Local car wreck blogger and Liberty County Democratic Party Chairman Nancy Archer seemed to have thrown everything they could find at anyone who implies Morrison is some kind of Trojan horse being snuck into town. Speculation is that the Kingwood retiree turned tuxedo-wearing politician is the only one they could find who was willing to follow Phil Fitzgerald as the Democratic Party’s nominee for County Judge. Perhaps Morrison lives far enough away he had not heard about the scandal ridden Liberty County Democratic party and he volunteered thinking Fitzgerald was an easy opponent to beat so he could continue the long long string of Democrats holding the position.
It appears Democrats led by Archer, the car wreck blogger and Morrison have settled on facing the public by choosing a quote from previous outsiders’ court cases where the courts let them run in the county they were residency was questioned. They are using the “your residency is where you think it is” justification. They are sticking with this idea even though anyone that has read or heard all of the reasons that many taxpayers of this county reject their defense of Morrison is likely to have a “ his residency is where voters think it is” when it comes to election day.
But even though Morrison will be the first Democratic candidate to lose the County Judge’s race in a general election in over a century, the car wreck blogger keeps soldiering on. Anyone trying to right a wrong or bring sunshine to the dark corridors of the Liberty County’s politics can depend on him to forego his favorite pastime and skip a car wreck or two to try spinning a story to help the powerful hang on.
The most recent, and one of the most ridiculous, is “the log cabin defense”. Youngblood states- “Morrison is starting a log cabin on the western most part of Liberty County (the Kingwood side) and that means he is a resident” – so he says. I guess that is the backup rationale for anyone who didn’t like the “you are a resident if you think you are a resident” thing they have been using.
But Allen Youngblood again thinks he is so much smarter than Liberty County voters (why he thinks this no one who knows him should be able to imagine). He in fact by showing the log cabin’ construction here in the middle of September, verifies to many of us the idea that Morrison might be a Liberty County citizen by the year 2014 when the County Judge race will be up again. Morrison by then will be much older than most men would care to when they have a full time job.
Why is Allen Youngblood spending time trying to get this community to vote for someone that has lives in Kingwood? Does it mean absolutely nothing to him when voters hearing the facts in large numbers say they don’t think Morrison is a Liberty County citizen? Or that even more people say he has lived here for such few days they would consider it a negative when voting.
Please Allen, when you blow your horn again and pick your next crusade, please pick something that will benefit this community. Please… Or better yet, just leave us a short report and, if you have to a couple of dramatic pictures, on the most recent one in our area that has had an accident.
Thank you in advance for posting my comment.
Concerned voter
EIGHT YEARS UNTIL PAY DIRT!
Recently one of Liberty Dispatch’s contributors called our attention to a trend among a handful of voters who seem to want change in our local government, but are concerned about how “Christian” it is to cast votes that send the incumbents out looking for jobs. After hearing that same reasoning several times, we have decided to look at an example or two of what happens when elected officials leave office.
Besides the fact that our Founding Fathers never set up our system of government to create permanent or long term elected positions, Liberty County officials have their own excellent retirement plans or I guess we could say a mini-version of golden parachutes.
Let’s look at one area in the courthouse or what for years would have been the elected officials in the east end of the third floor of the courthouse (before expanding to other buildings in the last few years). Since before the turn of the century Liberty County has had either Zeke Zbranek or his brother-in-law Rusty Hight running the 75th District Court and Melody Gilmore in the District clerk’s office. During their time in office they were paid a good salary and they had excellent benefits. County employees like these are vested in just eight years and they are then eligible for the retirement that accumulated from their own contribution of 7% of their salary while taxpayers have contributed almost double that to their retirement plans. That is right; we contribute DOUBLE what they contribute to their retirement fund! Coincidentally, Democrats during the same period Gilmore, Hight, and Zbranek held office and have voted the largest pay increases for elected officials in the history of the county. So these people were paid a great deal better than their predecessors and they will also get social security, a great retirement from the county, and if they are like most people they will have some retirement from their work before and after they were elected.
Moving this discussion away from the people we elect and pay in our courthouse here, let’s consider briefly about the elected officials we send to Austin. In another branch of the Zbranek’s/Hight’s attempt to create a political dynasty, let’s use Zeb Zbranek’s tenure as State Representative as an example. When discussing how well government officials can do after serving for only eight years, Zeb is a an example of why no tears should be shed when they are no longer in office. This Zbranek served eight years and taxpayers could potentially pay six to seven figures if he lives long enough. High pay for a job that is just a small portion of one year and then State Reps take off the next year. Of course Zeb practiced law the majority of his eight years in that office too.
We are informing those voters who don’t know, and reminding those who do, that Liberty County’s elected officials are rewarded for their time served. They are paid a fair amount and they have good benefits and an excellent retirement plan.
Its election time and Liberty Dispatch wants the people who think we need change and need to stop the Obama team to vote for new people and we want those who like the status quo to vote for the incumbents. We don’t want people to change their vote because they don’t know the facts.
Besides the fact that our Founding Fathers never set up our system of government to create permanent or long term elected positions, Liberty County officials have their own excellent retirement plans or I guess we could say a mini-version of golden parachutes.
