Harris County reports obtained by investigative journalist Wayne Dolcefino and shared with ReduceFlooding.com raise serious concerns about the integrity of the 2022 election. A video released by Dolcefino on 6/1/23 summarized some of the problems:
More than 100 polling locations turned people away.
119 polling locations did not open on time.
64 polling locations closed early.
62 polling locations ran out of ballot paper.
“The release of these documents details a horrific story of incompetence,” said Dolcefino.
And that was in an election where…
Just two votes per hour per precinct could have changed the outcome.
Dolcefino and Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale filed a lawsuit months ago to force transparency in election day communications after Judge Hidalgo and County Attorney Christian Menefee denied them the right to see public records relating to the election.
However, two spreadsheets that Dolcefino did obtain from Harris County detail issues reported by election judges and alternate judges at all 783 polling places.
The survey of judges and alternates produces a chilling picture of Election Day chaos.
The surveys were evidently conducted by the Harris County Election Administrator’s office. Why the County released these particular documents, but denied others, is a mystery.
Additional Analysis Reveals More Concerns
Regardless, additional analysis of the surveys revealed even more problems. They are widespread and affect both Democrats and Republicans.
I found that:
40% encountered one or more problems serious enough to discourage voting.
Surveys of precinct judges and alternates
To arrive at that percentage, I combined responses from both surveys. Then I subtracted all precincts where the judges reported NO problems or problems not serious enough to cause people to leave in frustration. That left 631 responses out of a total of 1566.
The most common problems included malfunctioning technology that could have contributed to long wait times.
Even though many locations ran out of ballot paper, others reported having far too much.
Some precincts shared ballot paper. Others were told they could not share.
Two-thirds of the judges and alternate judges reporting ballot-paper shortages were Republicans (88 out of 130).
Foster Elementary on 11/8/22. I interviewed several angry voters here. They complained about printing/scanning problems. During the time I was there, the line barely moved and no officials told voters they could vote at other nearby precincts.
Survey Comments Reveal Causes of Chaos
Diving down into the explanatory comments provided a more detailed image of what many might describe as chaos. Judges and alternates reported:
Turning away as many as 200 voters.
Running out of paper for 8 hours. Then getting a delivery 10 minutes before the poll closed. Or even after the poll closed.
Being “put on hold for hours” when requesting more paper.
Having to shut down the polling place because of lack of paper.
Some locations loaned extra paper to other locations; but others said they were not allowed to share surplus paper.
Long lines.
Machines breaking down and not being replaced despite multiple requests.
Paper jams.
Scanners shredding ballots.
Not enough scanners and scanners not working at many locations.
Being short-staffed.
Unqualified, combative workers with behavioral issues who were hostile to voters.
Not getting through on the help line.
Poor training that left workers unprepared.
One location had only six parking spots for voters.
Ballots printing twice.
No clerks, no keys to turn systems on, no one told them to set up the night before.
No signs identifying the polling location as a polling location.
Not receiving the notice of the court order to stay open an extra hour until after the location had already shut down.
The court order resulted from many locations opening late because of the other issues cited above.
Overall, both Democrat and Republican judges and alternate judges reported so many problems that they often couldn’t get through to the Election Administrator’s office to ask for help. Some were put on hold for hours.
Although Republican judges experienced more ballot-paper shortages, overall Democrats were as as likely to cite serious problems when considering all issues.
Uncertain Impact of Most Common Problems
The most common problems included malfunctioning technology, late opening, early closing, ballot paper shortages, and not getting help in a timely way.
They all added up to long lines and delays that can discourage people from voting. No one knows exactly how many voters:
Were turned away when machines broke down for hours.
Left in frustration after waiting in long lines that didn’t move.
Showed up at polling places that opened late or closed early.
Voted at an alternate location or just gave up and didn’t vote.
Complaints About the Workers
Another spreadsheet obtained from a separate source reviewed the performance of election personnel. It noted problems such as:
Refusing to process voters during the court-ordered additional hour of voting
Leaving the location without reporting numbers
Sexual harassment, flirting
Sleeping on the job
Not offering voters provisional ballots
Making racist comments
Rude, disrespectful behavior
Threatening to blow people up
Insight of Experienced Poll Judge
I asked one of the most experienced poll judges in Harris County to put these problems in perspective. Compared to previous elections, she rated the 2022 election much more problematic. Elections happen infrequently and, therefore, are staffed by large numbers of volunteers. But this year, she said, the county:
Supplemented the volunteers with laborers hired from temp agencies.
