H-Town City Council will expand by 2 seats this year so each council district will have about 190,859 in population. Here is how the current nine council seats look like from a Latino perspective: District A (Stardig) has 213,284 (113,545 Latinos or 53.2%). District B (Johnson) has 203,494 (84,280 or 41.4%). District C (Clutterbuck) has [...]
Archive for February, 2011
Latinos and City of H-Town Redistricting
Posted in 2010 Census, Campos Communications, Councilmember James Rodriguez, Houston Astros, Houston City Council, Houston City Council Elections, Houston Elections, Houston Politics, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Redistricting in Houston, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on February 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Briefly Speaking
Posted in Campos Communications, Governor Rick Perry, Houston Astros, Houston Elections, Houston Politics, Illegal Immigration, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Redistricting in Houston, Redistricting in Texas, Texas Democratic Party, Texas GOP, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is what Guv Dude had to say about 43: "I’m not a fan of ‘No Child Left Behind.’” Not even the constituents of Riddle-My-This are fond of her anti paperless folk bills. That’s why she is exempting domestic help. Her neighbors must have gotten to her. This former ‘Stro won five straight Gold Glove [...]
To Remain Silent
Posted in Campos Communications, Councilmember James Rodriguez, Houston Astros, Houston City Council, Houston City Hall, Houston Elections, Houston Police Brutality, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Texas Democratic Party, Texas GOP, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on February 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Leave it up to H-Town CM Jolanda Jones to get a second OIG investigation. This time it is about her handout on how to deal with the police. The handout is called “Know Your Rights With The Police”. Her handout says “NEVER speak with the police.” She encourages folks to pull out their phone cameras [...]
A Matter of Time – Maybe
Posted in Campos Communications, Councilmember James Rodriguez, Houston Astros, Houston Elections, Houston Independent School District, Houston Politics, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Redistricting in Texas, Texas Democratic Party, Texas GOP, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Legislature, Texas Politics on February 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sooner or later we knew we were going to see a front page headline like the one in today’s Chron: HISD PUTS TAX HIKE ON TABLE. Check out the story. I have to give HISD credit for putting it out there and having folks start talking about it rather than getting caught with their pants [...]
Shifting Dome Policy
Posted in Campos Communications, Houston Astros, Houston City Hall, Houston Elections, Houston Latino Voter Turnout, Houston Police Brutality, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Latino politics, Latino Voter Turnout, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Texas Democratic Party, Texas GOP, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Legislature, Texas Politics on February 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Who says Commentary doesn’t impact public policy. It looks like the Chron’s Ken Hoffman has joined me in calling for the Astrodome to be demolished. That makes two of us. There was an electrical fire at the Dome last week that forced the postponement of a rodeo event and we all know that you don’t [...]
Survivor
Posted in 2010 Census, Campos Communications, Houston Astros, Houston Elections, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Redistricting in Houston, Redistricting in Texas, State Representative Carol Alvarado, Texas Democratic Party, Texas GOP, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Legislature, Texas Politics on February 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For the 2011 redistricting of the Texas House of Representatives, each district has to get close to the 167,637 folks. In looking at the 2010 population numbers of the Harris County Delegation of the Texas House of Representatives, it looks like a number of districts need to go pick up some live bodies. According to [...]
Oops!
Posted in 2010 Census, Campos Communications, Houston Astros, Houston City Council, Houston City Hall, Houston Elections, Houston Politics, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Mayor Annise Parker, Redistricting in Houston, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on February 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
2,257,926 is H-Town’s estimate population for 2009 according to the U.S. Census Department. You can find the following on the City Council page of the City of H-Town’s website: According to the City Charter, once the population of the City of Houston exceeds 2.1 million, expected for the 2010 census, two more geographic council districts [...]
Borders and Stuff
Posted in Campos Communications, Houston Astros, Houston City Council, Houston City Hall, Houston Elections, Houston Politics, Illegal Immigration, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Texas Democratic Party, Texas GOP, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Legislature, Texas Politics on February 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Borders is a cool place to check out. Yeah, I know, you can just go to the internet to find anything you want or need, but I’m still old school and like to pick up the books and browse through the pages. I like to check out the CDs. One year I was going through [...]
A City Hall Layoff
Posted in Campos Communications, Houston Astros, Houston City Council, Houston City Hall, Houston Elections, Houston Police Brutality, Houston Police Department, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Mayor Annise Parker, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on February 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Commentary was watching the H-Town City Council meeting on the tube yesterday. A number of African Americans showed up to address council on a matter involving a layoff. According to what I heard, last Friday the 3-1-1 Director was sent packing. Since all of the speakers on this matter were African American, I’m kind of [...]
The Biggest Chorizo
Posted in Campos Communications, Houston Astros, Houston Elections, Houston Politics, Illegal Immigration, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Texas Democratic Party, Texas GOP, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Legislature, Texas Politics on February 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Quien es mas macho? Mexican American Legislative Caucus o Republican Hispanic Conference! A couple of months ago there were no Latino GOPers in the Texas House. Today there are five. So I guess we can expect the piece that was in today’s SA Express News. Here is how it starts: An accusation by a freshman [...]
