By Nikki Courtney
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo wants to be in office for one more term.
She tells Houston Chronicle a lot of things she wanted to get passed ended up being delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Hidalgo says mental health and early childhood education are the major things she wants done along with making sure those who work in oil and gas don t get left behind as the economy changes.
She did not say if she d seek higher office.
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Fort Bend Co. no longer considering joining Greater Houston Partnership, county judge says KTRK
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Not even a full 24 hours after the Greater Houston Partnership was cut from its involvement in state of the city and state of the county events in Houston and Harris County, respectively, the leading political executive in neighboring Fort Bend County said it will no longer consider joining GHP, citing the organization s silence over Texas voting reform bills.
In a statement Thursday, County Judge KP George threw his support behind his colleagues, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, in their opposition to Senate Bill 7 and House Bill 6.
In the wee hours of Friday morning, the Texas House of Representatives voted to pass a slate of election reforms Republicans argue would secure “election integrity” but that Democrats and other critics call voter suppression.
The vote put Texas one step closer to joining other Republican-led states Georgia, Iowa and Florida that passed laws to add new restrictions to the voting process following repeated claims from former President Donald Trump and Republicans across the country that Trump lost his reelection race due to alleged voter fraud, even though no evidence of fraud at that scale has come to light.
The bill passed with a 81-64 vote just after 3 a.m Friday was an amalgamation of sorts of two separate Republican-authored measures: Senate Bill 7, which was passed by the state Senate in April, and House Bill 6, the other chamber’s companion bill written by Deer Park Republican state Rep. Briscoe Cain.
Fort Bend County Judge KP George spent this past week aligning himself with his Democratic allies Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner in their public battle with the Greater Houston Partnership over proposed changes to state voting laws, and lambasting his colleagues on the Fort Bend County Commissioners Court for allocating millions in federal coronavirus relief funds without any public input.
On Thursday, George threw his support behind Turner and Hidalgo for their decision to pull out of their annual State of the City and County speeches before the Greater Houston Partnership due to the business group’s failure to speak out against a pair of controversial voting bills up for debate in the state legislature.