Overview
- Commissioners declined to suspend the new rule limiting honorary resolutions at regular meetings, leaving Tom Ramsey’s condemnation-and-resignation proposal for the March 31 business court session.
- Hidalgo was absent from Thursday’s meeting as she travels in Europe on a Greater Houston Partnership trade mission with stops in the Netherlands, Germany and Portugal.
- The dispute stems from Hidalgo and guests trying to enter chute-level seating at a sold-out Megan Moroney concert; she alleges she was shoved and threatened with arrest, which rodeo officials dispute.
- RodeoHouston’s board removed Hidalgo from the ex officio director role tied to her county judge position and said her office previously received 21 chute tickets for earlier shows.
- Republicans including Ramsey and state Sen. Paul Bettencourt called for Hidalgo to resign, while Democrats signaled discussion should occur when she returns, and experts note removal from office would require a high-threshold district court process.