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George Soros Trying To Buy More Texas Elections

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024

George Soros has set his sights on Texas yet again.

Newly released campaign finance reports show George Soros in the top ten political donors in Texas.

Texas’ latest campaign finance reports show liberal billionaire George Soros has been pouring money into political action committees rather than funding candidates directly.

Soros contributed a total of $2,562,000 across several PACs between August and December 2023, making him one of the top 10 contributors in Texas.

Receiving over a million dollars from Soros, the Texas Majority PAC boasts the motto “let’s turn Texas blue.” The organization seeks to elect statewide Democrat officials by researching the most effective strategies to accomplish this goal.

Texas Organizing Project PAC received a quarter of a million dollars from Soros. Placing their mission’s emphasis on black and Latino voters, TOP focuses on reaching the minority communities in Texas to shift the state’s political leaning. However, TOP has also been linked in recent years to bailing out hundreds of inmates with severe criminal records.

After TOP was linked to Soros in the past, former candidate for Harris County Judge Alexandra Mealer posted on social media, saying “TOP works year around to elect candidates in favor of dismantling the criminal justice system so no surprise on [Soros donation].”

Soros also contributed to the Hidalgo County Democrat Party, which aims to emphasize elections at all levels rather than only those on a larger scale.

CTX Votes, Dallas County Democratic PAC, Cameron County Democratic Party Executive Committee, and Planned Parenthood Texas Votes PAC all listed Soros as a top contributor, with CTX Votes and Cameron County receiving over 94 percent of their total contributions from Soros.

In addition, Soros was in the top 10 contributors for both First Tuesday and the Texas Justice & Public Safety PAC.

One particularly interesting race is that for Harris County DA, where’s backing a primary challenger to incumbent Kim Ogg, whom he had previously supported.

Vying for her third term as Harris County district attorney, Kim Ogg faces a challenge in the Democratic primary from a former prosecutor who is backed by Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and groups funded by billionaire criminal justice reform donor George Soros.

Ogg’s challenger, Sean Teare, worked for the Harris County District Attorney’s Office (HCDAO) until February of last year, most recently as head of the Vehicular Crimes Division. After announcing his candidacy, his campaign raised $785,000 in the first six months of 2023, while Ogg trailed behind at $56,000. According to the most recent campaign finance reports, Ogg took in $282,000 compared to Teare’s $279,000 in the second half of the year.

Official campaign finance reports also show that Teare is receiving assistance from the Texas Justice and Public Safety PAC, a political action committee that has received most of its funding directly from Soros. The PAC, which previously supported the campaigns of Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza and Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot, provided polling services to Teare.

Teare’s reports also show coordination with the Texas Organizing Project, a criminal justice reform group that often posts bail for suspects and supports candidates who will work to end the cash bail system.

On the campaign trail, Teare has criticized Ogg for “weaponizing the DA’s office” against political opponents.

After an investigation into an alleged bid-rigging scheme for a COVID-19 vaccine outreach contract in 2021, a Harris County grand jury issued felony indictments for three of Hidalgo’s staffers, which Teare and Hidalgo have blamed on Ogg.

A day after news broke in November 2023 that the Texas Rangers had issued new search warrants related to the case, at a press conference Hidalgo accused Ogg of leaking the warrants to the media. She also used the press conference, which took place on county property and was live-streamed on the Office of the County Judge’s official social media accounts, to announce her support for Teare, which drew a new criminal complaint and an ethics complaint against Hidalgo.

For more on ethics complaints against Hidalgo, see here. And here. And here. And here. And here.

In an interview with FOX 26 Houston this week, Ogg lambasted Teare for not revealing that after leaving his post at the HCDAO he went to work for the Cogdell Law Firm, which represents Hidalgo’s indicted former staffer Alex Triantaphyllis. According to Ogg, Teare was still a senior staffer at the HCDAO at the time prosecutors were building the cases against Hidalgo’s staff.

“The notion that I should turn a blind eye simply because it was committed by a Democrat is not just offensive. It’s dangerous,” said Ogg.

That is, in fact, exactly what Soros-backed social justice tools expect

Teare’s campaign website features Hidalgo’s endorsement along with those of state Rep. Gene Wu (D-Houston) and a group of Harris County Democratic Party (HCDP) precinct chairs.

