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Harris County DA Race: Mike Anderson snatches hypocrisy crown back!

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Heh, sometimes, you just gotta shake your head. No, really. I mean, Mike, I was KIDDING, okay! When I said that Gary Polland had snatched the hypocrisy crown from you, I didn’t mean it as a challenge to get it back! C’mon, dude, take a joke already. You win! There’s no way (at least I don’t think there is a way) that you can top your current mailer for sheer, unadulterated hypocrisy!

Why, asks the unsuspecting public? Well, forget everything else and think about this guy for a minute:

Someone's looking over Dr. Steven Hotze's Shoulder

That would be Steven Hotze, who has a PAC called Conservative Republicans of Harris County. You can view their campaign finance reports here if you want. On 2/29/12, Friends of Mike Anderson gave this PAC $15,000 but I’m sure that was not for this mailer, that was most like for “other stuff” – endorsements, advertising, whatever, I’m not sure. This mailer cost far more than $15k to put in my mailbox. But what does a mailer have to do with hypocrisy. Well, remember that fella’s mugshot above, okay? Now, take a look at the mailer – what is the subject?

Hotze Anderson DWI Mailer with Extras

Mmm, hmm, you got it. The good doctor is sending out a keg full of mailers telling us that Mike is the guy to fight DWI. Interesting, no? Yes, very. Especially since Mr. Hotze’s case went “poof” and disappeared without a trace. Well, except for a few news stories at the time, which had the mug shot. Such as this one from the Houston Press on 12/7/2000, which contains a very, very interesting detail:

Considering that Hotze was an early, ardent backer of District Attorney-elect Chuck Rosenthal, and Blakemore was the candidate’s consultant, the case should provide a good test of the impartiality of justice under the new order.

A good test of the impartiality of justice under the good ol’ boy, Chuck Rosenthal. Now that right there is funny no matter who you are! Let’s see, how did that justice work out?

Drunken driving charges against Republican political activist Steven Hotze have been dismissed….

Hotze refused to take a breath test to measure his blood-alcohol level….

most of the case against Hotze is based on testimony from Adams, the arresting officer

Turns out that the arresting officer was under indictment along with a wrecker driver for some paperwork and the state, under the guiding hand of Chuck Rosenthal, decided not to pursue charges because Hotze’s lawyer would attack the officer.

So who better to tell us that Mike is the go to guy for DWI prosecution, right?

Well, wrong. How about we go and ask a fella named Hugh Graham Foreman III, okay? You probably recognize the name because Mike Anderson says that he idolized Percy Foreman as a youngster. Turns out that the grand-nephew of Mr. Foreman has a problem that no one seems to want to address. Instead, they keep coddling this now 31 year old along. Connections? You tell me, I’m just showing you the record.

List of charges

Obviously, this young man has excellent counsel given the “punishment” list – one of his attorney’s was Paul Nugent and his current attorney is Mike Degeurin. These guys used to work together at Foreman, Degeurin, and Nugent, now it is just Foreman, Degeurin, and Degeurin. If you look at the domain name, you will see that it still says ForemanDegeurinNugent.com. The Foreman in both cases being the aforementioned Percy Foreman. Nothing wrong with having connected attorneys. And I don’t care about the attorneys, just putting them in for context.

The key is that case above, #1196351 that was dismissed and refiled as case # 1242980.

This is where former Judge Mike Anderson comes in.

Now, to get the full context of hypocrisy from Mike Anderson, you have to remember the mailer above (and who sent it) and his campaign rhetoric scoffing at “Patsy” for not throwing the book at DWI offenders like he would and how that could affect someone down the road. Mike Anderson, would, if elected, throw the book at DWI offenders because he is tough, by golly big jolly. He is tough!

Oh yeah? Take a look at this order from Judge Mike Anderson:

See that? Book? Hardly. What JUDGE MIKE ANDERSON did to this multiple DWI offender was to reduce the charges against him from a Felony to a Misdemeanor, sentence him to a year in the Harris County Jail, and the SUSPEND THE SENTENCE, LETTING THIS MULTIPLE DWI OFFENDER WALK OUT OF JAIL. He then violated his probation but because of Judge Anderson’s reduction of the charges, the only thing Judge Denise Bradley could do last week is sentence him to jail with credit for time served, 161 days, and now this man is free again.

Hypocrisy? Thy name is Mike Anderson. I crown the king:

Mike Anderson, King of Hypocrisy

Folks, there is no such thing as the “good old days” at the HCDAO. There is only the “good ol’ boys days” and lord help us all if the voters of Harris County can’t see through this bull crap.

Justice for the connected few, the rest of us imbeciles need not apply.

I’m voting for Pat Lykos and I urge you to do the same. Tell your family, friends, and neighbors – their lives may well depend on it.

Harris County Republican Primary Endorsement Comparison

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Just for grins and giggles, I decided to put a few of the endorsement lists popular in the Republican primary in a matrix to compare them. Well, that and it will be useful to measure their effectiveness after the election, as I did before. Will Terry Lowry and the Link Letter keep the crown for highest winning percentage? In addition to the pay to play’rs, I added in my actual votes, Rhymes with Right’s recommendations since we have the same ballot, and the Kingwood Tea Party’s recommendations.

