by Fernando Ramirez | Dec 15, 2019 | Politics
Mayor Sylvester Turner trounced his opponent Tony Buzbee in a landslide victory on Saturday, securing the incumbent mayor a second term. According to unofficial returns, Turner won 57 percent of the vote to Buzbee’s 43%. “Let this campaign be a reminder...
by Editors | Dec 5, 2019 | Opinion
Tony Buzbee’s campaign– best illustrated in his drunken-like, near-incomprehensible, camo-clad election day speech– has been a bit embarrassing. For that reason, among others, we’re unsurprisingly endorsing Mayor Sylvester Turner for a second term. ...
by Fernando Ramirez | Nov 5, 2019 | Politics, Texas Elections
This story has been updated since its original publication. All eyes are on some of Texas’ most important races on Tuesday. Here’s the breakdown. Special elections In the Houston area, Democrats are hoping to nab a Republican-held seat in Richmond. The state House...
by Signal Staff | Oct 11, 2019 | Houston, Politics
After receiving some heat on the campaign trail, Mayor Sylvester Turner is punching back at Tony Buzbee with a hard-hitting ad highlighting his opponent’s recent DWI. The ad shows a mugshot of Buzbee following a 2016 drunk driving arrest and suggests that a...
by Signal Staff | Sep 9, 2019 | Politics
On Monday, the race for Houston mayor heated up with incumbent mayor, Sylvester Turner, airing a negative ad targeting one of his opponents in the November election. The ad, titled “Noise,” paints Tony Buzbee as a Trump “imitator, a “copycat,” and a major fundraiser...
