Reece Rondon, as you may know, was appointed by Perry previously to a vacancy on the 334th District Court in Houston before the 2004 primary. From what I can tell he was a nice enough guy, but Rondon was politically green, hadn't ever done much of anything for the Republican Party, and was criticized at the time of the appointment for being underqualified to be judge, as were several other Perry appointments. To make a long story short, the Republican Primary voters of Harris County went against Rondon he came up for election in favor of another candidate.
For Perry to turn around less than a year later and reappoint the guy that the voters rejected outright smacks of the all around contempt he has for the electorate on judicial matters. He's also pulled stunts like this before, always shunning the expressed will of the electorate when it goes against his cronies. The best known is in 2002 when the voters unseated Perry's RINO pro-abort appointment to the Texas Supreme Court, Xavier Rodriguez. 2 years later Perry decided to get even with the Justice who beat his man, Steven Wayne Smith. He hand recruited an opponent for Smith and saw to it that the guy's campaign was bankrolled.
RINO Rick alert!
typical Perry RINO
This seems to be a typical Perry stunt;
he asked for Denton County GOP advice on a judicial appointment here a couple years ago, then completely ignored it, nominating instead the least-qualified candidate - who happens to be an Hispanic woman.
She's a fine person, active (up until then) in local GOP politics, but she was NOT the best-qualified, by a long shot, and we DO owe it to the public to name qualified judges.
OK: her name is Carmen "something-hyphen-"Whorley