Sheila Jackson Lee lost her bid to become Houston's mayor. Not by a little but by a lot. She lost 65% to 35%.

You may remember the leaked audio of her bullying her staff.

I don't know if that was such a big deal. Bosses are often cranky.

I think a bigger problem is that she is an enormous idiot and a leftwing Marxist wholly owned by the racial grievance industrial complex.

This was not some big win for conservatives. The race was a jungle primary, where all the parties run in the primary against each other, and two Democrats proceeded to the run-off.

So a Democrat won. I hear he's a disaster, too.

So this is not a victory for Houston, or for America.

But it is a loss for Sheila Jackson Lee. And that's something.

Actually, there is possibly a touch of slight good news: Supposedly, the man who won is a "tough on crime" Democrat.

Allegedly.

Democratic state Sen. John Whitmire defeated Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee in the Houston mayoral race in Saturday's runoff election after a campaign heavily focused on voter concerns over safety on the streets.

Whitmire, a perennial tough-on-crime voice who for decades heralded Texas regulations over public safety, was declared the winner by the Associated Press with 57 percent reporting. At that point, Whitmire was leading by an almost 2-to-1 margin.

With backing from the city's fire department and police unions and a multimillion-dollar campaign war chest, Whitmire was the early favorite in the race and finished first in the 18-candidate general election in November. When no candidate secured 50 percent of the vote, the race went to a runoff.

Whitmire leaned on a coalition of moderate Democrats, independents and conservative voters, with a prominent campaign promise to make the city safer with increased policing.

We'll see. NYC's Eric Adams, an ex-cop, sold himself as the tough-on-crime candidate too, and hoo boy, did that not pay out. (In fairness, the DA of Manhattan is a Soros DA. I denounce myself for the antisemitism of reporting known, verified facts which the ADL is paid to claim are antisemitic conspiracy theories by their patron George Soros.)

This makes me think he's not so tough-on-crime:

"What we have to do is hold violent offenders accountable, help the nonviolent offenders turn their lives around. I have a very clear record of being tough and smart on crime," Whitmire said.

We see the non-violent offenders picking stores clean of their goods in mass coordinated lootings. We let them go. That's being "smart on crime."

Whitmire attacked her even as she was recovering emotionally from her massive defeat, calling her a "bully."
"People want to go to work for me because we respect people. We don't bully people," Whitmire said during his victory speech Saturday, according to a report from the Houston Chronicle. "My family taught me to treat people the way you want to be treated, and that works wherever you are, regardless of what community you're visiting with. Treat these individuals like you want to be treated."

Whitmire, also a Democrat, appeared to be referring to Jackson Lee's controversial tirade last month, where she was caught on audio berating her staffers with profane language amid the heated race.

"When I called Jerome, he only sits up there like a fat [expletive], just talking about what the [expletive] he doesn't know. Both of y'all are [expletive]-ups... This is the worst [expletive] that I could've ever had put together. Two [expletive] big [expletive] children. [Expletive] idiots. Serve no [expletive] purpose," Jackson lee said in an angry voice in one part of the recording.

Jackson Lee was also at the center of ridicule for a gaffe earlier this month in which she encouraged her supporters to vote on the wrong day, urging voters to cast their ballots by Dec. 7, two days before the actual date of the runoff election.

Why isn't she being prosecuted by the feds? That guy Ricky Vaughn was sent to federal prison for like seven years for a joke telling Hillary Clinton voters they could "vote by text." That was plainly a joke, so the feds have plainly taken the position that intent doesn't matter. So it shouldn't matter here that Sheila Jackson Lee's false and misleading claim about when the election was was a mistake. It misled voters.

Send her to prison.

Oh, right -- intent only matters when it's a Democrat, like Hillary Clinton. In which case, James Comey will read an "intent" requirement into the law that has no such requirement of any "intent" on the part of the criminal.

Speaking of Hillary Clinton, she endorsed Sheila Jackson Lee last month, because fat old nasty-asses have to support each other.

So it's a loss for that old drunk (hic) sow too.

I don't know if it's advanced age or it's just that she's drunk as usual, but Hillary Clinton has some slurring and sloshing in her esses.