Introduced complicated new technology.
Allowed online training, which is less effective.
Eliminated many checks and balances.
Hired a new election administrator, unfamiliar with the area, just months before the election.
“You can’t make this complicated,” she emphasized. But the county did exactly that.
Unanswered Questions
The poll judge above also raised other questions not addressed by the newly released documents. For instance…
Provisional Voting
Provisional balloting, which happened during the extra hour between 7 and 8PM, takes a lot of time and requires special training and supplies. She suspected many polling places were not equipped to handle it. She also said…
Provisional voting drives voters away because they are told their vote might not count.
Poll Judge
The Election Reconciliation Report on HarrisVotes.com shows that during normal hours, people voted at the rate of more than 91,000 per hour. But during that extra hour, only 6,302 provisional ballots were submitted, and only 4,333 were counted. The voting rate fell off by more than 20X.
Did people just not hear about the extra hour? Had they already voted? Or were they deterred by the process? And why were thousands disqualified? We’ll never know.
Paper Shortages
Other questions: Did the ballot paper shortages relate to the length of the ballot? Were some precincts intentionally shortchanged? Or did untrained people picking up/distributing the paper just not know how much they needed? Again, we’ll never know.
But thousands of people waited in long lines while millions of sheets of ballot paper sat in a warehouse.
Mail In
Finally, what about mail-in ballots? We have no information about those except for the county’s reconciliation report. I know some people who requested mail-in ballots but never received them. Were they lost in the post office or never mailed?
The reported numbers don’t even add up. Approximately:
81,000 were sent out
26,000 were not returned by the voter or surrendered (returned when people decide to vote in person instead)
That should leave about 55,000 people who voted by mail.
But the county reported 64,259 who voted by mail.
And of those:
2,672 were rejected for unknown reasons
Only 61,264 went into the official count.
That’s a lot of unexplained rejections.
But explanations will not be forthcoming any time soon. Judge Hidalgo and Christian Menefee are fighting to keep election information secret.
Legislative Changes to Elections Office? NOT!
New Harris County Interim Administrator Diana Ramirez is reportedly considering restructuring the entire county government to expand equity. That includes implementing new elections mandates for Harris County. For instance, SB1750 would abolish the office of Elections Administrator in Harris County. The bill would transfer election functions back to the County Clerk and Tax Assessor Collector. SB 1750 has passed both houses and awaits the Governor’s signature.
Ramirez’ office is already planning the transition. One scenario under consideration is simply having Cliff Tatum, the current election administrator, report to the Clerk. It would appear that Harris County is stuck with Tatum and his team for now.
Is County Judge Lina Hidalgo considering keeping Tatum to keep a lid on more damning revelations about the 2022 election? That’s another question we will likely never know the answer to as Hidalgo fights – with taxpayer dollars – to keep her emails regarding election problems a secret.
1% vs. 40%
The record shows that Lina Hidalgo beat Alexandra Mealor in 2022 by 50.82% to 49.15%. The difference was a margin of 18,183 votes or a little more than 1% when 40% of the polling places experienced problems.
Just 23 ballots per precinct – 2 per hour – could have resulted in a different outcome.
Considering the sentiments of voters I interviewed at Foster Elementary in Kingwood (see picture above), it’s not hard to imagine three voters per hour dropping out of the line while waiting in the hot sun. Those frustrations could have easily made a difference in the outcome.
And that doesn’t even include the drop-off in voting during the provisional hour or the huge amount of mail-in ballots that were not returned or disqualified – more than 22,000!
But it looks like we’ll have Hidalgo for another four years. Her management skills have left their mark on one Harris County department after another. For instance, Flood Control has had four leaders in two years. And that’s why you’re reading about an election in a flood blog.
Posted by Bob Rehak on 6/3/2023
2104 Days since Hurricane Harvey
The thoughts expressed in this post represent opinions on matters of public concern and safety. They are protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution and the Anti-SLAPP Statute of the Great State of Texas.
