Emily Jacobs is a congressional reporter for the Washington Examiner. She began her career at Fox News Channel as a ticker writer and then moved to the New York Post's politics team as a national political reporter.
Texas Democratic state Sen. John Whitmire and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee on Tuesday advanced to a runoff in the race to be the next mayor of Houston.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, one longtime Texas lawmaker who has worked with both front-runners predicted to the Washington Examiner late last month that Whitmire would emerge victorious in the all-but-certain runoff. Jackson Lee promoted her Hill experience as a necessary asset to ensure Houston could tap into millions in untouched federal funds. But she also had to deal with the emergence of leaked audio in which she could be heard berating staffers.
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