When Jack Morman ran for Harris County Commissioner of Precinct 2 in 2010, I had never heard of him. And I’ll bet almost all Republicans had never heard of him either. Morman was an attorney who had never held any public office before. He easily won the Republican primary but no one really believed that longtime Democratic Commissioner Sylvia Garcia could be unseated. After all, Garcia represented the east side of the county which has a large Mexican-American population.
As it turned out, Morman was swept into office by a red wave. Since then, Harris County has been inundated by a blue wave and the waters have not receded. With such a large Mexican-American population, Morman is in for the fight of his life. His opponent’s last name is Garcia.
For years, I have been a volunteer with the facilities crew at the Armand Bayou Nature Center. Sylvia Garcia did little to help maintain the nature center’s facilities. In contrast, not long after he took office, Jack Morman had his precinct workers help look after the ABNC facilities and they are still doing so to date.
My only beef with Morman is that he supported the restoration of that rusting Astrodome, which in my opinion should have been razed to the ground years ago. Other than that, he has done an outstanding job as Commissioner of Precinct 2.
I’m afraid the Mexican-American community will vote for Adrian Garcia just because he is one of their own, not because he is deserving of the office. And then there is the straight-party option which swept Morman into office, but which now would favor the Democrats.
Morman has served all of the residents in Precinct 2, not just Republicans, but Democrats, whites, blacks, Latinos and Asians as well. Whether you’re a Democrat, Republican or Mexican-American, Jack Morman deserves to retain his seat as County Commissioner.
So, I urge all of you who reside in Precinct 2, to please get out and cast your vote for Jack Morman. And I urge you Republicans to also collar your Democratic and Mexican-American friends and ask them to vote for Morman too.
So Howie, do white guys vote for one of their own too over a person who has earned the seat? Brother you are not the sharpest tool in the box.
I never claimed to be the sharpest tool in the box. Of course, white guys will vote for one of their own and blacks will vote for one of their own as well. We are a nation of racists. I’m one and I’ll bet you are too.
It would be nice if he spent more time on the job instead of campaigning. Thought I haven’t actually seen him campaign. I am on the HOA board in our neighborhood in his district and I contacted his office to get some answers on how the flood debt bond was going to affect our area specifically to certain projects and I can’t even get a canned email response much less a phone call. Luckily for him Garcia is completely incompetent in running a campaign.
Sounds like you’re either a disgruntled employee or Democrat, or both. If you think that’s bad, wait until Garcia takes over. With that perpetual candidate’s track record, matters will get even worse.
I flooded twice in Highlands ,Precinct 2 came out and said they could not enlarge the culverts under the road. There reason was it might flood somebody down stream. When they built the new Highlands Elementary School they took out the round pipes and put in huge box culverts double strung. Nobody has flooded downstream since Flood Control enlarged the ditch downstream and put in the diversion channel. These pipe have been under the road for 60 years, when there were just a few houses on the street. There is a 3 foot difference on water levels on the north and south side of the street. A lot of water comes from E. Canal as there few on the south side of the road.