Marie Howard Fake Tea Party Attacks Freedom Caucus - Family Judges

Marie Howard Fake Tea Party Attacks

Freedom Caucus - Family Judges

By

James Scott Trimm

The Boiling Point Tea Party has issued its Cone of Shame awards, which are really a badge of honor.

The Boiling Point Tea Party is a group which has been called a “fake Tea Party” by Julie McCarty, who leads Tarrant Counties Premier Tea Party, the North East Tarrant County Tea Party.  

This fake “tea party” is run by Marie Howard who is infamous for her recent opposition to the Tarrant County Republican Party’s resolution calling for Texas House Speaker Joe Straus to be replaced. 

The “Boiling Point Tea Party” has now issued its “Cone of Shame” award to:

1. Fiscal Responsibility Index - Empower Texans 

2. Board Certified Family Attorneys Who Sit Back Afraid to Run.

The first of these “awards” is really aimed at the Texas Freedom Caucus, well known for their opposition to Joe Straus.  Howard, who seems to be in love with Straus, complains about this groups “blind hatred of Speaker Joe Straus” which she says causes them to “muddy the methodology.”  Howard complains that TFR “looked primarily at legislation by Tinderholt,  Stickland,  Rinaldi,  and Cain” for their scores.  Of course they do Howard, because these are the conservative heroes who are filing the very fiscally responsible bills that that TFR wants to see passed. 

Here is how it works: Citizens support Texans for Fiscal Responsibility (and Empower Texans) because they want to see more fiscal responsibility in Austin.  TFR then makes donations (often matching donations, matched to citizen donations) to candidates that pledge to support fiscal responsibility in Austin.  Then these same legislators file fiscal responsibility bills.  And after the session, TFR grades legislators on how they voted in regards to these bills.  This is not a conspiracy, this is called holding to core principles.

Marie Howard’s real reason for granting the Cone of Shame to TFR is her support for Joe Straus and her opposition not only to the Texas Freedom Caucus but to the core principles of the Texas Republican Party Platform.

The next Recipient of Howard’s Cone of Shame are “Board Certified Family Attorneys Who Sit Back Afraid to Run.”  Howard writes:

There are FIVE of SIX Family Court judicial benches OPEN.  Why are THREE uncontested?  Of the five, four of the incumbents are not Board Certified in Family Law.  One incumbent is retiring. The FOUR on the bench PRESENTLY  rule according to their "policy" instead of Family Law. 

Howard has her basic facts wrong.  Only one Family Court judge position is contested at present (the 233^rd).  Two judges are retiring but both are serving out their terms, so all six are occupied.  Her claim that they “rule according to their "policy" instead of Family Law” is unsupported.  She offers only anonymous anecdotal evidence to support her claim, saying:

Attorneys have told me they are aware of the DISREGARD for the Rule of Law.  There is not a Family Law Attorney in North Texas who is not aware of the unconstitutional behavior men, women and children are being subjected to in Tarrant Family Court.  YOU are as responsible for the suffering families are being dealt as though YOU yourself were on the bench because YOU sit back and do NOTHING! Step up and run!  Remember that oath you took to DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION!

The only specific example that is not anonymous and anecdotal, which Howard presents is that of Leiliana Write.  Howard writes:  “When judges are incompetent, tragedies happen such as four year old Leiliana.”

Howard has a history of outright lies and deceptions in her efforts to blame the judiciary for the case of Leiliana Wright, which was actually settled out of court.  Howard has no problems exploiting the death of a child and exploiting a grieving family for her political agenda.

Marie Howard has stated that the judge granted custody of Leilana to her mother "over her grandmother's wishes."  This is factually incorrect.  The parties never came before the judge.  The judge did not grant custody to anyone.  The mother already had custody of her own daughter.  The grandmother did not appear to have standing under Texas law to sue for custody, and the parties agreed out of court.  The grandmother signed onto an agreement that would at least grant her visitation. 

In this case Judge Haddock simply signed onto an out of court settlement entered into by the parties, as Texas law required her to do.  This was explored in more detail in my recent articles An Unfair Attack on Judge Haddock and The Death of Leiliana the Untold Story.

Marie Howard is a close ally of Jennifer Olson the founder of Protective Parents of Texas.  In recent articles I have shown that Protective Parents of Texas (PPT) has used the most dishonest of tactics in attacking various of our Tarrant County Family Court Judges, including Judge Wells and Judge Haddock..  PPT is an organization co-founded and run by Jennifer Olson.  In a recent article I documented that Jennifer Olson, who is a family violence activist, was herself arrested just last year for family violence.  This organization has made claims in its many attacks on judges that I have shown to be factually incorrect. I have also exposed their blatantly dishonest audio edits aimed at creating the impression that Judge Haddock said things she did not say, or answered questions in ways she did not answer them.  (One edit was so blatant that Judge Haddock said something about a certain individual even naming them, and the edit removed the persons name and alleged that she had said it about a completely different person.)  PPT has gone so far as to attack judges for supposed rulings in cases which the judges actually only simply signed off on out of court agreements, as the law compels them to do.  This organization has engaged in levels of deceit that are rarely seen even in the dirtiest of dirty tricks politics, going so far at to exploit the memory of a murdered child and her grieving family for a dishonest political agenda. And recently PPT even directed its readers to the blatantly antisemitic Hidden Mysteries website.

Marie Howard with PPT Pal Jennifer Olson

Howard claims she wants Family Law attorneys to run against our Family Court Judges because she wants them to “defend the Constitution” but the truth is that PPT has begun a campaign to federalize Texas Family Law. Federalization of Family law violates the tenth amendment of the U.S. Constitution and Article I Section 1 of the Texas State Constitution.  Howard has no interest in defending the Constitution in regards to the Texas Family Courts.

The Cone of Shame award from Marie Howard and her fake "tea party" is a badge of honer for Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, the Texas Freedom Caucus and our Tarrant County Family Court judges.