Nepal. Cambodia. Bangladesh. Venezuela. Madrid. Bangkok. Those are audience tags Harris County, Texas put on its taxpayer funded get out the vote ads this fall. Not ONE tag on the list says Houston. Not one says Texas. The county clerk, Teneshia Hudspeth, spent $43,429 on the ads in thirty days. The tags steered them to Black, Latino and Asian users. Thursday the Texas Attorney General's office sued her in Harris County district court. Ken Paxton recused himself, he is on that ballot too. The petition calls the list "this peculiar assortment" and says there "can be no legitimate reason" for it. Harris County's lawyers called the suit a "pathetic political distraction." Thursday night, with one day of early voting left, the clerk pulled the tags. Her reason, in a statement: "to avoid unnecessary distractions." You do not pull the thing you just called a distraction. You pull the thing you cannot defend. 💎