On the Republican side, Dan Simons seems to be running for DA, but his campaign doesn’t have a website up yet. An odd decision, since he filed fr the race over a month ago and primary day is less than two months out.

Having seen the devastating toll letting a Soros-backed DA run your county has taken on Harris County thanks to high levels of violence from criminals put back on the street, you would think the Harris County GOP would be doing more to make sure it doesn’t happen again…

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Soros Prosecutors = Paradise For Sex Traffickers

Wednesday, January 17th, 2024

It isn’t just petty criminals and the psychotic that soft-on-crime, Soros-backed DAs have opened the door for. It’s also made blue cities paradise for sex traffickers.

While politicians call attention to January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month, a Texas mom wants to make lawmakers aware of how the state’s justice system is failing victims like her daughter.

Her daughter’s sex trafficking case made international headlines in April 2022 when the teenager was sexually assaulted and forced into prostitution after disappearing from a Dallas Mavericks game.

She’s now safe, but her parents remain frustrated that Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot failed to prosecute a suspect linked to the trafficking who was charged with sexually assaulting the 15-year-old girl.

Creuzot, as you may remember, owes his office in good measure to the $400,000 George Soros-related entities donated to his campaign in 2022.

“As a mom and as a woman, this is a hill I’m willing to die on,” the victim’s mother told Texas Scorecard.

She called the months since her daughter’s traumatic experience a “rollercoaster” and blames missteps by Dallas police and Creuzot’s office as well as “loopholes” in state law for allowing the man, who her daughter says raped her, to go free.

The victim, who lives in North Richland Hills, went missing from the American Airlines Center while attending a basketball game with her father. He raised the alarm after she went to the bathroom and didn’t return.

Surveillance video showed the victim leaving with Emanuel Jose Cartagena.

Ten days later, she was recovered in Oklahoma City after a private investigator, recommended to the girl’s parents by friends, found online photos advertising her for sex.

Local police immediately arrested three suspects and charged them with human trafficking, conspiracy, and computer crimes. Multiple people involved in the sex trafficking ring were eventually charged and sentenced in Oklahoma, but neither Cartagena nor other men seen on the Dallas surveillance video were found at the Oklahoma crime scene.

Nine months later, in January 2023, Cartagena was arrested and charged in Dallas with sexual assault of a child.

The victim told police Cartagena had sexually assaulted her in Dallas before she was taken to Oklahoma.

On October 30, 2023, a Dallas County grand jury no-billed Cartagena, meaning jurors did not see sufficient evidence to prosecute him for the crime.

“I was astounded,” said the mom.

The trafficking victim’s mom recounted multiple missteps by Dallas police and prosecutors.

First, she said the Dallas Police Department refused to let her husband file a missing persons report. Police classify older missing teens as “runaways,” she said, even though they are under the age of consent. They told the family to file a report with their local police, 40 miles away from where their daughter disappeared.

“That’s an enormous problem,” she said.

While Dallas PD idled, the private investigator tracked down her daughter “within a matter of hours” by searching online ads.

She said once her daughter was recovered, Dallas officials declined an invitation from authorities in Oklahoma to come up and gather information that could help with their investigation.

Ahead of the grand jury hearing the case, the victim’s mom said her lawyer offered the Dallas prosecutor more documentation about her daughter’s case, but the prosecutor refused, saying, “If I need it, I’ll subpoena it.”

She also said her daughter, who was too young to consent to sex, picked Cartagena out of a lineup as the man who raped her. Yet the grand jury still sided with Cartagena, and he went free.

“At the end of the day, take out all the trafficking stuff, how does that happen?” she asked.

After the grand jury no-billed Cartagena, she said Creuzot told her that prosecutors had followed “office policy” by not recommending an indictment and he would not re-present the case with the additional evidence.

It sounds like Creuzot’s office didn’t get an indictment because they didn’t want to get an indictment.

A Dallas Morning News opinion piece published this month says Cartagena has a history of promoting and compelling prostitution of minors and cites two Harris County cases in 2015 and 2016.

