I’m not sure about the last part of the title, but it seems she has made a 180-degree turnabout since losing the primary to Sean Teare.
She did endorse Annise Parker for County Judge; they have been friends for decades and know each other well, so that tells you everything you should need to know about Annise Parker. Annise Parker endorsed Kim Ogg in the last primary.
This is a lengthy article worth reading, but I’ve included some of its most interesting points below.
Over the course of her 45-minute soliloquy inside Cuchara restaurant, Ogg slammed former mayor Sylvester Turner, a Democrat; accused the current District Attorney of dismissing a corruption case to “protect the people above;” and spoke briefly about a case she was recently ordered not to talk about by a district court judge.
She repeatedly lobbed derisive criticisms at fellow Democrats, made hazy insinuations about high-level conspiracies in county government, declined to tell the crowd whether she voted for President Donald Trump and called on Republicans to reclaim authority locally.
Last week, she upped the ante at a Tea Party event in Kingwood, where she floated a series of election conspiracies, saying the 2022 Harris County election was “intentionally wrecked,” claiming her vote was not counted in 2024 and suggesting that personal information from county databases might have secretly been used to turn out unlikely voters in underserved communities.
Local Democrats, even those who’ve faced her ire in the past, seemed appalled by Ogg’s recent speeches. Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis dismissed her comments as “racist tropes” and “dog whistles” from a “disgruntled, rejected” politician.
Ogg’s speeches were not limited to discussion of her political ambitions. She also used the space to reprise a laundry list of personal grievances against several longtime foes.
She slammed Ellis, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and “our former deceased mayor” – Turner – as “the most corrupt regimes in my lifetime in local government.” She accused Ellis of using a legislative internship program he founded in the early 1990s to cultivate the Democratic candidates who swept Harris County judicial benches in 2018, and who she said “caused your crime wave.”
Ellis called the allegations “truly ridiculous,” noting that it is a bipartisan program with hundreds of participants who have worked in both Democrat and Republican offices.
She spoke derisively of Democratic members of Harris County Commissioners Court who she said wanted to “tear down” what they saw as a “racist criminal justice system,” said Hidalgo had “issues” and joked about how to make her cry, and complained authorities “couldn’t arrest the homeless” under the last Houston police chief.
After learning of Ogg’s comments at her speeches, Harris County Democratic Party chair Mike Doyle said Harris County voters had trusted her for too long.
“Once you endorse Ted Cruz and want to hide whether you’re a full-on Trumpster, there really isn’t any line you will not cross to cozy up to Elon Musk and the other billionaires running the Republican Party,” he said.