NALEO put out a press release yesterday endorsing the City of Houston redistricting plan presented last week to the H-Town City Council by the local Latino leadership. Here is part of the press release: Local Latino community leaders participated in the city’s redistricting hearings and met collectively to develop a consensus which resulted in a [...]
Archive for April, 2011
The Community Consensus Map
Posted in 2010 Census, 2012 Presidential Election, Campos Communications, Houston Astros, Houston City Council, Houston City Council Elections, Houston Elections, Houston Politics, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, National Democratic Party,, National GOP, National Politics, President Obama, Redistricting in Houston, Texas Democratic Party, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on April 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Trumper
Posted in 2010 Census, Campos Communications, Councilmember James Rodriguez, Houston Astros, Houston City Council, Houston City Council Elections, Houston City Hall, Houston Elections, Houston Politics, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, National Politics, President Obama, Redistricting in Houston, Texas Democratic Party, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on April 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Dems should send a big thank you note to The Donald. He continues to hog all the oxygen in the GOP run for the presidency. You have to figure all the so called serious candidates for the GOP prez nomination are going bonkers that they can’t get any press run because all the cameras are [...]
Fighting Words
Posted in 2010 Census, Campos Communications, Houston Astros, Houston Latino Voter Turnout, Houston Politics, Latino politics, Latino Voter Registration, Latino Voter Turnout, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, National Politics, President Obama, Texas Democratic Party, Texas GOP, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on April 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Texas State Democratic Executive Committee member from SD 13 regularly puts out his takes on politics. On occasion he will offend some folks like he did a few days ago with this take on Latino voters: The third problem is new base Democratic — including young, working, married Hispanic — voters. They are not [...]
Goodbye Haley and Hello Big Puma
Posted in 2010 Census, Campos Communications, Houston Astros, Houston Elections, Houston Politics, Latino politics, Latino Voter Turnout, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, National Politics, Redistricting in Houston, Redistricting in Texas, Texas Democratic Party, Texas GOP, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Legislature, Texas Politics, U.S. Democratic Party on April 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Mississippi GOP Governor Haley Barbour is a pretty smart guy if you ask me. He figured out that even if he won the GOP nomination for president, he would get his arse handed to him by The President next year. He announced yesterday that he wouldn’t be running. I wonder who will be the next [...]
The At-Large System
Posted in 2010 Census, Campos Communications, Harris County Democratic Party, Harris County GOP, Houston City Council, Houston City Council Elections, Houston City Hall, Houston Elections, Houston Politics, Latino politics, Latino Voter Turnout, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Redistricting in Houston, Texas Democratic Party, Texas GOP, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on April 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The City of H-Town has been operating under the nine City Council districts and five at-large members for about 32 years now. Commentary used to be against having at-large members but now I don’t know if I have a problem with them. Commentary went to every City of H-Town Redistricting Town Hall Meeting and not [...]
The Public Safety Fee
Posted in Campos Communications, Houston Astros, Houston City Hall, Houston Police Department, Houston Politics, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Texas Democratic Party, Texas GOP, Texas Politics on April 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Houston Police Department is looking at the possibility of firing police officers and civilian employees. Check out the story in today’s Chron. My pal Gary Blankenship, the head of the Police Officer’s Union, says we ought to consider a public safety fee to help fund police department operations. I would like to know what [...]
Get Behind the Plan
Posted in 2010 Census, Campos Communications, Councilmember James Rodriguez, Houston Astros, Houston City Council, Houston City Council Elections, Houston Elections, Houston Latino Voter Turnout, Houston Politics, Latino politics, Latino Voter Turnout, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Redistricting in Houston, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics on April 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Dr. Laura Murillo, CEO of the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce introduced the Houston Latino leadership’s City of Houston Redistricting Plan yesterday at the City of Houston’s Redistricting Hearing and it got a good response. We didn’t scare anyone away. Fellow consultant Robert Jara explained the plan to Council and answered their questions. The plan [...]
Redistricting Today!
Posted in 2010 Census, Campos Communications, Carl Alvarado, 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, Redistricting in Texas, Texas Latino Politics, Texas Politics, Texas Senate Campaign 2012 on April 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It looks like the local Latino leadership that has been meeting to plot strategy on City of H-Town redistricting has endorsed a plan. Don’t forget to attend today’s final City of Houston’s Redistricting Hearings at City Hall at 9 am and then again at 7 pm. Be there to find out the latest. Speaking of, [...]
Chewing Up the Dem Senate Candidate
Posted in 2010 Census, Campos Communications, Houston Astros, Houston City Council, Houston City Council Elections, Houston City Hall, Houston Elections, Latino politics, Major League Baseball, Marc Campos, Redistricting in Houston, Texas Democratic Party, Texas GOP, Texas Legislature, Texas Politics, Texas Senate Campaign 2012 on April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Commentary was sent some stuff yesterday and also ran across a few things on how folks are reacting to the possible General Ricardo Sanchez candidacy for the U.S. Senate here in the Lone Star State. He’s being chewed up on how he handled or bungled the war in Iraq. He’s being accused of saying okay [...]
Our Lone Star State Dem U.S. Senate Candidate
Posted in 2010 Census, Gun Control in Texas, Houston Astros, Houston City Council, Houston City Council Elections, Houston City Hall, 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 Politics, Texas Senate Campaign 2012 on April 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This past Saturday, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram unveiled the possible Lone Star State Dem candidate for U.S. Senator. Here are snippets from Burkablog’s take on the story: It took the Democrats only one day after Murray’s announcement to produce a credible candidate: Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez. Born in Rio Grande City, Sanchez became commanding general [...]
