Despite appearing so much lower on the ballot, the per-district vote totals in these races are about the same for the two major parties. 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. The Trib, which reported Patricks remarks but didnt fact check them, and Campos, who called the Trib story lazyarse reporting, have more. The 2022 General Election is being held on November 8. HD131 20.93% 79.03% 0.04% HD142 8,851 24,073 1,025 411 So if I understand this correctly, the Elections Office could provide these documents on demand, but legally they dont have to until they get an opinion on it from the AGs office. Harris County 248th Criminal District Court Judge: incumbent Hilary Unger and challenger Linda Mazzagatti. You can read the Chron story here and their explainer about election contests here. HD147 20.84% 76.28% 2.88% Again, and Im going to keep harping on this, until you hear the person themselves say it, thats all that it is. There is no justification for denying the public information about a controversy just because it involves litigation, Aleshire said. CC3 62.89% 37.11% =================================== CC2 93,611 106,606 5,426 HD138 32,276 24,389 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. Better statewide races. JP3 45.91% 52.02% 2.06% 0.01% Rory Olsen is represented by Jared Woodfill. You know the mantra: Nothing will change until that changes. By clicking Sign Up, I confirmthat I have read and agreeto the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. HD128 31,566 13,692 1,110 And no, he doesnt personally support it, either. Of those 52 cases, Hensley pointed out that 23 arrests were for primary violations other than marijuana possession. primary, Frederick, MD tanker explosion leaves 1 dead; Shuts down part of US-15, Philadelphia Eagles WR Zach Pascal robbed at gunpoint in Maryland, ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING: Man shot in apparent accidental shooting in Houston, police investigating, CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Houston homeowner speaks out after being victim of terrifying attempted carjacking, Tom Sizemore, 'Saving Private Ryan' Actor, Dies at 61 after suffering brain aneurysm, Mother who drowned her 2 children, hid bodies under a neighbor's home given 40-year prison sentence, Watch: Fishermen spot sharks in huge feeding frenzy off Louisiana coast, Mother arrested after 4-year-old found outside alone, 1-year-old found laying in soiled linen, Strong to severe storms possible Thursday evening across SE Texas. HD133 61.21% 38.77% 0.02% Abbott 175,533 314,728 35.04% 52.34% She has 32 years of experience in Harris County, state, and federal criminal and civil courts and has presented thousands of cases to citizens on grand juries. HD143 34.83% 58.86% 4.77% 1.54% HD131 19.53% 77.80% 2.66% 0.00% Im going to look back at the four most recent elections to see if we can put some numbers on that. The intent is for it to be one single proposition. The office has since expanded dramatically, but it still takes the minority of criminal cases in Harris County. 8 Cause No. Even in 2020, the two losing candidates would have won with Hegars margin. HD142 9,167 24,621 JP5 136,969 146,132 7,898 Christian D. Menefee (@CDMenefee) 1:38 PM 11 January 2023. ELECTION ROUNDUP: Who won and who lost in the 2022 midterm elections across Houston and rest of Texas? As always, let me know if you have any questions. 2022-79328; Erin Lunceford v. Judge Tami Craft. Ill have more to say about those Commissioners Court precincts later, so lets put a pin in that for now. HD137 38.73% 58.25% 3.03% HD135 17,174 23,491 JP1 36.70% 63.30% HD137 8,351 12,378 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. One is that the many millions of dollars spent by the Mealer/Mattress Mack cohort did have some effect, specifically in the criminal court races, with that effect being slightly larger in the county courts than in the district courts. This means I will need to stay vigilant for future references to his possible candidacy. Lets make this happen. HD147 10,255 35,167 The maximum that a judge can receive from a PAC is $5000, so that is the goal for each judge and for Lina. JP7 11,370 65,643 2,250 Judicial Q&A: Angela Lancelin. And of course, every election is different, with candidates and exogenous conditions having an effect on who does and doesnt vote. Beto won Harris County by 105K in 2022. JP3 45.55% 51.75% 2.70% =============================================== He also worked as General Counsel for a multinational corporation. Paxton 170,642 309,499 34.36% 51.80% Public servants have moved on. HD133 57.48% 41.00% 1.52% 0.00% HD139 11,536 31,304 1,246 While there are no challenges on the Republican ballot in the Texas Primary Election, there are plenty on the Democratic ballot. 