Something isn’t right with this picture. According to today’s Chron, after giving his “State of the County” speech that touched on ethics issues yesterday, Hunker Down called out County Attorney Vince Ryan for not living up to his watchdog role.
Here is from the Chron:
Emmett, speaking after his fifth State of the County address hosted by the Greater Houston Partnership, also called on County Attorney Vince Ryan, as the county’s highest ethics officer, to do more to strengthen Harris County’s ethics practices.
And:
"People have got to feel comfortable in Harris County exposing ethical violations," Emmett said, "and the county attorney needs to tell us how we do that and quit telling us why it won’t work."
You don’t really have to read between the lines to figure out what is going on here. The latest three ethical flaps going on at the county involve three former or current constables – all Democrats. Hunker Down is gigging Vince and his office for being silent on these flaps. They are setting up Vince and Dems so they can use the corruption/ethics issue against Dems in November. Good move on Hunker Down’s part, I guess. Oh, well!
Among current active MLB pitchers, list the top 4 with the best ERA?
Talk about a headache in the making. May 29, the day the Lone Star State may finally get a primary, is the day after Memorial Day – yikes. I wonder what that will do for turnout. Here is the latest Chron article.
The Lone Star State Dem Convention is scheduled for 10 days later – June 8-9. That doesn’t give us much time select our county and senatorial district delegates and then our state delegates. What a mess!
My pal talk show host Michael Berry has some ‘splaining to do so I’ll just wait and let him ‘splain. Check out the latest from Channel 2 here.
What is the “significant event form”? How do get on it? Is it for talk show hosts? Is it for professional athletes? Is it for elected officials? I’d like for HPD to ‘splain that one for us.
At yesterday’s H-Town City Council meeting, the proposed substitute ordinance “relating to the regulation of automotive businesses” was referred back to The Mayor’s office. I guess they didn’t have the votes and will work on it to see if they can eventually get at least nine Council members to say uncle, err yes.
The active MLBers with the best ERA are Mariano Rivera (2.21), Tim Lincecum (2.98), Johan Santana (3.10), and Roy Oswalt (3.21), of course. Roy O. is still looking for a team to sign him up.
From the Chron:
Astros will open a Walk of Fame outside Minute Maid Park this year as a means to spread visible honors beyond the nine former Astros with retired numbers.
The Walk of Fame will begin with those nine players — Jeff Bagwell, Craig Biggio, Jose Cruz, Larry Dierker, Nolan Ryan, Mike Scott, Jim Umbricht, Don Wilson and Jimmy Wynn.
Four more members will be added this year — one each representing the 1960s, ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, as voted on by a panel. After this year, one player a year will be added.
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