George attorney should be disqualified due to conflict of interest
By Ken Fountain
Even as attorneys for Fort Bend County Judge KP George are doubling down on their allegations of prosecutorial misconduct against District Attorney Brian Middleton, prosecutors have filed motions of their own seeking that George’s lead attorney be disqualified because of a potential conflict of interest involving the theft of money from George.
The District Attorney’s office has also appointed prominent Houston attorney and media legal analyst Brian Wice as special prosecutor in George’s cases.
In motions filed last week, Jared Woodfill and Terry Yates, attorneys for George in his charges of misappropriation of identify and money laundering, expanded on their earlier motions accusing Middleton of moving to indict George out of personal animus after the two had a political falling out when George was still, like Middleton, a Democrat. In June, after the indictments, George switched his party affiliation to Republican.
The prosecutor’s office later fired back at George’s attorneys in motions of their own, denying that Middleton acted of animus against George or that his and others’ use of message apps like Signal in discussing George’s cases is evidence of misconduct.
They also refute the defense attorneys’ claims that a recording of an interview with Taral Patel, former chief of staff to George and a key witness in his prosecution, was mysteriously rendered unviewable just at the point that Patel was about to implicate Democratic officials (including potentially Middleton himself) in the “fake hate” social media scheme that is the basis for the allegations against George. A second, uncorrupted recording of the interview from a different camera was provided to the defense, they state.
In their motions filed on November 18, Woodfill and Yates
By Ken Fountain KFOUNTAIN@FORTBENDSTAR.COM
Republican U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls of Richmond, one of President Donald Trump’s staunchest supporters in Congress, announced Saturday that he will not seek reelection next year. His twin brother, former Fort Bend County Precinct 4 Constable Trever Nehls, almost immediately afterward announced he will seek his brother’s seat as a Republican. Nehls, who served as Fort Bend County Sheriff from 2012-2020, was first elected
in 2020 to represent the 22nd District, which includes much of Fort Bend County (including Richmond, Rosenberg and parts of Sugar Land) and parts of Brazoria, Harris, Wharton and Matagorda Counties. He narrowly defeated Democrat Sri Preston Kulkarni in the closely watched election to take the seat formerly held by Republican Pete Olson. He handily won reelection in both 2022 and 2024.
“After more than 30 years in law enforcement serving and protecting my community as a police officer, constable, Fort Bend County Sheriff, an Army
veteran, and six years representing this district in Congress, I have made the decision, after conversations with my beautiful bride and my girls over the Thanksgiving holiday, to focus on my family and return home after this Congress,” Nehls said in the statement.
“Before making this decision, I called President Trump personally to let him know of my plans. President Trump has always been a strong ally for our district and a true friend, and I
BETTER TOGETHER
By Juhi Varma CONTRIBUTING WRITER
On November 21, the typically serious Fort Bend County Justice Center was alive with balloons, cakes, and laughter in honor of National Adoption Day. The celebration honored 26 children who officially joined their forever families, with parents, siblings, grandparents, and cousins – many wearing matching t-shirts –gathered to mark the joyful occasion.
“Today is such a huge milestone in all of these kids’ lives, and it’s the ultimate gift given by the parents who are adopting them,” said Jill Curtis, president of the board of directors of Child Advocates of Fort Bend. “These are parents who have chosen these children, and it’s just an incredible gift. Our theme this year is ‘Better Together’, and you can see by everybody’s smiles and love and support that that’s
Holiday events
Community Reports
It’s beginning to be that time of year, and there are a number of holiday events planned around Fort Bend County this weekend. Below are some of the notable ones.
Sugar Land Christmas Tree Lighting
The City of Sugar Land will hold its annual Christmas Tree Lighting on Friday, December 5, from 5-8 p.m. at Sugar Land Town Square, 2711 Plaza Drive.
The event will feature live entertainment by a variety of performers, kids’ activities, food and vendors’ booths, and a visit by Santa Claus, concluding with the lighting of the Christmas tree in the plaza.
Free parking will be available at Mercer Stadium (16403 Lexington Blvd). Shuttles will run continuously from Mercer Stadium to Sugar Land Town Square from 4:30-9:30 p.m.
