Greater Houston / Harris County Stuff

[FORTY NINE TO ZERO 2630]

Didn’t really see a thread and didn’t want to hijack the Linda thread.

 

post anything regional here, but a lot of my friends / family had issues voting due to lack of paper, so I found this article interesting/concerning.

 

Harris County Elections administrator can't answer why polling locations ran out of paper

 

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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — Some Harris County voters went to cast their ballot on Election Day but left their polling location frustrated and puzzled.

“At 3:30 pm., they told us they ran out of paper, out of ballot paper,” said Sharon Gahunia, who tried to vote at the Mandarin Immersion Magnet School in the Galleria area.

“First time I ever ran into a problem like that trying to vote,” added voter John Knoerzer, who was turned away at Shadow Forest Elementary School in Kingwood.

 

[tx 3 putt 76408]

More people need to early vote. Waiting for Election Day is just asking for trouble / waiting in a long line 

harris county has 700+ polling stations, and is a huge area. If there’s an issue, it’s take a long time to get anywhere 

[gmr548 16517]

Printers are the only technology that just hasn’t advanced in the past 20 years lol

[Willfully Horn 7917]

Paxton convinced the Texas SC to not count votes cast by folks who relied on the extension of voting hours in Harris, but, it is unclear if Bell County was also ordered not to count ballots cast during their extended hours.

 

https://wacotrib.com/news/state-and-regional/texas-supreme-court-intervenes-in-extension-of-harris-county-voting-hours-bell-county-also-delayed/article_f635e0c8-6012-11ed-8014-5300fabafbdd.html

[SydneyCarton 47885]

Honestly, didn't see this posted elsewhere and it could have gone in the Paxton criminal thread, or the sexy AF Lina Hidalgo thread, but I searched around and opted for here.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/09/texas-harris-county-guaranteed-income/

Paxton is suing Harris Country because of a pilot program, which they are implementing with federal money, to give 1900 underpriveleged families in the poorest areas of the county $500 a month for 18 months to test for the tenets of UBI. The money came from leftover Covid Relief funds, and was title Uplift Harris.

Some choice quotes:
 

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Paxton blasted the program in a legal filing Tuesday, calling it an “illegal and illegitimate government overreach” and dubbing it the “Harris Handout.” Paxton argues the pilot program violates a section of the Texas Constitution that says no local government can “lend its credit or to grant public money or thing of value” to individuals.

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Houston residents broadly support the idea of guaranteed income, according to polling from the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University. More than 75% of respondents to a 2023 Kinder poll said they support a “universal basic income for low-income, working adults.”

The party of SMaLl gOvERnMenT once again stepping in to stop that which was overwhelmingly passed and supported by local government and citizens. 

[Smax 3800]

4 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Honestly, didn't see this posted elsewhere and it could have gone in the Paxton criminal thread, or the sexy AF Lina Hidalgo thread, but I searched around and opted for here.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/09/texas-harris-county-guaranteed-income/

Paxton is suing Harris Country because of a pilot program, which they are implementing with federal money, to give 1900 underpriveleged families in the poorest areas of the county $500 a month for 18 months to test for the tenets of UBI. The money came from leftover Covid Relief funds, and was title Uplift Harris.

Some choice quotes:
 

The party of SMaLl gOvERnMenT once again stepping in to stop that which was overwhelmingly passed and supported by local government and citizens. 

 

 

Read about this earlier and he says something about "“The Texas Constitution expressly prohibits giving away public funds to benefit individuals" rich coming from the guy who wanted public funds to pay his 3 million dollar lawsuit.

This federal money too, this guy is a huge asshole crooked to the bone

[Js1 85115]

Fuck Paxton in the goat ass 

[tx 3 putt 76408]

Other counties have similar programs but ….

Harris County !!!!

[Paper_jam 831]

Example number eleventy billion of Republicans being against using government funds or services to help anyone--except for people and organizations that are connected to them.

Even so, this is an alarmingly crass and cruel example of those in power punching down. Despite years of this shit somehow I still continue to be surprised at the depths these shitheels will sink to. They literally have no shame.

 

 

[SydneyCarton 47885]

8 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Other counties have similar programs but ….

Harris County !!!!

Also a good point. San Antonio and Austin have similar programs as well. 

[elfenix 34172]

Government shouldn’t pick winners and losers unless it’s keeping the price of electricity artificially high so that our donors can make billions on the backs of the people of Texas!

[atomheartbevo 89452]

2 hours ago, Paper_jam said:

Example number eleventy billion of Republicans being against using government funds or services to help anyone--except for people and organizations that are connected to them.

Even so, this is an alarmingly crass and cruel example of those in power punching down. Despite years of this shit somehow I still continue to be surprised at the depths these shitheels will sink to. They literally have no shame.

If the money was going to a bunch of Southern Baptist churches for “community outreach”, Paxton wouldn’t say a word.

[MonkeyDoughnut 10145]

God forbid a government agency actually tries to help those most in need.  Can't have that

[Chewbacca 7730]

3 hours ago, Paper_jam said:

Example number eleventy billion of Republicans being against using government funds or services to help anyone--except for people and organizations that are connected to them.

Yeah, farmers and ranchers sure don't mind their subsidies.