Challenger Sean Teare handily took out the embattled two-term incumbent Kim Ogg.
Back in 2016, Kim Ogg became the first Democratic district attorney in Harris County in nearly four decades—and was celebrated as a champion of progressive reform. But it didn’t take her long to become an embattled figure among reformers and party faithful alike. Today, voters ousted Ogg, overwhelmingly backing her primary opponent, political newcomer Sean Teare. He took home about 78 percent of early votes, according to the Harris County Clerk’s Office.
In December, the Harris County Democratic Party voted by a large margin to admonish Ogg. Democratic Precinct Chair Daniel Cohenthat Ogg “has weaponized her office using a prosecutorial double standard, that she’s not aligned with Democratic values, and that, as an emerging premise to all of this, she’s actually put her finger on the scale in both rhetoric and direct endorsement of Republicans.”
After taking office and promptly cleaning house in 2017—she fired nearly 40 veteran prosecutors—she set out to make the changes promised during her progressive campaign. “The intake system, the way that police interact with the DA’s office on the streets has been dismantled since 2017,”Critics argue that this process is unnecessarily crowding jails and bogging down the court system. Ogg has unsuccessfully requested huge budget hikes to support hiring more prosecutors, as the Harris County DA’s office has comparatively few staffers among other large cities.
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