According to the National Hurricane Center, a tropical depression has formed in the northeast Gulf of Mexico on this, the first day or hurricane season. The NHC gave the storm only a 10% chance of formation just two days ago. They upped that to 50% this morning. This afternoon, it turned into a tropical depression and should turn into a tropical storm by this evening.
Source: National Hurricane Center, Thursday June 1, 2023 at 4PM.
There is NO threat to the Texas coast and NO impacts are currently expected across the Texas coastal waters.
Jeff Lindner, Harris County Meteorologist
A USAF mission this afternoon along with coastal radars and ship/platform/buoy data indicate that the elongated area of low pressure over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico has become defined enough to be declared a tropical depression.
The plane found current wind speeds of 35mph. A tropical depression becomes a tropical storm when winds reach 39 – 73 mph.
WSW/SW upper-level winds are currently shearing the storm. Nearly all of the heavy weather is located to the north and northeast of the circulation.
Convection has been moderate today, but heavy thunderstorms near the center are possible tonight into early Friday.
The tropical depression is meandering over the northeast Gulf of Mexico, but will begin a slow southward motion on Friday and into the weekend as the depression becomes influenced by the western portion of a trough over the western Atlantic.
This is an unusual steering pattern over the eastern Gulf of Mexico. The more typical easterly or southerly steering patterns are not yet fully in place. Mid-latitude influences are still reaching well into the Gulf of Mexico. The depression will continue southward into the weekend.
Intensity Forecast
The system could gain modest organization before much stronger WNW/NW upper level winds impact the system late Friday into the weekend.
The depression could attain minimal tropical storm intensity by 8PM eastern time. However, beyond Friday, upper level winds will become increasingly hostile. The system will eventually dissipate over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, according to Lindner.
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The definition of “Waters of the U.S.” (WOTUS) is changing again thanks to a new ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. It could put half of the nation’s wetlands in peril and that could significantly affect flooding.
The Ping-Pong Match over Wetland Protection
I first started covering the definition of WOTUS in January of this year in a story about Biden’s changes to Trump’s changes to Obama’s changes.
The WOTUS definition defines the areas subject to EPA clean water regulations. At issue: How far up in the branching structure of a river may the government enforce regulations? As far as it’s navigable? One level up from that? Two? Three? Infinitely?
Clarity is a good thing. But the last time I looked up WOTUS, the definition stretched for more than 100-pages. It has changed numerous times since 2015. And different government agencies follow different definitions. Complexity, change, ambiguity and conflict now give bureaucrats and developers almost unlimited power to interpret definitions as they see fit.
Local Example of Damage
For instance, when the developers of Woodridge Village clearcut their property, filled in wetlands and sent tons of sludge down Taylor Gully into Lake Houston, the question became “Were they acting legally?” The developer found no wetlands on their property even though wetlands were clearly indicated on the USGS National Wetlands Inventory.
Complaints piled into the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps found that, even though the property contained wetlands, the wetlands lay outside the jurisdiction of the Corps to regulate.
Resident examines massive erosion on Woodridge Village flowing down Taylor Gully into Lake Houstonin 2019.
Bureaucratic Overreach?
The Trump-era definition, finalized in 2020, was long sought by developers who complained about federal overreach. They said the WOTUS definition stretched into gullies, creeks and wetlands on private property.
But Biden reversed the Trump definition and now the US Supreme Court has reversed the Biden definition. That makes the fourth time the rules have been reversed since 2015. Worse, the EPA and Corps use overlapping, but different rules.
And as far as I can tell, the limit of regulation does not vary with the magnitude of violation, a serious flaw in my opinion.
NYT Article Puts Most Recent Changes in Perspective
A New York Times essay by Jim Murphy of the National Wildlife Federation summarized the most recent changes. Says Murphy, “The Environmental Protection Agency has long interpreted the Clean Water Act as protecting most of the nation’s wetlands from pollution. But now the court has significantly limited the reach of the law…”
The Court’s new definition hinges on the wetlands having “a continuous surface connection” to bodies of water such as streams, rivers, lakes and oceans. At least half of the nation’s wetlands could lose protection under this ruling, which provides an even narrower definition of “protected waters” than the Trump administration had sought, according to Murphy.