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. Judge Sepolio is represented by John Raley. HD148 40.88% 56.34% 2.78% Ted Heap, Constable Precinct 5 HD130 66.73% 30.70% 2.57% Like Castro, Allred is in a (now, post-redistricting) blue district and hes building up seniority while also being seen as a rising star within the party. That is nonsense and not our job.. Theyre not going to get what they want and they know it, but theyre still going to fight. HD130 46,489 18,687 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. Let me close with a visual reminder of all this. Like I said, Im making some assumptions here, any or all of which could be wrong. Speaking as a resident of SD15, Im already exhausted by this possibility, which may not even happen. Im extremely doubtful that there is a legitimate legal challenge here, Stein said. However, state law does not prevent the county from providing the records, but rather gives the county discretion to decide. He is a former Pct. Voter mobilization group Ground Game Texas, which championed Harker Heights original ballot initiative, said its launched a new petition drive to override the council ordinance, which passed Nov. 22. The Press has more. Judge Lawton-Evans is represented by Anthony Drumheller. He suggesting the court has long favored stopping such charter amendments before theyre voted on, something thats still possible if it can prevent San Antonio from including it on the ballot this week. In this context, after the statewide offices and the legislative offices (including the SBOE), there are the judicial races. What will it take to keep those ten appellate court benches we won in 2018? Currently we work hand-in-hand. CC1 27.54% 72.46% HD137 7,704 13,091 643 HD126 63.48% 36.52% 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. 2009 178,777 935,073 19.12% Slapping around Harris County is the point. Its been a year since his home was raided. See here for some background and here for an earlier version of the story. They did it by passing a housekeeping resolution earlier in the day that included a new section codifying a constitutional ban on using House resources for political purposes. HD130 71.91% 28.07% 0.02% Oh, and if this is one of the final straws that leads to Constable precinct redistricting, I wont complain. Morton left the Harris County DAs office to open a criminal defense practice, where he accepted appointments to represent indigent defendants. We cant say for certain how much all that spending affected the final outcomes, but its impossible to think it had no effect. These antidemocratic politicians are trying to throw away the votes of more than 5,000 Harker Heights residents but we wont let them. HD134 40.71% 57.65% 1.64% House and Senate bills filed by Republican lawmakers in response to Harris Countys mismanagement of its recent elections could give the Texas secretary of state the authority to step in, suspend county election administrators when a complaint is filed and appoint a replacement administrator. 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. JP3 35,972 40,808 HD130 69.92% 28.62% 1.46% 0.01% Find an event near you . Third party candidates accounted for over 16K votes in the Governors race, while the write-in candidate for County Judge got 241 total votes. Instead, Hidalgo said, the comptroller should have calculated on the basis of pay periods rather than the number of months. Mark Montgomery, former candidate forHarris County Criminal Court at Law No. These losing candidates are finally laying bare what we all know to be true for them, its not about improving elections or making sure our elections are secure, its about playing games with our democratic systems and refusing to accept the will of the voters.. And as you know, I am a Democratic precinct chair, which means Im one of the several hundred people that will vote on who that is. I filter out precincts with ten or fewer votes cast in the Houston proposition elections, which is arbitrary and still yields more total votes than in the prop races themselves, but its close enough for these purposes. She handled cases ranging from Class C speeding tickets to non-death Capital Murders. CC4 115,688 120,613 There are multiple precincts that are partially in Houston and partially not in Houston. CC2 47.51% 48.77% 3.72% JP5 152,130 137,293 52 Seems to me the easy choice is to stay put and wait until Texas is competitive enough to tip the odds in your favor. HD134 44.28% 55.72% While there are no challenges on the Republican ballot in the Texas Primary Election, there are plenty on the Democratic ballot. Stevens also said the ordinance has become a political issue instead of a nonpartisan one, as indicated by the overwhelming majority of voters who approved the measure in November. Thats an enormous increase over 2015. 