Houston, we have a problem.
A campaign ad by Houston mayoral candidate Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) encouraged her supporters to go to the polls, but not on Election Day.
A graph in 30 second ad tells voters to cast their ballots “on or before Dec. 7” in Jackson Lee’s runoff against Democratic Texas state Sen. John Whitmire, but the election is scheduled for Dec. 9.
Any potential voters who show up at the polls on December 7 will not be able to cast their ballot, as Harris County’s 41 early voting centers close on December 5 and do not reopen until Election Day.
Jackson Lee’s campaign did not immediately respond to the Post’s request for comment.
In the otherwise brilliant campaign ad, the Democratic congresswoman touts spending “her entire career fighting for you.”
“From fighting to keep our children safe from guns when I was on the city council to my days in Congress, fighting to protect women’s reproductive freedom and for funding our police, schools and small businesses,” she said .
“Now I am running to be your mayor. Because if we want to reduce crime, fix our streets, and create good-paying jobs here, then Houston needs a champion who is ready to fight for what’s right. And I am.”
Jackson Lee, a veteran politician, has spent 28 years in Congress representing the Lone Star State’s 18th Congressional District.
He is running for re-election to Congress in 2024, as well as for the mayor of Houston. He announced his candidacy for mayor in March.
Jackson Lee advanced to the runoff after winning 35.6% of the vote in the November 7 election. Whitmire, the longest-serving member of the Texas State Senate, received 42.5% of the vote in the crowded 16-person field.
The second round of the Houston mayoral election is December 9.
Jackson Lee was once named the “baddest” member of Congress. AP
Jackson Lee, once considered the baddest member of Congress by Washingtonian magazine, temporarily resigned from her positions as chair of the House criminal justice subcommittee and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in 2019 after a former employee filed a lawsuit claiming she was fired. by Jackson Lee after filing a sexual assault complaint against a supervisor of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
The lawsuit was dismissed in 2020.
Jackson Lee also came under fire in October after she was recorded cursing and berating a staff member.
In the leaked audio tape, Jackson Lee accuses the assistant of not having a “damn brain” and yells several expletives at her for apparently handing a document to another staff member instead of having it with him when she requested it.
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