Congress has long failed to clarify language in the Clean Water Act that caused confusion among judges and put the law in the Supreme Court’s cross hairs.
Wetlands are nature’s sponges. They act as natural detention basins that hold back stormwaters and that has a direct impact on flooding.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who filed a concurring opinion in the judgment, acknowledged its impact, writing that it would have “significant repercussions for water quality and flood control throughout the United States.”
How Revised Definition Could Affect Local Development
Need an example. Look no further than the Colony Ridge development in Liberty County, where the developer is filling in and paving over wetlands…some immediately adjacent to wetland mitigation banks.
Colony Ridge WetlandsColony Ridge wetlands being drained for development.
Many residents in adjoining communities such as Plum Grove and Huffman have complained bitterly about worsening flooding in their areas, which they attribute to such development practices.
I hope Congress can finally find a workable definition of WOTUS that protects public safety while allowing responsible development. The constantly changing definitions of WOTUS help no one.
Posted by Bob Rehak on 5/31/23
2101 Days since Hurricane Harvey
The thoughts expressed in this post represent opinions on matters of public concern and safety. They are protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution and the Anti-SLAPP Statute of the Great State of Texas.
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Newly Obtained Harris County Reports Raise Serious 2022 Election Concerns
Harris County reports obtained by investigative journalist Wayne Dolcefino and shared with ReduceFlooding.com raise serious concerns about the integrity of the 2022 election. A video released by Dolcefino on 6/1/23 summarized some of the problems:
“The release of these documents details a horrific story of incompetence,” said Dolcefino.
And that was in an election where…
Dolcefino and Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale filed a lawsuit months ago to force transparency in election day communications after Judge Hidalgo and County Attorney Christian Menefee denied them the right to see public records relating to the election.
However, two spreadsheets that Dolcefino did obtain from Harris County detail issues reported by election judges and alternate judges at all 783 polling places.
The survey of judges and alternates produces a chilling picture of Election Day chaos.
The surveys were evidently conducted by the Harris County Election Administrator’s office. Why the County released these particular documents, but denied others, is a mystery.
Additional Analysis Reveals More Concerns
Regardless, additional analysis of the surveys revealed even more problems. They are widespread and affect both Democrats and Republicans.
I found that:
To arrive at that percentage, I combined responses from both surveys. Then I subtracted all precincts where the judges reported NO problems or problems not serious enough to cause people to leave in frustration. That left 631 responses out of a total of 1566.
Survey Comments Reveal Causes of Chaos
Diving down into the explanatory comments provided a more detailed image of what many might describe as chaos. Judges and alternates reported:
The court order resulted from many locations opening late because of the other issues cited above.
Overall, both Democrat and Republican judges and alternate judges reported so many problems that they often couldn’t get through to the Election Administrator’s office to ask for help. Some were put on hold for hours.
Although Republican judges experienced more ballot-paper shortages, overall Democrats were as as likely to cite serious problems when considering all issues.
Uncertain Impact of Most Common Problems
The most common problems included malfunctioning technology, late opening, early closing, ballot paper shortages, and not getting help in a timely way.
They all added up to long lines and delays that can discourage people from voting. No one knows exactly how many voters:
Complaints About the Workers
Another spreadsheet obtained from a separate source reviewed the performance of election personnel. It noted problems such as:
Insight of Experienced Poll Judge
I asked one of the most experienced poll judges in Harris County to put these problems in perspective. Compared to previous elections, she rated the 2022 election much more problematic. Elections happen infrequently and, therefore, are staffed by large numbers of volunteers. But this year, she said, the county:
It all added up to too much change in too little time – a problem common to other Harris County departments.
“You can’t make this complicated,” she emphasized. But the county did exactly that.
Unanswered Questions
The poll judge above also raised other questions not addressed by the newly released documents. For instance…
Provisional Voting
Provisional balloting, which happened during the extra hour between 7 and 8PM, takes a lot of time and requires special training and supplies. She suspected many polling places were not equipped to handle it. She also said…
The Election Reconciliation Report on HarrisVotes.com shows that during normal hours, people voted at the rate of more than 91,000 per hour. But during that extra hour, only 6,302 provisional ballots were submitted, and only 4,333 were counted. The voting rate fell off by more than 20X.