Rideshare drop-off and pick up will be by Japanerio’s in Town Square.
Missouri City Snowfest
The City of Missouri City will hold its 42nd Annual Snowfest on Saturday, December 6.
The festivities will begin at 8 a.m. with the Shuffle Run Run along Cartwright Road. That will be followed by the holiday parade, also along Cartwright Road.
The festival will begin at 3 p.m. featuring live music, food, children’s activities, and more, and concluding with the Holiday Tree Lighting at 8 p.m., at the Missouri City City Hall complex, 1522 Texas Parkway.
Christmas in the Bend (Richmond)
The Central Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce is hosting several events over the weekend.
The festivities will begin on Friday, December 5 with the Richmond
Farmers Market, held 4-8 p.m. in front of Richmond City Hall. The annual Tree Lighting Ceremony will be held at 6 p.m. at City Hall Plaza, and the Community Christmas Walk in historic Downtown Richmond will be held from 6-9 p.m. At 6:30 p.m., there will be a screening of a holiday movie at Wessendorff Park.
On Saturday, December 6, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., the Miracle on Main Street Festival will be held in historic Downtown Richmond, featuring shopping, live music and other performances, food trucks, a visit from Santa Claus, and the People’s Choice awards for the Gingerbread House competition.
Rosenberg Hometown Holiday Festival
The City of Rosenberg will host its Hometown
largely repeat, word for word, the allegations of misconduct from their earlier motions. But they add more verbiage dealing with Middleton’s alleged animus not only towards George but Fort Bend County Republicans. The verbiage, some of which include profanity, is drawn, the attorneys say, from screenshots and other electronic evidence they obtained from prosecutors in discovery.
Many of the alleged exchanges purported in the filings are between Middleton, who is Black, and Patel, who is Indian-American, about their perception that many Fort Bend County Republicans are racists who oppose minorities gaining elective office in the county, The attorneys are asking that Middleton and his office be disqualified from prosecuting George.
But in their own filings on November 21, prosecutors move to turn the tables, stating that Woodfill should be removed from the case because of a potential conflict of interest stemming from a purported theft of money from George. In the new filings prosecutors state that in October, George made a report to the Houston Police Department that approximately $4,200 had been stolen from his campaign bank account between July and September. An HPD investigator determined that a “person of interest” was identified as a now-former employee
in the law firm of Woodfill, George’s lead defense attorney. Based on the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and provisions in the Texas Constitution, the prosecutors state, George is entitled to choose his counsel, but that right is not absolute, particularly when an attorney may have interests that are in conflict with his or her client’s interests.
In this case, the prosecutors state, Woodfill potentially faces criminal investigation or, more likely, civil liability in the event that the former employee is charged with stealing George’s funds. A judge is obligated to make that determination based on the evidence at hand, the prosecutors state.
Assistant District Attorney Baldwin Chinn seeks a hearing in which the judge would make that determination.
A motions hearing in George’s felony money laundering cases is already scheduled for December 9, with trial set for February 3. On Monday, prosecutors refiled the indictments in those two cases, with additional material than in the original, fairly scant indictments. Trial in his misdemeanor cases is set for January 6, with a pretrial hearing set for December 16.
A call to Woodfill by the Fort Bend Star seeking comment on the new filings was not returned.
George has filed for reelection in the Republican primary next March.
In new court filings, Fort Bend County prosecutors say Jared Woodfill, lead defense attorney for County Judge KP George, should be removed from the cases due to a potential conflict of interest with
A myth is as good as an tifa
THE NEIGHBORHOOD
– “Go away!” Slam! “Get off my yard!” Slam again. “I’m calling the cops!” Insults are OK. It’s the warning shots that are annoying. I am canvasing my neighborhood, Running Rats Acres, looking for a well-organized, cardcarrying group that seems to be a hidden power which collectively causes havoc. You’ve heard of this gang of terrorists. Indeed, you may be a member who votes on plans and projects, has an office and website: antifa! And our government is going after them with guns – or napalm, drones, rockets mounted on dirigibles. President Trump signed an executive order in September labeling antifa a “domestic terrorist organization,” and all sorts of federal agencies scrambled to root out the antifans or antifiners or whatever these traitorous scumbags call themselves.
