Side-by-side look at the Harris County judge candidates: Lina Hidalgo and Alexandra del Moral Mealer. Do you know your candidates? MORE:
This is due to Hidalgo facing scrutiny over allegations of not doing enough to combat a rise in crime and an ongoing lawsuit over an
. FOX 26 recently learned that very contract, after obtaining financial documents, appeared to be used for political-mining purposes. FOX 26 contributor Bill King, who obtained the documents from the Harris County Auditor, noted something of particular interest in the invoices from three highly focused software companies. . "They were all companies that specialize, that provide data services to Democratic campaigns that obviously has nothing to do with COVID.
Simultaneously, Mealer has been hammering away at Hidalgo on the crucial issue of crime control. This comes on the heels of a budget agreement for 2023 that failed to occur due to two county commissioners refusing to attend the hearings. Hidalgo claimed the additional money was necessary to fund pay raises and to expand health care in Harris County and law enforcement programs. The plan was meant to give law enforcement officers an 8.
"What has happened now that they refused to show up is that we have now defaulted to an even lower tax rate, which means we don't have the revenue we need to maintain basic services," she said. "There simply isn't money for that. We were going to give you an 8.25% raise. Now, it's going to be 4%. We will no longer have an additional 35 investigators or an additional cadet class for the sheriff's office.
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