First the good news. I'm thrilled Steve Brown won the race for Fort Bend Democratic Party Chair. That's Steve with his family on the right. He beat out the incumbent - by only 101 votes - and I don't have anything mean to say about her. She's a very nice person and she has my respect for doing a thankless job for years - made particularly thankless by non-stop attacks against her. I felt like Steve's plan for the Party was badly needed. I saw a great plan on paper, a person with a lot of energy and smarts, and that got me excited about Democrats' chances in Fort Bend. I hope the sniping, backbiting and overall destructive behavior here in Fort Bend among Democrats stops, but I'm not holding my breath. Steve has a big job ahead of him, and I'm eager to help him with his goals. Let's get it done. Congratulations, Steve, for running the campaign you committed to running - and winning.Now onto the bad news. Fort Bend Democrats overwhelmingly elected a non-Democrat to run in our Congressional District, the infamous TX-22. Kesha Rogers got 63% of the vote here in Fort Bend in that race. This is the person who has called for the impeachment of Obama (blog post and video of that here). I don't know what outreach she did to voters, because I didn't get mail, calls or emails from her. The only real Democrat in the race, Blatt, got 19% of the vote. The third person was a teabagger, running in our Primary. There was a huge undervote in this race, indicating voters didn't have a clue, or even more likely, were not impressed with any of the three candidates (this race received less than half of the votes that were cast in the Governor's race.) If Rogers is going to be speaking at Democratic events in Fort Bend, Harris County, or at our state convention, I'm walking out. We don't need to let someone who has called for the impeachment of our Democratic President suck the air out of any room. Good luck Steve Brown managing this situation.
Democratic voters put us in a huge mess in another race - for County Judge. Instead of electing Philip Aitsebaomo, who is a doctor of optometry, and a hard working activist, we've got Rodrigo Carreon. To give you an idea of the problem, read their responses to the League of Women Voters questions (click to make larger):
It's worse than it appears here, and I don't want to go into it, because it would veer into big time negative attack territory, but trust me - this is a bad situation. To be fair, I don't know how voters were supposed to know who to vote for. We got zero mail from these candidates, and no emails or phone calls.
Bill White got 91% of the 14,650 votes cast in the Primary race for Governor in Fort Bend. No surprise there. He's very popular in our county. Linda Chavez Thompson got the most votes for Lt. Governor, but not by much. Bill Burton got 58% of the vote in the Land Commissioner's race, while Hector Uribe won statewide. I don't know if Uribe's last name caused him some trouble in Fort Bend, or if a large African American turnout impacted that result. Hank Gilbert won big in the Agriculture Commissioner race - 61%.
Ron Reynolds handily disposed of the incumbent, Dora Olivo, in the House District 27 race, winning that with 58% of the vote. That's not my House District, but I supported Olivo, because of her support to candidates I've worked for. Reynolds is hard-working and smart, as well as politically savvy. He should make a great representative for Fort Bend. With no Republican in this Democratic district, it's welcome Representative Ron Reynolds! This was his second run at this seat, so congratulations and job well done. I had wondered why Olivo didn't send out negative mail on Reynolds. Turns out she did - and it may have very well been too negative, and backfired - and it was too late, the Friday and Saturday before Election Day, too late to impact early voters.
The other race I was watching was the Precinct 1 JP race, where R.J. Blue and Aurelia Moore ended up in a runoff. I'm a R.J. Blue fan. I hope he wins. He's an accomplished attorney, and his opponent is not. I think Blue is destined for bigger offices in our County, and this JP race is a great entry point for him. On a funny note, I don't vote in Precinct 1, but I got a robo call from Moore, urging me to vote for her. Not great targeting, but at least she was reaching out to voters, albeit the wrong ones.
More on our Democratic slate in Fort Bend County in future posts. There were some uncontested races with great candidates.
All Fort Bend Democratic Primary results can be found here.
4 comments:
Can we boo Rodgers this time if she does speak?
Haha. I know what you are referring to! Yeah, we are putting manners aside this time.
My own precinct went for Kesha. What a bunch of idiots. What were they thinking? Voted for a woman? First name on the ballot?
Here's the precinct report:
http://www.co.fort-bend.tx.us/upload/images/elections_administration/election_results/er100302_03.pdf
Are you proud of FDR ? LaRouche and his international affiliates, have, sometimes it seems single handedly, carried the FDR, Lincoln, and Washington ideals into the 21st century. That ideal, spawned in the U.S.A. but as has been implemented in the past in fits and starts worldwide (Germany, Russia, pre-communist China), and as still present and nurtured in the hearts of statespersons worldwide, includes the intent to return sovereignty to the nations of the world - as opposed to leaving their fate in the hands of the worldwide but ancient financier oligarchy - in the mold of the American System of Political Economy, Lincoln's and FDR's incarnation of Hamilton's First National Bank, a bank created for the development of the productive capacity of the nation of the U.S.A., but whose basic principles were again and again appropriated by future great presidents, first for the re-establishment of the Union, and then for the development of the productive capacities of the other nations of the world with the intent to wipe out colonialsim, corporatism, fascism, et al.
Now how's your attention holding up this time ? So far so good ?
(You might yet have only a clue wrt the true meaning behind various politcal positions, but there's no harm in reaching beyond your clues.)
Anyway, one should probaby not think that each student of the large and ancient body of work which LaRouche is here only to instruct or pass down from history's best political and scientific minds, with little intent at self aggrandizement, is insane; I believe that integral to a person's condition of insanity is an inability to understnd the views, including criticisms, which others may have of and against them. LaRouche associates - again, wordwide - comprehend the existence of such views and do understand them. But in comparison to the population at large, and specifically to Demo establishmentarians at this juncture, they possess immensely greater courage - first to acquire the knowledge and then to apply it as the knowldge itself intends for them to.
My immense gratitude to the blog owner and to each reader for your space and time. No disclosure necessary as I am not an intimate Larouche interlocutor.
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