I think I’ve told you before that I live in the most diverse county in Texas and occasionally it makes the list for the most diverse county in America.  We are roughly split evenly between Anglos, Hispanics, Blacks, and Asians.  This is really tough for Anglo Republicans.

One of our state representative districts is currently held by 74 year old Rick Miller. Rick got statewide attention a couple of years ago for sponsoring anti-LGBTQ legislation. His son, Beau, is a highly respected Houston lawyer who was recently elected a district court judge. Beau is gay and is HIV positive.

Rick just barely pulled out a win two years ago. He’s worried, and he’s especially worried because for the first time since he won the seat, he’s facing primary opponents.  Rick made the newspaper again.

He summed up one of his opponents like this: “He’s a Korean,” said Miller, describing Jacey Jetton, a former chairman of the Fort Bend GOP. “He has decided because, because he is an Asian that my district might need an Asian to win. And that’s kind of racist in my mind, but anyway, that’s not necessary, at least not yet.”

A second Republican primary candidate, Houston Fire Department analyst Leonard Chan, “jumped in probably for the same reason,” said Miller, 74, during an interview with Hearst Newspapers. “I don’t know, I never met the guy. I have no idea who he is. He has not been around Republican channels at all, but he’s an Asian.”

To make matters worse, two of his Democratic opponents are Asian Americans.

Rick, like most old white Republican men, live in horror that all these new minorities are gonna get elected and then treat Rick like Rick treated them.

Welcome, y’all, to the Texas Republican Party, where old conservative white men are real scared.  Ain’t that some kind of wonderful?

A couple of weeks ago, I was suspended from Facebook for month.

A damn month.

My crime?  On my Juanita Jean Facebook page, I posted a syndicated cartoon published by newspapers across this country that was the work of Clay Bennett.

A nominated finalist for The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning seven times, Bennett won the Prize in 2002. He’s also the recipient of the Sigma Delta Chi Award, the National Journalism Award, the National Cartoonist Society Award for Editorial Cartoons, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the John Fischetti Award, the National Headliner Award, the Thomas Nast Award from the Overseas Press Club, the Berryman Award from the National Press Foundation, and the Ranan Lurie/United Nations Political Cartoon Award.^[3] On May 26, 2018, he was awarded the 2017 Divisional Award for Editorial Cartoons by the National Cartoonists Society.^[4]

A past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, Bennett lives in Chattanooga with his wife, artist Cindy Procious.^[5] His work is syndicated internationally by The Washington Post Writers Group.^[6]

It is this cartoon.

It is some guy in a Klan outfit with a tag on his shirt that says “White Nationalist.” He’s holding Donald Trump’s tie as a noose.

I published it on March 20th.  I did not get my notice of suspension until November 15.  Let me do the math for you – that’s 8 months.  Hell, I made a baby once in 8 months.

I appealed because this cartoon was in the Washington Post, dammit. Facebook affirmed my suspension.

This weekend I checked to see if they were serious.  They are.

Here’s the weird part, I can still post cartoons on the Juanita Jean Facebook page but I cannot publish to my personal Facebook page, which kinda seems backwards to me.

And, by the way, I even posted it here and nobody sent hate mail.

The only bad part about this is that I’m going to Austin next Monday to entertain Glen on the filing deadline – the last day to file for election in Texas.  I was going to post any last minute filers for statewide or multi-county races on Facebook that day so my friends around Texas could keep up and not wait until the next morning. Now I can’t do that. So, I will do it here and let them spread the word. It won’t mean diddle squat to you you people from foreign states, but, Honey, it won’t be the first time I’ve posted something that don’t mean diddle squat.

Okay, so that gets us to here.

I think this explains why Trump isn’t on Facebook.  Everybody else just takes down things they don’t like.  Facebook marches your butt out the door.

Customer Michele sent us a great way to start a week.

Click right here. And don’t forget the picture at the bottom.

Rick Perry calls him the Kickback Kid.

Have fun!

Remember Hope Hicks?  You know, the fashion model turned practically presidential chief of staff?

Well, don’t you find that it’s interesting that the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign have given a million dollars to her lawyers?  Well, I exaggerate, it’s only $981,849.27. Her lawyers are Trout Cacheris & Janis PLLC.

It started as $600,000 last summer, but has shot upward since then.

You know who has got to feel really, really bad about this?  Stormy Daniels.  That girl settled for $130,000.

If you’re wondering if it’s a conflict of interest or unethical for Trump to pay for Hicks’ lawyer when Hicks likely has dirt on Trump, the answer is yeah, probably.

But those aren’t the only lawyers on the Trump/RNC attorney rental fees.

Trump’s personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow:

CONSTITUTIONAL LITIGATION & ADVOCACY GR 119 2ND STREET N.E.  WASHINGTON, DC 20002  10/11/2019                LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE SERVICES         60,000.00

Pence’s personal lawyer:

MCGUIRE WOODS LLP    800 E. CANAL STREET  RICHMOND, Virginia 232193916  10/18/2019           LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE SERVICES 42,123.31

Corey Lewandowski’s lawyers:

MINTZ LEVIN FIRM ACCOUNT     666 THIRD AVENUE  NEW YORK, New York 10017  10/18/2019     LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE SERVICES 128,418.19

I’m sure the RNC thinks the $130,00 it spent to have Lewandowski make the House Judiciary Committee Dems look like chums money well spent.  It appears that the going rate for screwing somebody is around $130,000.

Thanks to Alfredo for the heads up.

Thank you.  Once again, we hit and exceeded our fundraising goal of $5,000. As of today, we raised $4,618 online and an additional $787 by mail. We’ll keep the extra money in the bank to start fundraising for voter registration address change reminders for Democrats who have moved but have not changed their voter registration.  Last election season, our efforts doing this registered 5,048 new Democrats in our county and provided half the margin the victory.

I’m going to Austin next week on the last day of candidate filing and will take Glen a check and see who files at the last minute.

I’ll bring you any breaking news about that right here.

Again, I thank you, Glen thanks you, and by gawd, Texas thanks you.