The State Department, for example, searched for any foreign leftist groups it could brand as a terrorist organization. The search found four: one in Germany, another in Italy and two in Greece, but in their countries none are linked to anything called “antifa.” In Germany, the group the State Department calls Antifa Ost, is not called that
We live in a world overflowing with words. We text, post, call, and comment without pause, yet we rarely experience genuine connection. Consider this: you can sense when someone is hurting even when they insist they are fine. You can recognize when a smile is forced, when laughter lacks warmth, or when something heavy is weighing on a person’s mind. This quiet and intuitive understanding is the power of body language and empathy. Strangely, these are the very abilities society has begun to neglect. Today, emotional awareness is treated as optional, and nonverbal communication is almost invisible. However, these silent forms of understanding are what hold our relationships,
Lynn Ashby Columnist
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name or anything close. But it’s close enough for government work. Here at home the antifa hunt has run into some problems. What, exactly, is antifa? A gang? Group of thugs? Trump called it/ them an “organization.” The Justice Department tried to come up with a definition, calling antifa a “militant enterprise” which explicitly calls for “the overthrow of the United States government, law enforcement authorities and the system of law.” So antifa is an “enterprise,” disguised as a car rental company. Incidentally, if you were wondering, antifa takes its name from “antifascist political alignment.” That is a made-up and meaningless name like ExxonMobil, CocaCola and Oklahoma. Yet with all this handgrenade-wringing and
executive orders, antifa has not been outlawed, no arrests, no wanted posters. Why? Because – roll of drums –antifa is not an organization or “enterprise.” It doesn’t exist. It’s a strawman set up to knock down. Despite all the efforts by our federal fuzz to find the membership lists, midnight meetings and secret handshakes, it can’t declare antifa a terrorist organization because it ain’t organized or even disorganized. We are witnessing a taxpayer-funded snipe hunt. Oh, sure, there are a bunch of loony-left bomb-throwers, and I think we can all agree they should be arrested, indicted and sentenced to 20 years in Port Arthur, but can’t our government’s dollars be spent on better pursuits? We could start with our health care. The U.S. ranks last in health care among 10 developed countries, even though we spend twice as much per person on health care.
Who was that mosque man? It could be your neighbor, because if Trump makes a move, can our Gov. Greg Abbott not act accordingly? Abbott designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on AmericanIslamic Relations as foreign terrorist organizations and
transnational criminal organizations. This prohibits both organizations from purchasing land in Texas and allows Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton to sue to shut them down. The U.S. has designated branches or affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood, such as Hamas, as terrorist organizations, but has never taken any kind of action against the full group. The Council describes itself as “a civil rights group meant ]to promote social, legal and political activism among Muslims in America.’”
Alas, we must put the Hunt For Antifa in the category of searches for the Loch Ness Monster, the Easter Bunny and the Texas Democratic Party. This brings us to the Cartel de los Soles. The Trump administration has designated this Venezuelan drug cartel to be, again, a foreign terrorist organization, and constantly claims that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro heads the “drug gang.”
Guess what – and don’t get ahead of me – there is no organization of drug lords called Cartel de los Soles, Spanish for “Cartel of the Suns.” The title was coined in 1990 by Venezuelan journalists to describe some corrupt generals who are, indeed, deep into
drug smuggling. The “suns” refers to the little suns the generals wear on their uniforms like our generals wear stars. And there is no organized, card- carrying group in Caracas uniformly, so to speak, sending boatloads of fentanyl to our shores. As one American expert put it: “There’s no hierarchical structure, no centralized leadership, and no price-setting mechanisms like you’d expect from a real cartel. It’s an invented label that collapses a variety of local dynamics into a single, scary-sounding enemy.” Venezuelans must be laughing out loud.
