newsmakers and without Sandra
Maler and we are talking about her candidacy for Harris County
her candidacy for Harris County
judge will talk about the polls
right now. I’ve got a couple of
them. Hobby School of Public
Affairs at U of H in
partnership with Texas Southern. They had a poll that
Southern. They had a poll that
was back in September showed
a 10 point advantage. And that,
of course, was among likely
voters. But the thing with that
is that because it sample size
is pretty big margin of error. One of the more recent polls
One of the more recent polls
came out last week by the
Defend Texas Liberty PAC that
has you up by up by 4
percentage points over judge a The cabbie out there is that
The cabbie out there is that
this is done by pro GOP
organization so what do you
take any stock in those polls
and to give you any the sense
of encouragement when you think about not, I think what most
about not, I think what most
people know this is just a key
battleground race. So the
summer when there is a larger
sample size.
>> Done by Marc Jones and Hobby had us in a dead heat as well.
had us in a dead heat as well.
Yes, I remember that. Yeah.
And so what we’ve been seeing
in is that just just a very
tight race. So I haven’t seen
anything outside of a margin of the air in a poll today from
the air in a poll today from
either side. The one thing
about defend Texas poll, one of
the things they showed in their
poll was that abortion was
number one.
>> Followed by inflation, then border. So do you read that
border. So do you read that
as any that? I mean, it doesn’t
really relate to what I don’t
govern by polls. You know,
that’s one of that.
>> things is, you know, my
messaging since I launched in November, you know, Lina
November, you know, Lina
Hidalgo didn’t even have public
safety is a key priority.
Last November, I took up this
huge Ed was editorial. The
Chronicle saying with these policies in place, we’re going
policies in place, we’re going
to be known as the murder
capital. And unfortunately,
that was sadly prophetic in
February. We’re not even
population adjusted. We have more homicides than any other
more homicides than any other
city but I only look so much
stock. What I like to see is
that all the polls you stated,
the one that was the smaller
had a margin of error, almost
10% is that these polls are
all saying tight race takes
over 30 days out and he’s going
to be who can execute to the
ground game. I’m very confident
on that, especially with every law enforcement organization
law enforcement organization
behind me. That’s been really
key for helping get the word
out about The challenge do you
think you can be a fresh face
about trying to make a
difference is right now. Commissioners court.
Commissioners court.
>> Not so many different
decisions. 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2,
precedent for that. that’s
something that’s different.
I think it really defines it all goes
all goes
>> 10 year hears county judges,
divisive leadership on this
been one of the points that
every time you’re constantly weighing in to national even
weighing in to national even
international issues. You know,
there’s not a Republican mean
it can pick up the phone and
have a conversation with.
I spend a lot of time talking to Democrats in the city.
to Democrats in the city.
You know, obviously not in
terms of public support that
you can ask around and people
know that I’m accessible and
willing to discuss. It is
important that you can be able to because even flood controls
to because even flood controls
a great example. You know, once
in office, I want to have
bipartisan delegations at the
state Federal. And so we these are the grant monies to target.
are the grant monies to target.
You know, that the state has a
3 million dollar water
development fund. We haven’t
received any funding for
thankfully. We just got money
in from HUD. But those are where I really looked at him.
where I really looked at him.
Its example where he had
relationships on both sides.
And he was very different way
than he than Lena. You did not
see him weighing into all of these issues and he was very
these issues and he was very
focused on being an advocate
for Harris County So I take
very seriously this
responsibility that when your
county judge, you have to
represent all Harris County, not just the part that voted
not just the part that voted
for you and only talk to that
because you really need to
figure out how do you mobilize
these This is a very moderate
purple at every want to see county. I’ve never believed
county. I’ve never believed
that it was as progressive as
long as policies. And it’s not
also a hard-right extreme.
I think people here in Harris
County want reasonable, good government and at local that
government and at local that
that was attracted to it
because it’s not partisanship.
It’s who can operate asset
sufficiently. So would you
could put yourself in the
category of being a >> moderate Republican
>> moderate Republican
conservative Republican Trump
Republican. How would you
describe yourself or do you?
>> Now, so that’s the part we’re I don’t you know, I got
we’re I don’t you know, I got
beat up in my primary for not
you having this big political
history. You know, I think
that’s the problem is that you
try to going to find people.
I don’t look to other
politicians for inspiration to you.
to you.
>> Do you think people want to
know when you come out because
you knew what kind of political
leanings you have? Just so
they’re not as one with the other.
>> Winona at say obviously have
a support towards liberty.
I think that government needs
to do a few things and do it
well. But I’ve also been running a primary for over a
running a primary for over a
year very publicly. And you can
see where my focus is. I want
to talk about issues in Harris
County because in this role, if
you’re not talking about Harris
County, who is, you know,
there’s even right now my
opponent Lina’s race, you could
insert U.S. Senate should be
running the exact same attack
has a gun. There’s nothing
personal about Harris County.
Why Iran is I’m raising my kids here and the issues that I
here and the issues that I
wanted to know about. Can kids
walk down the street in Harris
County? Every kid should have
that right. People are changing
their daily behavior here in Harris County. Think about when
Harris County. Think about when
they go, the grocery store
making all of these just basic
daily life. And that’s what
got me excited because
I was like my friends live all
over the that they have to be
more on guard alert. Same thing
when you’re overseas. There’s
a different alert level.