Texas: Clear Lake

It is bad enough that a hurricane swept through the Clear Lake area causing record damage to homes, but now a homeowners association is going after those who re-roofed their homes with the wrong color of shingle. It's unreasonable action like this that makes homeowners refer to HOAs as "Nazis".

Pineloch Community Association
The Pineloch Community in Clear Lake has about 2000 homes ranging from $150,000 to about $250,000. The community is over 20 years old. Hurricane Ike was our first major storm and according to the President of the Association about 40 homes are in violation of the deed restrictions because they used the wrong color of shingle.

The Clear Lake forum for District E and the Candidates for Mayor was held at UHCL competing with a beautiful night and disco dancing with the Chamber. The venue was absolutely great. Very professional. Very nice. Very well done. Questions were focused on the issues of Clear Lake, the golf course, the quality of life, traffic and other issues important to the area.

Mike Sullivan didn't show.
City Councilman Mike Sullivan declined to attend opting to dine and disco dance at the Clear Lake Chamber across the lake. It provided an opportunity for humor throughout the night. The District E part of the forum started at 7 and ended at 7:30.

Once again Peter Brown has gotten under the skin of City Councilman Mike Sullivan. Last year Peter Brown visited Clear Lake and Sullivan didn't like it at all:
Houston City Councilman Mike Sullivan wasn't very happy with Councilman Peter Brown's visit to Clear Lake last month, prompting Mike to write a letter to the editor in The Citizen. And it wasn't very nice:Now, Sullivan is mad that Brown tried to get a resolution passed calling for unanimous support for NASA which is in Sullivan's district, although a completely different set of money, and politics, and just about everything. Houston Blogs has the full story, but this ain't over.

Till it's over.

Stephen Costello, candidate for City Council at large position 1, is having an identity crisis, with local Democratic clubs wondering just who he really is. At a club meeting in Clear Lake, Costello stately clearly he was an Independent.

Party affiliation doesn't matter in City Council races, but we all know who is who, unless the candidate is new to the political scene. Attempting to mislead anyone should and will be met with skepticism and an occasional blog post.

Turns out Costello is anything but independent. Not only has he donated to some of the most far right republican candidates, DeLay, Olson, Sekulla-Gibbs, and Culberson, he voted in the republican primaries in 2000, 2004, and 2008.