Nevertheless, Trump has said that the U.S. military is attacking boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific because of the large numbers of fentanyl deaths in the U.S., and he claims that those boats come from Venezuela. So far we’ve blown up at least 21 boats, killing more than 80 civilians including some fishermen, and one carrying fentanyl, but it’s still early in the day. We have another problem: The fentanyl used illegally in the U.S. does not come from Venezuela. U.S. military officials told members of Congress there was no fentanyl on the boats, just cocaine. Of course, if the loads
Connecting connections
Eva K. Morris Youth Columnist
communities, and collective humanity together. If society valued empathy and the reading of body language as highly as intelligence or success, we would live in a world that not only communicates, but genuinely understands. Experts say that more than seventy percent of human communication is nonverbal, yet we devote nearly all our attention to perfecting the words we speak or type. We rehearse what to say but
forget to notice how we say it. Body language is the oldest and most universal form of communication known to humankind. Long before spoken language existed, our bodies conveyed meaning through gestures, posture, and facial expression. This gives body language an authority that words alone can never fully achieve. Still, constant technology and hurried interactions have weakened our ability to see these cues. We rely on text messages instead of conversations. We interpret silence as indifference. We overlook slumped shoulders, uncertain glances, and practiced smiles. Rhetorically, society’s overreliance on words creates a dangerous illusion: the illusion that
language alone is enough. When we fail to notice the person behind the words, we lose the opportunity for true understanding, and with each missed moment, connection fades. This erosion of awareness is not accidental. It is the predictable result of a culture that prioritizes speed over presence, ultimately hindering our ability to maintain our true connections. Empathy is not a soft skill. It is an essential human capacity. Teachers who observe a student’s posture or facial expressions can often detect anxiety before it becomes academic failure. Doctors who notice small emotional cues can identify depression that patients may feel unable to express aloud. In friendships,
are cocaine, blow away, but let’s get our story properly identified before we invade another country under false pretenses.
Speaking of which, we have the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 when two North Vietnamese torpedo boats exchanged fire with two U.S. Navy warships. One North Vietnamese boat was supposedly damaged. Maybe. Later Navy reports were confusing. It was a brief and relatively minor skirmish, but President Lyndon Johnson got Congress to overwhelmingly approve escalating our involvement, and off we went to Vietnam. We suffered 58,220 U.S. killed. “I don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” That catchy phrase got us to invade Iraq. Saddam Hussein had nukes and America thought that was a bad idea. There were no nukes, but there were U.S. deaths: 4,492. Still, we can’t be too careful these days, so I am checking my neighbors for any hint of antifa. Meanwhile, I am putting up my stocking for Santa Clause. Ashby is paranoid at ashby2@comcast.net
empathy transforms casual interaction into genuine connection. When we value these abilities, we create spaces where people feel seen, not only heard. Empathy gives meaning to language, but more importantly, it gives meaning to relationships. Yet society fails to value empathy for a reason that is as simple as it is troubling: empathy requires time, and body language requires attention. In a world obsessed with convenience, emotional depth is treated as an inconvenience. People convince themselves they do not have time to care, but this belief only reinforces misunderstanding. It is easy to overlook emotion. It has never been easy to become better because becoming better requires effort, reflection, and genuine awareness. Through contrast between what we value and what actually sustains us we see how empathy has been wrongly framed as weakness rather than the foundation of emotional intelligence and human connection. When we choose to disregard how others feel, we lose more than time. We lose our capacity for connection. Some people argue that emotions interfere with logic, or that empathy makes individuals too vulnerable. In reality, empathy strengthens logic because it centers humanity within judgment. It helps leaders consider people rather than merely outcomes. It allows friends to forgive, teachers to uplift, and strangers to extend kindness. Even in difficult situations such as conflict, leadership, or justice, empathy does not create weakness. It creates fairness. Body language supports this process because it is empathy’s earliest signal. It forms the bridge between what is said and what is meant. When we learn to read these signals, we learn how to respond thoughtfully rather than react impulsively. This shift from reaction to reflection shows how empathy and nonverbal awareness function not as emotional decoration but as essential tools for understanding. If society valued these abilities as much as intellect or efficiency, we would see fewer arguments, fewer misunderstandings, and far more moments of compassion. The next time you find yourself in conversation, pause. Do not listen only to the words being spoken. Pay attention to the fidgeting hands, shifting eyes, hesitant tone, or heavy silence. Often, what remains unspoken is what most needs to be heard. If society valued empathy and body language as much as intellect or efficiency, we would live in a world with fewer arguments and greater understanding. Miscommunication would fade, compassion would grow, and connection would begin to replace indifference. Words may speak, but empathy reveals. If we learn to listen beyond language, we may rediscover something we have forgotten: the most powerful conversations are often the ones never spoken aloud. Morris is a Ridge Point High School student, class of 2027, a varsity tennis player, and an active member of JCC Maccabi Houston. If you are a Fort Bend County high-school-age student (public, private, charter, or homeschool) who might be interested in becoming a Youth Columnist, please send an email to editor@ fortbendstar.com.
