Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo isn’t hedging her bets, as staffers face charges
Harris County judge Lina Hidalgo greets her supporters at a Democratic primary election night party at Axelrad Beer Garden, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Houston.Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo came out swinging Tuesday, shortly after two aides and a former staffer of hers were indicted for their role in communicating with a potential bidder on a county contract before it was awarded.
Her chief of staff, Alex Triantaphillis, and deputy policy director, Wallis Nader, were each charged Monday with two felonies — misuse of official information and tampering with a governmental record — related to an investigation of a vaccine outreach contractAaron Dunn — who recently left Hidalgo’s office, after serving as a senior adviser — faces the same charges.
At issue are communications involving Triantaphillis, Nader, Dunn and Democratic political operative Felicity Pereyra in the weeks before the county solicited bids for an $11 million contract that was eventually awarded to Pereyra’s firm, Elevate Strategies.
Since taking office, the 31-year-old Hidalgo — the first Latina to serve as county judge — has been dismissed by critics on the right as a lightweight and referred to derisively in some quarters as “Dora the Explorer” — a dog whistle, invoking as it does her gender, youth and ethnicity. We’ve also seen Hidalgo make tough decisions with an eye to the “optics” of a situation — and with an understanding that optics inform how people relate to their county government.
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3 Harris County Judge staffers named in felony indictments over controversial contractHarris County Judge Lina Hidalgo’s Chief of Staff Alex Triantaphyllis, Wallis Nader and Aaron Dunn are facing felony criminal indictments in connection to the $11 million COVID-19 communication contract awarded last year to Elevate Strategies.
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