David Ortez

Hot off the presses folks is this mailer from former Houston Mayoral Candidate Roy Morales. In fact, it is soo hot, the ink got on my fingers.

Click on the images to view the mailer in its entirety. Unfortunately, my scanner is not large enough for the mail piece which I will speculate is 11×17. I had to Photoshop paste this together so that you could view it as a whole.

Surprisingly, Gene Locke did not respond to Morales requests and by default it seems that Annise Parker kind of won the endorsement. Actually, consider it more of a non-endorsement endorsement.

Everyone knows who David “Dave” Wilson is by now, right? In case you forgot … he is the “anti-gay” activist that caused a stir yesterday when he declared war on Annise Parker.

Well, I did some investigated on this “community organizer” that is hell-bent on defeating Parker. Apparently, he has already decided who he will vote for in December.

Longtime anti-black activist Dave Wilson, who once led a successful effort to amend the city charter to deny benefits to black city employees, said he has sent out 35,000 fliers opposing the mayoral candidacy of Gene Locke in part because of his race.

The front of the flier has a 2004 photo of Locke being sworn into office as city controller while his wife looks on, accompanied by the headline: “Is this the image Houston wants to portray?” On the back is written, “Just because Gene Locke is black doesn’t make him qualified to be mayor of Houston.”

Wilson also challenges Locke’s record as controller, saying he failed to alert the city to a $1.5 billion operational deficit.

Locke’s campaign manager said, “In terms of the only real issue facing the city the flier addresses, that claim has already been met with a blunt rebuttal by Mayor Bill White.”

Anyone can ask Council Member Peter Brown, who has endorsed Annise Parker for Mayor of Houston, what he thinks of poll numbers. They can be deceiving!

Days before the election would turn sour for Brown … the Houston Chronicle reported that a Zogby poll had Brown in the lead. We all know how that turned out and well the rest is history.

I have to give Lake Research Partners credit though … they were correct in predicting the last time around that Parker was in the lead with 27 percent … she ended up with 30 percent.

LRP was off on the second place candidate by aaalllooottt! Brown was to head to a run off with 21 percent and Locke was in third with 17 percent. Election night actually gave Locke 26 percent while Brown stumbled into third with 22 percent.

This weekend I enjoyed watching the Houston Dynamo defeat the Seattle Sounders 1-0 as they advanced to the MLS Western Conference finals. The game was great and all 120 minutes of it were exciting to say the least.

As I was walking around Robertson Stadium to enter in a gate that was not packed with people I noticed a Gene Locke staff member. Although she blended in real well with the crowd (she was wearing an orange Gene Locke shirt) I was able to spot her and say hi. I inquired why she was at the stadium and she quickly replied that she was spreading the word that Gene Locke supports the Soccer stadium. Cool … I said and I moved along because by this time I had already missed like 10 minutes of the game.

Charles Kuffner posed six question for the upcoming December Runoff Election here in Houston. I decided to take a stab at them for today’s post.

1. What will Peter do?

Peter Brown will make an endorsement. He will endorse Annise Parker but will that result in more votes for Parker … that I am not sure. I do not expect Peter Brown to get too heavily invested in the Annise Parker campaign other than the televised press conference in which he touts her service and leadership. Peter Brown will then quietly depart the political scene until the election is over. Ideology wise, he and Parker are closer in line than he is with Gene Locke.