{"id":229240,"date":"2026-03-31T22:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229240\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T22:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:18:16","slug":"commissioner-tom-ramseys-call-for-judge-lina-hidalgo-to-resign-fails-after-houston-rodeo-concert-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229240\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner Tom Ramsey\u2019s call for Judge Lina Hidalgo to resign fails after Houston rodeo concert incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harris County\u2019s commissioners acknowledged a resolution celebrating the rodeo, but stopped short of asking Judge Hidalgo to step down.<\/p>\n<p>HARRIS COUNTY, Texas \u2014 Precinct 3 Commissioner Tom Ramsey failed to pass a motion calling for Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo to step down, following what he called \u201centitled behavior\u201d at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/rodeo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJudge Hidalgo\u2019s entitled behavior has embarrassed this commissioners&#8217; court,\u201d Commissioner Ramsey said during his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners Lesley Briones and Rodney Ellis voted in favor of removing the line calling for Judge Hidalgo\u2019s resignation and apology.<\/p>\n<p>While both commissioners agreed to some level of accountability, Commissioner Briones said that it&#8217;s up to the people to decide if Judge Hidalgo should step down. When handling a matter like this, Commissioner Ellis made one suggestion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always found it better, call the person privately,\u201d Commissioner Ellis said.<\/p>\n<p>KHOU 11 reached out to Judge Hidalgo\u2019s staff for comment and we are waiting to hear back. This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p>Got a news tip or story idea? Email us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/local\/harris-county-hidalgo-resignation-resolution-meeting\/mailto:newstips@khou.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newstips@khou.com<\/a>\u00a0or call 713-521-4310 and include the best way to reach you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harris County\u2019s commissioners acknowledged a resolution celebrating the rodeo, but stopped short of asking Judge Hidalgo to step&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-229240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229240","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=229240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}