The Texas Supreme Court denied Harris County’s request to temporarily block the implementation of Senate Bill 1750 on Sept. 1, which will abolish the Harris County Election Administrator’s Office, the Harris County Attorney’s Office said on Tuesday.
This first case involves a challenge by a Republican former judge, Erin Lunceford, who ran for district court judge and lost to Democrat Tamika “Tami” Craft by a margin of 2,743 votes.
A bill that would give the Secretary of State the power to call for an election do-over passed the state senate Tuesday. The author of Texas Senate Bill 1993 said it’s aimed at preventing Harris County from running out of ballot paper.
Mattress Mack, or Jim McIngvale, is known by nearly all of Houston. But the man himself is far more complex than furniture commercials, sports bets and memes.