As the County Chair for the Democratic Party in Washington County I was quite surprised that Paul Foreman used my name in a manner that infers that I support him.
During the course of this Primary season, I made it abundantly clear to candidates in all the contested races that they would be treated equally and fair and that I would not state nor take a position for any candidate in a contested race. At one time or another I have invited ALL candidates to this county and made every effort to get as many of them in the county as possible. Most did take advantage of this, including Paul Foreman.
However, on another occasion, Mr. Foreman, on his printed material listed another individual in our county as a supporter, and I was present at the time this person requested Mr. Foreman remove his name from his material.
Now that Mr. Foreman has chosen to use my name as a supporter, I have to question his truthfulness and integrity when he uses peoples names without their consent. Since Mr. Foreman has put me in this position I have no choice now but to respond and declare my choice and that is now Ted Ankrum.
I would hope that you will make this clear in your paper as well as your website.
Respectfully
Duane Olney, Chair
Democratic Party
Washington County
(Fleece is in the Republican runoff in HD-50 against Don Zimmerman for the chance to go up against Rep. Mark Strama in November. - promoted by Karl-Thomas Musselman)
From the Texas Alliance for Life's "Voter Guide":
"The candidates were asked whether they supported, opposed, or were undecided on the following:"
Jeff Fleece supports "[t]he reversal of the U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision, which allows abortion for any reason, even as a method of birth control, and even in the late stages of pregnancy."
Translation: If you are a woman, Fleece believes that the Texas State Legislature, not you, should be the final arbiter on what happens to your body.
Interesting debate between the two Republicans running to be defeated by current HD-50 Representative Mark Strama.
First question was about which one was the better Republican. I have to say, Don Zimmerman's response was the more interesting. "...In all of my political life I have never done anything contrary to the Texas Republican Party platform. I think the platform is terrific..." Here's the full text of the Texas Republican Platform in all its glory.
Zimmerman says he is a Ron Paul Republican and Jeff Fleece says he is a Reagan Republican.
Zimmerman in response to an accusation by Fleece said
If you look a Ron's [Paul] record and what I have done in my political life, everything that we have done has been consistent with constitutional principles and also consistent with the Texas State Republican Party platform. So I think really what defines a Republican should be the party platform and I have been perfectly consistent with that.
Here's a list of media stories reporting problems with electronic voting systems. The biggest story was the 100,000 over vote count in Tarrant county using Hart Intercivic's eSlate system. Yesterday however, the SOS actually stopped a recount in Tom Green County due to vote tally discrepancies. They use Hart Intercivic's eSlate system as well.
We've all heard them discussed behind certain candidate's backs: the reason(s) they run for office. We all now the public reasons, but I wonder what is the pettiest or the stupidest reason you've ever heard for someone running for office?
You don't have to give their name or anything, maybe just what they ran for. I'm personally thinking about a local race where a person ran because their best friend was fired by the incumbent (a judge). Now isn't that a reason to serve on the judiciary, because your friend was fired by the sitting judge.
After some concerns about whether San Antonio would be able to legally hold a primary election on March 7th a judged ruled to keep the Democratic primary intact.
This past Friday, Senior District Judge Pat Priest ruled that a committee appointed by current County Chair Rudy Casias has the authority to oversee the election.
"For (an executive committee-appointed panel) to take control now would have been disruptive to the primary," said attorney Lauro Bustamante, who's representing Casias.
The temporary order also gave the executive committee the final say over the hiring of election judges and the selection of voting systems — tasks the county election department already had carried out. Worried that the order could throw the primary into chaos, county officials intervened in the case.
There were some concerns that plaintiff in the case against Casias would make an effort to seize control of the primary elections. .
