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  • The Vote
    February 10, 2012

    FYI:  Commentary will say it again.  HISD District I Trustee Anna Eastman is my client and also a very good friend.

    Last night at the HISD Board meeting, the Trustees voted to extend the Superintendent’s contract through June of 2014.  The vote was 5 votes for extending, 1 vote against, and three abstentions.   The one vote against was cast by Trustee Eastman.   Check out the Chron story here.

    The last thing I’m going to do is question why the three abstainers just didn’t cast a “no” vote.

    The last thing I’m going to do is question why Trustee Eastman just didn’t join the other three abstainers instead of voting “no”.

    I will say this, as a constituent and voter in District I, I prefer my Trustee vote either “yes” or “no” and don’t abstain on key agenda items.

    I think it is easier to explain a “yes” or a “no” vote than an “abstention”. 

    Meanwhile, the Superintendent woke up this morning with an extension, but by only one vote.   I don’t know if I’d be feeling that great.  

    The HISD Board President (Mike Lunceford), First Vice President (Eastman), and Second Vice-President (Juliet Stipeche) didn’t support the extension.  Oh, well!

    Commentary attended the endorsement meeting of the Harris County Tejano Democrats last night and my client, Joe Martinez, candidate for Harris County Constable, Precinct 2, got endorsed.

    Who received the 2011 Houston Area Player of the Year Award from the Houston Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association?

    I guess they are a little short handed over at the City of H-Town.  We were doing some post election changes to CM James Rodriguez’s campaign website and we decided to link the District I map to the City’s District I map.   Oops, they still had the District I map with the old pre redistricting lines.  It looks like Districts B and D also need changing.  Districts A, C, E, G, H, J and K are current but they are using the precinct maps from the redistricting plan.  District F is the only with that is updated that doesn’t use precinct maps.

    Lance Berkman of course received the 2011 Houston Area Player of the Year Award from the Houston Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association.  The Big Puma is celebrating his 36th BD today!

    From the ‘Stros website today:

    An impressive list of former Astros and Colt .45 players will join members of the current Astros club on Friday (tonight), Feb. 10, at the 2012 Houston Baseball Dinner Benefiting Grand Slam For Youth Baseball’s Scholarship Program.  The dinner is being held at the Hilton Americas hotel in downtown Houston.

    This year’s annual dinner will include a celebration of the Astros 50th Anniversary. The event is sponsored by the Astros In Action Foundation and Minute Maid, with proceeds benefiting the Grand Slam For Youth Baseball Scholarship Program.

     


  • The Blessed Photo
    February 9, 2012

    Rick Santorum came to the Lone Star State yesterday to address North Texas area ministers.  After he spoke, the ministers surrounded him and prayed over him.  Photos of the prayer over started popping up on just about every media related website.    It is a very powerful photo that certainly plays to the vote he is going after. 

    Santorum also had this to say about the Lone Star State:

    "We’re going to have a big win in Texas when the day comes.  Texas is the conservative epicenter of this country. You folks lead the way. You really do."

    Thanks for the compliment!

    Commentary is not going to make a prediction but Santorum is on a roll and Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich aren’t.

    Speaking of the Giants again, in the 2002 World Serious between the Giants and the Angels, name the player that hit the most dingers?

    In a non baseball related bonus, what happened 48 years ago this evening – hint – it was a Sunday? 

    State Senate District 25 GOP candidates debated last night and here is taste from the Express News:

    (Sen Jeff) Wentworth said he would work to repeal in-state tuition for illegal immigrants and noted that (Elizabeth) Jones, while she was a House representative, voted for the law.

    She defended what she called a bipartisan vote and suggested the law brought immigrant children “out of the shadows” and gave them a path to legality. 

    Here is the entire article.

    Too bad Wentworth went spineless on this one!

    Commentary kind of figured that Roland Martin would get the heave-ho of sorts for his Super Bowl tweets.    He deserved getting shown the door.

    Barry Bonds of course led all hitters with 4 dingers in the 2002 World serious that the Angels took in seven.

