Read the entire editorial published by the Statesman on Sunday at this link: http://www.statesman.com/opinion/race-for-house-seat-and-hays-county-posts-256987.html
EDITORIAL BOARD
State Rep. Patrick Rose, D-Dripping Springs, continues to be a forceful advocate for District 45, with a leadership style that focuses on building consensus at the Legislature. As a result, Rose has an impressive list of accomplishments that has helped improve the quality of life for district residents and all Texans. He is the best choice for the March 2 Democratic primary.
The District 45 seat represents a swing district split between Democrats and Republicans.
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There is a clear contrast between candidates seeking the District 45 House seat and the Hays County Commissioners Court's top leadership post. We urge voters to choose Rose, Barton and Cobb.
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Here's a sampling of comments the Stateman's endorsements has stirred. (None of the commenters, so far, are happy with the paper's far-fetched picks):
–– If Representative Pat Rose spent less time in the Warehouse District of Austin and more time really representing his constituents - in the way we need representation - Hays, Blanco, and Caldwell counties will remain livable.
If he's re-elected, hello urban sprawl. – Nell 786
–– Sorry after years of supporting Rose I can't do it any longer. He had his chance to be A Democrat and instead has become another pathetic Republican lite. I am active with the Hays Dems and I am working hard to make sure Rose loses this primary. – Texan by Marriage
–– Dear AAs editorial board, Disclaimer to your endorsement should state that you are in the business of selling houses, cars and cheap trinkets from China.
If you were to read your letters to your editor, John Sharp briefly and thoroughly made your case for you. You don’t read your own paper. You’ve been ‘rosed’ to. District 45 has been ‘rosed’ to and now you want us to believe your big fat ’rose’ – your endorsement.
Since you currently have readers out in Hays county, you should not ‘rose’ to them and should stick to mercantile. Your endorsements are the kiss of death to those that receive them, it’s history – read it. Thanks for the endorsements, say goodnight to young prince Pinocchio Ro$e and developer wanna-be baby Barton. Hays county will thank you for helping to elect Andrew Backus and re-elect county judge Sumter. You endorsed Jim Powers over Sumter the last go around. Thanks for that too.
By the way FYI Pinocchio Ro$e is claiming credit for the cure of breast cancer – now that’s real news! – Les
4 comments:
There is much not to like about Rose. However, that hardly justifies supporting a candidate who :
a) supported the elimination of existing residential wells without compensation
b) supported forcing homeowners to have to purchase water from central water systems or other entities that pay production fees to the HTGCD fiefdom
c) wanted the power to enter your property without your consent, without a warrant, and without any probable cause
d) wanted to impose "transfer fees" on your property
e) supported prohibiting any new residential wells without compensation to the affected owner
f) for those wells that he would "allow", he wanted to require you to submit to a permit process. Permit fees are established and the granting of a permit would be at the discretion of the Board. Suddenly your property ownership has been turned into a renewable license that can simply not be renewed with the representation that such is not a compensable taking.
No thanks.
Backus has already shown his leanings. There are those who are for Rose and those who are against. However, I suspect that there are at least as many that are "against Backus" and would vote against being subjected to his regime regardless of how they felt about Rose.
There's a story about a vote and two evils....
Why did you snip out the portion of the article that endorses Barton and points out the reason why so many do not like Sumter?
Anony #2, Woukld you be talking about this part;
"Under Barton's leadership, the county nearly passed an initiative in 2008 to improve public safety for families living on smaller lots in unincorporated subdivisions. It was spurred by a 2007 shooting incident in which 7-year-old Daniel Galicia was killed while jumping on a trampoline in his family's yard east of Kyle by a stray bullet fired by a neighbor shooting targets in his yard, which was less than half a mile from Daniel's home.
The ordinance would have banned the shooting of firearms on lots smaller than two acres in unincorporated areas and would have passed except that Sumter cast the vote that defeated it.
Her job was to make policy to protect all residents. Instead she made a raw political calculation. And Sumter's tenure has been divisive. In one case, she brought embarrassment to the court by passing along to the country district attorney invalid allegations of corruption regarding road projects in fellow commissioners' precincts. The allegations were swiftly dismissed, but the damage has lingered."
All the paper & ink in the world can't cover for the genuine lack of sincerity and substance of Rose. Telling the voters that they must play by his rules is an out and out political farce. On this the 164th anniversary of the start of the siege of the Alamo, the message to little tyrants has always been that TEXANS don’t obey tyrants we get rid of them! Remember the Alamo, vote!
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