Put it on your calendar if you are concerned about the rising cost of home insurance in the Bay Area. Meet the candidates running for State Representative and State Senator. Hear from the premiere consumer organization in Texas. Ask questions to the candidates. This is a NON PARTISAN event. We are all affected by this issue. Everyone is welcome to attend. All candidates have been invited.
Tuesday July 7, 2026 6:30 Social 7:00-8:30 Meeting. RSVP here.
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Posted by johncoby
Thank god for La Marque.
A couple of years ago the city of Seabrook was on the verge of becoming the next League City with unnecessary chaos in city politics and elections. Four of the five candidates running under the Save Seabrook banner lost with only Angela Cervantes winning her race. Since that election Seabrook has been free from controversy for the most part and that is good for the citizens. Is City Council perfect? Of course not but it seems they are doing the job they were elected to do and doing it well.
We have seen what chaos can do to an organization. CCISD, League City, and La Marque all went through tough times with extreme political candidates and elected officials. CCISD Trustee Scott Bowen lost his reelection and they left the news cycle. City Councilman Justin Hicks resigned and League City left the news cycle. City Councilman Joseph Lowry is still in office and La Marque continues to dominate the local news. There is a pattern here. All three are extreme political hacks putting party over policies and it didn’t/hasn’t worked out for them.
City and school boards are non partisan organizations. Most voters know which side of the aisle the candidates stand on but regardless of party affiliation elected officials should be concerned about moving their city or school board forward instead of playing extreme partisan politics. Voters should be concerned about chicken littles yelling for a costly and unnecessary “forensic audit” like Joseph Lowry has called for in La Marque and former Seabrook City Councilman Joe Machol (pictured above) is calling for in Seabrook. All this accomplishes is mistrust in government something the Save Seabrook group does pretty well.
Hopefully voters will choose quiet over chaos and reject the candidates running under the Save Seabrook banner, including Kelly Stewart, Aaron McGuire, Josh Derrick. Save Seabrook from Chaos.
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Posted by johncoby
Come on La Marque voters. You are better than this.
There are two City Council Members up for reelection, Council Members Joe Compian and Tonia Griffin. Compian is challenged by Felix Brown, Jody Richards, and Sade Williamsby. Council Member Griffin is being challenged by Sarah Lowry, yes, that Sarah Lowry, bride of Chucky Council Member Joseph Lowry.
As of today only Griffin has filed a campaign finance report. Those reports are posted on the La Marque website. Reports are required even if you are self financing. There are few exceptions for not filing.
Lowry hasn’t filed but has spent money on some of the worst campaign signs ever made in direct violation of Campaign Signs 101. Besides have a gawd awful sign the citizens of La Marque need stability and restored faith in their government. Lowry will just bring more chaos to the Council sitting next to her fucked up husband, Joseph Lowry. Joseph should be run out of office and Sarah should not be running for office. Both are not qualified to represent the citizens of La Marque and both are just filthy human beings. Her running on god, faith, and family is just fucked up.
La Marque, you can do better. Don’t fuel the chaos. Elect an adult.
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Posted by johncoby
Former Trustee Scott Bowen’s billionaire buddies have finally stopped meddling in our school board elections.
30 day and 8 day out campaign finance reports are due for the CCISD board elections. Of the four candidates only two have posted their reports, Arturo Sanchez and Ernest Hallman. I didn’t expect one from Gabriel Gonzales. He filed a document saying he was not going to raise more than $1001 and therefore would be exempt from reporting. I don’t think he is running a serious campaign. Current Trustee Jamieson Mackay has not filed any reports for this election. I found that strange. He has run a successful campaign in the past and knows the requirements. (Update. He is also filing the less than $1001 form)
You can read all the reports on the CCISD website. In a nutshell Arturo has a very strong report raising about $7000. Hallman raised about $500. We are not seeing any meddling by the two billionaires out of the Dallas area, Timothy Dunn and Farris Wilks. They are now focusing their money on helping Scott Bowen win his House seat. There is no evidence of meddling from any outside organization which is great for the community.
The election is May 2. If you live in District 2 or 3 go find your voting location and vote! Not sure where to vote? Use the app on the CCISD’s website to find your voting location!
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Posted by johncoby
Catholics should be furious about this.
The candidate for Harris County Commissioner, Richard Vega, (pictured here with his lordship) was all giddy about the ruling by a Federal Appeals Court’s close ruling on forcing the posting of the Protestant’s version of the Ten Commandments in public schools. Maybe Vega and Senator Money MAGAt Mayes Middleton should consider reading and following the commandments instead of forcing them down the throats of parents and children. They should also demand that their leadership follow the g**damn commandments.
Mayes and Vega are Christian Nationalists following and leading the far right extremists of the republican church. Both love Donald Trump, the leader of the Christians in Name Only (CHINOs). Both don’t seem to have a problem with the leader of their party lying on a hourly basis. They have no problem with their leaders committing adultery or killing people (Jan 6) or having false idols, or stealing. Both have no problem with the Texas Attorney General of Adultery defended the posting of the commandments he doesn’t follow.
Besides Vega and Middleton’s membership in the Society of Hypocrites In Texas (SHIT) they don’t seem to be on the side of the leader of the Christian religion, the Catholics. Catholics created Christianity. They rule in the State. If we must have the 10 commandments posted they should be the Catholic version and not any other offshoot of Christianity.
Until then the CHINOs should go back to church, ask for forgiveness, and shut the hell up.
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Posted by johncoby
Interesting report from the NASA Office of the Inspector General.
