Takeover. Hegar 185,671 324,329 37.58% 54.52% 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. Three candidates running against them were more than happy to talk to us. Dan Spjut is represented by Elizabeth Alvarez. Dist Scott% Wyatt% HD145 26.72% 70.17% 3.12% Austin, TX, November 3, 2022 Down-ballot races are not typically a hot election topic, but public concerns over rising crime have pushed Harris County's 68 judicial races to the forefront this cycle.. Of these, 60 are for various county criminal, civil, and family courts; four are for appellate court benches;and four are for justices of the peace. "That is a key priority," Hidalgo said. HD129 56.03% 41.03% 2.95% HD132 36,413 23,479 JP3 35,847 40,620 1,612 8 That link takes you here, and while the in-person fundraiser mentioned there is now over, the Donate link remains. Were ready, City Clerk Debbie Racca-Sittre said inside City Hall as she and a colleague sealed and time stamped four boxes filled with more than 5,000 pages of petition signatures. Ill get into it a bit more in the next post when we look at the higher-scoring Republicans, but my sense is that these three Dems, plus Beto, received some crossovers. No one cares about that, but because it is a story about 2024 and Ted Cruz will be running for re-election to the Senate in 2024, it contains the following bits of speculation about who might run against him: Cruzs focus on his Senate bid follows a tough 2018 reelection fight against former Democratic Rep. Beto ORourke, who lost by 2.6 points. GOP lawmakers including Gov. HD145 30.71% 69.29% Wayne Dolcefino, a media consultant and former TV journalist. 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. These dates are subject to changes from the 2021 legislative session. Debra Lehrmann (incumbent) TEXAS SUPREME COURT, PLACE 5. HD145 15,445 30,141 11 Not a surprise, but an aggressive position to take. In the old days, when you had to vote at your precinct location, you really were screwed. Find Race Results. 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. 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. Some Texas voting rights groups worry the Legislature will use the problems in Harris and those lawsuits as an excuse to advance bills such as these. And no, he doesnt personally support it, either. "During the last month, we've had a lot of our candidates that were in very close races that have been talking to us wanting to know the information that we've accumulated and have reported," Siegel said. Along those lines, I note two potential future Constable candidates: Don Dinh, a Deputy Constable in Precinct 1 since 2020 who was for 24 years before that a sergeant in the Fort Bend County Precinct 2 Constables office, filed a designation of treasurer to run for Constable in Precinct 5. HD150 35,168 21,262 HD134 40.71% 57.65% 1.64% HD126 61.88% 36.32% 1.80% 0.00% We look forward to our Democratic nominee retiring Ted Cruz from the U.S. Senate and finally allowing him some time to finally relax at his preferred Cancun resort, said Ike Hajinazarian, a spokesperson for the Texas Democratic Party. JP7 12,266 66,242 HD146 20.78% 75.62% 2.21% 1.39% Cagle 64,225 186,970 0 5,056 What Im really aiming for is a net of at least 300K for Biden in Harris County; he was at plus 218K in 2020, after Beto was at plus 200K in 2018. In a 4-1 vote, the court authorized County Attorney Christian Menefee to pursue a lawsuit against the comptrollers office. ROBERT FICKMAN'S 2022 HARRIS COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY JUDICIAL ENDORSEMENTS Friends - The Harris County District Attorneys Office has SHAMEFULLY encouraged assistant district attorneys and pro- prosecution candidates to run against some of our best incumbent judges in the Democratic Primary. 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. But hey, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema preserved the filibuster, so.). The debate is about the extent, not the existence. HD143 8,706 15,000 He would almost surely run as a Dem in this heavily Democratic precinct. 5(lost to Judge David Fleischer), Chris Daniel, former candidate for Harris County District Clerk (lost to Marilyn Burgess), Erin Lunceford, former candidate for the 189, Tami Pierce, former candidate for the180th District Court(lost to Judge DaSean Jones), Alexandra Mealer, former candidate for Harris County Judge (lost to Judge Lina Hidalgo), Mike May, former candidate for State Representative District 135 (lost to Representative Jon Rosenthal). =============================================== Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Many of them have a tiny number of Houston-specific votes in them, with a much larger contingent of non-Houston votes. HD137 8,263 12,428 646 Adrian Garcia, County Commissioner, Precinct 2 7 Cause No. Theres no overall downward trend. HD141 19.04% 80.96% I think Odus did a good job as HCDP Chair. 2023-301111; Will Archer v. Judge James Horwitz. Bettencourt said hes considering a bill that would raise the charges for some voting-related misdemeanors, such as failing to provide election supplies. 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. The story goes into detail about how absurdly vague the provisions are, which could put a whole lot of election administrators in solidly red counties in danger if something goes wrong, as things sometimes do. He also volunteered his time in Veterans Court working with court staff to develop treatment programs for veterans facing mental health and addiction issues. Nothing else of great interest in this group Id expect both Ed Gonzalez and Christian Menefee to start posting bigger numbers soon. HD142 8,851 24,073 1,025 411 A trial date has not been set yet. 2023-00925; Michelle Fraga v. Judge Christine Weems. If we have the same turnout rate as we did in 2003, were looking at over 353K voters from Harris County. This is why we have so many voting locations on Election Day, precisely because stuff sometimes happens. Im not going to expend any energy on that at this time. HD131 20.93% 79.03% 0.04% Wyatt 293,352 256,862 60.86% 44.00% He aint running for anything in 2024, Im confident of that. By clicking Sign Up, I confirmthat I have read and agreeto the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Amanda Reichek. But oftentimes, theyll tell the defense theyve been communicating with, Hey, this is over.. JP5 49.81% 46.48% 2.50% 1.21% Harris County 482nd Criminal District Court Judge: Democratic challengers Sherlene Cruz, Alycia Harvey and Veronica Nelson. Segovia said the city would defer to the amendments authors. HD138 59.58% 40.41% 0.02% I took the average number of votes each partys candidates got in these races I omitted the one Appellate Court race that had a third candidate in it so that wed have a cleaner comparison and the average vote percentage for each group, which you see in the table. I just want to point out the problem, so we know what were up against. ====================================== The HBA Judicial Preference Poll is not a Houston Bar Association opinion or endorsement. 