Harris County Judge Ed Emmett made it official today and signed the paperwork to run for re-election.
This morning, I filed for re-election for Harris County Judge. While we’ve had many rewarding successes, we’ve still got work to do. But the people of Harris County have never been afraid of work, and I look forward to standing with them for the next four years through whatever challenges come our way. For more information about our campaign, please visit www.edemmett.com
The biggest decision for Harris County Republicans is this: will Harris County Judge Ed Emmettrun again? Tough call. On the one hand, he is the most popular Republican in Harris County in any General Election. And that is a simple fact based upon the number of votes he gets when he runs. On the other hand, he has a beautiful family, more grandchildren than I have fingers (and thumbs) and maybe it is time to enjoy life.
I’ve talked to Ed several times over the last few weeks about his decision. At one point, he told me he had already written the annual letter that he gives to his staff about the state of the county with one exception – the last paragraph with his intentions. And this afternoon, he told me that he still hasn’t decided and that he and his wife Gwen are going to make that decision tonight and announce it to his staff tomorrow morning.
Well, between you, me and the fencepost, I hope he chooses to run one more time. As a conservative, that is a natural position for me to take. As in, the devil you know is always better than the one you don’t. Or something like that. Plus, he has done more for Harris County Republicans and governance than anyone that I can think of. And my goodness, I can’t even imagine what Gwen is going to do with all of that energy he has. The guy is a perpetual motion machine. Sitting on a rocking chair is probably okay for a few minutes but then what? I mean, seriously, then what? C’mon Ed, give Gwen a break. Sort of like this guy’s wife says.
And then the very next day this happened? At that point I thought we were home free.
Little did I know that this would happen:
On Aug. 15, during a work trip to Victoria, the longtime Harris County judge suffered a minor microvascular ischemia, a clot in a blood vessel in his brain. It blew out his fourth cranial nerve, causing a stroke.
“I felt fine. I just couldn’t see. I was seeing double images at all kind of angles,” Emmett describes. “I was helicoptered back to Memorial Hermann and I was in their stroke unit all day. Of course, I was told to take it easy for a while.”
Good grief! When I saw the headline, I about had a stroke myself! I don’t call it a bro-mance, I call it a pol-mance, as in Ed is my favorite politician, as I’ve said many times.
It probably won’t be as easy for him to win this year given the current political climate. This will be the last big election in Harris County with the straight party option on the ballot unless something changes. Normally he is able to get a good chunk of Democrats to cross over and vote for him but these are crazy times. Hopefully that will happen again in 2018 but he is going to need all the support he can get.
In the off chance that you don’t know much about Judge Emmett, you can visit his website.
On Harris County Commissioners Court, Judge Emmett has been the best stability they had and continues along with our other Republican Commissioners to produce an economic gain for The City, County and State of Texas. He is the most knowledgeable Judge (Commissioner) for running the county in keel with transportation being a mainstream focus for businesses, shipping transportation, trucking transportation on our freeways and the infrastructures where business and families all working together coming and going in a safe manor as much as possible.
Families (bread winners) traveling the roads each day depends on a person like Judge Emmett and the other Commissioners of our great Harris County to make transportation feasible in saving time and their safety.
I highly recommend all of Harris County to set politics aside and vote for the best County Judge we presently have because there is none other with such high qualifications, smoothness, and openness that the Democrats also loves and agrees with and is willing to trust and work with.
Folks, I am not “brown nosing” it for him or anyone else, but if you know me well I do speak my mind and the truth you can count on from my lips, when I give my support you can take it to the bank and deposit it, the person (s) I seldom will support he is one of the few I thoroughly stand behind. El tiene mi apoyo mill veces. Dale su voto para que el comercio sigue adelantando y progresando en el Estado de Texas y el condado de Harris County.
What a shame. He had Houston pay for a vote on the Astrodome, twice, and promptly ignored the outcome, twice. He is part of a group that can put on a Gay Pride parade, but not a Veterans Day parade. He started in the 1980’s as a Republican, and has simply become a RINO.
What a shame that you have your facts so incredibly mixed up! First, Emmett is the COUNTY judge (and an extremely good one at that). That means he has nothing whatsoever to do with the city’s gay pride parades. It also means he has nothing whatsoever to do with the city’s decision not to have a Veteran’s Day parade (and in fact, Emmett participated in the Tomball parade). There were not two elections on the Astrodome, there was one – and it was a bond issue that failed. And it was not ignored; no bonds were ever issued for the plan. And Emmett started out as a Republican in the 1970s, even holding political office that decade. So, of your five stated “facts,” precisely zero are true. Talk about your “fake news”!