Harris County Primary Endorsement Comparison

Not much surprising but definitely some. My little buddy, Mr. Lowry, did not endorse anyone in my state house district, 129, which is interesting because John Davis is a longtime customer of his. I’m grateful that John didn’t give any money to Lowry this go round because the Link Letter is particularly offensive this year. And the fact that Lowry didn’t “endorse” anyone in the Party Chair race is intriguing, especially since both guys wasted money putting this rag in my mailbox and Jared is a long time partaker of Lowry’s services.

About the only interesting thing in Polland’s column is that he didn’t endorse anyone in the 337th Criminal District Court. I mean, you could hate Renee Magee for some reason and still know that Jim Barr is a joke of a candidate. What’s up with Rhymes with Right supporting that guy? Strange.

I didn’t note anything unusual in Hotze’s column but I do have a story. I was talking to Mike Jackson a last week and he told me that he didn’t have enough money to pay Hotze this year and Hotze told him that he was going to put his name on there anyway. Hey, something to be said for taking care of your regular customers. But seriously, I think Hotze often does that – his rag is the most legitimate of the three in that respect.

Let’s go back to the Link Letter for a bit. I’d like to slap every single candidate upside the head that paid Lowry this year. He’s taken despicable to a new level on the whole – Polland still wins on the individual point with his tirade against Kristin Guiney – but the Link Letter this year is a hate filled rag that puts all Republicans in a negative light. While I was working on the matrix I received an email from a long time reader asking me to call him. He wanted to know if there was any law that he could use to keep Lowry from sending this junk to his home. Imagine someone getting ticked off enough to do that. This issue of the Link Letter will do that. Let’s walk through it.

Open It up and page 1 has Franklin Graham whining about political correctness and comparing himself to the Apostle Paul. Turn the page and you have a page and a half of mocking poor people. Why, 99.6{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986} of po folks have refrigerators, don’t you know! This happens to be an abridged version of a report on Heritage.org. Why make fun of people that happen to be poor? Oh, so that we as Republicans can look down on them and say that they don’t need any help, that’s why. Continuing on, we learn that the contraception debate was really about conscience. Well, no, it wasn’t, or at least it shouldn’t have been. Don’t get sucked into that – the argument should have been that the government shouldn’t be telling private businesses what products to sell (or in this case give away). But no, we fell into the trap that Axelrod presented to us. Next up we have a warning about “after-birth abortions” in a terribly written piece.

My second favorite is next (hey, we made it to page 6!). Lily white, suburb living, elderly Terry Lowry includes a piece by Bill Cosby in which Mr. Cosby laments the state of the black family and community. Fine, we all know they have troubles. But honestly, what purpose does this serve in an election “journal” that is sent to 99.99{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986} elderly, suburban, white folk? Complete with a picture of a “tough” looking black kid holding a handgun. And we wonder why Democrats say we are racist?

We go from there to Phyllis Schlafly whining about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Darlin’, she’s been on the court for almost 20 years. Get over it.

I’ll pass on commenting on the next page, which has Sen. Patrick bloviating. Page 9 brings us some more whining from a Professor of Political Science at Grove City College (you know, the Harvard of Grove City, Pennsylvania?). “Dr.” Paul Kengor has decided that only Democrats use churches as political tools. Dude has never been to Lakewood, I suppose, where the flag hangs high and the cross hangs hidden.

Pages 10 and 11 are actually about the election! But pages 12 and 13 remind us that we have become a dependency nation under President Obama.  Interesting use of colors in a graph – everyone before Obama gets a green bar, Obama gets a red one even though all of the bars represent the same data type, direct payments to individuals as a share of GDP. Classic.

Pages 14 and 15 remind us that the French are wimps and that we saved their country in WWII but if we remind them about that, you can hear a pin drop. Don’t worry, I’m almost done.

Page 16 tops the list, especially since we are Republicans and we are going to unite behind Mitt Romney in our efforts to oust President Obama. Right? Aren’t we?

Well, I guess us men folk are because guess what? Why would any woman vote for a Mormon? Huh? Hmm? Why? Why, why, why? You see, women folk can only get to the highest level of heaven if their man calls them by their special name. Otherwise, they end up in one of two lower heavens for the not so good.

ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME? THIS IS WHAT PASSES FOR AN ELECTION NEWSLETTER?

Like I said, I’d like to slap every single one of the candidates that gave this jerk money to put this crap in my mailbox. That includes you , David Dewhurst. You Pat Lykos (see update below). You Mike Anderson. You Dan Patrick. You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you!

Unfreaking believable.

UPDATE: I made an error – this is what happens when I see the Link Letter, I get mad and make mistakes. Pat Lykos DID NOT have an ad in the Link Letter this year. I had Gary Polland’s booklet out and it was open to her page on my desk and I saw it and added her to the list. My mistake but it is one that I am most happy to correct.