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Garcia was elected to the Harris Country Commissioners Court in the November 6, 2018 general election. He took office as the Precinct 2 Commissioner on January 1, 2019. [42] Garcia ran for re-election against Republican Jack Morman (the former Precinct 2 commissioner) in the 2022 election.
After the death of Harris County Commissioner El Franco Lee in January 2016, Ellis announced that he would be seeking the Precinct 1 seat on Harris County Commissioners Court. [73] On June 25, 2016, Ellis secured the Democratic nomination for the seat and was unopposed on the ballot in November. [4]
The governing body of each of Texas 254 counties is the commissioners court. In Texas, the court has five members: the county judge and four commissioners. A sixth official, the county clerk, is an ex officio member of the court. In most instances, a simple majority of court members is sufficient to take action. Three voting members of the ...
In 1984, as a result of his flood control efforts while county commissioner, Tom Bass Regional Park was dedicated in his name. He left the Commissioner's Court in 1985 and helped in the successful adoption of the first 9-1-1 District in Texas; in 2008, the Greater Harris County 9-1-1 building was opened and named the Tom Bass Building in his honor.
Garcia was elected to the Harris County Commissioner's Court in 2002. She was the first woman and first Latina elected to that post in her own right. [6] Her precinct featured a major base of operations for NASA, the nation's largest petrochemical complex, the Houston Ship Channel and the Port of Houston, the sixth largest port in the world. [9]
Paxton wrote Monday night to the Harris County Commissioner’s Court, referring to the 2020 case, “I sued you and won.” And although that case was about voting by mail, not registration ...
Critics have cast the laws as a power grab by Texas’ Republican-led legislature, aimed at disrupting how elections are run in an increasingly blue part of a traditionally red state.
Harris County as a whole is more of a swing area, as the longtime GOP majority in Commissioner's Court ended in 2018. Republican challenger Alexandra del Moral Mealer nearly defeated incumbent Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo in November 2022, losing by 1 percentage point as GOP Commissioner Jack Cagle lost re-election to Democrat Lesley ...