Locke Supporters Make the Race About Race

The Chronicle reported this on Tuesday:

Locke, who met with Hotze and sought his support prior to the Nov. 3 city election, said he was refraining from “divisive campaigning” and asked his supporters to follow his lead.

“I am not going to go into issues of race, issues of sexuality,” Locke said after voting early at the West Gray Multi-Service Center, accompanied by his wife and other family members. Focusing on such topics is a distraction from important issues such as public safety and creating jobs for Houstonians, Locke said.

And one day later - ONE DAY LATER - Wednesday - two Democratic groups who support Locke (by the wide margin of two votes at each of their endorsement meetings) went "into the issues of race", totally ignoring Locke's request. I guess, like me, they don't believe anything Locke says anymore, so they do what they want. Why not? It's a free for all in Lockeland.

The Chronicle has more on that attack, so I don't have to repeat it here, but the gist of it was, "Parker has too many white people on her Controller's staff and she's not doing right by people of color." (That's the sanitized version of the press release.)

I know this won't surprise regular readers of musings, but SURPRISE, here we go again, that's not correct. Below are spreadsheets listing all of the staff in the Controller's office. Note that 71% are Black or African American, Hispanic/Latino or Asian/Pacific Islander. As a side note, I had lunch on Wednesday with Parker supporters who were a black-brown-Asian-white-old-young-male-female coalition. It looked like Houston.  (click on the images below to make them larger - they are from the public record)

In other news, Locke has still not repudiated the Hotze endorsement. The latest person to urge him to do that is State Representative Garnet Coleman. Come clean, Gene, and reject this endorsement based solely on your sexual orientation. While you are at it, repudiate the attack on Parker based on race by your supporters.