Did people just not hear about the extra hour? Had they already voted? Or were they deterred by the process? And why were thousands disqualified? We’ll never know.
Paper Shortages
Other questions: Did the ballot paper shortages relate to the length of the ballot? Were some precincts intentionally shortchanged? Or did untrained people picking up/distributing the paper just not know how much they needed? Again, we’ll never know.
Mail In
Finally, what about mail-in ballots? We have no information about those except for the county’s reconciliation report. I know some people who requested mail-in ballots but never received them. Were they lost in the post office or never mailed?
The reported numbers don’t even add up. Approximately:
And of those:
That’s a lot of unexplained rejections.
But explanations will not be forthcoming any time soon. Judge Hidalgo and Christian Menefee are fighting to keep election information secret.
Legislative Changes to Elections Office? NOT!
New Harris County Interim Administrator Diana Ramirez is reportedly considering restructuring the entire county government to expand equity. That includes implementing new elections mandates for Harris County. For instance, SB1750 would abolish the office of Elections Administrator in Harris County. The bill would transfer election functions back to the County Clerk and Tax Assessor Collector. SB 1750 has passed both houses and awaits the Governor’s signature.
Ramirez’ office is already planning the transition. One scenario under consideration is simply having Cliff Tatum, the current election administrator, report to the Clerk. It would appear that Harris County is stuck with Tatum and his team for now.
Is County Judge Lina Hidalgo considering keeping Tatum to keep a lid on more damning revelations about the 2022 election? That’s another question we will likely never know the answer to as Hidalgo fights – with taxpayer dollars – to keep her emails regarding election problems a secret.
1% vs. 40%
The record shows that Lina Hidalgo beat Alexandra Mealor in 2022 by 50.82% to 49.15%. The difference was a margin of 18,183 votes or a little more than 1% when 40% of the polling places experienced problems.
Just 23 ballots per precinct – 2 per hour – could have resulted in a different outcome.
Considering the sentiments of voters I interviewed at Foster Elementary in Kingwood (see picture above), it’s not hard to imagine three voters per hour dropping out of the line while waiting in the hot sun. Those frustrations could have easily made a difference in the outcome.
And that doesn’t even include the drop-off in voting during the provisional hour or the huge amount of mail-in ballots that were not returned or disqualified – more than 22,000!
But it looks like we’ll have Hidalgo for another four years. Her management skills have left their mark on one Harris County department after another. For instance, Flood Control has had four leaders in two years. And that’s why you’re reading about an election in a flood blog.
Posted by Bob Rehak on 6/3/2023
2104 Days since Hurricane Harvey
The thoughts expressed in this post represent opinions on matters of public concern and safety. They are protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution and the Anti-SLAPP Statute of the Great State of Texas.
Tropical Depression 2 on Day 1 of Hurricane Season
According to the National Hurricane Center, a tropical depression has formed in the northeast Gulf of Mexico on this, the first day or hurricane season. The NHC gave the storm only a 10% chance of formation just two days ago. They upped that to 50% this morning. This afternoon, it turned into a tropical depression and should turn into a tropical storm by this evening.
A USAF mission this afternoon along with coastal radars and ship/platform/buoy data indicate that the elongated area of low pressure over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico has become defined enough to be declared a tropical depression.
The plane found current wind speeds of 35mph. A tropical depression becomes a tropical storm when winds reach 39 – 73 mph.
WSW/SW upper-level winds are currently shearing the storm. Nearly all of the heavy weather is located to the north and northeast of the circulation.
Convection has been moderate today, but heavy thunderstorms near the center are possible tonight into early Friday.
The depression has drifted slowly this afternoon. Little forward motion is expected tonight. See visible satellite loop: Visible Satellite Loop for Invest 91L | Tropical Tidbits.
Track Will Take Storm Toward Cuba
The tropical depression is meandering over the northeast Gulf of Mexico, but will begin a slow southward motion on Friday and into the weekend as the depression becomes influenced by the western portion of a trough over the western Atlantic.