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. Berrys office said Heap actually received $48.5 million. Harris County, Texas contains 60 judicial districts, four probate courts and one county court. The Press has more. Hegar,a Republican,said he hopes Heap and county officials can resolve the situation themselves long before Harris County begins budget deliberations for fiscal year 2024. He also predicted that county officials would once again use a convoluted approach to argue they had not reduced Heaps funding. 5 Cause No. We broke the record for total numbers of voters in any election in 2016, then shattered it in 2020. Beyond that, its the usual bunkum about guns not being the problem and there being nothing we could do to stop the next school shooter even if guns were the problem, some promises to increase security at schools, and some vague and meaningless words about mental health. It would have been a tossup for William Demond, I didnt do the math more rigorously than what you see here, but he might have won. 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. This obviously would require the speaker to violate the Housekeeping Resolution., It was a relatively anticlimactic end to the fight over Democratic committee chairs, which were a major issue in House primaries earlier this year, a rallying cry for conservative activists and a recurring theme in speeches as the legislative session kicked off Tuesday. HD143 34.83% 58.86% 4.77% 1.54% Holly Hansen. After watching Congress attempt to function last week, I cannot imagine why some want Texas to be like D.C, Phelan said. Currently we work hand-in-hand. JP3 45.91% 52.02% 2.06% 0.01% But they could if they are willing to do so.. This is nothing but a pretext. 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.. Morris is managing partner of the Morris Law Firm - Houston office. I just feel like were in new territory, said Kim Rubio, who lost her 10-year-old daughter, Lexi, at Robb Elementary School. Download the Press Release. He could win, and as was the case with Beto a close loss might still be a boost to whatever other prospects he ay have, but you still have to weight that against what hed be giving up. The thing that strikes me about Allred is that hes in a similar situation that his colleague Rep. Joaquin Castro was in 2017 and being talked about a run against Cruz in that cycle. HD128 71.67% 28.33% The Harris County Elections Administrators Office also issued a statement, saying it readily has responded to requests that do not require documents subject to the litigation, and has sought an opinion from the attorney generals office on those that do. 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.. It is believed that the purpose of these suits is to drag out the cases, have judges dip into personal resources, and be exhausted financially and emotionally by the time of their next race. The elections for secretary of state had taken on heightened importance due to former President Donald Trump's baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen. 2009 178,777 935,073 19.12% JP3 35,923 42,332 And if we do assume that statement to be a fact, then it is still the case that every single one of those Republican losers are still losers, with most of them still losing by more than a full percentage point, which is well above the standard for recounts that the loser doesnt have to pay for. HD131 19.48% 80.52% May's election contest is ongoing. And to me, thats the strongest indication that the state attorney general himself has determined that cities do have this discretion, that it is firmly grounded in the home-rule authority thats guaranteed by the Texas Constitution, and this is something that cities can decide for themselves.. HD148 45.64% 54.36% HD135 17,174 23,491 Respondents have no discretion to force voters to approve or reject, all or nothing, charter provisions dealing with issues as varied as theft, graffiti, or prohibiting cooperation with state agencies regulating abortion providers, wrote attorneyEric Opiela, a former executive director of the Republican Party of Texas. Education: Central College in Iowa, University of Houston, and University of Houston Law Center, Campaign website: alyciaharveyforjudge.com. Of all the Criminal District Courts in Harris County, the 184th District Court under Judge Anastasio has the smallest backlog of cases. HD127 40,378 24,663 CC3 58.02% 39.60% 2.38% Here is a guide with everything you need to know to be able to vote in Texas. 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. HD130 69.92% 28.62% 1.46% 0.01% HD129 59.21% 40.79% These candidates embody the progressive values we look for in our elected leaders and reflect the diversity of our county. The problem needs to be resolved at a higher level, and thats a much more difficult thing to do. Dan Patrick joked. Slapping around Harris County is the point. This story came out the same day that a Senate committee approved a bill making illegal voting a felony with even harsher punishments and lower standards for illegality than before. Radack 0 71,246 0 794,652, Court R Avg D Avg R pct D pct Public servants have moved on. Thanks! The House doesnt have the votes, he said. HD135 16,373 23,514 1,050 Better statewide races "Several of them are considering election contests.". Experience: Gemayel Haynes was prosecutor for the Harris County District Attorneys Office in the Justice of the Peace, Misdemeanor, Juvenile, and Felony Trial Divisions.