I got a text from Mealer's peeps yesterday. Begging. Spending so much money to beg. Like a dog. Also annoyed when TAMU calls me. Begging for money. Crying. Like a DOG. Gig This, bozo.
For some reason from back in the day of when I first started posting, I always think of A&M when you post.
Because I wanted them in the SEC and I always say GIG. And I graduated from TAMU. Me & @DonnyMost brought the SEC to the GREAT STATE OF TEXAS in an EPIC Avengers Infinity War Saga of a thread. I support them, but they wanna pay a coach $10mil and ask ME for money? Get ****ed. And College Station sucks. Don't @ me @jiggyfly
I know you went to A&M. There was a guy I attended UT with who was a usual arrogant fan about UT type guy who was wondering on Facebook after A&M left why they wouldn't schedule UT I was like bro they are never doing that, they feel jilted over the longhorn Network. Even more, A&M realized they were in the wrong conference they're entire history. A&M is a natural SEC fit, beyond athletics. I was like you're the one looking backwards Edit: and UT isn't a natural fit for the SEC. There seems to be a certain culture about the SEC that's particularly southern. UT is not southern, it's obviously very much Texas but not southern
https://www.wsj.com/articles/housto...uption-11667426192?mod=hp_opin_pos_3#cxrecs_s Houston’s AOC, Lina Hidalgo, Is on the Rocks Her left-wing policies as Harris County judge aren’t popular among her urban Hispanic constituents. By John Fund Nov. 2, 2022 6:44 pm ET One of the biggest stories of this year’s midterm elections has been the shift among Hispanic voters in South Florida and South Texas toward the Republican Party. But a more impressive gauge of the GOP’s new strength may come in an unsuspecting place—Harris County, Texas, which sits in the eastern part of the state and encompasses most of Houston. At 4.7 million people, Harris County is the third most populous county in the U.S. It’s also one of the most diverse. According to recent census numbers, its population is 44% Hispanic, 27% white, 20% African-American and 7% Asian. Harris County has been a Democratic stronghold for years. Donald Trump won shy of 42% in 2016 and only 43% in 2020. No Republican has been elected to a countywide office since 2014. But things may get interesting this November. Democrat Lina Hidalgo, a Colombian immigrant, was only 27 when she defeated a Republican incumbent to become county judge in 2018. That isn’t primarily a judicial post in Texas: Ms. Hidalgo serves as the county’s chief executive, in charge of an annual budget of nearly $4 billion. Progressives were elated with Ms. Hidalgo’s election, which ushered in a 3-2 Democratic majority on the Commissioners Court, the county’s legislative body. Many in the national press, from MSNBC to Politico, compared Ms. Hidalgo to New York’s Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. That comparison has been apt. Spending has soared in Harris County since 2018, as Ms. Hidalgo has pushed programs such as an early-childhood education initiative and a legal defense fund for immigrants. She’s also won progressive plaudits over criminal justice. In 2019 Ms. Hidalgo promptly settled a lawsuit over the county’s bail system, replacing it with one in which roughly 85% of those arrested on misdemeanors are given cash-free release with no pretrial detention. Then Covid-19 hit, and Ms. Hidalgo imposed one of the most draconian enforcement regimes of any major city in the U.S., including a fine of up to $1,000 for failing to wear a mask in public. A draft version of the policy had proposed up to 180 days in jail for face-mask violations. Ms. Hidalgo’s mandate that police officers use scarce resources to enforce her order sent the Houston Police Officers’ Union into orbit. “We do not have time to be pawns in Hidalgo’s game of attempting to control the actions of law abiding, tax paying individuals of our community,” the union said in an April 2020 statement. The consequences have been on full display, especially in Houston, which saw a surge in violent crime during the pandemic. County criminal courts now face a backlog of around 41,000 pending cases owing to a lengthy pause on in-person trials. Murder cases routinely take three to five years to go to trial. District Attorney Kim Ogg, a Democrat, says Ms. Hidalgo’s bail reform is “a driving factor in the crime crisis gripping our community” and that her own office lacks the resources to track down and punish those who miss a trial date. The two Democrats have also sparred over ethics concerns. Ms. Ogg obtained indictments against three of Ms. Hidalgo’s top staffers in April, charging that they improperly awarded an $11 million Covid-19 outreach contract to a political consulting firm headed by a Democratic data-mining expert. The defendants maintain their innocence and two of them have filed motions seeking to remove Ms. Ogg from the case. Ms. Hidalgo told Houston Public Media in May that the indictments are part of a political vendetta against her and that she expects to be targeted next. She may not be wrong about the latter. One reason to think so is a 2021 text messageobtained by the Texas Rangers, which shows Ms. Hidalgo’s chief of staff, Alex Triantaphyllis, responding to questions about why his boss changed the Covid contract’s scope. “Probably good for campaign purposes in her mind,” Mr. Triantaphyllis wrote. “But anyway, if she has some intricate picture in her head, I say F it and let her define it.” Ms. Hidalgo has had other personnel failures. In April, Isabel Longoria was forced by public pressure to resign as Harris County elections administrator after accidentally leaving 10,000 ballots out of the preliminary March primary results. All of this explains why Ms. Hidalgo is running scared in her re-election against Republican Alexandra del Moral Mealer. A graduate of both West Point and Harvard Law School, Ms. Mealer worked as an energy investment banker after serving as an Army captain in Afghanistan from 2010 to 2011. An Oct. 24. poll from the University of Houston’s Hobby School of Public Affairs showed Ms. Mealer leading Ms. Hidalgo, 47% to 45%. The same poll showed Republicans favored to take back control of the five-member Commissioners Court. Ms. Hidalgo has reacted to Ms. Mealer’s challenge by importing celebrities such as Jane Fonda and Lin-Manuel Miranda for rallies. She’s also run nonstop ads accusing her opponent of supporting the state Legislature’s recent restrictions on abortion after a fetal heartbeat has been detected, or around the sixth week of pregnancy. Ms. Mealer has declined to take a position on the policy, arguing the county has little practical authority on the matter. If Ms. Mealer ousts Ms. Hidalgo, it will send two messages: First, that voters care about the quality of local governance. Second, that even urban Hispanics aren’t buying the solutions progressives are selling. Mr. Fund is a columnist for National Review and a co-author of “Our Broken Elections: How the Left Changed the Way You Vote.”
Hispanics are just the new "white" and are joining Italians, Irish, Germans and Jews as groups that once were labeled as threats to the white majority, but were just absorbed into the white majority patriarchy. Welcome to the club Latinos.... go sit by the Cubans and Italians and punch your vote for the Republicans.
Ya it's a slow gradual shift and it's been happening for a while. You could see it in certain parts of the Latino community. Latinos who served in the military are the most conservative people I've ever met.
I think Hidalgo's campaign ads have been really lame and Mealer's more upbeat but finally with 3 days till election Hidalgo had an ad yesterday about trying to increase the budget with more money for law enforcement. I mentioned Hidalgo's ad about Mealer and abortion which was fact checked. I understand that crime is up but I think she should still have been addressing what she will try to do about it. Hidalgo won on a Democratic wave in a down mid term election for Republicans while Trump was in office. She may be victim of a Biden mid term but I don't think she has to be
TX Dems should campaign with people that Republicans or moderates might like. Will Ferrell doing Beto stuff was on point. White people love that guy. Jane Fonda was a weird look.
By that logic, Marco Rubio must be on the verge of losing since Trump was speaking at a rally for him.
