During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball. – Mickey Mantle The 2011 MLB season opens today! Implementing [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Playing Ball
Posted in 2010 Census, Campos Communications, Houston Astros, Houston City Council, Houston City Council Elections, Houston City Hall, Houston Elections, Houston Politics, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Redistricting in Houston, State Senator Mario Gallegos, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on March 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Redistricting the Acres Home Way
Posted in 2010 Census, Campos Communications, Harris County Commisioners Court, Houston Astros, Houston City Council, Houston City Council Elections, Houston City Hall, Houston Politics, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Redistricting in Houston, Texas Democratic Party, Texas GOP, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on March 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Commentary attended the City of H-Town’s Redistricting Town Hall Meeting last night at the Acres Home Multi Service Center (District B). About 125 folks attended including staff, security, and children. The Mayor and CMs Johnson and Jones were there. Most of the attendees were African Americans. The Greater Heights neighborhood made another plea to be [...]
Redistricting in the North Side
Posted in 2010 Census, Campos Communications, Houston Astros, Houston City Council, Houston City Council Elections, Houston City Hall, Houston Elections, Houston Politics, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Mayor Annise Parker, Redistricting in Houston, Texas Democratic Party, Texas GOP, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on March 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Commentary attended the City of H-Town’s Redistricting Town Hall Meeting last night at Jeff Davis High (District H). About 125 folks showed up including staff and security. The Mayor and CMs Gonzalez, Bradford, and Jones were there. Let me just say that the lighting was bad in the auditorium. There were a lot of Latinos, [...]
The E-Board and TEX-OPOLY
Posted in 2010 Census, Campos Communications, Governor Rick Perry, Houston Astros, Houston City Council Elections, Houston Elections, Houston Politics, Latino politics, Latino Voter Registration, Latino Voter Turnout, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Redistricting in Houston, Texas Democratic Party, Texas GOP, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Legislature, Texas Politics on March 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Chron’s E-Board certainly weighed in yesterday on the budget fight going on up in Austin. They had a killer editorial. Here is some of it: Texas children need a legislative bill of rights that ensures their freedom from hunger, a safe place to live without the threat of physical or sexual abuse, decent medical [...]
El Grande!
Posted in Campos Communications, Governor Rick Perry, Houston Astros, Houston Elections, Houston Independent School District, Houston Politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Redistricting in Houston, State Senator Mario Gallegos, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Legislature, Texas Politics on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
SPECTACULAR! WOW! EL GRANDE! “El Grande” is the name given to the new HD scoreboard last night at the official unveiling. It is about as HD as you can get. Commentary was there last night at a VIP gathering at The Yard. Pam-In-Charge spoke and so did my pal Drayton. Brownie and JD also were [...]
Redistricting with a Strong Latino Flavor
Posted in 2010 Census, Campos Communications, Councilmember James Rodriguez, Houston Astros, Houston City Council, Houston City Council Elections, Houston City Hall, Houston Elections, Houston Latino Voter Turnout, Houston Politics, Latino politics, Latino Voter Turnout, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Redistricting in Houston, Redistricting in Texas, Texas Democratic Party, Texas GOP, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on March 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A who’s who of around 90 or so folks showed up at the City of H-Town’s Redistricting Town Hall Meeting at the HCCS Southeast Campus (District I). The Mayor was there as well as CMs Rodriguez, Noriega and Bradford. Also attending were JPs Burney, Rodriguez, and Vara. HISD Trustee Rodriguez and HCCS Trustee Perez were [...]
Redistricting a la Oak Forest
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, Redistricting in Houston, Texas Democratic Party, Texas GOP, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Legislature, Texas Politics, The Latino Education Crisis on March 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Commentary has to hand it to H-Town CM Brenda Stardig. She had 175 or so folks including staff and security at the City of H-Town’s Redistricting Town Hall Meeting last night at Oak Forest Elementary. The Mayor ran the meeting. CMs Stardig and Noreiga were there. Once again the super neighborhood and management district folks [...]
Redistricting, Briargrove Style
Posted in 2010 Census, Campos Communications, Harris County Commisioners Court, Houston Astros, Houston City Council Elections, Houston City Hall, Houston Politics, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Redistricting in Houston, Redistricting in Texas, Texas Democratic Party, Texas GOP, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on March 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Commentary attended last night’s City of H-Town Redistricting Town Hall Meeting at Briargrove Elementary (District G). About 75 to 80 folks showed up including staff and security. CMs Pennington and Bradford attended. The Mayor missed last night’s meeting. Once again the super neighborhood folks wanted to be kept intact. A Greater Heights area neighborhood once [...]
Interesting Weekend
Posted in 2010 Census, Campos Communications, Governor Rick Perry, Houston Astros, Houston City Hall, Houston Politics, Latino politics, Latino Voter Turnout, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, National Politics, President Obama, Redistricting in Houston, Texas Democratic Party, Texas GOP, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Legislature, Texas Politics, U.S. Congress on March 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Raytheon had a good weekend. They happen to make the 120 or so Tomahawk cruise missiles that were launched into Libya Saturday and Sunday. I have to hand it to the U.S. of A., they made the weekend more interesting by bombing Libya. We didn’t waste any time putting together another coalition to p___ all [...]
Shuttle Away
Posted in Campos Communications, Governor Rick Perry, Houston Astros, Houston Elections, Houston Politics, Johnson Space Center, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, National Politics, Texas Democratic Party, Texas GOP, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The lead story in today’s Chron is the race to land a space shuttle. NASA will be deciding where the three retired space shuttles will end up. For now only old school guys like Commentary that get the hard copy can read the story. There is a secondary story online that you can check here. [...]
