Exactly. If you have supporters dumb enough to pay for your vacations via donations, more power to you. Your vacations should not be paid for with funds you stole from the people via tax increases.Gaeilge said:
I don't care if they use campaign funds. Use of county funds is the problem with this twerp
Gaeilge said:
I don't care if they use campaign funds. Use of county funds is the problem with this twerp
Fair. But the issue is still the use of county funds. Period. There is nothing to gain by that twerp going to France. She isn't a diplomat for Harris to bring business here. That's what we have Abbott for. She needs to worry about county issues that she's been ignoring.AlaskanAg99 said:Gaeilge said:
I don't care if they use campaign funds. Use of county funds is the problem with this twerp
The issue is the Office of Budget and Management doesn't have a policy for international travel and Lina is trying to force a change. Else, I'm guessing, her 4 staffers cannot go and be paid by the campaign because they are county workers, not campaign staff.
This is the underlying issue of what is happening.
Gaeilge said:Fair. But the issue is still the use of county funds. Period. There is nothing to gain by that twerp going to France. She isn't a diplomat for Harris to bring business here. That's what we have Abbott for. She needs to worry about county issues that she's been ignoring.AlaskanAg99 said:Gaeilge said:
I don't care if they use campaign funds. Use of county funds is the problem with this twerp
The issue is the Office of Budget and Management doesn't have a policy for international travel and Lina is trying to force a change. Else, I'm guessing, her 4 staffers cannot go and be paid by the campaign because they are county workers, not campaign staff.
This is the underlying issue of what is happening.
"Junkets" for politicians are usually paid for by somebody else and get disclosed on ethics forms and recorded as campaign contributions. Vacations paid for by tax money are called "wasteful abuse" or "corruption".AlaskanAg99 said:Gaeilge said:Fair. But the issue is still the use of county funds. Period. There is nothing to gain by that twerp going to France. She isn't a diplomat for Harris to bring business here. That's what we have Abbott for. She needs to worry about county issues that she's been ignoring.AlaskanAg99 said:Gaeilge said:
I don't care if they use campaign funds. Use of county funds is the problem with this twerp
The issue is the Office of Budget and Management doesn't have a policy for international travel and Lina is trying to force a change. Else, I'm guessing, her 4 staffers cannot go and be paid by the campaign because they are county workers, not campaign staff.
This is the underlying issue of what is happening.
I'm not arguing with you. I'm explaining why she's trying to do this. The vote failed 2 weeks ago and it'll be interesting to see what happens today. She's pissing off her fellow dems and theres a fair chance they will not side with her.
I also agree local officials shouldn't have a need to travel internationally. Then again, that's why they're called junkets.
Gaeilge said:
Gotcha. Can't believe we're going to end up voting for Annise Parker to get rid of Dora.
Is this the first time she's mentioned being SA or has she brought it up in the past? Don't see how her staff going to France will help with that 'trauma'.Furlock Bones said:
she just randomly brought up being sexually assaulted as a child.
no idea. she was rambling on and on about cuts to all kinds of services but of course we need law enforcement i wish there had been more law enforcement when i was sexually assaulted as a child yada yada.Gaeilge said:Is this the first time she's mentioned being SA or has she brought it up in the past? Don't see how her staff going to France will help with that 'trauma'.Furlock Bones said:
she just randomly brought up being sexually assaulted as a child.
WTF.Furlock Bones said:
she just randomly brought up being sexually assaulted as a child.
Imagine the money we'd save with Parker!! No one is going to try to grope that *****!Jugstore Cowboy said:WTF.Furlock Bones said:
she just randomly brought up being sexually assaulted as a child.
We also pay for her to have private security because of an unnamed threat to her, which supposedly had to do with someone trying to grope her or something - at commissioners court.
She has a serious complex.
Prime example of why liberal Millennials cannot be allowed into positions of power and authority.Sea Speed said:Furlock Bones said:
she is absolutely brutal to listen to.
TarponChaser said:Prime example of why liberal Millennials cannot be allowed into positions of power and authority.Sea Speed said:Furlock Bones said:
she is absolutely brutal to listen to.
Hope she bought refundable tickets for her entourage.Furlock Bones said:
she stormed out because she wanted to create another useless committee. none of the other commissioners wanted to discuss it farther. she left. they voted. it failed.
Furlock Bones said:
she stormed out because she wanted to create another useless committee. none of the other commissioners wanted to discuss it farther. she left. they voted. it failed.
Her routine of storming out of publicly televised meetings when she doesn't get what she wants is incredibly unprofessional and ought to be disqualifying for her to continue on in the job. But Harris County voters will go back to the polls again and pull the straight D ticket next time without fail.AlaskanAg99 said:Furlock Bones said:
she stormed out because she wanted to create another useless committee. none of the other commissioners wanted to discuss it farther. she left. they voted. it failed.
My sound was low and I missed that. They shelved item 16 until she collects herself.
txags92 said:Her routine of storming out of publicly televised meetings when she doesn't get what she wants is incredibly unprofessional and ought to be disqualifying for her to continue on in the job. But Harris County voters will go back to the polls again and pull the straight D ticket next time without fail.AlaskanAg99 said:Furlock Bones said:
she stormed out because she wanted to create another useless committee. none of the other commissioners wanted to discuss it farther. she left. they voted. it failed.
My sound was low and I missed that. They shelved item 16 until she collects herself.
Dolcefino will. But he doesn't have a platform. Michael Berry will take a crack at her, but a lot of people think he is nuts.Mega Lops said:
It's nuts the local press doesn't grill her ass until it sticks to the GD grate for this type of childish temper tantrums.
Ok so the press is what it is, but still this is fresh meat! Insane to not flay her.
Part of discussion this morning is County Judge Hidalgo’s request that commissioners not take any votes while she is at her group therapy session from 3 to 4:30 today.
— Holly Hansen (@hollyshansen) May 22, 2025
Furlock Bones said:Part of discussion this morning is County Judge Hidalgo’s request that commissioners not take any votes while she is at her group therapy session from 3 to 4:30 today.
— Holly Hansen (@hollyshansen) May 22, 2025
Hidalgo motions as “committee determines how to cut $270 million from our budget for the next fiscal year, that it protect general funds already allocated to homelessness, affordable housing, early childhood public health, mental health, flood control & emergency management.”
— Holly Hansen (@hollyshansen) May 22, 2025
I just don't understand why the rest of the Harris County Democratic establishment puts up with her. They have a near lock on the local elections by now, so they can run anybody they want and expect to win. I guess she is dumb and gullible and probably easy to manipulate, but antics like this make her a laughing stock nationally, and by extension reflect badly on the rest of the dems around her that continue to put up with it. I am really pretty shocked that they haven't brought out the long knives and left her gutted on the roadside (politically speaking) long before now.AlaskanAg99 said:
This can't be real.