Tax Assessor Candidate Ramirez Says Will Actively Support '24 Dem Slate-Hold Her To it

​There was an online forum last night held by Swing Texas Left involving the two Democratic runoff candidates for Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector & Voter Registrar.  Runoff Election Day is May 28.

Above you see the two candidates from the Zoom forum yesterday. On the left is Desiree Broadnax and on the right is Annette Ramirez. 

Here is the link to the discussion. It runs about 75 minutes. 

I asked both candidates if they would join the Harris County Democratic Party coordinated campaign for 2024, block walk for the full Harris County Democratic slate & support the two Democrats running the new HCAD positions.   

(The two Democrats running for the HCAD positions are Melissa Noriega for Place #2 and Pelumi Adeleke for Place #3. Election Day is June 15. Ms. Noriega's opponent is an election denier. ) 

Ms. Broadnax would not commit to joining the coordinated party campaign. Ms. Ramirez did commit, spoke strongly about the 2024 election being a team effort and committed to holding a fundraiser or taking part in a block walk for the HCAD slate. Ms. Broadnax was clear that she supported the HCAD candidates. 

I'm voting for Ms. Ramirez and will hold to her to what she asserted last night. 

As referenced above, I know this all because I asked. All of us have the ability to ask every candidate and elected official we come across how they will support the full Democratic ticket.  They are here for us. Not the other way around.  

The Houston Democracy Project is about protest, rank-and-file citizen empowerment, self-protection, ideas and whatever is needed to prevail and stay safe as Republicans promise violence if they lose and authoritarianism if they win. More will be required than voting. In addition to being part of a team effort to win at the ballot box, elected officials may have to decide what side of a police line to stand on if Republicans refuse to accept electoral defeats, or toss out Harris County ballots to impact an electoral outcome.

And then there are the promised mass round-ups of migrants.   

Elected officials and candidates are always telling us to vote. But so often they are missing in action when it comes to helping get out the vote when it does not directly impact them. Hold the people seeking our support to the standards needed to keep us safe and free. Don't let up--Hold them accountable.    
 
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