In Rodney I trust?

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At the Fountain of Praise, a Black church in southwest Houston, senior pastor Remus Wright was preaching to his congregation about the importance of protecting their dreams. In the crowded sanctuary that Sunday morning sat several political candidates with dreams of their own: among them was Sean Teare, a former assistant district attorney who is now the front-runner in a race to unseat his former boss, Harris County district attorney Kim Ogg, in the Democratic primary. Teare was there to worship, as he usually does on Sunday, but he was also making his case to voters. After the service, he was introduced to the congregation by influential Harris County commissioner Rodney Ellis, one of the Democrats who has sparred with Ogg over the last four years. Teare, his salt-and-pepper hair neatly coiffed, took the stage in a navy suit and brown cowboy boots and promised he could fix an office that he called brokena state of affairs he attributed to the incumbent's mismanagement. "There are a lot of differences between now and 2020," he told me earlier in the church."The biggest one being that people know who [Ogg] is now."
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Whether Ogg triumphs again could hinge not only on her policy positions but also on the number of influential allies she has lost. Commissioner Ellis supported her in the 2016 general election and didn't endorse her primary's front-runner in 2020. Ogg's office launched an investigation into allegations that Ellis improperly spent public funds to store a private collector's assortment of African art. In 2021, a grand jury declined to bring criminal charges. Ellis, who called the investigation "ridiculous," said that his concerns this time are not about Ogg's investigation of him, but about the impact her tactics have had on others in his community. "That position is one of the most powerful positions in Texas government in any county," he said. "You have to be careful about who's put in that office."

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https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/democrats-turning-against-kim-ogg/

so Sean Teare goes to a black church?

Yeah I don't think so. I bet the author was trying to say Teare regularly attends church, not this church.

atmtws said:

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ABC13 and Michael Berry both reporting Kim Ogg couldn't vote this AM because a ballot had already been cast in her name.

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apparently her "partner" mailed in her vote for her during early voting.

Ogg wants an investigation.

TV news saying she has a slim chance of winning. Is that true?

Sorry. Your resident expert has been in trial and the answer is a long one on the bonds. Bonding companies don't have to actually put up the money on the bonds but they can be held accountable on them for forfeitures. There is a separate action done on those and there is a whole division within the District Attorney's Office that handles those. That's a civil-type proceeding and I would be lying if I said I knew how it worked exactly.

If the idea is that judges not making bonding pay for forfeited bonds is perpetuating the bond industry, I don't think it is that simple but I don't know the specifics well enough to argue it. I know that insurance companies back bonding companies and that local bonding companies are usually part of a bigger picture. So, I guess you got me on that one.

Vote early and often /dims

CFTXAG10 said:

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Ogg apparently conceded as soon as EV numbers posted.

I swear Harris County is the SLOWEST county on earth to count votes…

100%

So is the Republican in the November DA's race capable and competent? Does he have a chance if well financed?

Im wondering that as well. Could Teare be considered the weaker candidate with a strong R? Seems more R's voted than D's in Harris County in this primary…. Maybe wishful thinking here..

The Republican candidate is Dan Simons. Former prosecutor and current defense attorney. He doesn't have the years of experience that Sean does. He and I have always gotten along but he has some enemies. He ran against an incumbent judge in 2018 and beat him in the Republican primary only to lose in the general election as part of the Dem sweep.

I don't think anyone around here (including Dan) takes his candidacy very seriously.