    48 years ago tonight, The Beatles appeared for the first time of course on “The Ed Sullivan Show” and sang “All My Loving”, “Till There Was You”, “She Loves You”, “I Saw Her Standing There”, and “I Want To Hold Your Hand”. 

    It looks like Numero 45 will be at first base this season and Brett Wallace will be given a shot at third.

     


  • The Race Goes On….
    February 8, 2012

    Commentary is the last guy to handicap the GOP race for Prez but if you are a Dem, you have to like what happened last night.   In reading today’s takes from a number of respected political observers, most say that Mitt Romney is still in the best shape to get the GOP nomination because he has an advantage in cash and organization.  That’s kind of odd.  He had those advantages yesterday and he got his arse handed to him in Minnesota.  He got clobbered in Missouri and he lost Colorado, a state everyone said he was going to win.   The cockiness Romney had the nights he won Florida and Nevada was gone last night…tsk, tsk, tsk.  Let’s stay tuned for sure on this one.

    It is never a good thing if the FBI and/or Texas Rangers are asking you questions.  I have to admit that the Harris County DA brought this on herself.  You might be able to push around a grand jury, but you are not going to push around the FBI or Texas Rangers.  She asked for it.  That’s too bad. 
    Here is the Chron article.

    MLB Spring Training camps open in less than two weeks and Roy Oswalt still can’t get a team to sign him up.  How many times has Roy O been selected to the NL All Star Team?

    The Chron’s E-Board wants H-Town CM Helena Brown to start ‘splaining her “no” votes.  Check out the E-Board piece.

    The City of H-Town Long-Range Financial Management Task Force is handing its report to City Council this morning and the report is already being savaged by employee groups.  Check out the Chron story here.   Commentary is thinking that this report will just be put on a shelf and nothing is going to happen – for now.

    The fella that heads the Harris County Housing Authority is on his way out.  I guess that’s what happens when you hire a P.I. to check out Hunker Down. 
    Check out the Chron story.   What a dumbarse!

    Roy O made the NL All Star Team three times of course – 2005, 2006 and 2007.

    Once again, there is nothing much to report from The Yard. 

     


  • False Alarm
    February 7, 2012

    Late yesterday morning, the Texas AG put out a statement saying a deal had been reached on redistricting.  It turns out key players had not agreed to a deal.  Oh, well.  Some minority plaintiffs agreed to the deal and others didn’t.  That’s not good.  They need to all stay on the same page if you ask me.  April 3 looks like it may not happen but we all need to stay tuned!

    It is nice to hear fellas like Karl Rove squeal.  Make my day!  He is squealing about the Clint Eastwood “Halftime in America” ad that ran during the Super Bowl.  Here is the squeal:

    I was, frankly, offended by it, I’m a huge fan of Clint Eastwood, I thought it was an extremely well-done ad, but it is a sign of what happens when you have Chicago-style politics, and the president of the United States and his political minions are, in essence, using our tax dollars to buy corporate advertising.”

    I don’t know how he can be offended by the recovery of our automobile industry.  I don’t know how he can be offended by auto industry jobs coming back.

    Speaking of the Giants, who was the last MLBer to win an MVP Award as a member of the New York Giants and in what year?

    Here is from a Huffington Post story today on Komen and the mess they created and stepped in:

    A source with direct knowledge of decision-making at Komen’s headquarters in Dallas said the grant-making criteria were adopted with the deliberate intention of targeting Planned Parenthood. The criteria’s impact on Planned Parenthood and its status as the focus of government investigations were highlighted in a memo distributed to Komen affiliates in December.

    Here is the entire piece.

    A whole lot of folks across the U.S. of A. lost a whole lot of respect for Komen – respect that they will never get back.  They asked for it!

    Hall of Fame great Willie Mays of course was the last New York Giant to win the NL MVP Award back in 1954.

    Speaking of Super Bowl ads, I wonder if Roland Martin will be on the air tonight reporting for CNN on the election returns.  I wonder what kind of underwear Martin buys. 

