League City Politics at Its Ugliest

Intimidation, harassment, and assault are completely unacceptable.  The beauty of our election system is that it allows all of us to have our "say" without the need for such tactics.  I'm sure you've all by now read Justin Gripon's accounting of an alleged incident of harassment that borders on assault against his sister.  I see three possibilities at play here.

1)  Justin Gripon's story was completely and accurately presented to the public.  If we assume this possibility, it is ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING.  If you, like me, are opposed to the Green Team's election, KNOW THIS - the election will be decided by shedding the light of truth through to eliminate the spin from the green team.  This election will be decided by properly spreading the word that this city needs a solid plan for the future with increasing the tax base to shift the burden of infrastructure improvement costs from the homeowner to the retail sales tax and hotel occupancy taxes.  This election will be decided by showing the true colors of the green team.  Should anyone who reads this website want to get involved, the right way to get involved is to share the message with your friends and neighbors and resist the spin machine that is League City Politics is a Full Contact Sport.  I absolutely disapprove and am disgusted if anyone who thinks they agree with me and support what I am doing was involved in this incident.  Do the right thing, and issue an apology, and stop with any such tactics.  Now, if possibility 1 is really what happened, then there should be an actual investigation.  There is absolutely no reason NOT to contact the police.  Please do so, Ashley!  Most grocery stores have cameras in the parking lot, please release the images/videos captured of this incident so that the public can help find the offender.  There are crazy people on every side of an issue or election, and they need to be removed from the equation.  After all, some of the Green Team supporters have threatened to open a "can of Texas whoop@$$" on yours truly, so I know it goes both ways, and it's completely unacceptable.

2) Justin Gripon's story was slightly exaggerated.  This is very likely, and isn't meant to say anything wrong was done or said by Justin.  After all, in the rather charged atmosphere of this election, it's very easy to misinterpret the statements and questions from people who disagree with you.  Perhaps the factual timeline of events has been misinterpreted as the story passed from Ashley to Justin, then from Justin to Facebook.  Perhaps someone waving her down and asking rude questions was interpreted differently by Ashley.  Perhaps there wasn't any appendage from the alleged harasser that actually entered her vehicle, and the person just leaned against the truck as they asked questions.  Again, security camera footage should help resolve this.  But ultimately, there is ZERO reason for anyone who is opposed to a candidate to engage in direct confrontation with anyone associated with that candidate.   The opposition would be FAR better served by helping spread the message of how candidate Greg Gripon is wrong for League City's future instead of confronting him, his friends, his family, or his "surrogates" directly.

3) Wagging the dog.  In light of all of the discussion surrounding Greg Gripon's inability to manage a budget and failure to keep up with his taxes (we'll ignore whether all levels of government have been paid for all taxes, liens, and judgments, and focus on the fact that at the bare minimum he didn't keep up with it for many years), Justin and or the Green Team in general devised a plan to divert attention away from Greg's poor management of his business and finances.  Taking a page out the playbook for many liberal causes, they crafted a victimization story, one so disgusting if it is true that anyone who dares challenge the narrative is automatically branded an insensitive jerk at best.  Now, I want to be able to take Justin and Ashley at their word, like Chris John Mallios takes Greg Gripon at his word.  However, I, and most of the 100k+ people in League City don't personally know these people.  So instead, I have to look at the story of the alleged harassment, and I'm hard pressed to understand how it happened.  See, unless Ashley happened to be wearing a Greg Gripon for Council shirt (in which case, the story makes a LOT more sense), then the person only had two reasons to think Ashley Gripon is affiliated with Greg Gripon - 1, she was driving a Lynn's Landscaping truck, or 2, the person recognized her as Ashley Gripon.  Now I think we can rule out 2, as anyone who knew her to be Ashley Gripon wouldn't need to ask her, as the story alleges, if she is one of Greg Gripon's "surrogates", they would already know that she is his daughter.  This leaves 1, and I just don't see how anyone would make the leap to thinking someone in a Lynn's landscaping truck is a political "surrogate" for Greg Gripon, as the logical assumption would be that the truck is driven by simply an employee.  In other words, this entire scenario seems VERY unlikely, and the conversation doesn't seem remotely like one that someone would actually initiate.

Now, I wasn't there, so I'm not assigning a likeliness to ANY of these 3 possibilities.  I've already made a statement assuming that it's case 1 - that I find any such action taken to be completely disgusting and will not be associated with anyone who does such things.  But I truly hope that it's simply a matter of case 2.  However, it should be rather suspicious if the Gripon family does NOT contact the police for an official investigation to be launched, as simply releasing the security camera footage should indicate which case occurred, and point the finger at case 3 being the most probable.