Houston Republicans seem to be disorganized and confused

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by the Chuck Rosenthal scandal.

Chuck Rosenthal is the elected D.A. of Harris County, Death Penalty Capital of the World.

E-mails between he and his administrative assistant, who was also his girlfriend, were allegedly destroyed several months ago. He is not going to run for Harris County D.A. His first assistant D.A., Kelly Siegler, is going to run as well as several other Repubs. Rosenthal is also under Federal investigation for destroying evidence.

I wonder when the Republicans will lose their total lock on Harris County judgeships.

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1. I recieved the following in an e-mail tonight

Dems threaten to sue
to keep Rosenthal on ballot

06:32 PM CST on Friday, January 4, 2008

By Brad Woodard / 11 News

Two more candidates tossed their hats into the ring for the Republican nomination for Harris County District Attorney on Friday.

Doug Perry, a 26-year law enforcement veteran and former District Judge Pat Lykos, who was defeated by Chuck Rosenthal in 2000, filed to run for the office. They join assistant District Attorney Kelly Siegler and former prosecutor Jim Leitner in the race to replace Rosenthal, who withdrew from the race on Wednesday.

However, there is a chance none of those candidates will end up on the ballot.

Initially, the embattled Rosenthal vowed never to bow to pressure from Republican leaders to step aside in his bid for re-election. Pressure mounted after salacious e-mails between Rosenthal and his executive secretary.

Then, just three minutes before the filing deadline for the March Republican Primary, Rosenthal submitted a withdrawal letter.

Filing was extended another two days, allowing star prosecutor and Rosenthal underling Siegler to toss her hat into the ring.

Then, to everyone's surprise, there were rumblings that Rosenthal had changed his mind.

“I was shocked. I was surprised. I was disappointed,” said Harris County GOP Chairman Jared Woodfill. “He was in. He was out. He's back in. There's more flip-flopping here than I've seen in any election.”

Rosenthal said Friday he has decided against getting back into the race.

Now, perhaps the biggest bombshell of all. Harris County Democrats say the letter Rosenthal sent to withdraw from the race wasn't valid, because it wasn't notarized.

“The result of that, we think, is that Mr. Rosenthal hasn't withdrawn,” said Gerry Birnberg, the chair of the Harris County Democratic Party. “That means No. 1, he's still on the ballot and No. 2, anybody who filed after 6 p.m. Wednesday night can't be on the ballot.”

In addition, the Democrats are threatening to sue to prove that point.

“It’s exactly what happened with Tom DeLay, and by doing so, they keep the story of Rosenthal and his alleged indiscretions in the news and in the papers,” said 11 News political expert Bob Stein.

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4. Let Pat Lykos spend her own money.

She doesn't have a snowball's chance in Hell.

Why? When she was a judge, she didn't like ANYBODY who worked in her court. No bailiffs, no deputies, no clerks, no court reporters, no prosecutors. She also kept all the court staff waiting in the morning for her to drag her probably-hungover butt onto the bench for docket call, about ten-thirty or eleven in the morning. There were about 10 people in that court that the county was paying for, and they were all waiting for her to show up and do her job.

I think she thinks she has to lord it over people because she used to be a cop.

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5. Not that I've ever been even vaguely inclined

to even consider a vote for Lykos, your observation is indeed interesting. Hopefully, it gets out there.

I'll be supporting CO Bradford all the way. But it sure would help to have the weakest/most damaged repuke on the November ballot.

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6. I worked for her once.

As a substitute court reporter. One day I had to stay late to work on a jury charge (because she had wasted time during the regular workday, as she often did).

It was probably 5:30 or 6 pm or later. I was quite tired. Exhausted. She came in my office and asked me if I was going to school at night. I said no, because it was the summer. I had been going to law school at night and she knew that.

Then she just looked at me with a funny look, and I said "Judge, I am NOT on drugs.". She walked away three steps, her mouth flew open in surprise.

Then she turned around and whacked me in the head with a rolled up piece of paper. I should have filed a judicial complaint.

She also refused to sign my forms to turn into the county auditor so I could get paid for the weeks I worked for her, until the transcripts that were on appeal were turned in. So that was months later. I presented three different invoices and wrote on them "FIRST INVOICE FOR PAYMENT FOR THIS WEEK TURNED IN", "SECOND INVOICE TURNED IN FOR THIS WEEK, SO FAR UNPAID" and so forth.
She was a judge in a felony court so there was more transcript work and more appeals to type than was humanly possible.

Nobody in Harris County has any respect for her, that I know of.


She couldn't get elected garbage collector, if that was an elected office, because she treats EVERYBODY below her like dirt.

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2. Perhaps a little demoralized as well

They seem to hate Ron Paul, then they Hate Mike Huckabee, then they go hate a little on Fred Thompson, then they move on to Mitt Romney, then they spend a good long while hating on Rudy, then they go back and hate some more on Dr. No, then it's time to hate on McCain ...

A laugh a minute, believe me. :evilgrin:

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3. If they hate Ron Paul

they should have moved his yard signs somewhere other than front and center when the media was camped out at their headquarters. It was glaring on all the news channels. Of course, they didn't have the common sense to at least slide over their hate poster with the "US as a flag/map: RED, white and blue" and :Them: BLUE Mexico". God, how do the registered pukes hold their heads up in public?

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7. really

seems lie they keep crawling out from under the rocks

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8. The GOP lock on Dallas judge slots is shattered....

Harris County ought to be coming fairly soon I would think.

In Dallas County, there was a judge who switched from the Democratic Party to the GOP when they were ascendant. NOW -- he's switched back to being a Democrat, because he saw the Democrats winning big in Dallas County in 2006.

Seems to me if a judge is a competent jurist he/she shouldn't have to hitch himself/herself to a particular party in order to stay on the bench.