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'Don't cross her': How DA Kim Ogg has repeatedly aimed her power at Harris County officials
When Kim Ogg was first elected, I was very happy. Since then, Ogg has been very republican in her behavior including going after County Judge Lina Hidalgo. One of Lina's aides who has been targeted by Ogg is the son of a friend and a member of the local Democratic lawyers organization. Ogg may well change parties before the next election.
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https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/kim-ogg-harris-county-power-18334282.php
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg has launched criminal investigations against county officials she was publicly feuding with at least four times since she took office in 2017, the Chronicle has found. Taxpayers have covered nearly $1 million in legal bills for public employees who were pulled into the investigations but never charged with crimes.
Ogg’s actions against the county officials and their staffers, with whom she’s also clashed on issues like bail reform and budget requests, are especially striking because they’re with members of her own party. Ogg, a Democrat, is facing a tough reelection fight next year against a well-financed opponent. She declined to be interviewed for this story. .....
In one case, Ogg made “both explicit and implicit threats” of a criminal inquiry as the county budget office hesitated to grant her requests for more funding, according to former county administrator Dave Berry.
At a county meeting in March 2022, Ogg accused the budget team of acting like a “thief in the night” with her office’s funds, which the budget team denied. She said they’d seized and mishandled almost $5 million. Given the grand jury investigations she had launched against their colleagues by that point, county officials took her words seriously.....
Though Ogg is the first Democrat to be elected Harris County’s top prosecutor in decades, she has bristled at carrying out many of the reforms that members of her own party — particularly Hidalgo and County Commissioner Rodney Ellis — have been pushing. (Ellis has taken on Hidalgo’s responsibilities since she went on an extended medical leave of absence in July.)
Ogg’s actions against the county officials and their staffers, with whom she’s also clashed on issues like bail reform and budget requests, are especially striking because they’re with members of her own party. Ogg, a Democrat, is facing a tough reelection fight next year against a well-financed opponent. She declined to be interviewed for this story. .....
In one case, Ogg made “both explicit and implicit threats” of a criminal inquiry as the county budget office hesitated to grant her requests for more funding, according to former county administrator Dave Berry.
At a county meeting in March 2022, Ogg accused the budget team of acting like a “thief in the night” with her office’s funds, which the budget team denied. She said they’d seized and mishandled almost $5 million. Given the grand jury investigations she had launched against their colleagues by that point, county officials took her words seriously.....
Though Ogg is the first Democrat to be elected Harris County’s top prosecutor in decades, she has bristled at carrying out many of the reforms that members of her own party — particularly Hidalgo and County Commissioner Rodney Ellis — have been pushing. (Ellis has taken on Hidalgo’s responsibilities since she went on an extended medical leave of absence in July.)
I would not be surprised to see Ogg primaried,
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