Hinojosa remains captain of SS Texas Democrats

I would say that the Texas Democratic Party decided to stay with the captain of a sinking ship, but Gilberto Hinojosa never did raise the SS Texas Democrats from the bottom of the Gulf in the past decade and probably won't in the future. So, he's still at the helm. Not that Kim Olson would have been a lot better. The fact that that Olson refused to criticize him during her challenge says something right there.

I blogged about the race, and "somebody" resurrecting a 4-year-old assault claim against Olson, in April. As for the third candidate, Carroll G. Robinson, knocked out after the first round? I had little truck for him, as also noted in that piece.

As a non-duopolist, it's no huge skin off my back, but Hinojosa's apparently belief that demographics is destiny and thus that, like Herbert Hoover, victory is just around the corner, hasn't spoken much for him. I've called that out for nearly a decade. But, when your options are a pretentious lawyer whose support may not be deep past a few but not all Black Democrats, and a ConservaDem career military officer with missteps, your bench for running the party is no deeper than your bench for statewide Democrats.

And, I've never seen an explanation on why Hinojosa bailed on a state appeals court position to run for county judge. Did he see the GOP wave and know that either the Court of Criminal Appeals or state Supremes was out of reach?

Bon voyage!