The election results flashed up on a pull down screen at Orlando Sanchez’s watch party at the Lymbar in Midtown, lingering until the small crowd gathered inside the restaurant belatedly began to cheer and whistle.
“Not even close,” one attendee said.
Later in the evening, Sanchez called on all Harris County Republicans to unite as they move toward the November election. Tonight, Sanchez said, is when the real work begins.
“This election is bigger than one party. This election is bigger than one campaign,” he said. “It is about the future of a place that we all call home.”
Sanchez called Harris County “one of the greatest counties in the nation,” and that its people worked hard, played by the rules, paid their taxes and expected the government to provide its basic services well. It wasn’t too much to ask, Sanchez said, but it seems as though county government had forgotten.
Sanchez added the county’s residents deserved to live in safe neighborhoods, have leaders who were prepared to address disasters and know where their tax dollars are going.
“The office of the county judge is not just another political office,” Sanchez said. It is the emergency desk. It is the budget desk. It is the place where county government either works or fails when people need it most. And I’m running because this county needs an adult in the room.”
