Note: Dripping Springs homeboy Rick Green is in the news again, this time he's in a run-off with Tarrant County Family Court Judge Debra Lehrmann for a seat on the state's highest court. The run-off election is scheduled April 13. Green has lost that cherubic look of his early state rep days and is now sporting some gray hair. Guess it makes him look more judicial. But ya gotta hand it to the little guy, he has the instincts of a special ops warrior who can sneak behind the lines in the dead of night and accomplish his many-hued missions. Green's campaign is targeting social and religious conservatives. Judge Roy Bean, move over. Texas Supreme Court, meet God's newly appointed arbiter of The Law West of the Pecos.
We borrowed this report from Austin-based Burnt Orange Report, thanks.
More insights from the Brenham Banner-Press and Ft. Worth Star-Telegram: http://www.brenhambanner.com/articles/2010/03/04/news/news01.txt
http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/03/03/2013286/gop-runoff-slated-for-texas-supreme.html
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by: Katherine HaenschenWed Mar 03, 2010 at 03:23 PM CST
Remember Republican Rick Green, former State Representative from Dripping Springs? He was ousted by Democrat Patrick Rose in 2002, in a race decided by only 335 votes. Four years later, Green was apparently still upset, and on election day he punched Patrick Rose in the face at a polling location. An APB was put out for his arrest.
Well, as we posted earlier, that very same Rick Green is in a run-off for the Republican nomination to our highest civil court in Texas, the State Supreme Court. Yes! That's right. As I've heard more than one attorney say, "If Rick Green wins, we might as well tear up our law degrees."
Rick Green is a total toolbag, as well chronicled in Paul Stekler's great documentary Last Man Standing: Politics Texas Style. (If you haven't watched Last Man Standing I highly recommend it. Great stuff.)
Here's my question: if Rick Green loses the run-off, will he punch Debra Lehrmann in the face?
Jim Sharp (D) stands ready to challenge the winner of the run-off in the General Election. There is a Libertarian candidate, as well. Sharp actually managed to eke out a victory in the crowded 8-way judicial poll conducted by the State Bar of Texas. Should Green actually win – I have little faith that the GOP Run-Off voters will pick the woman, who is currently a District Judge and therefore not nearly as woefully unqualified in this race – we've got to make sure folks pay close attention to this race now through November.
5 comments:
I met Green one year or so before he faced Rose in the election. We met by accident in the mall off Capital of Texas Hwy and MOPAC.
At first he seemed nice enough but still very arrogant about his position as he boasted that he was a representative to a soda clerk in Johnny Rockets. I was sitting at the county with my 3 year old son.
I spoke with him for a few minutes as he was paying his tab at the counter, and I wondered to myself, this guy is a nut, how did he become our representative.
Anyway, I supported Rose to get rid of Green and now I support Cobb to get rid of Rose.
I guess it becomes a vicious cycle.
But now it seems that political ghosts haunt us forever and we just can't get rid of them no matter how hard we try.
Yes, Green is a very strange little man.
I would hate to consider Green judging other people. Way too scary.
This excerpt from a website put out by the Southern Poverty Law Center shows why Rick Green might be elected:
"The signs of growing radicalization are everywhere. Armed men have come to Obama speeches bearing signs suggesting that the "tree of liberty" needs to be "watered" with "the blood of tyrants." The Conservative Political Action Conference held this February was co-sponsored by groups like the John Birch Society, which believes President Eisenhower was a Communist agent, and Oath Keepers, a Patriot outfit formed last year that suggests, in thinly veiled language, that the government has secret plans to declare martial law and intern patriotic Americans in concentration camps. Politicians pandering to the antigovernment right in 37 states have introduced "Tenth Amendment Resolutions," based on the constitutional provision keeping all powers not explicitly given to the federal government with the states. And, at the "A Well Regulated Militia" website, a recent discussion of how to build "clandestine safe houses" to stay clear of the federal government included a conversation about how mass murderers like Timothy McVeigh and Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph were supposedly betrayed at such houses." Joe Stack is the tip of the iceberg.
Americans are becoming sicker everyday, and the voters are showing it.
Good Point, WR.
But Eisenhower was a commie??? GENERAL of WWII Eisenhower?
Ha-ha-ha! That's hysterical.
But you are dead right about the right-wing groups escalating in numbers and anger after Obama's win.
Lawyers take heed! If Rick Green is elected to the Supreme Court of Texas, you might as well throw away your law degrees. There are actors who play judges on television who are more qualified to sit on the Texas Supreme Court than this right wing extremist.
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