Tuesday's Terrific Absurdities: A Sea Change in Houston and White House Miscalculation on Ukraine
We will start with this little-noticed story coming out of Saturday’s city elections in Houston:
Full text:
For Republicans to win 3/5 of the Houston At-Large City Council seats (elected citywide) in a city that is at least 60-40 Democrat is a political earthquake.
Congratulations to Julian Ramirez, Willie Davis and Twila Carter!
Together with Mary Nan Huffman( District G), Amy Peck (District A) and Fred Flickinger (District E) we now have SIX strong Republicans on Houston City Council.
This is an awesome foundation on which we can build! Houston has always been Democrat - unlike Harris County, the city never had a GOP phase in the 90s and 00s.
The city went straight from yellow dog Democrat rule to urban liberal Democrat rule without interruption. But that doesn’t mean it always has to be this way.
Energizing Republican voters so we over-perform in turnout while also winning over independents (and maybe a few sane Dems) with appealing candidates and good messaging on bread-and-butter issues like crime, infrastructure, taxes, honest government - that’s how Republicans can start making headway in historically blue cities.
Bravo to the HarrisCountyRP and cindySiegel5 for understanding the importance of school board and city council races!
And thanks to our awesome candidates and all the precinct chairs, volunteers and grassroots activists who are engaging their neighbors and getting conservatives out to vote.
[End]
Here is why this happened: The Democrat party in Houston had in recent elections used mass mail-in ballots with un-policed “drop boxes” for them as its main means of stealing elections. That practice was heavily restricted by the Texas legislature, leaving Democrats like race huckster Sheila Jackson Lee at the mercy of the actual voters.