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Republican Party, Rather Than Food Not Bombs, Is Public Safety Threat To Houston

7/24/2023

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The City of Houston has issued 43 tickets so far to the Food Not Bombs folks who share food with the homeless in Downtown Houston. The city says Food Not Bombs is violating a city food sharing ordnance. 

Sure.

Above you see a picture of the Food Not Bombs team on Sunday, 7/23.

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The priorities here are bizarre.

The city talks over and over and over about lacking police resources. 

Crime is in important issue and it should be a big topic in Houston city elections. How does hassling Food Not bombs over and over combat crime?

If the city wants to focus on threats to public safety, the Republican Party would be a good place to start.

The Republican Party is filled with people who want to overturn elections, defund federal law enforcement, support insurrection, support tossing migrants including babies into the Rio Grande River, threaten school librarians, downplay the evils of slavery and on and on.

If we want to protect the public from some of the most dangerous people in town, these folks are fully out in the open. If it was Black Lives Matter or some avowed socialist group taking vocal controversial viewpoints, you can wager the Houston Police Department would be watching them very closely. 

Abbie Kamin is the Chairwoman of the City Council Public Safety Committee. Call her at 832-393-3004 and ask that police resources be used to make Houston safer instead of issuing endless tickets to Food Not Bombs.     
       
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Darelle Robbins
7/25/2023 10:05:13 am

Thank you for your leadership, Neil! This local community action is going to resonate with lots of us. I’m looking forward to doing my part.

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    I'm Neil Aquino

    ​I’m a rank & file Democrat, activist and Houstonian who wants to live in a free society.  I’ve volunteered extensively for Democratic candidates and causes, and served as paid staff for multiple Democratic campaigns. My work for Democratic campaigns has  involved communications and strategy. 


    I’m an organizer of the Weekly John Cornyn Houston Office Protest. The Cornyn Protest team has been outside Senator Cornyn’s office each Tuesday for well over six years now with one clear message: In addition to voting, we must show up physically and non-conventionally for the fights over democracy ahead. 
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    ​I’m a member of the Southwest Democrats, Tejano Democrats and the Houston LGBTQIA Caucus. I have a political science degree from Xavier University in Cincinnati and ran a Cincinnati City Council office.  
     

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