Essay: Lina Hidalgo puts principle over politics at her own peril
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Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
It was about a week before Christmas and 29-year-old Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo was on the phone talking turkey.
There were holiday giveaways going on all over town, a community leader on the line said. He wanted to know: would the county organize one in his neighborhood?
Hidalgo was sorry, she told him, but she couldn’t justify using her staff’s time, pulling them from their work on next year’s budget, to do a giveaway. Instead, she detailed what the county was doing to distribute congressional stimulus dollars to curtail food insecurity.