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One might see a comment at the top of the Stace Slate and even an asterisk. Some will wonder, why this person and not the other. I’ll stick to some of the more obvious one but here goes:

Joe Biden for President. I really do mean he’s all we got. One can go down the line of administration accomplishments and can be easily impressed. I’m not one of those voters since I see it as doing the job one is elected to do, but I am one that expects work to be done on what actually got voters excited to help him win in 2020. So, his big failure is really big and the cause of all of his problems at the moment.

Immigration reform has been a total failure. Blame republinuts all you want, but we had two years of majority representation and couldn’t even get something as simple as codifying DACA or a DREAM Act. When he had the opportunity to include Dreamers in his recent border negotiations, he ignored them. Instead, he sold out the issue to try to gain genocide and war money that only enriches weapons manufacturers, defense companies, and land grabbers in exchange for policies republinuts love. He did exactly what republinuts wanted: Sell out a big part of his base in a very public manner over one issue that divides the Party and another issue that continually goes ignored. If Obama finally caved to sign DACA, then Biden should have taken care of many of these issues with a signature and an order to Mayorkas, including a complete re-do of border-related law enforcement agencies, since he runs them. GOP lawsuits be damned!

And a CEASEFIRE would be nice, too. VP Harris seems to agree.

Still, he’s all we got. But I do remind Dems that with all the talk of saving democracies, Democratic voters weren’t allowed a debate or viable candidates against President Biden. So, we must save the nation from Trump and his evil supporters again in November. These are tiring legislative battles and Biden didn’t help them with his decisions to ignore and sell out on immigration reform. Yes, he’s all we got and Democrats better be selling the accomplishments a lot more than Trump fear. Trump doesn’t need double the free advertising from Dem activists who repeat everything Trump says, and Dems need to prove themselves worthy of votes, beyond being “not Trump.”

Roland Gutierrez for Senate is the good candidate in the bunch. He has served his district well and continues to fight against right-wing interests who are destroying the state. For all the fancy ads and speeches, Colin Allred is one that doesn’t give me the warm and fuzzies. Allred has fundraising ability, sure, but to what end? Lately, it’s the money that has been selling out entire communities and encouraging more war and bad policies. I prefer the more organic candidate who isn’t hand-picked by the most disconnected (from the people) members of our Party.

I put an asterisk on Lizzie Fletcher because the demographics of this district have changed to highly progressive, but her centrist attitudes have not. As someone who was plucked out of Congressman Al Green’s district and placed in this very diverse CD7, I’m not happy and feel ignored on issues that require a fight, rather than some middle of the road thinking that always gets us nowhere. She has failed to realize that she is no longer in a 52-48 split district, but in a district in which one’s voice can carry in DC on more than one issue.

Her continued defense of the killing of innocent Palestinians is bothersome. The killing of 30,000 Palestinians (including thousands of children) because of 200 hostages and 1100 dead is not a proportional response in any American way of military thinking and goes way beyond a nation simply “defending itself.” If the US doesn’t act like this when at war, why are we paying for others to do it? Supporting this continued attack against a defenseless people is just plain wrong and Fletcher should state as much.

So, Lizzie gets an asterisk and a final decision at the voting machine that forced me to skip the race. I do know Pervez Agwan’s people have knocked on my apartment door twice. He’s putting in the work and his stance on the vast majority of issues makes me feel represented. His legal issues (no matter who brought them up), though, deflated any progress he made in convincing people that the district belongs to the people and not to well-funded PACs. Fletcher has done what is required of the job, but I just feel too strongly about genocidal behavior and land grabs that she continually defends.

Also, has anyone in the local Latinorati that gets invited to all of the fancy events reminded her that there are plenty of Latinas that could have been mentioned in her Women’s History Month post?

Several Democratic judges are being threatened with defeat by unknown challengers. The challengers haven’t provided any reason to get rid of them other than what is said by whiny lawyer polls and an even whinier Chron board. (Reminder: The Chron continually endorses Greg Abbott and the idiots who have run against Judge Lina Hidalgo. They get no respect from this blogger.) In one race that truly interests me, the local fish wrap’s endorsement of Judge Julia Maldonado‘s opponent was a diatribe against the incumbent for hurting the feelings of lawyers, according to a lawyer poll, which serves as an internal beauty pageant most of the time. The other judges on my radar, RK Sandill, Mike Engelhart, Robert Schaffer. Ursula Hall, Cheryl Elliot Thornton, and Kyle Carter have earned another term.

Sean Teare is the choice for District Attorney. If you want to know reasons why the incumbent Ogg is not the choice, there’s a website to explain it for you. Targeting Dems like Judge Lina Hidalgo, while paying republican lawyers to investigate her are among the worst of her activities. Recently, two more dirty cops were released by Ogg into the wild after the severe beating of an innocent man. Ogg released the killer cop who helped her husband choke John Hernandez to death at a Dennys, too, and she is still licensed to be a cop. Ogg’s reasons? Because she didn’t think she could win. Yet, she prosecuted a kid two times before she found a jury to go her way on the third.

Sean Teare supports misdemeanor bail reform, doesn’t take money from bail bond crooks, and truly wants to reform the system to ensure those who need to be in jail stay in jail and those who are being railroaded by a broken system have options. We need a DA who will work hand-in-hand with the other elected leaders to ensure justice is served for all. Enough with Ogg’s vendettas!

Bottom line: Democrats need to vote for those who will not only serve well in office but fight for the entire ballot on through November. Frankly, newby judicial challengers who win a primary have a history of just laying low until they are carried into office by the other candidates and ground activists who work for every vote. Beware!

In other news:

A map of Democratic turnout in Texas (from Michael Li) shows a big section of South Texas participating in the 20+%s thanks to some heated DA, State Rep, and local races. This may bode well for Senate candidate Roland Gutierrez, at least to keep things competitive. Most of the state is in the single digits after early voting. Kudos to South Texas for keeping the state competitive among Dems!