The NASA OIG release a report on 4/20 titled “NASA’s Acquisition of Next-Generation Spacesuit Services“. It is a detailed, and at times quite boring, report but the main point of the report is that based on past experience of developing and testing the space suits the Moon landing will be delayed into 2031. Here is their summary:
NASA faces challenges in ensuring next-generation spacesuits are available to meet the Agency’s current schedules for the Artemis lunar landing mission in 2028 and prior to the ISS’s decommissioning in 2030. NASA’s original schedules to demonstrate the lunar and microgravity spacesuits in 2025 and 2026, respectively, were overly optimistic and ultimately proved unachievable, as evidenced by delays of at least a year and a half for both spacesuits. Based on our analysis, if Axiom experiences design and testing delays in line with the historical average for recent space flight programs, the Artemis and ISS demonstrations may not occur until 2031.
Of course The new NASA chief had a response which is basically we are still landing in 2028 while Trump is in office and he can take credit for it. That’s not exactly what he said but you get the idea. Ever since Trump was reelected he has targeted NASA for massive cuts. First it was to cut the Artemis program and give it to Elon Musk. That fell apart when Trump and Elon started a fight over the failure of DOGE. Now he is calling for a 24% cut to NASA to focus on landing on the Moon while he is still in office.
I have full faith in those who are working on the new suits. I have no faith in who is running the agency or those who refuse to tell their leader in space when it is safe to go to the moon. More later. From the new NASA Chief:
We are reviewing where NASA can do better, how we can provide relief where appropriate to burdensome requirements, where we can expand capabilities over time (Apollo 11’s EVA profile was very different than Apollo 17), and where we can help industry by inserting NASA SMEs and driving the intended outcomes. I am confident that when NASA is ready to land on the Moon in 2028, our astronauts will be wearing Axiom suits.
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Posted by johncoby
It’s not legal. At all.
Abel Garza is running for Mayor of Texas City. He raised $14,750 as reported on his 30 day out report. He has a couple of interesting donations including $5000 from the Houston Builders Association and $2350 from an anonymous donor which is illegal. According to the Texas Ethics Commission every donation must be identified with the name, date of donations, address, and amount. There are just a few exceptions but according to his report it looks like someone with a bag over their head handed him $2350 in cash.
I have read many reports over the last 20 years but I have never seen an anonymous donor before.
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Posted by johncoby
No place but Sugar Land Texas.
Retiring Congressman Troy Nehls from the Sugar Land area, a diverse, well educated area claimed Trump is the second coming of Jesus Christ. The last time I remember someone saying his band was more popular than Jesus resulted in the mass burning of their albums.
In March 1966, John Lennon stated that The Beatles were “more popular than Jesus” in a London Evening Standard interview, claiming Christianity was declining while rock music was growing. While ignored in the UK, the quote caused massive backlash in the US later that year, resulting in record burnings, radio bans, and Ku Klux Klan protests.
Nehls comment, like John Lennon, was met with the same outrage. Even his twin brother, Trever, (yes, “Trever”) who is running for his brother’s position, has distanced himself from Troy stating “I barely know who he is.” He later added “I can’t believe Troy would have taken the time to take his lips off of Trump’s ass to make a stupid statement like that.”
This isn’t the first time Nehls has been in the news. Not only has he been accused of kissing ass, he was accused of stolen valor wearing medals he did not earn. He was accused of profiling Hispanics while acting like a Sheriff. He was also involved in an accident requiring the jaws of life to free his rotten ass.
Good riddance you rotten bastard.
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Posted by johncoby
Harris County and the elected officials provide services to about 5 million people.
Harris County is the 3rd largest county in the United States covering nearly 2 million square miles running from the Kingwood area to the Clear Lake area, from Katy to Baytown. Needless to say it’s a big area. The County is divided into 4 precincts represented by Commissioners Rodney Ellis (1), Adrian Garcia (2) Tom Ramsey (3), and Leslie Briones (4). The Bay Area is within Precinct 2. There are 27 elected officials, not including Judicial positions. Of those 27 there are 1 Judge (not a judicial judge) 4 Commissioners, 7 Trustees for the Harris County Department of Education, and 8 Constables. All these are elected positions.
Important positions include:
These are important positions. So come November go vote.
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Posted by johncoby
Like Texas House District 129, it’s about local politics, your wallet, and your voting history.
Texas is divided into 31 Senate districts. Senate district 11 or SD11 covers parts of three counties, Galveston, Harris, and Brazoria. (See the map below) It covers south of Beltway 8 to the coast and from Angleton to Seabrook. (generally).
As with House District 129 the district has been represented by a Republican for 43 years. The last Democrat Was Senator Chet Brooks who served from 1983-1993. 43 years under republican rule and look at us now. Home insurance out the roof. The cost of Health insurance makes you sick. Auto insurance has crashed. The cost of electricity is shocking. Our schools are being starved with funding cuts and vouchers. The cost of living in the Bay Area has skyrocketed. And yet voters don’t want to change their voting habits.
The current Senator, “Money” Mayes Middleton is now running for Texas Attorney General leaving the seat open. State Representative Dennis Paul who has served for over 10 years is now running for the Senate seat. If you don’t know who Middleton or Paul is that is because they have never held a town hall meeting with their constituents. They only meet with the business community. Both are voucher supporters. Both believe in teaching their religion in schools. Both served on committees that should have addressed the insurance crisis. Both have ignored the rising cost of living in the district.
Democrats have had only one challenger back in 2008 as far as I remember. This year Shannon Dicely is challenging Paul. You can find information about her at https://www.shannondicely.com.
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Posted by johncoby
Bay Area Houston 