Prior bad acts are generally inadmissible as evidence, but the victim’s mom says Creuzot knew, or should have known, that Cartagena has a history of sexually exploiting children and recommended an indictment.

“The guy who did this had done it before and will probably do it again,” she said.

“I’m not done fighting,” she added. “I can’t let this go.”

The victim’s mom said, “Aside from the goodness of God, we wouldn’t have my daughter. We are lucky. My daughter is safe,” she added. “But we are not the norm. What about all the other victims?”

She noted that Texas is second in the nation for sex trafficking, behind New York, with Dallas and Houston as hot spots.

“It’s not just due to the state’s size,” she said. “It’s our laws and loopholes that go in the criminals’ favor.”

A 2016 study found that 79,000 minors were victims of sex trafficking in Texas. Child sex trafficking has continued to grow as traffickers use the internet to exploit children for money.

It probably doesn’t help that the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation Anti-Trafficking Unit (ATU) was so badly run that it was disbanded earlier this year.

But it sounds like Emanuel Jose Cartagena would be behind bars right now were Creuzot and his fellow Soros-backed prosecutors not so intent on keeping him on the street.

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Bad Guy Beatdown Roundup

Wednesday, September 20th, 2023

Time for a roundup of criminals who had critical failures in their Victim Selection Process rolls.

  • Out in El Monte, California, a would be thief armed with bear spray and a hammer got a righteous beatdown trying to rob a family jewelry store.

  • In Texas news, a convicted murderer who preyed on the elderly got his ticket to Hell punched by his cellmate, who also happened to be a convicted murderer.

    Convicted North Texas killer Billy Chemirmir, who was suspected in over 20 murders, was killed in a state prison Tuesday morning, officials confirmed to WFAA.

    Chemirmir, 50, was serving life in prison without parole after he was twice found guilty of capital murder by Dallas County juries. He was accused of killing 20 other women in Dallas and Collin counties and still faced charges in those cases.

    The Dallas County District Attorney’s office confirmed they were notified by Texas prison officials that Chemirmir was killed Tuesday morning. State prison officials confirmed that Chemirmir was found dead in his cell early Tuesday and his cellmate, who was serving on a murder charge out of Harris County, was “identified as the assailant.”

    What caused Mr. Chemirmir’s cellmate to extinguish him?

    Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot told WFAA that Chemirmir was killed after apparently making inappropriate comments sexual in nature towards his cellmate’s children. According to Creuzot, the cellmate allegedly beat Chemirmir, dragged him out of his cell and killed him while other inmates watched. No one intervened and Chemirmir may have been stabbed with a pen, Creuzot said.

    It does indeed sound like the “He needed killin'” defense applies here, though the prison guards have some splain’ to do. (Hat tip: Dwight.)

  • Pro-tip: If you go around breaking down doors and beating people in a Chicago high rise, don’t be surprised if you get shot.

    A resident who fatally shot Abnerd Joseph during a disturbance in their Loop high-rise building was released without being charged following the shooting, according to Chicago police.

    Family of the assistant school principal said Friday they are “left with questions and looking for closure.”

    “We can’t make sense of it,” said his sister Jeanna Joseph, who last spoke to her brother Wednesday, the day before the shooting. “We don’t really know what’s going on. … We have questions and we don’t have answers to those questions.”

    The shooting happened about 7:30 p.m. Thursday on the 48th floor of the building at 60 E. Monroe St. as Abnerd Joseph was “wildly” knocking on residents’ doors, attempting to enter apartments and “yelling incoherently,” according to a police report.

    When the doorman and four tenants went to check, he allegedly struck the doorman several times. A tenant then tried to calm him down and was also hit and fell down, the report said.

    Sounds like he was as high as an SR-71.

    Another tenant warned Joseph that he was armed and told him to stop hitting people. The police report said Joseph “turned and charged” at the tenant, who opened fire, hitting him several times.

    Joseph, 32, was shot in the chest, abdomen, flank, an armpit and a ring finger, according to the report. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:11 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. An autopsy Friday determined he died of multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide, the office said.

    (Hat tip: 357 Magnum.)