17 Cause No. In the meantime, let me know what you think. Judicial Candidate Petitions; Certain judicial candidates in Bexar, Dallas, Harris, Tarrant and Travis must file additional petitions (PDF). Experience: Greg Glass practiced both criminal trial and appellate law over 40 years before his election to the bench, including 150 jury trials in both State and Federal Courts. CC3 214,042 144,575 10,162 Cuellar declined to be interviewed. Wyatt 293,352 256,862 60.86% 44.00% Country music star and Conroe-native, Parker McCollum caught up with our Sally Mac after he was named the headliner for 2023's Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo. HD133 34,565 24,654 915 2 These are nuisance suits but the Judges and Lina have had to hire attorneys to represent them against the claims. 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. The names have changed but the practices have not, or at least not enough. (Note: As I have done in past elections, I am running a series of Q&As for judicial candidates in contested Democratic primaries. Every election year, we host educational forums with candidates running for office in Houston and Harris County. The X-axis is where they are on the ballot, so on the left we start with the appellate races, then go through the district and family courts, then into the county civil, criminal, and finally probate courts. Elections Harris County election results 2022: County judge, commissioners, propositions. The chamber passed the overall rules package by a vote of 123-19, with Democrats making up most of the opposition. Unger currently serves as a co-chair of the Community Supervision and Pretrial Services Standing Committee. Rutherford County General Sessions Court - Probate County Office Building 319 North Maple Street, Suite 121, Murfreesboro, TN 37130 Phone: (615) 898-7800 Fax: (615) 898-7830. HD138 57.30% 40.47% 2.23% HD148 44.01% 55.99% She represented indigent capital murder defendants in death penalty cases. JP2 22,682 28,410 Website Facebook . JP1 69,316 114,700 HD129 36,347 26,966 1,802 CC2 94,272 105,549 6,218 The county eventually began paying court-appointed attorneys hourly. Sheldon A. Harris (all ballots . I wish them all the best anyway. HD138 59.58% 40.41% 0.02% At this point, I dont know if he really is thinking that the time is right or if hes the 2023 version of John Sharp, destined to always be brought up in this kind of story because it would be weirder to not mention him. Of the bright red counties, six of them are small, and while they have steadily become redder over the years, the net effect is fairly small. 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. He is a member of the ACLU and the Houston Democratic Lawyers Association. 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. JP1 34.60% 63.28% 2.12% 0.01% JP1 58,698 126,202 5,083 According to the Texas Courts website, "district . Gonzalez 0 4,032 0 9,258 Many of them have a tiny number of Houston-specific votes in them, with a much larger contingent of non-Houston votes. HD143 37.26% 62.74% At Tuesdays Denton City Council work session, Police Chief Doug Shoemaker was also on hand during Hensleys presentation to answer questions and reassured council members that misdemeanor amounts of marijuana would continue to be a low priority for police. Experience: Veronica Nelson has been a Chief Prosecutor in both County and District Courts with over 10 years of trial experience. One year later, there have been no arrests or charges filed related to the case. This is nothing but a pretext. Cannabis reform advocates are pushing back against the city council of the Central Texas city of Harker Heights, which recently rejected a voter-approved ballot measure decriminalizing low levels of pot possession there. The lawsuit is an example of why the Texas Legislature should repeal the litigation exception provision in state law that offers public offices an option to withhold records during litigation, said Bill Aleshire, an Austin attorney who works with the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas. After watching Congress attempt to function last week, I cannot imagine why some want Texas to be like D.C, Phelan said. I would expect this to pass, as similar referenda has done in other cities. HD143 34.51% 62.22% 3.28% HD132 61.04% 38.95% 0.01% If you decide to make a contribution a check can be sent to: CLUBS IN ACTION HD150 35,089 21,326 2504 Rusk St. #110 CC1 74,077 194,887 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. 