harris county judicial candidates 2022

HD144 44.67% 49.78% 4.30% 1.25% JP2 40.63% 56.87% 2.50% HD128 71.46% 28.54% At least in those cases, you can make the claim that the Libertarian received votes that might have otherwise gone to the Republican. Organizers have gathered more than 26,000 signatures so far for a petition that would give San Antonio voters in May the opportunity to decriminalize marijuana possession, end enforcement of abortion laws, establish a city justice director position, ban police from using no-knock warrants and chokeholds and expand the citys cite-and-release policy for low-level, nonviolent crimes. If not, Ill be disappointed but not surprised. Judicial Candidate Petitions; Certain judicial candidates in Bexar, Dallas, Harris, Tarrant and Travis must file additional petitions (PDF). In the Ag Commissioner race, Sid Miller got 507K votes to top Abbotts total, but he was aided by not having any third party candidates. JP1 71,793 116,463 40 ============================= Texas constitutiongives judges the ultimate authorityto assign indigent defendants an attorney, and to decide how much that attorney gets paid. 2020, in the race for District Judge, 333rd Civil District Court in Harris County, Texas. HD131 6,081 24,219 829 1 Looking at the numbers, its not an irrational fear. HD128 32,350 12,795 1,014 2023-00934; Brian Staley v. Judge Monica Singh. Education: Central College in Iowa, University of Houston, and University of Houston Law Center, Campaign website: alyciaharveyforjudge.com. Harris County 230th Criminal District Court Judge: incumbent Chris Morton and challenger Joseph Sanchez. HD145 33.87% 66.10% 0.02% HD145 12,368 32,031 1,449 2023-01076; Aaron Adams v. Judge LaShawn Williams. At a high level, its federal races, then state races, then county races, then city and other local entities if applicable. "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. If six months or a year from now this ordinance is in place and being complied with, Ill be delighted and looking to our city to follow suit. HD128 32,461 12,922 With this new referendum, Ground Game Texas will ensure the will of voters isnt trampled on by their local elected officials.. HD140 5,859 12,433 613 3 CD02 77,665 46,669 21 CD09 23,451 71,374 29 Generally speaking, she did a couple of points worse. JP5 147,642 135,687 HD130 71.41% 28.59% Public servants have moved on. Mealer 198,286 336,434 40.19% 56.59% Education: Prairie View A&M University and South Texas College of Law, Campaign website: beverlyarmstrongforjudge.com. But they could if they are willing to do so.. JP1 34.97% 62.30% 2.73% But hey, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema preserved the filibuster, so.). Threat management. And yes, it really is all about voter suppression, even if Texas Republicans are better than their Wisconsin colleagues at keeping the quiet part to themselves. CC1 76,230 193,216 I went back to 2012 to add in another Presidential year data point. HD147 9,406 34,678 1,363 730 The difference between these statewide races and the ones we have already looked at, including the Governors race, is very simple: These Republican candidates did better than the ones we have seen, and the Democrats did less well. This is what happens when you let your rage control you. HD131 18.69% 78.34% 2.96% Education: Alabama State University and Southern University Law Center. The Tennessee primaries took place on August 4, 2022, with Lee and Democrat Jason Martin winning their respective parties' nominations. A senior adviser to Cruz, granted anonymity to speak candidly, said he plans to make his formal Senate run announcement within the first half of the year. Once again, Comptroller Hegar has abused his authority, the county attorney said. We have an open seat Mayoral race this year, and history says those are our biggest ones. About 40K people on average skipped these three races, compared with a bit less than 23K for RRC. HD150 60.86% 37.36% 1.77% 0.01% CC4 114,198 127,074 JP1 58,125 125,740 5,522 One is Fort Bend, which was positive for Dems in 2018 and 2020, but not in other years. Bun B, Badu, J.J. Watt celebrate RodeoHouston Southern Takeover. The Trib, which reported Patricks remarks but didnt fact check them, and Campos, who called the Trib story lazyarse reporting, have more. My first thought is that Im not really clear what these guys are aiming at. However, state law does not prevent the county from providing the records, but rather gives the county discretion to decide. CC1 29.16% 70.81% 0.03% The argument that compels me is just simply that the last four even-number elections weve had have featured historically high turnout. 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. In Hensleys presentation, she pointed out that the City Council does have the discretion to amend the budget in regards to how city funds are spent. She now manages McTorry Law, PLLC, where she is a criminal defense attorney. JP3 35,348 39,739 2,132 865 Education: Texas Tech University School of Law, BREAKING BOND: FOX 26'S ONGOING SERIES ON CRIMINALS OUT ON BOND. HD145 30.71% 69.29% JP7 12,214 64,137 2,011 2 In all likelihood, these votes would more or less split fifty-fifty, as a microcosm of the larger election, but lets go ahead and assume the friendly turf claim as well. JP2 42.30% 53.77% 3.93% HD140 32.61% 67.36% 0.03% 2023-00964; Alexandra Mealer v. Lina Hidalgo. HD138 57.11% 41.18% 1.71% 0.00% Mark Montgomery, former candidate forHarris County Criminal Court at Law No. HD140 30.31% 64.09% 5.61% JP3 44.25% 53.43% 2.33% He wondered why the city didnt provide the demographic breakdown of those citations during Hensleys presentation because historically, minorities have been unfairly targeted by law enforcement. So as I said, this was expected. 