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District B residents want runoff for council seat back on schedule

Vote here or anywhere in Harris County.
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Many District B residents are upset that their runoff election is being postponed. However, current councilman Jerry Davis said he will not abandon his district until this matter is resolved.

Members of the Texas Organizing Project took their protests to City Hall to demand the runoff election for District B move forward as planned. The County Clerk postponed District B’s runoff because of a legal challenge involving candidate Cynthia Bailey.

“They’re upset, very upset,” said District B councilman, Jerry Davis. “They want representation in that office and I will do my best to be there for them until the new councilmember elect comes in.”

Davis is leaving office because of term limits, but he said the Texas Constitution will allow him to remain in office if the matter is not resolved by the beginning of next year.

Bailey was set to face Tarsha Jackson in the runoff, but the third-place finisher in the race, Renee Jefferson-Smith, is challenging Bailey’s candidacy since she is a convicted felon. State law reads convicted felons cannot run for public office, but Bailey is challenging that; claiming she is not prohibited from running for office by the city’s charter and the so-called “home rule” should take precedence.

“I’m prepared whatever comes my way because I believe what’s for me is for me,” said Bailey. “I paid my debt to society, I’m qualified citizen and a voter.”

A hearing on the legal challenge to Bailey’s candidacy has not yet been scheduled

Smith and her attorney have criticized the city for not removing Bailey from the ballot prior to the November 5 election

 

  • Date/time: December 31st, 7:00pm to 11:00pm

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Media mogul, Bob Johnson offers advice to Democrats

Media mogul and Co-Founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), Robert Johnson gave an exclusive interview to CNBC this week and didn’t hold his words in discussing the presidential election and his predictions of the outcome.

“I think the president has always been in a position where it’s his to lose based on his bringing a sort of disruptive force into what would be called political norms,” says Johnson, who founded RLJ Companies business network, told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble.

Johnson further explains in the sit-down interview that Trump “brings his style” to the way he handles governmental issues. “That’s something that the president’s supporters like and the reason why they voted for him and will do so again next year,” added Johnson.

Believing that Trump has the enact ability to “dominate the news cycle” is what allows him to hold an advantage over the Democrats that plan to run against him. Often moving in a reactionary form, Democrats are often agitated over something that the president says or tweets, often taking them off their game. In addition, Johnson believes that “none of the Democratic presidential candidates appear to be “enough in the center” where most voters are, particularly African-American voters.”

ou might recall, in September, Johnson went on another CNBC show expressing support for Donald Trump, saying “There used to be an old saying, that ‘When White America catches a cold, African-Americans get pneumonia,’” he explained in the interview. “It’s going the opposite way now. White unemployment is going down, [and] African-American unemployment is going down. That’s a plus-plus that you can’t argue with.”

“I give the president credit for doing positive things; when I see a president doing positive things, particularly for African Americans,” added Johnson.

Even with the recorded previous praise for Donald Trump; Johnson continues to describe himself as a longtime Democrat who has always been a man that speaks his mind no matter the outcome. 


 

The Group of Frogs

short inspirational story: the group of frogs

A group of frogs were traveling through the forest when two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that there was no hope left for them.

However, the two frogs ignored their comrades and proceeded to try to jump out of the pit. However, despite their efforts, the group of frogs at the top of the pit were still saying that they should just give up as they’d never make it out.

Eventually, one of the frogs took heed of what the others were saying and he gave up, jumping even deeper to his death. The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the group of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and to just die.

He ignored them, and jumped even harder and finally made it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, “Did you not hear us?”

The frog explained to them that he was deaf, and that he thought they were encouraging him the entire time.

Moral of the story: People’s words can have a huge effect on the lives of others. Therefore, you should think about what you’re going to say before it comes out of your mouth – it might just be the difference between life and death.

 

 

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PVAMU an ‘institution of the first class’

Prairie View A&M University is the second oldest public institution of higher education in the state of Texas. It is a historically Black college/university (HBCU) that, since its inception in 1876, has opened its doors to any and every person – inside and outside of Texas – seeking a quality, first-class, four-year university experience. 

The university is situated on one of the most beautiful campuses in the country in a rural part of Texas. We like to say that PVAMU is in the middle of nowhere but the Center of Everywhere. The university is an hour drive from Houston (the fourth largest city in the United States), a two-hour drive from Austin and a three-hour drive from both Dallas and San Antonio. 

Mentioned in the Texas State Constitution as an “institution of the first class,” PVAMU began as an industrial school for African Americans but has evolved to meet changing societal demands. Through its seven colleges and the School of Architecture, PVAMU boasts more than 50 degree programs, including engineering, natural sciences, the arts, business, nursing, and criminal and juvenile justice to name a few. It has over 70,000 proud alumni around the world who are engaged in their communities and making an impact across the nation. 

PVAMU prepares students not only to lead in their communities but also to succeed in a global marketplace. Expanded foreign language offerings now include Arabic and Mandarin Chinese, and study abroad programs focus on building global leaders through classroom instruction, cultural training, arts and service-learning projects.

The university prides itself on producing student-athletes who excel on and off the field. More than 100 PVAMU athletes received All-Academic Team honors, recognizing student-athletes who have maintained a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or better during the academic school year. Our NCAA Division 1 programs enjoy a multi-million-dollar sports complex which opened in 2016 and includes a 15,000-seat football stadium, track, baseball, softball and soccer fields.

POINTS OF DISTINCTION

More African American three-star flag officers, including seven Army generals and two Navy admirals, have attended PVAMU than any other school. The NROTC and AROTC programs celebrated their 50thanniversary this year. 

