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Grayling813 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2023 4:06 pm

philip964 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2023 3:00 pm https://news.yahoo.com/judge-lina-hidal ... 35874.html

Lina Hildago bashes fellow Dem DA Kim Ogg.

Rough when your chief of staff is going to roll on you for bid rigging. 10 mil dollar contract to a non medical one person business over UTMB Health Center for a county Covid contract.

Just found out City of Houston paid 8 million dollars to a politically connected supposed landscape firm to not mow vacant land.

Judge Hidalgo insists she's the victim here.

Who would have guessed the progressive mantra of victimhood was coming? There's no way I'm watching her press conference to see if she also played the racist card.

Maybe she'll have another "mental health event" and stop performing her elected duties again for several weeks to dodge the media. I can't believe I'm saying "good job" to anything about Kim Ogg, but the whole Hidalgo mess smells like leftover fish that a young, corrupt politico left sitting out on the kitchen counter for a few days.

BTW, I'm willing to not mow any amount acreage for a very reasonable fee. I'll not do it for far less than $8 million. Just give me a call.

gregthehand wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2023 7:35 am She went out of state for treatment. Do you think her county insurance is going to pay for that? My guess is that she's about to get indicted and is seeking treatment somewhere that will throw up road blocks to her extradition. They'll make a big show out of it.

Now that you mention it, I wouldn't discount the possibility.

But I do feel sorry for her. I'd be depressed, too, if I were Lina Hidalgo.

philip964 wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 12:15 pm https://www.click2houston.com/news/loca ... ng-orders/

Harris County wants citizens to snitch on businesses.

And...the link in the KPRC article is incorrect. No surprise; it's from KPRC "news."

Those wanting to rat-out their local businesses need to use Lina Hidalgo's top-of-the-line technology (otherwise known as the commercial website JotForm): https://form.jotform.com/201244433797154. The submission form is anonymous; no need to ever fess-up that you're the snitch trying to cause your local business extra trouble in the form of a $1,000 fine and potential jail time. The county will never try to contact you about the 28 different complaints you gleefully enter. My bet is that I could use a VPN to come in from an IP address in Germany and still be able to post a complaint.

The site says that if you have any questions, you can email stayathome@cjo.hctx.net. (Interestingly, there is no website at hctx.net and the .gov top level domain name is the one reserved for official governmental entities...as in harriscountytx.gov and houstontx.gov).

Yeah. This is a great idea. My bet is that Lina Hildago's SnitchLine will be busy, and that over half the reports will be due to simple malice, not public safety. They'll be a neighborhood clutch that has a standing beef with the nail salon down the street, or people who have it in for the neighborhood bar and wants to put it out of business.

Way to go, Hidalgo! Good job! Let's see if we can't find a way to get neighbors to turn on neighbors during this time where we're facing the most dire economic situation since the Great Depression.

KTRK News wrote: Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo signed a new stay-at-home order Saturday, just two days after the statewide stay-at-home order expired Thursday April 30. Hidalgo announced that non-essential Harris County businesses and others that were not reopened by Gov. Greg Abbott's order are to remain closed through May 20.

https://abc13.com/business/harris-co-ju ... r/6145227/

Dora the Explorer can't override the Governor's direct orders, but she can still look to control everybody else in Harris County.

Terryr21 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 10:32 am I loved how Abbott pretty much implied that Lina Hidalgo can now go pound sound. Made my day.

parabelum wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 7:16 pm Thank the Lord for Abbott. Can you imagine if we had a leftist tyrant?

And the Harris County face mask "order" is for 30 days. By my calculation that would have equaled 34,560 mask-touches for Lina. Now no longer an order but a recommendation. As it should have been all along. The Class B penalty authority supposedly came from GC 408 as being under a disaster declaration but Governor Abbott pulled that rug out from under them.

Was an interesting day. Hidalgo's mask-touching marathon came first. A couple of hours later, Governor Abbott's press conference. Then Sylvester Turner's followed around 3:30...and he was clearly not a happy camper. Turner spent about 15 minutes repeating over and over that there had been 74 new cases and 4 deaths in the Houston in the past 24 hours, and that the governor's directive overrides local authority. Basically what he kept repeating was, "The Republican governor made this decision. Not us Houston democrats. We don't think it's a good idea. If you die because of this, don't blame us."

Governor Greg Abbott wrote: We strongly recommend that everyone wear a mask. However, it's not a mandate. And we'll make clear that no jurisdiction can impose any type of penalty or fine for anyone not wearing a mask. Everyone should be encouraged, but by my executive order, it supersedes local orders with regard to any type of fine or penalty for anyone not wearing a mask.

Ka-boom.

Okay. So I watched part of Judge Lina (aka "Dora the Explorer") Hidalgo's daily SARAside Press Conference today. There was much touching of face masks, but it didn't occur to me until the final few minutes televised on KPRC to grab a pen and keep a tally.

A refresher: If you wear a mask, every inhaled breath comes through the fabric/material, which means it becomes a collection/trapping filter for everything on the outside you're breathing in. That means touching the mask with your hands is potentially much worse than simply touching your face to, say, brush back hair or scratch your chin. Dora the Explorer's executive order for face masks to be worn throughout Harris County went into effect today; failure to comply carries up to s $1,000 fine and is technically, under GC 408, a Class B misdemeanor.



My tally lasted only from 11:35 to 11:44, just after Q&A started and KPRC moved back to other news programming. The speakers were Dora the Explorer herself (her county website here: https://cjo.harriscountytx.gov/), and Dr. Umair A. Shah, MD, MPH, Executive Director of Harris County Public Health (http://publichealth.harriscountytx.gov/About/Leadership).

Lina Hidalgo: 11:35 - 11:37 - Touched mask 3 times, once was a full left-hand palm on the mask to adjust it, then she placed that hand on the side of the podium.

Umair Shah: 11:37 - 11:42 - Touched mask 12 times.

Lina Hidalgo: 11:42 - 11:44 - Touched mask 7 times; this was while responding to a question, which evidently caused her to have more nervous hand activity than she did during the prepared statement.

So in all, over a period of only 9 minutes, the county judge who issued the face-mask order and the MD who leads Harris County Public Health, reached up and touched their face masks 22 times. That means, collectively, they reached up and touched their masks an average of once every 24.6 seconds, or about 2.4 times every minute. That works out to an amazing 144 touches per hour. Without a mask on and under normal, non-coronavirus conditions, the average person touches his or her face roughly 16 times per hour. The highest number came from a 2015 study of medical students in Australia, where they touched their faces 23 times per hour (https://www.healthline.com/health-news/ ... -your-face).

Way to lead by example, Harris County! Order mandatory face masks, then proceed to, on network television in your press conferences, do the very worst thing you can do--continually touch the front of your own masks--and do so 900% more often than the typical person touches his or her face.

Good job!