Last year, woke Democrats in Harris County effectively pushed Mayor Whitmire out of the Harris County Democratic Party, barring him from ever receiving their endorsement again. This could turn out to be a major mistake for them.<\/p>\n
While Houston\u2019s left-wing progressives have been doing a victory lap since pushing Whitmire out, they likely haven\u2019t hurt his reelection chances.<\/p>\n
Former City Councilman Greg Travis pointed to Whitmire\u2019s moral victory over former Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee as an example of this, saying: \u201cWhitmire won the election with 65 percent of the vote to 35 percent of the vote. So where is that support coming from? They think they\u2019re gonna get a \u2018Mamdani\u2019? Their Mamdani was Sheila.\u201d<\/p>\n
He went on to call out the Democrats who seem to believe Houston is one election away from putting a radical leftist socialist into power. \u201cNobody cares what these people think,\u201d Travis said. \u201cThe people who become precinct chairs in the Democratic Party are the most extreme of the extreme. It\u2019s not who the everyday American is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Travis says many of these local progressives are too locked in their own bubbles and don\u2019t understand that the political atmosphere of the Montrose area is not reflective of the rest of the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, woke Democrats in Harris County effectively pushed Mayor Whitmire out of the Harris County Democratic Party,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-111258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}