    • Remember kids:

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    LinkSwarm for April 19, 2019

    Friday, April 19th, 2019

    Happy Good Friday! Yesterday was a very good Thursday for President Donald Trump, and a very bad one for the media outlets that lied about the Russian Collusion fantasy for two years.

  • After the Mueller Report release, Democratic House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says that impeaching President Donald Trump is not worth pursuing. Take that, hard left base and Democratic House freshmen! (Hat tip: Sean Davis.)
  • Orange Man Bad!

    For approximately 3 million people, nothing in the Mueller report could exonerate President Trump of “Russian collusion,” obstruction of justice, and various other high crimes and misdemeanors of which they are certain he is guilty. For those 3 million people (a number reflecting the combined average weekday primetime audience of CNN and MSNBC) Trump’s guilt is an indisputable fact, his presidency an ongoing crime against humanity, his 2016 election a fraud. In a nation of 325 million people, of course, 3 million is less than a single percentage point. However, that hard-core audience of obsessive Trump-haters includes every Democrat in Washington and the vast majority of our nation’s journalists, university faculty, and other such members of the intelligentsia. Therefore, their deranged idée fixehas enormous influence, calling into existence a sort of anti-Trump industry that manufactures a constant output of rage-inducing propaganda. The CNN/MSNBC bubble is the cable-TV equivalent of a cult compound, where dissent from their political religion is forbidden. For the past two years, the fanatics have been told every night by Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon, et al. that the final destruction of Trump was at hand — “the walls are closing in!” — and the left-wing faithful awaited their deliverance from the evil man in the White House.

    “Orange Man Bad” — that’s a shorthand label for the anti-Trump mentality, coined by an anonymous contributor on a Reddit forum in 2017, mocking the robotic mindlessness of the president’s enemies. No fact that might contradict their Trump-hating beliefs has any validity to them, because Orange Man Bad. By obverse principle, anything done to harm Trump or his supporters, including libel and violent assault, is considered legitimate, because Orange Man Bad. Living inside a media-generated echo chamber where everyone shares their simplistic worldview, the Trump-haters tune in nightly to their MSNBC/CNN religious revival and are catechized, so to speak, with the latest reiteration of the Orange Man Bad gospel.

    What else can explain what happened Thursday, after Mueller finally delivered his 448-page “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election.” The delivery of the special counsel’s report was preceded by a press conference at which Attorney General William Barr summarized the result of the investigation. Barr “made clear that, after two years of investigation, thousands of subpoenas, and endless media speculation, the ‘Russian collusion’ story was, as some of us had noted all along, a story about nothing,” as Professor Glenn Reynolds observed. “No member of Trump’s campaign — and in fact, no American anywhere — colluded with the Russians to influence the campaign.” Contrary to what MSNBC and CNN viewers had been told night after night for month after month, Trump is not a Kremlin stooge and yet: “Orange Man Bad!”

    Proven wrong on the matter of “Russian collusion,” the anti-Trump media sifted through the Mueller report in search of evidence of other wrongdoing by the president, who of course must be guilty of something. The Twitter feeds of media types filled up with excerpts of the report proving… what? Well, Trump was very angry about being falsely accused of “collusion,” and he didn’t enjoy watching his former associates being investigated and prosecuted as part of what he considered a partisan witch hunt, inspired in large measure by the phony Steele dossier paid for by the Clinton campaign. But we already knew that. Trump’s animus toward the Mueller investigation was certainly no secret, but being angry is not a crime and, however angry he was, nothing Trump did amounted to obstruction of justice. Because there was no “collusion,” and thus no crime to conceal, it would be hard to figure out how or why justice could be obstructed in such a case. The innocent don’t fear justice, and if Trump was innocent of “collusion” (as Mueller concluded) why should he engage in obstruction? Never mind basic logic, cried the Trump-haters, because Orange Man Bad!

    “Their minds are made up, and mere facts cannot penetrate their ironclad certainty about Trump’s maliciousness.”

  • Watch Democrats move the Mueller goalposts.
  • Editorial in the New York Times: “Barr Is Right About Everything. Admit You Were Wrong.”

    The American political and media elites that spent the first two years of the Trump administration promoting the Russian collusion hoax have some explaining to do. And not merely explaining: They owe the president an apology.

