Positions, not motives
The 2026 vote record.
Every contested roll call recorded in the city’s own minutes this year, and the eight votes of October 6. No quotes, no explanations — the minutes record none. Just who voted, and how the tallies fell. Every line below is reproducible from the two sources at the bottom of this page.
Oct. 6, 2026 — Board of Impeachment
Eight articles. Eight roll calls, 6:49 to 7:04 p.m.
No, all eight
Garza · Morales · Tush · Walters
Yes, all eight
Aziere · Hayden · Emerson · Krizek · Mims
Each article failed 5–4. Six votes were required. Afterward the board adopted the Board of Impeachment’s findings 6–3 (Krizek and Hayden flipped from the article votes). Emerson, Aziere and Mims never signed them.
Latrice Thomas is recorded “Absent” in every roll call in the minutes from April 14 — the day the impeachment proceedings began — through the vote that kept her in office.
The contested roll calls, January through August
A roll call is listed here when the minutes record a split — ayes against nays, or an abstention standing against the ayes. Unanimous housekeeping votes are not counted.
- Special-counsel funding (R-3781-26)
Motion to keep on the consent agenda
Failed 4–5. Nays: Morales, Tush, Aziere, Walters, Garza. The five votes to pull it for discussion included all four aldermen who would later vote no on the impeachment.
The funding itself
Adopted 8–1. Walters cast the only no. Garza, Morales and Tush voted aye.
- Special-counsel contract, Graves Garrett Greim LLC (R-3785-26)
Adoption
Adopted 8–0–1. Walters abstained; Garza voted aye.
- Impeachment ordinance, second reading
Adoption
Adopted 7–2–1. Ayes: Mims, Emerson, Krizek, Aziere, Tush, Garza, Hayden. Nays: Morales, Walters. Thomas absent.
Making the mayor signatory
Adopted 9–0–1.
- Three contested votes
Dobbs CUP returned to Planning & Zoning
Adopted 7–0–1–2. Garza and Morales abstained.
24-hour dispensary drive-thru
Adopted 7–2. Garza aye; Walters and Aziere no.
Conflict-of-interest fast-track
Failed 5–3–2. Garza on the losing side.
- Two contested votes
Rose Paving, $336,301.53
Adopted 7–0–2–1. Garza abstained; no reason recorded in the minutes.
63rd Street bikeway
Adopted 6–2–2. Garza aye and seconded; Emerson and Tush no.
- Dobbs Tire CUP (Bill 6713-26)
Adoption
Failed 5–3–2. Ayes: Mims, Emerson, Hayden, Aziere, Krizek. Nays: Morales, Walters, Garza. Tush and Thomas absent.
How often they voted together
Pairwise agreement across the contested roll calls above, for the four aldermen who voted no on all eight articles. Abstentions count as a position; an absence removes that roll call from the pair.
| Pair | Same side | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Garza – Walters | 3 of 9 | — |
| Tush – Walters | 3 of 8 | — |
| Morales – Walters | 4 of 8 | half their contested votes |
| Morales – Tush | 4 of 7 | — |
| Garza – Tush | 5 of 8 | — |
| Garza – Morales | 7 of 8 | they split only on convening the impeachment |
The one night all four were on the same side of the same question — eight consecutive times — was October 6. Before that, the only roll call that had united them was January 6’s motion to pull the counsel funding for discussion; minutes later the funding passed, and Garza, Morales and Tush voted for it.
How this was counted
- Sources: the Board of Aldermen meeting packets and minutes (January–September 2026) and the official video of the October 6, 2026 special meeting.
- “Contested” means the minutes record a split: ayes against nays, or an abstention against the ayes. Abstentions are counted as positions. An absence removes that roll call from that pair’s count.
- The minutes for March 3, March 17, June 16 and September 1 were not in the packet set; the census covers the meetings whose minutes are in hand.
- The minutes record no explanation for any vote. None is implied here. This page counts positions, not motives.
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