@RodneyEllis is Corrupt. @LesleyBrionesTX is Corrupt. @AdrianGarciaHTX is Corrupt. @AbbieKamin didn’t earn her role but instead got appointed by Rodney’s Mafia.
@LACountyRRCC How do we know that this guy isn’t going to throw these things away or alter the ballots for certain areas like Santa Clarita, BH, Gateway Cities and the SFV? Where are the independent monitors from both parties?
What a beautiful family you two have. I wish them nothing but success. Hopefully they go no contact and distance themselves from their corrupt parents who override the will of the voters and raise taxes 7.6% while simultaneously raising their own salary from $183,000 to $305,000.
@grok What are the single most effective ways to hold a tyrannical local government accountable when they raise taxes 7.6%; max rate without voter approval. Raise their salaries from $183K to $305K who hires their friends and allies for $411,000 in a gerrymandered map they drew?
@KarnifexMaximus On the bright side at 72yo his gut and high cholesterol will hopefully do their thing. I can’t wait for that day, I will be taking a nice long vacation. He’s been this size for 40+ years and he’s getting more fluffy 😁
ATTENTION EVERYONE; Harris County Commissioners said a 7.6% tax hike is your only option. Their own 128-page budget says otherwise.
I spent 100+ hours going through everything. What I found:
• $93.4M sitting unspent by the 5 of them right now (p.72) — added to the budget AFTER public comment ends
• Their own $25M hiring freeze got cut to $5M this year (p.74)
• 13 officials getting raises to $305K (p.101)
•Their own budget says 80/20 healthcare cost-share is standard — they still cover 90%+ (p.16)
This is a deficit of choice, not necessity. Stop blaming Trump. Look at page 72.
@RodneyEllis@adriangarciaHTX@LesleyBrionesTX@HCP4__Briones@HCPrecinct4 — explain the $93.4M.
ATTENTION EVERYONE; Harris County Commissioners said a 7.6% tax hike is your only option. Their own 128-page budget says otherwise.
I spent 100+ hours going through everything. What I found:
• $93.4M sitting unspent by the 5 of them right now (p.72) — added to the budget AFTER public comment ends
• Their own $25M hiring freeze got cut to $5M this year (p.74)
• 13 officials getting raises to $305K (p.101)
•Their own budget says 80/20 healthcare cost-share is standard — they still cover 90%+ (p.16)
This is a deficit of choice, not necessity. Stop blaming Trump. Look at page 72.
@RodneyEllis@adriangarciaHTX@LesleyBrionesTX@HCP4__Briones@HCPrecinct4 — explain the $93.4M.
@grok@LesleyBrionesTX Like other commissioners, a majority of her high-dollar donations come from county vendors; she states they do not influence contracts and follows disclosure rules. No hidden dealings found beyond standard public records. Break this down, give more details, think critically
@grok Can you do deep expert analyst level research on @LesleyBrionesTX and describe everything about her scandals, dig deep, look at a lot of things and return results that perhaps no one supposed to know about her and her dealings with county government. Think critically like Opus
@grok Can you do deep expert analyst level research on @RodneyEllis and describe everything about his scandals, dig deep, look at a lot of things and return results that perhaps no one supposed to know about him and his dealings with county government. Think critically like Opus
Yes. On September 10, 2001, George H.W. Bush attended the Carlyle Group's annual investor conference at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C. Shafiq bin Laden, a half-brother of Osama bin Laden, also attended that conference (Bush left the next morning before the attacks). This is documented in contemporaneous reports and timelines from outlets including the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.
@GrooganFox26@FOX26Houston Not only is @RodneyEllis responsible. His questionable dealings that the usual Harris County Mafia members were apart of his special H-E-B deal while FORCING a 7.6% tax increase without voter approval that @LesleyBrionesTX and @AdrianGarciaHTX are complicit and enabling this!
Waterman Steele (https://t.co/7Ar2mtyQof) is a Houston commercial real estate advisory firm founded 2006. Behind it: Managing Partner Tami Pearson; Partners Licia Green (wife of Harris County Comm. Rodney Ellis; also Pres/CEO of the Group) and Lance Gilliam (ex-HHA chair).
They handle brokerage, tenant rep, public-private partnerships for retail, schools, nonprofits, gov agencies—focusing on affordable housing, food deserts, community projects.
Recent deals: 2100 Memorial senior housing (w/ Columbia Residential + Houston Housing Authority); H-E-B Third Ward PPP; YES Prep/Montessori sites; Pyburn's grocery; various leases (e.g. Old Spanish Trail). Ties: Licia Green-Ellis to Ellis; Gilliam to HHA deals (incl. $650k commission on 800 Middle St. land).
ATTENTION EVERYONE; Harris County Commissioners said a 7.6% tax hike is your only option. Their own 128-page budget says otherwise.
I spent 100+ hours going through everything. What I found:
• $93.4M sitting unspent by the 5 of them right now (p.72) — added to the budget AFTER public comment ends
• Their own $25M hiring freeze got cut to $5M this year (p.74)
• 13 officials getting raises to $305K (p.101)
•Their own budget says 80/20 healthcare cost-share is standard — they still cover 90%+ (p.16)
This is a deficit of choice, not necessity. Stop blaming Trump. Look at page 72.
@RodneyEllis@adriangarciaHTX@LesleyBrionesTX@HCP4__Briones@HCPrecinct4 — explain the $93.4M.
Rodney if only you, @LesleyBrionesTX@HCP4__Briones@HCPrecinct4@AdrianGarciaHTX@AbbieKamin@LinaHidalgoTX@letitiaplummer Hayden got greedy, especially in a year that you keep saying that this is an existential crisis against republicans, yada yada yada, yet the mob boss could not help himself and chose to go forward with a 7.6% tax increase without voter approval. Greed.
@EricaSLeeCarter from what I understand, your job is to promote transparency and for $411,000 we know Uncle Rodney appointed you. Are you qualified? Maybe, but for $411,000, almost NO ONE in the federal government makes that. I don’t wanna bring you into this, but I’m tired of Rodney’s corruption while FORCING A 7.6% INCREASE. Why don’t you be transparent about all of Rodney’s dealings, and I know you’re not going to, but understand he just could not help himself. He didn’t think 7.6% with out voter approval during supposedly the most existential year for the Democrats ever, because Orange man bad and Talarico, and Hinojosa need to win; then the mob boss does this? @HCP4__Briones@TomSRamsey2@LinaHidalgoTX@letitiaplummer I will not stop, I will not quit!
@KHOU@FOX26Houston@BillKingHouston Where is the story on this? Rodney lets an H-E-B open in a special district that his wife structures the store. Are you kidding me? And then he thinks that he’s gonna raise at 7.6% without voter approval and then start talking about how this is our moral obligation. No, it’s not. It’s so Rodney can keep hiring his friends!!!!!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