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.. Adding to the confusion, Hegar and the county are separately at odds over Heaps current budget, which was adopted by the Democratic-controlled Commissioners Court last fall. HD150 34,895 22,408 I would suggest that its worth the effort to put some money into the Dem-friendly areas of Brazoria in 2024, for the purpose of squeezing out as many Dem votes as possible. HARRIS COUNTY, Texas - Several Harris County Criminal District Court Judges are up for re-election in 2022. HD141 4,527 19,765 784 332 Republicanshave also introduced billsto further investigate election fraud, to limit the states early voting period from two weeks to one, and to set earlier deadlines for handing in mail ballots. Thats exactly what happened in 2020, as noted above. HD133 61.21% 38.77% 0.02% I strongly suspect well be hearing from the Legislature on the latter, and quite possibly on the former as well. These candidates embody the progressive values we look for in our elected leaders and reflect the diversity of our county. He and County Attorney Jim Nichols met with Commissioners Bobby Whitson, John Driver, Bill Schumann and Russell Schneider in executive session for an hour on Thursday. HD130 46,273 19,792 Hidalgo 612,111 1,095,479 101,400 36,568 Theyll fight and theyll make noise and theyll employ the rules and pick up the occasional small-bore victory, but in the end they have no power. HD144 46.97% 53.03% In the Senate, they drew their lots to see who would have to run again in 2024. This post is about the first three, and those are the races for Lite Guv, Attorney General, and Ag Commissioner. CC4 117,014 119,504 Segovia added that opponents should challenge the validity of the amendment after the election, not before. I will pass along information about the fundraiser when I have it. 2023-00952; Nile Copeland v. Judge Latosha Lewis Payne. Okay, we can move on now. If they got new information that caused them to reopen the investigation, they wouldnt want to convey to anybody that No, we will never look at this again, Bash said. Thats a bigger and more long-term problem. 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. I also think the next Chair will have some work to do to improve performance and get ready for the 2024 election. CC1 65,573 204,223 7,632 HD126 61.92% 38.08% - Houston suspends sister city ties with Russian cities on the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine, - Mayor Turner's office accuses Pappas of 'smear campaign' on Hobby deal, says city followed its rules, - Houston leaders divided on support for controversial affordable housing projects, - Five years after Santa Fe massacre, relatives still denied records of loved ones' last moments, - Kingwood operators released sewage in creek that feeds into Houston's drinking water, HPD alleges. Now, given the vast sum of money spent by wingnut richies to smear Democratic judges, it may be that was at least as big a challenge as undervoting was. JP4 175,012 119,960 JP8 64.31% 35.67% 0.02%, You still have time to donate to the Democratic judges legal fund, Lege targets Harris County election administrator, approved a bill making illegal voting a felony, Lets spend less money on court-appointed lawyers, judges who make a whole lot of appointments to the same handful of attorneys, The Denton experience with marijuana decriminalization, Tell me you have no evidence of voter suppression without telling me you have no evidence of voter suppression, Houston furniture magnate Jim Mattress Mack McIngvale. HD130 46,537 18,686 We destroyed the record for turnout in a non-Presidential year in 2018, and then even though turnout was down relative to it in 2022, it was still easily the second-highest off-year total, both in absolute numbers and percent of registered voters. Two things are different in 2018. Ill get to the money issue in a minute. Republican judicial candidate Erin Lunceford filed an election contest lawsuit in December after losing Harris Countys 189th judicial district court race to Democrat Tamika Craft. Ill have more to say about judicial races later. HD148 16,522 19,677 Please give a few bucks if you can and help them all out. Last week, Mike May, the GOP nominee who ran against state Rep. Jon Rosenthal in House District 135, filed a petition challenging Rosenthals win. Democrats can persuade at least some Republicans to vote for their statewide candidates, but only under some conditions. Not much else to say at this time for 2024, but I will note that at least some of the Democratic judges whose election is being challenged by a sore loser are raising funds for their legal defense. JP6 5,490 16,504 HD126 58.56% 38.98% 2.46% 2022 Candidate Endorsements. The 2022 Texas Primary Election is fast approaching. JP1 36.70% 63.30% Sheldon A. Harris (all ballots . CC4 115,464 120,671 And as you can see, while there is that dip in percentage that we have discussed for the county criminal courts, it bounces right back for the probate courts. HD132 61.04% 38.95% 0.01% Theres already more than 2.5 million registered voters in Harris County, up about 100K from November 2020, and I expect there to be over 2.6 million by next November. HD149 11,876 19,423 706 HD132 36,413 23,479 Heres County Attorney Menefees Twitter post, with a copy of the letter to May from Speaker Phelan: NEW: Speaker Phelan dismissed losing House candidate Mike Mays election contest against @Jon_RosenthalTX because he didnt pay the required fees. Experience: Melissa Morris has practiced criminal defense and family law for 15 years. Shell have plenty of time to build that treasury back up; she did a pretty good job of that this cycle, so Id expect to see her