The top two elected officials in the Houston area on Wednesday expressed rare public criticism of the region’s largest chamber of commerce and canceled plans to hold high profile speeches before the group, citing its silence on GOP efforts to restrict voting access in Texas.
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Houston mayor, Harris County judge discuss voting bills
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner discuss voting bills and their decision to not partner with the Greater Houston Partnership for their State of the City and State of the County addresses.
HOUSTON - Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo will forego their annual State of the City and State of the County addresses with the Greater Houston Partnership, which has not taken a formal position on voting bills in Texas. This voting rights fight in Texas is the civil rights fight of our time. We simply cannot tacitly endorse GHP s refusal to even consider speaking out on this issue, Judge Hidalgo wrote on Facebook.
After weeks of pressuring the Greater Houston Partnership to get off the sidelines and speak out against controversial state voting bills, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner announced Wednesday that they were fed-up with the organization’s silence and officially cancelled their annual State of the City and County speeches, which typically headline high-dollar fundraising luncheons for the group.
The decision to publicly snub the Greater Houston Partnership signals the extent of Hidalgo and Turner’s fury toward the city’s most powerful business organization over its failure to publicly oppose House Bill 6 and Senate Bill 7, two Republican-backed bills that Democrats argue would suppress the vote of minorities, the disabled and residents of major cities like Houston.
Judge Lina Hidalgo wins national award from prominent Democratic fundraising group
EMILY s List named Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo as its 2021 “EMILY’s List Gabrielle Giffords Rising Star Award” winner. Author: ABBY LIVINGSTON (The Texas Tribune) Published: 9:25 AM CDT May 4, 2021 Updated: 9:25 AM CDT May 4, 2021
AUSTIN, Texas (The Texas Tribune) Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo on Tuesday received a national boost from a prominent Democratic women’s group.
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EMILY’s List, the influential group that works to elect Democratic women who support abortion rights, named Hidalgo as its 2021 “EMILY’s List Gabrielle Giffords Rising Star Award” winner, a designation that brings with it exposure to national donors and other powerful Democratic constituencies.