Thank you so much for being here. I know we’re all waiting
the full results. I just learn. Our
lead has increased solar now. Hello.
But of course,
we’ve got a lot of votes that need to be counted.
And
every single vote needs to be counted, that’s what democracy
depends on.
And so, we’re gonna be watching.
I know that folks have been
celebrating, enjoying the community, all the work that
we did together
and and I just wanted to come and thank you. Thank each and
every one of you
for leading us to where we are
for for making sure. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you so much. All
right.
Uh-huh.
Are we doing out here?
So we’re consciously optimistic
and a first lesson. Thank you to everybody here.
The Core Democratic party.
A big. Thank you to the best campaign team I could possibly
ask for.
And 35 my campaign manager, Jonathan Geldof was
somewhere
around a big round of applause to the drama
team.
They raised
the goal that we had
around five million dollars
all of it money. We’re very proud to raise where
nobody’s pocket. They do with a lot.
A single dollar from people who do business with the county.
Each of them. Kara, Talia Lily, Jimmy
everybody in
our Jay
ization together with the Texas organizing project.
Y’all
we made over two million calls
and
tell me
1 million doors and Harris
and I’m so proud of that
our incredible team of volunteers all of
our volunteers. I especially want to thank Roofing at our eyes on
our flight
And the thousands of donors,
thousands of donors, who chipped in five dollars,
$1, $10,
the most donors, the Harris County campaign has ever had.
What
the most
that a Harris County candidate had Ever Raised?
Someone decided to take five million dollars raised by
a developer
who doesn’t like the flood control requirement.
I want to thank my family.
There’s somewhere around here. My friends.
All of the Harris County Democratic clubs,
Texas to
put everything on
The field knocked on doors.
So many folks,
ask me today how I felt
over and over again. How do you feel?
And the truth is, I feel great, I feel strong
and I feel that we’ve done everything we possibly could.
I am so proud of this campaign.
So, proud of the message, we had of the honesty.
We ran the campaign with. We could have easily Panther,
it’s easy to Pander, it’s easy to appeal to the lowest
common
Nate are very easy to instill fear.
It is so easy
and We Know It wins. Donald Trump did it at one point.
But look, even he got beat,
okay?
And that’s not how we run our campaign.
And those are not the values of this party
and every voter
thank you for making your voice heard,
no matter how you want, I want to thank every single
voter in this County, who participated.
Democracy depends
on our participation,
and I know we Face difficult times. There’s so much
division, but the way we move forward is, by voting is
by engaging, not by cynicism, not by avoiding,
but
by participating and being part of the process.
So, look the past four years, it’s part of what has me
feeling,
so thrilled so good on Election night. Even though we
don’t know, we don’t have the full results yet,
it’s the work that we’ve done over the past.
For years. And I’m so incredibly proud of my team
and here at the county and everybody in Harris County. Let’s give him
a big round of applause.
Politics is good government,
and that’s true.
That’s true. It’s what we’ve done
for years. Harris County was a rubber stamp to anything
coming out of Austin.
Even this thing’s got farther and farther and
farther to the right.
But we said, we’re not simply gonna play that game. We’re gonna
stand up for the values of County residents
and we have and they all like that so that’s why
they’ve come out me.
Green against the governor knows tried to take away our
voting rights and
and and the Secretary of State
and a comptroller who tried to take away our funding
and the lieutenant governor who attached me, every chance he gets
and
the far-right Trump donors
developers that have run our town for too long
but
it’s what’s left of the Good Ol Boys and I ain’t scared of them.
I
think I was the like that, we open the door of County governments.
We changed. How we did things in Harris, County,
beginning with the transition,
we didn’t have some secretive transition committee
that you had to know someone to get on. We had an open Community
Wide, talking transition, thousands and hundreds
of thousands of voices,
massive town halls with hundreds of people.
And from those events from those Town Halls
came some of our best ideas.
We heard about the needs of veterans and we doubled our Veterans
Services Department
Environmental Protection. We made the largest investment in
30 years in our environment.
We heard about the Need For Education. We made the largest
investment ever in early childhood education, 16
million dollars.
We both have called the agenda from the voices of the people
and
I’m proud to have been a County judge that has
that here’s the community, and that’s what I want to continue doing
from
flood
to fire to pandemic to Winter freeze,
We’ve
been able to leave this community
and we’ve come out stronger
in the middle of a pandemic. We reduce homelessness by 20%
of
the right thing to do. Not what score. Political points.
Know
what sounds good to say.
I’m proud to have taken on developers.
I’m proud to make sure that they’re not just Paving over
over our Prairie and making it easier and
easier for us to flood. That’s why we passed the strictest
attention requirements. That’s why we sped up
all our flood control projects
and I’m proud.
I’m proud
to have tackled violent crime.
Ugly
nine percent reduction over the past year.
Well, policies that work.
Not just pandering to 80s era solution. That if they work,
we have no crime right now.
We’ve
Tackled, youth crime and gun violence. We’re not afraid to say that
gun violence. You can’t talk about without talking about guns.
Yeah.
And I’m proud to stand up for millions of women who
live in Harris County.
Abortion is not a county issue.
The county issue in that, right?
The say is still refusing to release their report on maternal
mortality in Texas. Even as we invest millions
of dollars in maternal and child mortality in Harris
County
because of, they’re not gonna do it. I’m not just gonna
sit and watch.
We transform
County government enough.
I’m proud to not have pandered
to Antiquated ideology
to outdated interest to those who got too comfortable
and power. He didn’t like it when I won,
we put people over facts. We put experience,
we put thoughtfulness over politics
and all of that has been done with the help of an incredible
team.
And so I want to acknowledge
College my team.
I can’t thank them enough,
Alex Wallace,
Ashley Ariana, Chris Angelica.
I
can go on and on,
give him a big round of applause.
Millions of dollars in American Rescue plan funding.
That was this team
for the immigrants receiving support. And
Adequate treatment and respect
those folks
who live on the streets. That’s this team and this community,
all the work we’ve done through all of these disasters. These
are the folks
that were working staying up night after night,
working hard for this community because they love it just
as much as we all do.
And I want to thank them for that
now.
So long as there are communities in Harris County, that needs support.
I’m gonna be there working for them. I’ve been working to serve
the people of Harris County
for justice
for Progressive policies, for what’s right
for as long as I’ve been able to
this community has done everything for me and my family.
And
I trust that today later tonight soon enough,
we’ll be celebrating a victory in Harris County will be calibrated.
That
we’re going to win
because I know we have the people on our side
but whatever happens y’all.
My conscience is clear.
I am proud of all. We’ve done.
I’m thrilled of the team we’ve built. I am
honored to know
that I’ve been surrounded and supported by. Incredible leaders congresswoman,
Sheila Jackson Lee is here.
I want to thank all of them. I know commissioner Garcia was a
congresswoman Garcia was
was here earlier Congressman Fletcher, such a big help.
Congressman green. Look,
I couldn’t be prouder of this team. I couldn’t be prouder of our County.
I couldn’t be prouder of each of you.
Let’s continue celebrating this night,
the Astros Victory yesterday.
Celebrated
collaborations, thank you all so much. Let’s go
home.
Remember the commissioner of neighboring County said
this game, Max wasn’t,
Go back to Mexico. Don’t speak Spanish.
Little did they know little. Did they know the harder?
They push the harder. We push back.
Also singular chundo. I thought I thought of his name was soon at Casa.
We know one thing
FIFA points.
Thank you.