total tick up in short order. For sure, if this passes, it will be litigated, and there is the possibility of a pre-emptive bill being passed against this even before then. HD139 30.91% 69.06% 0.03% HD146 22.29% 77.71% CD22 62.20% 37.79% 0.01% Currently we work hand-in-hand. Judge Lunceford previously served on the bench, so I trust she understands the seriousness of asking a court to disregard the votes of over a million residents across Harris County," Menefee said. James Lombardino is represented by Jared Woodfill. Judges who had not actively served at least six months on their current bench as of the date this questionnaire was prepared do not appear on the Judicial Evaluation. HD137 8,017 12,261 612 350 See here for the previous entry. Many of them target Harris County, which Republicans have spent the past two years chastising for back-to-back elections blunders. The effect was generally stronger in the Republican districts than in the Democratic ones, with HDs 133 and 134 being the most notable. HD130 45,640 18,396 1,369 597 Now well look at the next highest profile race, in which the result was a surprise to some people who didnt connect Democratic performance at the top of the ticket with the other local races. HD126 37,148 21,466 Two more things: One is that the undervote rate was higher in judicial races. JP2 21,608 29,498 1,599 SD04 63.31% 36.68% 0.02% Even at the highest end of the estimate of locations that had issues, more than 90% of them did not. To me, the most likely explanation is that the most visible Republicans, the ones most likely to loudly and visibly stake out unpopular and divisive positions and yes, this means unpopular, or at least less popular with Republicans, with opposing marijuana reform and expanded gambling and rape/incest exceptions for abortion are losing votes that their lower profile/less visibly extreme colleagues are not losing. She serves on the Houston Bar Associations Gender Fairness Committee as well as the HAY Center Committee. JP1 67,346 116,157 Family 508,801 546,195 48.23% 51.77% 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. How often do we see that 70% pass anywhere? I still have a couple more of these posts to work through. JP5 52.14% 47.86% Patrick 171,319 312,803 34.40% 51.84% I found this to be fascinating, and quite different from the experiences in Bell County and Hays County, not to mention the pre-vote conflicts in San Antonio. In actuality, there were 486K total ballots cast, including undervotes, in the city prop races. HD126 64.12% 35.85% 0.03% JP1 58,698 126,202 5,083 Every candidate is invited to join in the conversation and asked questions based on the jurisdiction where they are seeking office. Carla Wyatt, County Treasurer, Alexandra Mealer, County Judge DOWNLOAD: HARRIS COUNTY GOP VOTER GUIDE. Whatever happens, this should be the last word, until and unless the state gets involved. Aaron Adams is represented by Elizabeth Alvarez. HD132 59.59% 38.35% 2.06% Judge Walker is represented by John Raley. I will of course keep an eye on them. JP2 41.00% 55.97% 3.03% ============================= On the ballot this year are . You can read the Chron story here and their explainer about election contests here. It could also ask voters to approve the funding reduction in a referendum, Hegar said. Harris County 248th Criminal District Court Judge: incumbent Hilary Unger and challenger Linda Mazzagatti. The Current has a rebuttal to the unenforceable argument. While there are no challenges on the Republican ballot in the Texas Primary Election, there are plenty on the Democratic ballot. HD146 9,159 31,995 Cant let Mattress Mack undo election wins. 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. Its rattlesnake season in Texas. 2023-301111; Will Archer v. Judge James Horwitz. Well just have to see. Elections Harris County election results 2022: County judge, commissioners, propositions. This isnt a lobbying or legislating matter, its a political and electoral one. The past obstruction on Commissioners Court to implementing reforms like this has been eliminated thanks to the 2022 election. After the 2012 election, the main question was whether then-Sen. Wendy Davis, who won a tough race in a district carried by Mitt Romney, would have to run again in 2014. HD132 34,454 25,125 1,539 HD126 35,244 23,460 1,482 It is not fair for the voters to tell us to break the law. See here for the background. 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. CC3 61.34% 38.66% CD07 53,108 77,625 29 HD149 37.11% 60.69% 2.21% I dont have any great insight here, nor do I have much confidence that Dems could take action to mitigate against this. Vacancy of the Hon. Theres already a lot of money in the campaigns, which if nothing else should mean plenty of advertising. HD148 43.27% 52.03% 3.30% 1.40% [Isabel] Longoria was the first,appointedunder a newly created office in late 2020; Tatum wasnamed as her replacementlast July. Below we review the incumbent criminal district court judges and their Democratic challengers. But we dont plan to let him abuse his power. Nuff said. HD131 6,062 24,496 Indeed, three of the four races were actually in the Dem +34K to +38K range, with one outlier. I didnt blog about the raid at the time, mostly because I prefer not to think too much about Henry Cuellar. HD132 36,340 23,537 I hope it at least amuses you. This has no effect on the other challenges filed by other losing losers, as legislative contests are heard in the House while these others will be argued in a courtroom. DA is technically a state office for smaller counties, the DA can cover several of them at once so Id normally expect to see them on the Texas Ethics Commission site.

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