Gina Ortiz Jones
Former U.S. Air Force Under Secretary Gina Ortiz Jones, who has long been rumored as a potential 2025 mayoral contender, launched a campaign website this week.
Jones served as Under Secretary of the U.S. Air Force under the Biden Administration, and twice ran for Congress as a Democrat in Texas 23rd Congressional District — back when the district was considered a top battleground on the House map.
Most recently, she’s been focused on a political action committee that sought to unseat three Texas Supreme Court justices who helped pave the way for the state’s abortion restrictions.
That effort garnered some attention from national Democrats, including U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), but all three Republican judges were reelected in November.
Jones would be joining a field of more than a dozen potential candidates, including three sitting council members.
Candidates can’t formally file to run in the May 3 municipal election until Jan. 16, but many have filed treasurer’s reports to allow them to start raising money.
The Find Out PAC didn’t succeed but I appreciated the effort, which frankly was more than quite a few incumbents did. That it didn’t work this times doesn’t mean it would never work. There’s no reason not to keep at it.
I don’t have a dog in this fight but Ortiz Jones is a familiar name and there’s not much else of interest on the election calendar for 2025 – no city of Houston elections, and sadly Dallas doesn’t get to correct its Mayoral error until 2027. If they want to take another shot at a recall petition, I’ll be up for that. Mostly what I want out of SA’s Mayoral race is for them to avoid this kind of screwup. I hope that’s an achievable goal. The Current has more.
(Yes, there might be another effort to pass an HISD bond, possibly in May. I will of course watch for that. There’s also the whiny sore loser judicial election contest do-over, also in May, if an appellate court doesn’t step in. That would be genuinely substantive, if it does happen.)
Regarding the “Find out PAC”, I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of TV ads I saw regarding SCOTX, and it wasn’t because the TV was off. Lost count of the Allred vs Cruz ads, and could recite the script with them when they played. Where was this pac pushing their message?
Have you considered that the “Feticide-über-alles” message may have been off-putting and may actually have helped the Republican incumbents?
Why is it so hard for Democratic activists to appreciate that abortion is an unpleasant matter, even for many people that are for less regulation and acknowledge that it’s “needed” under some circumstances? Ideas about “need” and justifications may vary.
Too brainwashed perhaps? Too reality-remote?
I mean, just visualize it. Physical vagina invasion by a small-body snatchers, or something coming out that looks like a little naked helpless human (or homuculus), but dead, to be discarded, not crying and not marking to beginning of parenthood, something that means a lot still to many folks but not enough of us. Then you have women who are running out of fertility but can no longer find the “right” man for the longterm commitment having thrown away their best years to partying and hookups.
And all the while you are supposed to applaud at the production of dead fetuses and vote for the party that promotes it.
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Leaving aside the ethics (morality) of feticide (absence thereof, depending on viewpoint) … have you checked the birthrate lately? Westernized societies are doomed, Japan already below 1.4 when replacement calls for 2.1.
We are headed for demographic collapse but Democrats are celebrating population reduction via elective feticide.
The position is Pro-Choice not Pro-Abortion, Wolfie.
“We are headed for demographic collapse but Democrats are celebrating population reduction via elective feticide.”
Some of the women whose pregnancies went toxic and who were denied abortions under the current law may not be able to get pregnant again, because of complications like scarred Fallopian tubes. The law prioritizes prolonging the heartbeat of a doomed and dying fetus over a woman’s health, her future fertility, even her life. That tells me it’s more “pro-control” as opposed to “pro-natal”.
Also I never hear all the demographic collapse types address the serious ongoing degradation of the planet’s carrying capacity. When the wet bulb temperatures get too high in a place, humans can’t live there anymore.