Fort Bend Symphony to ‘Deck the Halls’ on Dec. 7
Community Reports
The Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra and Chorus will hold its annual “Deck the Halls” holiday concert, featuring a mix of new works and beloved classics, on Sunday, December 7, at 2 p.m. at the Stafford Centre.
The FBSO Chorus will join the for orchestra Beethoven’s triumphant “Hallelujah”
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exactly what we’re doing, we’re making it better together.”
Kinship placements are growing in Texas, now accounting for 45% of children in foster care, said Melissa Lanford, media specialist with Txas Department of Family and Protective Services. Recent state efforts have simplified licensing for relatives, making it easier to keep children with family, she said.
Children are placed with relatives instead of strangers. Two-year-old Penelope, for example, was adopted by her aunt Izzy Ramirez and uncle David Ramirez, one of two kinship adoptions at the celebration.
“I’m so proud of the work that Child Advocates is doing and uniting families,” said Fort Bend County Precinct 4 Commissioner Dexter McCoy. “It’s heartbreaking to learn that in 2023, I don’t know the 2024 number, but over 2000 children across this nation lost their lives because of abuse or neglect. Today, I feel the weight of that, because think about what it might have meant for them if loving families like yours had had the opportunity to love on them.”
On National Adoption Day, the Fort Bend County 328th, 387th and 505th District Courts joined courts across the country in finalizing adoptions and celebrating all the families who became complete that day. The adoptions were presided over by Judge Monica Rawlins, Judge Oscar M. Telfair III, and Judge Kali Lyles Morgan, respectively.
Sara and John Wells of Missouri City shared their journey to adoption. “We were on what we thought would be a family vacation when we learned our niece and nephews were in Mississippi [Child Protective Services],” Sara Wells said. “We pretty much canceled our trip and started the process to get them out of the system and into our care.”
The children – four in total, ages 12, 9, 6, and 4 – entered the Texas system in December 2023, after being in the charge of Mississippi CPS since July of that year. “We’ve been fighting to reach this adoption ever since,” Sara Wells said.
The children’s mother is terminally ill, and their father was described as unfit by Wells. “They’re my sister-in-
from “The Mount of Olives”, “Jubilate Deo” accompanied by brass and percussion, and “A Christmas Garland”, an new arrangement that transforms familiar carols into something unexpected. The orchestra adds its own sparkle with “SymphHannukah”, a new compilation of Hanukkah melodies by Peter Jaffe; a timeless rendition of “The Christmas Song
(Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)”; the ever-popular “Carol of the Bells”; and the finale of Mendelssohn’s “Reformation Symphony”, built on the beloved hymn “Ein Feste Burg (A Mighty Fortress Is Our God)”. And of course—no holiday concert would be complete without Leroy Anderson’s iconic “Sleigh Ride”. Adding to the festivities, the
Holiday Handmade Market will return, showcasing unique holiday décor and gifts crafted by orchestra and chorus members, an opportunity to find a one-of-a-kind treasure for that hard-to-shop-for loved one—all while supporting the ensemble for the season ahead.
The Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1992, and the Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra Chorus, founded
in 2016, enrich the lives of Fort Bend residents and the surrounding areas with live symphonic and vocal music presented by its volunteer members, ranging in ages from high school students to senior adults. The full-size orchestra, complete with brass, woodwinds, strings and percussion, and the accompanying chorus, represent an abundant cross-
section of local talent, most of who reside in the Fort Bend area. FBSO also fosters local musicians through sponsorship of an annual Concerto Competition and opportunities to perform with the Orchestra. More details about the concert are available at fbso.org. Tickets are available online at tinyurl.com/FBSODTH25.
law’s kids, my husband’s oldest sister. They’re now living in Houston, just down the road in Missouri City,” she added.
The Wells’ 28-year-old son is grown and living on his own. Kyle and Jazz Jordan, a gay couple from Missouri City, celebrated National Adoption Day with their newly adopted twin babies, born through surrogacy in Mexico.
“They were both born in Mexico,” Kyle Jordan said. “We were there for their birth, then came home and waited for the adoption to be finalized.” Using an egg donor, they im-
of
planted two embryos, beating the slim 15% chance that both would take.
“Parenthood has changed everything – mostly sleep and leaving the house,” he said. “But it’s been an incredible journey.”
National Adoption Day, observed the Saturday before Thanksgiving, finalizes thousands of adoptions across the U.S. In Fort Bend County, the day brought color, joy, and new beginnings for children and families alike.
Varma can be reached at juhi.varma@gmail.com.
The Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra and Chorus will hold its annual “Deck the Halls” holiday concert on Sunday, Dec. 7, at the Stafford Centre. Contributed photo by Craig Busch
The Butler family celebrate the adoption of a brother and sister, ages 6 and 7, who joined their new family in May after coming through the foster care system. Photos by Juhi Varma
Jill Curtis, president of the board of directors
Child Advocates of Fort Bend, speaks during the National Adoption Day ceremony at the Fort Bend County Justice Center.
Two-year-old Penelope was adopted by her aunt Izzy Ramirez and uncle David Ramirez, one of two kinship adoptions at the National Adoption Day celebration. Contributed photo
Judges and officials gather under a “Better Together” balloon arch during Fort Bend County’s Adoption Day celebration.
NEHLS
wanted him to hear it from me first,” he said.
Nehls joined the U.S. Army at age 19 and served in combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the biography on his Congressional website. He retired after 21 years with the rank of major, having earned two Bronze Stars during his service.
In 1994, be began a long career in law enforcement, first with Fort Bend ISD, according to his bio. From 2004 to 2012, he served two terms as the elected as constable Fort Bend County Precinct 4, where he served two terms before being elected sheriff in 2012 and reelected in 2016 before running for Congress in 2020.
Nehls’ announcement, on a holiday weekend, came just over a week before the December 8 filing deadline for the March 2026 primaries. His twin brother Trever Nehls, a former Fort Bend County constable who unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Fort Bend County Judge KP George in 2022, shortly afterward announced on social media he will seek his brother’s seat.
“I want to thank my brother for his decades of service in the military and in law enforcement where we served together. Troy has always led with integrity, courage, and a relentless commitment to public safety and he put our community first,” Trever Nehls said.
“District 22 needs a Representative who will follow in Troy’s footsteps and stand shoulder-toshoulder with President Trump to defend our conservative values, secure the border, protect our families, and oppose the reckless and radical agenda that Democrats continue to press upon the American people. I’m ready to take up that fight,” he said. Troy Nehls announced that he is endorsing his brother.
Iowa Colony Mayor Pro-Tem Margarette Green-Scott, the most prominent Democrat to announce her candidacy for the District 28 seat, was less glowing in a social media post.
“A career built on performative loyalty is finally coming to an end,” Green-Scott wrote on Facebook, referring to Nehls’ unwavering support of Trump. “Texas’s 22nd District deserves a member of Congress who answers to us – not to Trump’s whims, not to party bosses, but to the people who live, work, and raise families here.”
The 22nd District, comprised largely of rural and suburban areas, is considered by most political watchers to be a safe Republican district. Still, Nehls joins a long and growing list of Republican members of Congress who have announced they are either resigning or not running for reelection as Trump’s poll numbers continue to drop and many believe that Democrats might retake control of the House in the 2026 midterms. Some Democrats have also said they are leaving Congress. Nehls took his seat in Congress during a precarious political moment as President Trump, who had lost his 2020 bid for reelection to Joe Biden, was challenging the election results on many fronts. When a large group of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, when the Congress was set to certify the results, the newly installed Nehls could be seen on video calling the rioters “un-American” and telling them he was ashamed.
