February 14, 2020      4:07 PM

People on the Move

New faces in the lobby, a comms pro leaves the governor’s office, staffer moves and more

HOUSTON – The Bayou City has perhaps never felt more like the center of the political universe with presidential campaigns descending on Houston, pushing in their chips on Harris County, rounding up endorsements and doing damage control following national controversies. It was good to visit with as many of you as possible last night at the 2020 Harris County Democratic Party’s Johnson, Rayburn, Richards Dinner.

Mike Bloomberg’s “Mike for Black America” rally at the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum was pretty masterful stagecraft as the former mayor who previously said “the way you get the guns out of the kids’ hands is to throw them against the wall and frisk them” was embraced by Mayor Sylvester Turner and other African-American leaders. Turner said his thinking was influenced by the fact that Bloomberg now acknowledges the policy was wrong and has strongly apologized. Meantime back at the JRR dinner, Julian Castro, stumping for Elizabeth Warren, was taking thinly veiled swipes at Bloomberg who preceded him on that stage as well.

Awkward.

Meantime, back in Austin y’all have been very busy sending along career news to ksbraddock@gmail.com and putting POTM in the subject line. Appreciate it very much and apologies for publishing at a different time this week. I know most of you like your POTM with lunch on Fridays.

Here’s the latest edition of People on the Move.

By Scott Braddock

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