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. Results of the 2020 Judicial Preference Poll. Of the other six races for statewide executive offices, three were similar in nature to the Governors race and three were friendlier to Republicans. While at the DAs office, she handled thousands of felony and misdemeanor cases. CC4 114,966 121,049 5,955 ====================== Anything is possible. I dont know what theyll do, but as I said before, well surely find out quickly. CC1 65,204 204,223 7,257 SD13 21.23% 78.74% 0.04% A native Houstonian, Jen graduated from Barnard College at Columbia University and earned a master's degree from University of Texas at Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs. HD139 29.61% 70.39% By Carolina Sanchez. Reid Epstein Mar 1, 2022 When he ran for the Senate four years ago, Democrat Beto O'Rourke . HD137 8,017 12,261 612 350 The other notable thing is that with the lone exception of JP/Constable Precinct 5, Hidalgo still carried every district Beto carried. Last in line for the state courts are the Family Courts, also in numerical order. Houston, Texas - Today, several losing Republican candidates filed election contests to void the more than 1 million votes cast in Harris County's November 2022 election. JP1 65,832 117,292 5,140 More than seven months after a teenage gunman killed 21 people at Robb Elementary School, the speaker of the Texas House was in Uvalde for a private meeting with relatives of the victims. The minimum number of signatures that must appear on a candidate's petition for district, county or precinct office is the lesser of (1) 500 or (2) 2% of the total vote received in the district . I think we need to fully implement it and if the state slaps our hands back, we know where we are, McGee said. HD133 57.20% 39.75% 2.02% 1.02% Scott 188,623 326,849 39.14% 56.00%, Dist Daniel Burgess HD146 22.96% 77.04% 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. The Harris County Young Democrats is proud to endorse this amazing slate of candidates for the 2022 Democratic Primary Election. HD134 33,479 45,200 HD130 46,537 18,686 HD147 18.82% 78.23% 2.95% We know that poll watchers with malign intent are out there. Beto versus Abbott I just want to point out the problem, so we know what were up against. HD135 16,804 21,988 1,227 559 HD135 16,314 23,615 964 CC1 70,449 192,875 7,107 3,563 As for Whitmire, what this means is that if hes elected Mayor this year, things will be messy in SD15 the next year. HD135 43.39% 56.59% 0.02% The 2018 HBA Judicial Preference Poll Results and news release are posted below. HD134 34,947 43,974 Appeals from the Southern District go to the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit . Exclusive: Abbott explains push against diversity hiring programs, Texas wants to ban delta-8, but veterans are pushing back, The Breakfast Klub sues prominent City Hall consultant for fraud, UH, Texas A&M removing DEI statements from hiring practices, Astros GM Dana Brown the antithesis of his predecessors, Houston is the most stressful city to work in, says new study, Lauren Daigle at Houston Rodeo: 'God always has your number', Galveston gets fourth Carnival Cruise Line, Election-denying Houston Republican Mike May takes his case to the Texas House after 6,000-vote loss. But they did, and finding little oddities like that always delights me. Judge Singh is represented by Anthony Drumheller. Alan Rosen had his eye on the Sheriffs office back when Ed Gonzalez was a nominee for head of ICE, but thats off the table now. HD141 4,667 20,779 HD128 32,446 12,873 706 9 HD140 5,904 13,079 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. The average attorney charges $500 per hour. HD130 45,640 18,396 1,369 597 This is close enough for our purposes. Thats well above the roughly 20,000 required to put it on the ballot for Mays citywide election. HD145 30.61% 66.55% 2.83% 0.01% I strongly suspect well be hearing from the Legislature on the latter, and quite possibly on the former as well. Republican criminal court candidates, at both the district and county levels, actually got more votes on average than their civil court counterparts, while the Democrats in those races got fewer votes than their civil court colleagues. That is the only way to get it into court to begin a legal action.. REPUBLICAN. 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. HD145 12,368 32,031 1,449