This is an unusual steering pattern over the eastern Gulf of Mexico. The more typical easterly or southerly steering patterns are not yet fully in place. Mid-latitude influences are still reaching well into the Gulf of Mexico. The depression will continue southward into the weekend.
Intensity Forecast
The system could gain modest organization before much stronger WNW/NW upper level winds impact the system late Friday into the weekend.
The depression could attain minimal tropical storm intensity by 8PM eastern time. However, beyond Friday, upper level winds will become increasingly hostile. The system will eventually dissipate over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, according to Lindner.
The first subtropical storm of the year actually formed in late January, in case you were wondering. Despite the early start, the NHC still predicts a near normal hurricane season.
Posted by Bob Rehak on 6/1/2023
2102 Days since Hurricane Harvey
How a Controversial, Little Understood Definition Affects Flooding
The definition of “Waters of the U.S.” (WOTUS) is changing again thanks to a new ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. It could put half of the nation’s wetlands in peril and that could significantly affect flooding.
The Ping-Pong Match over Wetland Protection
I first started covering the definition of WOTUS in January of this year in a story about Biden’s changes to Trump’s changes to Obama’s changes.
The WOTUS definition defines the areas subject to EPA clean water regulations. At issue: How far up in the branching structure of a river may the government enforce regulations? As far as it’s navigable? One level up from that? Two? Three? Infinitely?
Clarity is a good thing. But the last time I looked up WOTUS, the definition stretched for more than 100-pages. It has changed numerous times since 2015. And different government agencies follow different definitions. Complexity, change, ambiguity and conflict now give bureaucrats and developers almost unlimited power to interpret definitions as they see fit.
Local Example of Damage
For instance, when the developers of Woodridge Village clearcut their property, filled in wetlands and sent tons of sludge down Taylor Gully into Lake Houston, the question became “Were they acting legally?” The developer found no wetlands on their property even though wetlands were clearly indicated on the USGS National Wetlands Inventory.
Complaints piled into the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps found that, even though the property contained wetlands, the wetlands lay outside the jurisdiction of the Corps to regulate.
Bureaucratic Overreach?
The Trump-era definition, finalized in 2020, was long sought by developers who complained about federal overreach. They said the WOTUS definition stretched into gullies, creeks and wetlands on private property.
But Biden reversed the Trump definition and now the US Supreme Court has reversed the Biden definition. That makes the fourth time the rules have been reversed since 2015. Worse, the EPA and Corps use overlapping, but different rules.
And as far as I can tell, the limit of regulation does not vary with the magnitude of violation, a serious flaw in my opinion.
NYT Article Puts Most Recent Changes in Perspective
A New York Times essay by Jim Murphy of the National Wildlife Federation summarized the most recent changes. Says Murphy, “The Environmental Protection Agency has long interpreted the Clean Water Act as protecting most of the nation’s wetlands from pollution. But now the court has significantly limited the reach of the law…”
The Court’s new definition hinges on the wetlands having “a continuous surface connection” to bodies of water such as streams, rivers, lakes and oceans. At least half of the nation’s wetlands could lose protection under this ruling, which provides an even narrower definition of “protected waters” than the Trump administration had sought, according to Murphy.
Congress has long failed to clarify language in the Clean Water Act that caused confusion among judges and put the law in the Supreme Court’s cross hairs.
Wetlands are nature’s sponges. They act as natural detention basins that hold back stormwaters and that has a direct impact on flooding.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who filed a concurring opinion in the judgment, acknowledged its impact, writing that it would have “significant repercussions for water quality and flood control throughout the United States.”
How Revised Definition Could Affect Local Development
Need an example. Look no further than the Colony Ridge development in Liberty County, where the developer is filling in and paving over wetlands…some immediately adjacent to wetland mitigation banks.
Many residents in adjoining communities such as Plum Grove and Huffman have complained bitterly about worsening flooding in their areas, which they attribute to such development practices.
I hope Congress can finally find a workable definition of WOTUS that protects public safety while allowing responsible development. The constantly changing definitions of WOTUS help no one.
Posted by Bob Rehak on 5/31/23
2101 Days since Hurricane Harvey
The thoughts expressed in this post represent opinions on matters of public concern and safety. They are protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution and the Anti-SLAPP Statute of the Great State of Texas.