Let’s look at one area in the courthouse or what for years would have been the elected officials in the east end of the third floor of the courthouse (before expanding to other buildings in the last few years). Since before the turn of the century Liberty County has had either Zeke Zbranek or his brother-in-law Rusty Hight running the 75th District Court and Melody Gilmore in the District clerk’s office. During their time in office they were paid a good salary and they had excellent benefits. County employees like these are vested in just eight years and they are then eligible for the retirement that accumulated from their own contribution of 7% of their salary while taxpayers have contributed almost double that to their retirement plans. That is right; we contribute DOUBLE what they contribute to their retirement fund! Coincidentally, Democrats during the same period Gilmore, Hight, and Zbranek held office and have voted the largest pay increases for elected officials in the history of the county. So these people were paid a great deal better than their predecessors and they will also get social security, a great retirement from the county, and if they are like most people they will have some retirement from their work before and after they were elected.
Moving this discussion away from the people we elect and pay in our courthouse here, let’s consider briefly about the elected officials we send to Austin. In another branch of the Zbranek’s/Hight’s attempt to create a political dynasty, let’s use Zeb Zbranek’s tenure as State Representative as an example. When discussing how well government officials can do after serving for only eight years, Zeb is a an example of why no tears should be shed when they are no longer in office. This Zbranek served eight years and taxpayers could potentially pay six to seven figures if he lives long enough. High pay for a job that is just a small portion of one year and then State Reps take off the next year. Of course Zeb practiced law the majority of his eight years in that office too.
We are informing those voters who don’t know, and reminding those who do, that Liberty County’s elected officials are rewarded for their time served. They are paid a fair amount and they have good benefits and an excellent retirement plan.
Its election time and Liberty Dispatch wants the people who think we need change and need to stop the Obama team to vote for new people and we want those who like the status quo to vote for the incumbents. We don’t want people to change their vote because they don’t know the facts.
Commissioners to testify before federal grand jury
Tomorrow, Liberty County Commissioners are set to testify before a federal grand jury in Beaumont, Texas. The believed basic questioning of the commissioners will surround hurricane Ike FEMA fraud questions. Additionally, it is believed there is a widening federal probe concerning the corruption in Liberty County which could also be explored by the grand jury. The Liberty County Commissioners involved in the investigation are- Norman Brown, Melvin Hunt and Lee Groce.
RUSTY POTHOLDERS FOR BIG BUCK JOB
I love living in Liberty County. When this community has good information, we make good decisions. We are unimpressed with people when all they have is a Masters degree or PHD or a pile of money if we see they have no common sense. We are a community of people that rely on God and on the good examples we have seen in our life and on our own experience before we will yield to any snake oil salesman or a politician at election time. We pride ourselves in learning from our own mistakes and the mistakes we have seen our loved ones make. We are Texans, proud of our independent southern heritage; and we were the first to recognize the nonsense of Barack Obama’s sales pitch when he said something along the lines of: “We are the greatest nation in the history of this planet; and I am here to fundamentally change this nation.”
Even though the polls from the last election show that Liberty County voters rejected Obama’s vision of a different America, anyone paying attention in Liberty County knows his fellow Democrats here locally are following the Obama plan to a T. Last week, Liberty Dispatch reported that despite the fact Liberty County Commissioners have just had the highest amount of money to spend in any four year period in history – they have plans to double our debt this next year. Their plans will leave this county in the worst financial shape that we have ever been in by using certificates of obligation and by spending three million more dollars out of our reserves and implementing other very irresponsible financial decisions. Who does that sound like? Commissioners have declared run of the mill budget issues “an emergency”. Then these “public servants” have turned around and used their own self-designated “emergencies” to give themselves more taxpayer money to spend. Who does that sound like? Who do we know that spends taxpayer money out the wahzoo so he can brag about all he has done to help us? But Americans have seen enough and we have overwhelmingly rejected Barack Obama last election. Local Democrats need to take notice; we have already rejected these ideas. We do not want the tax and spend overbearing unresponsive government the Democratic Party keeps trying to impose on us. For Liberty County to stop this kind of stuff we must all go to the polls and vote to be free from local politicians who would follow the Obama game plan.
Even though the polls from the last election show that Liberty County voters rejected Obama’s vision of a different America, anyone paying attention in Liberty County knows his fellow Democrats here locally are following the Obama plan to a T. Last week, Liberty Dispatch reported that despite the fact Liberty County Commissioners have just had the highest amount of money to spend in any four year period in history – they have plans to double our debt this next year. Their plans will leave this county in the worst financial shape that we have ever been in by using certificates of obligation and by spending three million more dollars out of our reserves and implementing other very irresponsible financial decisions. Who does that sound like? Commissioners have declared run of the mill budget issues “an emergency”. Then these “public servants” have turned around and used their own self-designated “emergencies” to give themselves more taxpayer money to spend. Who does that sound like? Who do we know that spends taxpayer money out the wahzoo so he can brag about all he has done to help us? But Americans have seen enough and we have overwhelmingly rejected Barack Obama last election. Local Democrats need to take notice; we have already rejected these ideas. We do not want the tax and spend overbearing unresponsive government the Democratic Party keeps trying to impose on us. For Liberty County to stop this kind of stuff we must all go to the polls and vote to be free from local politicians who would follow the Obama game plan.
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