    As Attorney General William Barr said on Thursday before releasing the Mueller report, “After nearly two years of investigation, thousands of subpoenas, and hundreds of warrants and witness interviews, the special counsel confirmed that the Russian government sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election but did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those schemes.”

    And yet nearly the entire complex of elite media was actively complicit in promoting the biggest political conspiracy theory in American history: that Hillary Clinton lost the election because Donald Trump conspired with Vladimir Putin to — well, that was always a moving target — but to somehow deprive Mrs. Clinton of victory. What we now know definitively is that Robert Mueller, the special counsel, and a team of very accomplished, mostly Clinton-supporting, prosecutors were unable to find evidence of a conspiracy that had been taken as an article of faith by Trump haters.

    Journalists don’t like being called “fake news,” but too many of them uncritically accepted the Trump-Russia narrative, probably because of their strong distaste for Mr. Trump himself. But that lack of objectivity represents a major professional failure, and it’s Exhibit A in why Mr. Trump’s taunt resonates with so many Americans. Gallup polling shows that for 69 percent of Americans, trust in the media has fallen over the last decade. Among Republicans, it’s 94 percent; for independents, it’s 75 percent and for moderates it’s 66. Only among self-identified liberals and progressives does a majority continue to trust the media. They like what they hear.

    (Hat tip: Ann Althouse.)

  • “CNN Ratings Continue To Plummet To All-Year Low.” (Hat tip: Director Blue.)
  • CNN: God Allowed The Mueller Report To Test Our Unshakable Faith In Collusion.
  • Related:

  • “Prosecutors Ask To Present Evidence That NXIVM Sex Cult Leaders Illegally Bundled Money For Hillary Clinton Campaign.” Good points: Juicy! Bad points: The use of “sex cult” and “Hillary Clinton” in the same sentence. (Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)
  • Details on a Democratic dark money network under Arabella Advisors founded by Clinton Democrat Eric Kessler.
  • Leftists express respectful disagreement with Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw over his criticism of Ilhan Omar. Ha, just kidding! They mocked him as “captain shithead, “Nazi,” and “eyeless fuck.”
  • What happens when the government turns your apartment building into public housing. “The SWAT team, the overdose, the complaints of pot smoke in the air and feces in the stairwell — it would be hard to pinpoint a moment when things took a turn for the worse at Sedgwick Gardens, a stately apartment building in Northwest Washington.” Bonus: they’re handing out vouchers for up to $2,648 a month, which is more than my mortgage payment. (Hat tip: Ann Althouse.)
  • “The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed new sanctions and other punitive measures on Cuba and Venezuela, seeking to ratchet up U.S. pressure on Havana to end its support for Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicolas Maduro.” Good.
  • Journalist shot to death in Northern Ireland, in an incident police are blaming on the New IRA.
  • Six MS-13 members charged in two murders.
  • Four truths that will get you banned from a college campus in 2019. Including: “To pretend that a man is a woman if he believes he is a woman…[is] objectively untrue.”
  • Shocker: University head doesn’t cave in to Social justice Warrior pressure, refuses to fire Camille Paglia.
  • Change your gut flora, change your thoughts. (Hat tip: Jordan Petersen’s Twitter feed.)
  • Black immigrant MAGA hat wearer beaten by thugs. Washington Post: “Meh. Somebody did something to somebody.”
  • Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot says he will no longer prosecute theft cases under $750. Governor Greg Abbott is mighty pissed.
  • Related:

  • CDC: “Hey, our guidelines didn’t mean ‘Screw you, pain sufferers.'”
  • Apple, Qualcomm settle their patent dispute. Immediately after that was announced, Intel announced they were exiting the 5G modem business. Apple continues to be something of a monopsony in the space.
  • “Federal Judge Tosses Defamation Lawsuit by Teachers’ Union Leader Against Project Verita.”
  • Don’t California my Texas:

  • The Postal Service took away the doughboy’s gun.
  • Only in New York: Hermit gets $17 million to move out of his tiny dilapidated hotel room. (Hat tip: Baseballcrank.)
  • Gene Wolfe, RIP.
  • Ouch! (Consider yourself warned.)

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