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A specter is haunting Harris County—the specter of Fidel Castro. It manifested in a Houston suburb earlier this month, when the Greater Tomball Area Pachyderm Club hosted a debate between Vidal Martinez and Alexandra del Moral Mealer, the two Republican candidates vying for a chance to unseat Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, the county’s top executive, in November. The most dramatic moment came during closing statements, when Martinez, a lawyer and longtime power broker in Houston Republican circles, held up a photograph of Mealer’s grandfather signed by the late Cuban dictator. “This is a picture that’s inscribed to her grandfather as a ‘compatriot of the revolution,’” he said, to a mixture of groans and laughs from the audience. “There’s not going to be a single way…

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