“It was very, very wrong, it was criminal,” Nehls told the Fort Bend Star shortly afterward. “I wasn’t happy with anything that I saw that afternoon in our nation’s Capitol building.”
Nonetheless, Nehls was one of a handful of Republican lawmakers who voted to challenge the certification of the election results after Congress reconvened late on January 6, which was the focus of a 2022 New York Times story. Since Trump reentered the White House after winning the 2024 election, Nehls has distinguished himself as being one the President’s most vocal and staunch supporters.
Over the course of his time in Congress, Nehls has drawn heavy criticism from some quarters for rarely, if ever, holding town hall meetings in the district, preferring to make appearances in very structured settings before largely friendly audiences. He has also been known for his weekly emails to constituents, which include many references to his media appearances as well as nonscientific polls geared toward very conservative viewpoints.
In the House, Nehls serves on the Judiciary Committee (including on the Crime and Federal Government Surveillance and Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement subcommittees) and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (including as chair of the subcommittee on aviation and on the Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials and Highways and Transit subcommittees).
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS OF
THE ESTATE OF SUKH DEV MEHRA, DECEASED
Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary upon the Estate of SUKH DEV MEHRA, Deceased, were granted to me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2025, in Probate Docket No. 25-CPR-043205, by the County Court at Law 6 of FORT BEND County, Texas. All persons indebted to said estate are hereby required to come forward and make settlement with me and all persons having claims against said estate are hereby required to present the same to me within the time prescribed by law. I may be reached through my attorney, Shannon M. Raabe-Barnes, at the address below: 236 West Colorado Street, La Grange, Texas 78945; where I receive my mail on this the 17th day of November, 2025.
Versha Chopra Mehra Independent Executrix of the Estate of SUKH DEV MEHRA, Deceased
No experience is necessary and boys should be around eight years of age or older with an unchanged voice. Auditions are by special appointment at the First United Methodist Church Missouri City, 3900 Lexington Blvd., Missouri City, TX. Visit the Fort Bend Boys Choir’s webpage at www.fbbctx.org
LOVING FRIENDS IS A GROUP OF WOMEN AND MEN WHO ARE WIDOWS
about us and to learn about this month’s planned lunch. We hope to meet you soon.
VALLEY GARDEN CLUB
QUAIL
The Quail Valley Garden Club is very busy, not only with meetings, but with some fun “stuff” for our members and the community. Please find our fall schedule of events that the QVGC will be involved with this fall leading up to the holidays. FBJSL IS ACCEPTING CAF GRANT APPLICATIONS
We provide grants of up to $5,000.00 to charitable causes serving Fort Bend County with requests to fund a critical need, pilot a program, or expand a significant service to the community. If your agency or organization is interested in applying for a CAF grant, please visit the Request Support page of the FBJSL website (www.fbjsl.org/request-support). All applications should be submitted via e-mail to brccom@fbjsl.com.
FOSTER CARE SERVICES
THE SANCTUARY
We are a child placing agency that provides wrap around care support for foster children and foster families. We provide free therapy services, 24 hr. crisis intervention, respite/alternative care services and community-based support. For more info, www.sanctuaryfostercare.org
ALIEF AARP CHAPTER 3264
Meets the first Thursday of every month at 10:00 a.m. at Salvation Army Church, 7920 Cook Road, Houston, TX 77072. Educational Program/Entertainment at each meeting. Bus Trips every month. Seniors 50 and above invited. Call 281785-7372 for more information.
SUGAR LAND ROTARY CLUB
Sugar Land Rotary Club, the nation’s oldest community service organization, wants you to be its guest at a meeting that could turn out to be the best fit for getting involved with a local, non-political, humanitarian service organization with a global presence to satisfy your passion. We’re on a quest for new members! Call or email Dean Clark, 832-987-4193,