    Let’s hope the results from Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri tonight provide some more GOP drama.

    The only thing going on at The Yard is the signing of folks that probably won’t contribute much this season or next.

     


  • You May Now Eat the Bride
    February 6, 2012

    The above line from the Jack-in-the-Box bacon cheeseburger ad was a good one.

    On the whole, there weren’t that many good ads last night.  The best was the Clint Eastwood Chrysler “Detroit” ad that probably p_ssed off GOPers across the U.S. of A.

    The Seinfeld-Leno ad was good.

    The HEB “ET” ad was cute.

    Ditto for the “Here We Go Bud Light” to Help Rescue Dogs.

    Good job on resurrecting Ferris Bueller.

    The Coke Salesman winning the Pepsi contest was nice. 

    I liked the head butt Oikos Yogurt ad.

    The Chevy truck 2012 survivor calling out Ford was good.

    The Doritos missing cat ad was A-Okay but it probably got a few cat owners upset.

    Audi wasted their time with those dumb exploding vampires ad.

    Budweiser/Bud Light threw away a ton of money on those “Prohibition” and “Platinum” ads.

    The Elton John Pepsi ad was dumb.

    I still can’t figure out those polar bears drinking Coke.  What was that all about?

    The Giants won their fourth Super Bowl last night.  How many World Serious championships did the MLB New York Giants win?

    Bonus:  Name the two past Super Bowl National Anthem performers that are also Oscar winners?

    Bonus 2:  Name the three past Super Bowl Halftime Performers that are also Oscar winners?

    The Chron has a good story on “food deserts” in H-Town that you need to check out.  The story comes with a chart by zip codes on areas served by grocery stores.  A bunch of zip codes are without grocery stores.  Commentary feels guilty because my zip code is served by five grocery stores.
    Check it out here.

    My pal Bill King, or the fella that a lot of folks would like to see go away, keeps pushing folks to pay attention to public pensions.   Bill wants folks to quit kicking the can down the road.  Some folks think he is like the fella crying “wolf”.  Here is how he starts off his column yesterday:

    Many of you may have heard that I and some other concerned Texans formed an organization seeking to reform Texas public pensions. This effort has been characterized by some as a Wisconsin-style, union-bashing, anti-public-worker initiative. Nothing could be further from the truth.

    The truth is that we have significant problems and a looming crisis with most of Texas’ public pension plans. Each pension plan is unique. The benefits paid by each plan and their funding status vary widely, so it is dangerous to generalize. However, a large majority of public pension plans in Texas are significantly underfunded at this time.

    Here is Bill’s column.

    Sooner or later Bill is going to get his debate or he is going to tire out.  Stay tuned for sure!

    Today is February 6 and we still don’t have a primary election date.

    I thought the Madonna show started off with low energy but ended strong.   I am glad she didn’t fall off the set when she stumbled a bit.  I watched the entire halftime show but I missed the lady’s one finger salute. 

    It was good to see Tom Brady and Tom Coughlin singing the National Anthem.

    The two most interesting Super Bowl proposition bets were the over-under for Kelly Clarkson’s time it would take to singer the National Anthem – a minute and thirty four seconds – and who gets more mug time on TV during the game – Gisele or Peyton Manning.  Clarkson got it in at 1:33 and Gisele 1, Peyton nada.

    Speaking of taking up for your hubby, here is what Gisele said after the game:

    "My husband cannot f****ing throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time. I can’t believe they dropped the ball so many times."

    She has a point!

    The MLB New York Giants won five World Serious Championships (1905, 1922, 1923, 1933, and 1954) of course.

    Cher (SB 33) and Jennifer Hudson (SB 43) of course sang Super Bowl National Anthems and also are Oscar winners.

    Stevie Wonder (SB 33), Prince (SB 41), and The Boss (SB 43) of course have been Super Bowl Halftime performers and also Oscar winners in the song or song score category.

    I don’t have anything from The Yard.