Damnest Thing Ever
This is local stuff but it’s kinda fun. What makes it fun is that the Tea Party made a mess of things in city government. I have not hung up my professional big time media investigative skills and it paid off.
The fine city of Rosenberg is having a municipal election.
Over to the right you have a list of the single member district slots that are up for election.
You will notice that all slots have two candidates but District 3 has three candidates. That means that if no candidate in that race gets more than 50% of the vote, we have to have a run off and run offs cost money. I know you cannot put a price on democracy and I would be the first to shout that, but this case is kinda unusual.
Let me tell you why.
In that race, candidates Lisa and Joe are moderate Republicans. So, a local rightwing Republican precinct chair and current member of city council goes out to recruit a Tea Party candidate. He finds Sergio J. Villagomez. All the Tea Party is just wild about Sergio because, and I am quoting one of them here, “He’s all about liberty!”
Liberty.
Well, I guess so. If you click right here, you will find a PDF showing that Sergio was arrested for possession of drugs in a school zone in 2004 and placed on probation. In 2008, Sergio violated that probation and was sent to the pokey. I do not know what he did to violate that probation but it must have been a doozy. Liberty, for sure.
When you run for office you sign a statement saying that you are eligible to run for that office, which is amusing since Section 141 of the Texas Election Code says —
… have not been finally convicted of a felony from which the person has not been pardoned or otherwise released from the resulting disabilities;
A nice person I know informed Mr. Villagomez that he was not eligible to run for office in Texas until he gets a pardon, which may be forthcoming since Mr. Villagomez proudly voted in the Republican primary in 2014 so I imagine he’s on Governor Abbott’s screen.
While Mr. Villagomez can vote, he cannot run for public office.
Now here’s where this gets funny. We didn’t discover this information until it was too late to have Villagomez’s name removed from the ballot. That means that if one of the other candidates doesn’t get at least 50% of the vote, we have to have a run off because … Liberty.
This run off will cost the city money. I personally think that since the Tea Party is all about the government saving money, they should pay the thousands of dollars this will cost. That only seems fair. They broke it, they should fix it.
And this is what I do with my time. Holy cow, it’s great to be me.
Kharma is so Khool.
1The radical right seems to consider election laws more what you’d call “guidelines” than actual laws.
2The TP folks always seem to be costing us money in the name of reducing government spending. Hard to top the Cruz multi-billion-dollar look-at-me stunt, though.
3“While Mr. Villagomez can vote, he cannot run for pubic office.”
Might want to check the spelling in that sentence.
4Thank you, Leenie.
5About that “Local” politics thing.. this was in my morning paper:
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Presidential-hopeful-Cruz-returns-home-to-6171872.php?cmpid=btfpm
A ‘NATIONAL” Campaign Headquarters ….
If this is “home”…. This idiot is My Senator.
Darn. There goes the neighborhood.
6JJ, I’m purely delighted that you are the great you!
7Ms JJ you sound like you might be having a wee bit too much fun. IMHO a vacation is in order to set you straight. Hit the beach for a week. 🙂
8LOL ” They broke it, they should fix it.” Love it!!
You should have left “pubic” alone … it probably fits!! LOL
9Yup, I know what you mean. I haven’t had this much snorting through nose fun since I had to do some research on the Louisiana Congressional races of last November when three out of 4 of them were run-offs! Well, hell. What can you say about a state that had jailed governors running things once upon a time!
10We should force the pizza guy to sue heteros who don’t have pizza catered at their weddings. Fair is fair,afterall.
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