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The Church Lady Sang
Fourteen Term U.S. Representative (D TX) Sheila Lee took a bruising in the race to become the 63rd mayor of Houston, Texas, the largest city in Texas and fourth largest in the United States. Rep Sheila Lee lost to Dixiecrat John Whitmire, the former brother-in-law of Kathryn Whitmire, the only female to serve as mayor of Houston.
Jackson Lee lost by a 2 to 1 margin of 34.73% to her opponent, 77-year-old John Whitmire, 65.27%. The now Mayor-elect John Whitmire campaigned on a tough-on-crime and a law and order platform.
According to a November 21 article in the Houston Landing, “John Whitmire’s opponent, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, calls herself the “true Democrat” running to be Houston’s mayor. She contends that Harris County supports Whitmire and Texas Republican parties and would be a mayor beholden to the GOP.”
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Former U.S. House of Representatives and California State Assembly Speaker Karen Bass did it in California, so why can’t I? Plus, Mo’ Money, Less Problems.
Representative Sheila Lee served in Congress for 28 years. Her annual salary is 174,000 dollars. Had she won the Houston mayor’s race, she would have received a $60,000 salary increase as mayor.
Dixiecrat John Whitmire, outspent, outfoxed, and out-campaigned Rep Sheila Lee. Lee should have excited voters to go to the polls on her behalf. Black Houstonians and, to an extent, young voters stayed home. And the voters who voted did so overwhelmingly in favor of Whitmire. President Joe Biden is in the same sinking boat as Rep Sheila Lee.
They still satisfy the older African Americans with a politician showing up for a photo-op every two years at church, breaking off the pastor on the side, and singing a few hymnals. Then it’s see you. I’ll be back two years from now. Young Black voters (the ones I spoke with) are asking: where is my piece of the pie? Won’t you pay me also? I see you’re paying everybody else.
What have you done for me lately if ever anything at all? Minus the old block Black voters, Biden is set to lose many Black voters to former President Donald Trump in 2024. It is like Rep Lee’s loss to Dixiecrat John Whitmire.
Houston is a “Blue” city. Since 1921, sixteen of the eighteen mayors of Houston were Democrats, and all but two had been Republican. Outgoing Democrat Mayor Sylvester Turner threw his support behind Rep. Lee; it was not enough to put her in the mayor’s seat and have two Black mayors back to back in the Nation’s 4th largest city.
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