just cuz it cracks me up

I get the feeling it is one of those 'too good to be true' rumors.

Maybe Lina should up her dose of Aderall and power through.

Show the folks in DC that you wont fold under pressure.

If the Paw still truckin' then 32 year old Lina should be truckin' too.

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I get the feeling it is one of those 'too good to be true' rumors.

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Yep. And actually, not sure if we want a more corrupt, but competent leftist in her position.

Is there any possibility that Harris County might finally elect a competent, honest adult, or will demographics prevent that?

Buck Turgidson said:

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Is there any possibility that Harris County might finally elect a competent, honest adult, or will demographics prevent that?

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Buck Turgidson said:

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Is there any possibility that Harris County might finally elect a competent, honest adult, or will demographics prevent that?

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Well considering that Lina got re-elected…..

Buck Turgidson said:

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She only rode in on Beto's coattails originally. I was clinging to the hope that, once she's out, we might get an adult back in office. I hoped that all the people in areas like Memorial and River Oaks might be able to finance a better candidate. Maybe I am mistaken in assuming that they want a competent county judge.

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When you spend $30k a kid on private school and have a nanny that buys your groceries you don't notice that eggs are almost a dollar a piece and milk is $5 per gallon. You just continue to vote democrat so you can feel better about yourself because you are helping minorities.

News Flash....they are not really helping minorities....

Yeah, we've been across the creek in Montgomery County for just over a year. Part (but hardly all) of our motivation for the move was the political situation in Houston and Harris County. However, we still live in the same metro area and the kids attend a private school in Harris County. I'm a real estate developer, so I'm still hoping (maybe wishful thinking) that the rot in the core of the Houston metro gets reversed or at least is significantly slowed. Having a functioning core to the metro is better for everybody.

I grew up in the Rice Village area and it has been very disheartening to see how the radical left has almost completely taken over that area. Its all affluent whites but increasingly they are crazy TDS lefties like you might find in California. It didn't used to be that way. The City of Houston has been led by incompetent fools for most of my life (since the mid 70's anyway), but Harris County used to be governed by somewhat competent adults.

Part of the challenge in addressing the question of competency is that most voters simply have no interest in learning about the core functions of different levels of government. In order to really discuss competency at the local level, the audience would need to have a basic idea of what competency would look like. But most people simply vote along ideological lines, or based on emotion surrounding the hot button issue of the hour. And they vote for local offices - when they do - the same way they vote for national offices.

Just an anecdote, but one of my buddies told me a story about getting dragged by his wife to a Spring Branch Republicans event last year where Mealer was speaking. He's not any kind of political junky, but he was dismayed and laughing about some old dude who got up to scream at Mealer about Dan Crenshaw. Even my buddy could see that it had nothing to do with Mealer; nothing to do with the office of Harris County judge; and nothing to do with the county budgeting issues she was trying to discuss, but that's the kind of thing people face when they try to go into any detail about competency in local government.

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most voters simply have no interest in learning about the core functions of different levels of government.

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I see a lot of that on these boards.

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Buck Turgidson said:

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She only rode in on Beto's coattails originally. I was clinging to the hope that, once she's out, we might get an adult back in office. I hoped that all the people in areas like Memorial and River Oaks might be able to finance a better candidate. Maybe I am mistaken in assuming that they want a competent county judge.

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When you spend $30k a kid on private school and have a nanny that buys your groceries you don't notice that eggs are almost a dollar a piece and milk is $5 per gallon. You just continue to vote democrat so you can feel better about yourself because you are helping minorities.

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May violence and chaos descend upon their neighborhoods until they learn. Especially The Heights, West U, Montrose, and River Oaks.

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Bondag said:

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Buck Turgidson said:

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She only rode in on Beto's coattails originally. I was clinging to the hope that, once she's out, we might get an adult back in office. I hoped that all the people in areas like Memorial and River Oaks might be able to finance a better candidate. Maybe I am mistaken in assuming that they want a competent county judge.

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When you spend $30k a kid on private school and have a nanny that buys your groceries you don't notice that eggs are almost a dollar a piece and milk is $5 per gallon. You just continue to vote democrat so you can feel better about yourself because you are helping minorities.

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May violence and chaos descend upon their neighborhoods until they learn. Especially The Heights, West U, Montrose, and River Oaks.

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West u has their own first responders, they won't see it in their neighborhood. That's part of the problem of why all the villages and west u area are starting to swing blue. They don't see the impacts of their sympathies.

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Part of the challenge in addressing the question of competency is that most voters simply have no interest in learning about the core functions of different levels of government. In order to really discuss competency at the local level, the audience would need to have a basic idea of what competency would look like. But most people simply vote along ideological lines, or based on emotion surrounding the hot button issue of the hour. And they vote for local offices - when they do - the same way they vote for national offices.

Just an anecdote, but one of my buddies told me a story about getting dragged by his wife to a Spring Branch Republicans event last year where Mealer was speaking. He's not any kind of political junky, but he was dismayed and laughing about some old dude who got up to scream at Mealer about Dan Crenshaw. Even my buddy could see that it had nothing to do with Mealer; nothing to do with the office of Harris County judge; and nothing to do with the county budgeting issues she was trying to discuss, but that's the kind of thing people face when they try to go into any detail about competency in local government.

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it doesn't help that we have essentially allowed civics to be eliminated in the basic education cirriculum. So almost every single graduate over the last ~25-30 years has has a watered down version of govrnment that doesn't get into how it should operate.

All by design.

Every time I click on an update notification for this thread and don't see a news article covering her resignation, I am deeply disappointed.

I'll be happy when the Lina issue is no more and the county judge can go back to quietly administering the county government without major incident and focus on the real issues like developing a plan to reconstruct the Astrodome to its former glory.