Posted on 10/27/2022 12:13:26 PM PDT by absalom01
According to auditor’s records, Harris County has not yet recovered more than $1 million paid for a since-canceled COVID-19 vaccine outreach contract tied to the felony indictments of County Judge Lina Hidalgo’s staff.
In addition, invoices indicate that the contractor paid more than half a million of the taxpayer funds to data firms assisting progressive candidates with campaigns and voter turnout.
In 2021, the county awarded an $11 million contract to Elevate Strategies, owned by highly-connected Democratic strategist Felicity Pereyra. Pereyra had previously worked for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and Commissioner Adrian Garcia’s (D- Pct. 2) campaign when he ran for mayor of Houston.
After revelations that Hidalgo’s staff had sought to alter experience requirements for potential vendors, and had instructed the purchasing department to disqualify the University of Texas Health Science Center, Hidalgo announced she would cancel the contract. But the public later learned that the county paid out to Pereyra’s firm after the date of cancellation. ...
In response to queries from FOX26 political reporter Greg Groogan, the county attorney’s office responded that they had recovered $600,000, but refused to comply with an open records request and appealed to Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office in an effort to keep the repayment amounts out of the public eye.
Attorney and former Houston mayoral candidate Bill King sought records from the county auditor, which showed that while the county had paid $1.425 million, Elevate Strategies has only returned $208,000.
Among invoices Elevate Strategies submitted to the county are expenditures of $538,057 for software and canvassers from known Democratic voter turnout groups Civis Analytics and NGP VAN EveryAction.
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The only surprise is that this is getting reported at all.
Sheila Jackson Lee..............................
Try, convict, sentence, flog.
Sheila Jackass Lee, Looney Hildago, and all of the Democrat scum of Houston/Harris!
They used COVID funds to pay “get out the vote” groups who ONLY “get out the vote” FOR DEMOCRATS!!
Houston is as evil and despicable, on the political front, as Washington, D.C.!!
Yup.
Dan Crenshaw has been redistricted out of Harris and almost fully in to Montgomery county, with the Woodlands being his more liberal base. I still think this might offer a primary opportunity, but Harris county is a lost cause.
P
A commie con. All of ‘em.
Looks like a whole bunch of DNC front groups that engage in election fraud.
I’m shocked, I tell you!
NOT!!
I hope this hack gets tossed to the curb, 11/8
......and how many more Dem groups cashed in?.......
Wisconsin Governor Tony ‘One and DONE’ Evers (D, WI) has been using Covid funds to buy votes all over our state.
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