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It's that time.

Lock and load.

The Michael Derry Show is on the air. The entire The entirety of the time I came to Houston from 1989,

Commissioner's Court was Republicans.

Harris County is a massive county.

It's broken into four districts.

They're called precincts.

For the sake of conversation, let's call it north.

Let's call it northwest, northeast, southwest, southeast.

Not exactly accurate, but close enough.

And then you have what is the equivalent of the mayor for the county who doesn't represent

a precinct is known as the county judge.

That's Lena Hidalgo.

The entirety of the time I was here, almost the entirety of it, it was four Republicans,

three of the four precincts and the county judge.

That was John Lindsay,

then that was Robert Eccles, and then that was Ed Emmett. And then there was a fluke.

Emmett was beaten by Lena Hidalgo. It was a Democrat turnout, nobody saw it coming. I had

Democrats call me the next morning. Who is Lena Hidalgo?

Hell, if I know, you are a Democrat. People would be shocked to know you just asked me that question. We never heard of her.

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