The controversial 'voter outreach' plan, agenda item #400, was pulled at Harris County Commissioner's Court before it came up for a vote.
"This is one of those instances where they knew what they were doing was not acceptable" said Charles Blain, president of Urban Reform, "So, because people started showing up and speaking out, they took it off at least for the time being. But I definitely think people need to keep their eye on it."
Despite all of the findings of voter fraud and corruption within Harris County, the outreach plan called for the Voter Registrar to spend $200k on mailing out unrequested voter registration applications.
"It is very clear that this is not ok" Blain told KTRH, "The power to register new voters should fall under the Voter Registrar. We have an avenue to do so, and we have an official to do so, and so why you would go out of bounds to do it a different way just makes no sense."
Which is exactly the reason why Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, State Senator Paul Bettencourt, and Precinct 3 Commissioner Tom Ramsey all pushed back so hard.
"I don't think that they were expecting that level of pushback" noted Blain, "I think they figured that they could sneak this through, and who doesn't like voter registration? It sounds great, and so I think they expected no one to really look to deep into this. But thankfully people did."