Carol Alvarado’s BD Party and Peter the Great Spender

We welcome all good folks to drop by State Rep Carol Alvarado’s Birthday Seafood Celebration and Fundraiser this Sunday, November 1 from 2 to 5 pm at the Bamboo Lounge, 2910 Navigation. Even if you can’t make a donation, drop on by anyway. It’ll probably be the last political event before Election Day. They have [...]

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Stretching the Facts and Show Me the Photo I.D.!

I guess if you have the lead, you’re going to get attacked. Some folks think the Chron has it out for CM Peter Brown and is giving run to his opponents’ claims that Peter is misleading voters. I’m not going to defend Peter. He can do that himself. I’m not going to call out the [...]

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Heading to the Polls

I’ll be voting early today with Bethany and I still don’t know who gets my vote for H-Town mayor. Jose and Jerome came by a couple of days ago with a Gene Locke autographed door hanger and mailer. Last night when I was putting out the trash, I saw a pickup truck pull up in [...]

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The KHOU-TV (Channel 11) Poll

It’s 24% for CM Peter Brown, 16% for Controller Annise Parker, 14% for Gene Locke, 5% for Roy Morales, 41% for Undecided according to the Channel 11 poll that was released last night. Peter has to be feeling good this morning and Annise and Gene have to be feeling quite nervous.
In last night’s report, [...]

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Anna Eastman’s Endorsement and No Endorsement from This Voter

HISD Trustee candidate Anna Eastman (Commentary’s client) won the endorsement of the Harris County Women’s Political Caucus this past Friday. Congrats go to Anna Eastman!
I’ve decided that I’m not going to pick a mayoral candidate in this first round. Two people that I highly respect say they would be A-OK if any of the three [...]

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Going Negative and Dueling Pachangas

The Gene Locke for Mayor Campaign had no choice but to go negative against CM Peter Brown in order to shore up their support among African American voters.  Check out the story in today’s Chron.  The negative ad is an acknowledgement that they are running third and they need to do better in the African [...]

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The “Anemic” Latino Vote

At yesterday’s TV taping at KTRK-TV (Channel 13), Dr. Tatcho Mindiola described the H-Town Latino vote in municipal elections as “anemic.” According to the numbers put out last night by Kyle Johnston Campaigns, only 8% of the total H-Town early vote after three days is Latino – pitiful. Is this the result of a lack [...]

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Donde Esta El Vote Latino?

Commentary’s pal Kyle Johnston sent out last night a two day analysis of early voting and what jumped out at me was that of the total number of H-Town voters that had voted early, only 9% were Latino. It really doesn’t surprise me. To my knowledge, none of the mayoral candidates are doing any serious [...]

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Peter and Who?

If frontrunner CM Peter Brown continues at his current spending pace on TV, radio, and mail, he’s in the run-off for sure as neither Controller Annise Parker nor Gene Locke can afford to divert funds and crack on Peter. So it looks like a race for second place. Doesn’t conventional wisdom s__k? I haven’t seen [...]

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Chron Endorses Anna Eastman for HISD Trustee

Here’s what the Chron’s E-Board had to say about Anna Eastman, Commentary’s client:
“What will most shape Houston’s future over the next 50 years? In large part, it’s the educations that young Houstonians are getting right now. Some Houston public schools are academically excellent, but far too many are wretched. For the sake of our [...]

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