Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee urges Houston supporters to vote – on the wrong day
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Houston, we have a problem.
A campaign ad for Houston mayoral candidate Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) encouraged her supporters to head to the polls, but not on Election Day.
A graphic in the 30-second spot tells voters to cast their ballots “on or before Dec. 7” in Jackson Lee’s runoff race against Texas Democratic state Sen. John Whitmire, but the election is scheduled for Dec. 9.
Any would-be voters showing up to polling sites on Dec. 7 would be unable to cast their ballots, as Harris County’s 41 early voting centers close on Dec. 5 and don’t reopen until Election Day.
The Jackson Lee campaign did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
In the otherwise gleaming campaign ad, the Democratic congresswoman touts spending her “entire career fighting for you.”
“From fighting to keep our kids 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 for our police, schools, and small businesses,” she said.
“Now, I’m running to be your mayor. Because if we’re going to bring down crime, fix our streets, and bring good-paying jobs here, then Houston needs a champion who’s ready to fight for what’s right. And I am.”
A veteran politician, Jackson Lee has spent 28 years in Congress representing the Lone Star State’s 18th Congressional District.
She is running for re-election to Congress in 2024 as well as for the Houston mayoral position. She announced her candidacy for mayor in March.
Jackson Lee advanced to the runoff after getting 35.6% of the vote in the Nov. 7 election. Whitmire, the longest-serving member of the Texas state Senate, received 42.5% of the vote in the crowded 16-person field.
Jackson Lee, once dubbed the meanest member of Congress by Washingtonian magazine, temporarily stepped down from her posts as chairwoman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on criminal justice and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in 2019 after a former staffer filed a lawsuit alleging that she was fired by Jackson Lee after filing a sexual assault complaint against a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation supervisor.
The lawsuit was dismissed in 2020.
Jackson Lee also came under fire in October, after she was recorded cursing at and berating a staff member.
In the leaked audio tape, Jackson Lee accuses the aide of not having “a f—ing brain” and she shouts several expletives at him for apparently handing a document to the another staffer instead of having it with him when she requested it.
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