FALSE: Harris County Democrats had the lowest general election turnout in a decade, despite record registration.

Source: Houston Landing, 11/7/24

Source: Harris County Clerk’s Office, 11/5/24

FALSE: Harris County ranked THIRD in voter turnout among major Texas counties, behind Tarrant and Travis counties.

Source: Harris County Office of County Administration, Research and Analysis Division (RAD), 12/19/24; Public Tableau, Updated 4/2/25

FALSE: Harris County ranked FOURTH for top of the ticket performance at the presidential level.

Source: Texas Tribune, 11/05/24

FALSE: In 2024, Democrats lost 9 of the 17 contested Harris County judicial races, reversing a full sweep in 2020 of the 15 contested races and losing all Court of Appeals seats previously won in 2018.

Other down ballot losses

Source: Harris County Clerk’s Office, 11/5/24 

FALSE: Less than 50% of Harris County precincts have a Democratic precinct chair.

• Harris County has 1,172 precincts.
• According to the Texas Secretary of State, as of February 7, Harris County has only 576 Democratic precinct chairs.
• When the Incumbent began his term in 2023, there were approximately 500 Democratic precinct chairs.
• Over the course of his tenure, that reflects an increase of roughly 76 chairs in total, or about 5% per year.
• That averages to approximately two new precinct chairs per month in the largest county in Texas.

Recruitment at this pace does not meet the scale or needs of Harris County.

Source: Texas Secretary of State, accessed 2026; Harris County Democratic Party Precinct Chair list, 2023

FALSE: Public reporting indicates that 18 months into the Incumbent’s term, the Party had fewer than 100 volunteers. A surge occurred only after the national ticket change with Kamala Harris in July 2024, and reached ~1,500 just weeks before the general election.

• Claims that the volunteer database grew from approximately 1,500 to 5,000 after a presidential cycle loss (the worst in a decade) are inconsistent with the publicly documented figures and have not been reflected in year round organizing on the ground.
• If this claim were true, precinct chairs and candidates should have seen a year-round plan built around that list.

Leadership should be measured by active, trained, deployed volunteers, not database size.

Source: Houstonia, 9/23/24

FALSE: $3.4 million does not represent a doubling of $2.1 million raised under the prior Chair, which was achieved during a midterm election cycle with lower baseline turnout.

• The Incumbent has been in office since 2023 and claims to have raised $3.4 million in 3 years (with a presidential cycle), while the previous Chair raised $2.1 million in 2 years during a midterm cycle.
• However, campaign finance filings show the Party took out two loans totaling $75,000 in 2025 indicating post-election cash-flow shortfalls.

Source: Houston Chronicle, 2/1/23; Texas Ethics Commission Public Finance Report, 7/15/25 (pg. 86)

RED FLAG: Fundraising is a core responsibility of the Harris County Democratic Party chair.

• A Chair who is actively fundraising for the Party should be able to demonstrate effective fundraising capacity personally and organizationally.
• For this campaign, the Incumbent has raised less than $1,000 from anyone other than himself.
• Self-funding ≠ fundraising. Leadership is built, not bought.

• Raising funds for one’s own campaign demonstrates the ability to build donor trust, communicate a compelling vision, and mobilize supporters.

Source: Texas Ethics Commission Public Finance Report, 2/2/26 (pg. 4)