The Constable Races

 Dear Friends and Neighbors,

You might have seen signs from candidates for a county constable position.

You can learn more about the position of constable from their website:

https://www.collincountytx.gov/Courts/Constables

Here is the description for your convenience:  "The Constable is the chief process server of the precinct and is also required to serve as the bailiff in the Justice of the Peace courts. The Constable's office executes and returns to courts all warrants, capias warrants, other criminal process, citations, subpoenas, forcibles and writs."

There are 4 positions.  They are all up for election and you can vote for one, depending on where you live.  They are in geographic districts.  Your voter registration card will not tell you which one is your constable.   Here is a website where you can see a map and you can enter your address to know for certain which constable is yours:  https://maps.collincountytx.gov/ccmap_constables/

 

Of the 4 races, two have incumbents and two do not.  Here are the candidates:

 COLLIN COUNTY - COUNTY CONSTABLE PRECINCT 1
MATT CARPENTER INCUMBENT: YES
CRIS TREVINO OCCUPATION: POLICE OFFICER

 COLLIN COUNTY - COUNTY CONSTABLE PRECINCT 2 - no incumbent
DWAYNE KURTZ INCUMBENT: NO

 COLLIN COUNTY - COUNTY CONSTABLE PRECINCT 3
SAMMY KNAPP INCUMBENT: YES

 COLLIN COUNTY - COUNTY CONSTABLE PRECINCT 4 - no incumbent
STEVE ASHER OCCUPATION: CHIEF DEPUTY
MIKE RUMFIELD OCCUPATION: LAW ENFORCEMENT

You can use search engines to investigate the candidates for your precinct.  

Now is a good time to investigate because there will be many races to consider as time moves closer to election day.

Robert

 

Are You in SBOE District 12?

 Dear Friends and Neighbors,

When you vote in the coming primary elections, there is a contest among Republicans for the State Board of Education (SBOE), District 12.  You might be wondering if you live in District 12.  You can look at your voter registration card and hunt for that small box, or you can look at a map.  It is some work to find a for District 12, but I found it for you.  Here is the link to it:  https://wrm.capitol.texas.gov/fyiwebdocs/PDF/sboe/dist12/m1.pdf

If you live in Collin County, then you are in District 12.  The district is much larger than just Collin County.  Here is a snapshot of District 12.

 If you are familiar with the shape of Collin County, you can see it when you look at McKinney, Allen, Plano on the map.  Here is a bit of a zoom-in on just Collin County, if you are unfamiliar with looking at maps of the county.

The current District 12 SBOE member is Pam Little.  Chad Green of McKinney is running against her and I recommend Chad Green for your vote.  I will say more about this race at another time.

Thank you, Robert

Good work from your Republican Party -- Murr Censured

Dear Friends and Neighbors,

I bring you good news, an example of your Texas Republican Party doing good work.

Representative Andrew Murr, who led the kangaroo court that improperly impeached Attorney General Ken Paxton, will not be seeking reelection.  This is largely due to the work of the RPT (Republican Party of Texas) SREC (State Republican Executive Committee).  The SREC is essentially the ruling body of the RPT.  They met in September and announced that they had enough evidence to hit Andrew Murr with a Rule 44 Censure.   They said then (I was present) that they could not yet vote on the censure because they needed to give Representative Murr time to come and defend himself to the SREC.

Instead of going to the SREC and defending his actions, Murr announced his retirement from the Texas House.  Here is an article about it:

Paxton Impeachment Leader Andrew Murr Announces He Won’t Seek Re-Election in 2024

https://thetexan.news/elections/2024/paxton-impeachment-leader-chairman-andrew-murr-announces-he-won-t-seek-re-election-in-2024/article_bba832e0-87f7-11ee-840e-378b54cb0471.html

Here is the text of Murr's announcement.

Murr announces retirement

https://www.banderabulletin.com/article/news/murr-announces-retirement

When I attended the December SREC meeting, they did the vote to censure Murr under SREC Rule 44.

Under a Rule 44 censure, Murr cannot run as a Republican in the primary and if he filed for any race in the 2024 Republican Primary, the SREC would spend money to educate voters about his censure.  This was enough incentive for Andrew Murr to announce his retirement from the Texas Legislature.  Here is the full text of the censure of Murr:

https://texasgop.org/murr-censure/

If I heard the SREC correctly, they will try the same approach to Dade Phelan.  Phelan's supporters in the SREC delayed the work of censure so it is taking longer to censure Phelan.

The Republican Party at the national level seems pretty ineffective at times.  The county GOP parties sometimes go into the weeds.  But the SREC is doing well, which means that overall the GOP in Texas is doing well.  Many Republican elected officials are terrible, but they are not the party.  You and I, the grassroots, are the party by voting and going to the Republican Conventions.  The SREC and RPT are the GOP in Texas, not our elected officials.

We organize as a party to elect good politicians and to remove bad politicians.  We got rid of Murr with a Rule 44 Censure.  We are getting rid of our state reps in Collin County at the ballot box.  Our GOP is a good party only when we get rid of the bad eggs in political office.

State Representative Justin Holland made himself famous by insulting the Republican Party.

https://twitter.com/justinaholland/status/1669815781230559233

If you don't have a Twitter account, here is what he said:

Our elected officials will not respect us voters in the Republican Party unless we vote disappointing incumbents out of office.

We are going to fix Texas and we are going to fix America.  We can do it!

God bless Texas!  God bless America!

Robert