PVAMU joined a prestigious group of institutions designated as All-Steinway schools in 2016. 

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awardedPVAMUa grant of $500,000 to support its effort to establish an African American Studies Initiative which will be housed in its Marvin D. and June Samuel Brailsford College of Arts and Sciences. Inspired by the Mellon Foundation award, an anonymous donor pledged an added $250,000 to help fund this Initiative. This generous donation is eligible for a $250,000 university match, bringing the total support for the Initiative’s launch to $1 million.

Learn more about PVAMU at  http://www.pvamu.edu/academics/and www.pvamu.edu

 

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    White House says it won’t participate in impeachment hearing

    President Donald Trump walks to the White House as he arrives on the South Lawn, Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in Washington. Trump is returning from a vacation to Bedminster, N.J. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

     The White House declared Sunday it would not participate in the first impeachment hearings before the House Judiciary Committee as Democrats prepared to approve their report Tuesday making the case for President Donald Trump’s removal from office.

    The Democratic majority on the House Intelligence Committee says its report will speak for itself in laying out possible charges of bribery or “high crimes and misdemeanors,” the constitutional standard for impeachment. After receiving the report, the Judiciary Committee would prepare actual charges.

    That committee’s first hearing was already set for Wednesday and was expected to feature four legal experts who will examine questions of constitutional grounds as the committee decides whether to write articles of impeachment against Trump, and if so, what those articles would be.

    The White House was invited to attend the Wednesday hearing, but its counsel declined in a fiery letter released Sunday evening.

    “This baseless and highly partisan inquiry violates all past historical precedent, basic due process rights, and fundamental fairness,” said White House counsel Pat Cipollone, continuing the West Wing’s attack on the procedural form of the impeachment proceedings. Trump himself was scheduled to attend a summit with NATO allies outside London on Wednesday.

    Cipollone’s letter applied only to the Wednesday hearing, and he demanded more information from Democrats on how they intended to conduct further hearings before Trump would decide whether to participate in those hearings. House-passed rules provide the president and his attorneys the right to cross-examine witnesses and review evidence before the committee, but little ability to bring forward witnesses of their own.

    Republicans, meanwhile, wanted Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the Intelligence Committee, to testify before the Judiciary Committee, though they have no power to compel him to do so, as they joined the White House effort to try to cast the Democratic-led inquiry as skewed against the Republican president.

    “If he chooses not to (testify), then I really question his veracity in what he’s putting in his report,” said Rep. Doug Collins, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee.

    “It’s easy to hide behind a report,” Collins added. “But it’s going to be another thing to actually get up and have to answer questions.”

    Schiff has said “there’s nothing for me to testify about,” that he isn’t a “fact” witness and that Republicans are only trying to “mollify the president, and that’s not a good reason to try to call a member of Congress as a witness.”

    Coming after two weeks of public testimony and two months of investigation, the findings of the Intelligence Committee report were not yet publicly known. But the report was expected to focus mostly on whether Trump abused his office by withholding military aid approved by Congress and a White House meeting as he pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to launch investigations into Trump’s political rivals.

    Democrats also were expected to include an article on obstruction of Congress that outlines Trump’s instructions to officials in his administration to defy subpoenas for documents or testimony.

    Democrats were aiming for a final House vote by Christmas, which would set the stage for a likely Senate trial in January.

    “I do believe that all evidence certainly will be included in that report so the Judiciary Committee can make the necessary decisions that they need to,” said Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., a member of both the Intelligence and Judiciary committees.

    She said Democrats had not yet finalized witnesses for the upcoming Judiciary hearings and were waiting to hear back from Trump on his plans to present a defense.

    “If he has not done anything wrong, we’re certainly anxious to hear his explanation of that,” Demings said.

    Trump has previously suggested that he might be willing to offer written testimony under certain conditions, though aides suggested they did not anticipate Democrats would ever agree to them.

    “The Democrats are holding the most ridiculous Impeachment hearings in history. Read the Transcripts, NOTHING was done or said wrong!” Trump tweeted Saturday.

    Democrats had pressed Trump to decide by Friday whether he would take advantage of due process protections afforded to him under House rules adopted in October for follow-up hearings, including the right to request witness testimony and to cross-examine the witnesses called by the House.

    “If you are serious about conducting a fair process going forward, and in order to protect the rights and privileges of the President, we may consider participating in future Judiciary Committee proceedings if you afford the Administration the ability to do so meaningfully,” Cipollone said in the Sunday letter.

    “Why would they want to participate in just another rerun?” asked Collins, D-Ga., noting that the Judiciary Committee previously heard from constitutional scholars on impeachable offenses during special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

    “This is a complete American waste of time of here,” said Collins, who is calling on the committee chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., to expand the witness list to include those sought by Republicans. “This is why this is a problematic exercise and simply a made-for-TV event coming on Wednesday.”

    Still, Republican Rep. Tom McClintock of California, a Judiciary Committee member, said he believes Trump would benefit if he presents his own defense.

    “I think it would be to the president’s advantage to have his attorneys there. That’s his right,” he said.

    McClintock said he doesn’t believe Trump did anything wrong in the July 25 call with Zelenskiy that is at the heart of the investigation.

    “He didn’t use the delicate language of diplomacy in that conversation, that’s true. He also doesn’t use the smarmy talk of politicians,” McClintock said.

    To McClintock, Trump was using “the blunt talk of a Manhattan businessman” and “was entirely within his constitutional authority” in his dealings with Ukraine’s leader.

    Collins appeared on “Fox News Sunday” and Demings and McClintock were on ABC’s “This Week.”

     

     

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