The Ellis County Observer

WFAA-TV Channel 8, Dallas’ ABC affiliate, will have a 6 p.m. segment about our county commissioners’ recent vote on a CareFlite contract.

Wait till everyone sees the front page of The Ellis County Press this week.

My news column for this week centers on the CareFlite contract. Readers can view that column by clicking JoeyGDauben.com.

There’s a competing newsletter hitting the streets of Palmer this week. It’s the “other side” of the infamous Palmer Post. The Ellis County Press’ Megan Gray is investigating every claim made in the Palmer Truths. Stay tuned to the newspaper this week for more details.

To view the town’s newest publication, click below:

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Thursday, Ellis County Press reporter Megan Gray and I will be co-hosting The ECO Show, where we’ll interview sheriff write-in candidate Susan Welch-Rodriguez.

We’re drafting a list of five questions to submit to her before coming on Thursday’s show (starts at 7 p.m.), but we want to let the readers of the ECO submit their own questions as well, just in case people get scared out of calling in live.

Feel free to post your questions in the comments section.

Bookmark EllisCountyRadio.com for Thursday’s show.

[BestSouthwestBlog.com]
I hope Peggy Venable over at the Americans For Prosperity-Texas chapter has something to say about Duncanville ISD’s 13-cent property tax increase election in October.

She’ll be at the Republican field office in Duncanville on Saturday at 10 a.m.

For a look at what a real fiscal conservative organization looks like (God knows there aren’t any in the Best Southwest to speak of), visit AFPTX.org. Hey, at least Venable will be in a town that shares at least two conservative elected officials in the city, that of Duncanville Councilman Paul Ford and Duncanville ISD trustee Cindy Werner.

It’s interesting to note that when the vote came to put the 13-cent tax increase on the ballot, Werner was the lone “No” vote.

We’re hoping, though, that state representative candidate Homer Fincannon, R-Duncanville, joins the cast of conservatives.

[REALCon]
When the GI Bill came up in the US Senate, John Cornyn voted against the bill. Rick Noriega, candidate for Senate running against Cornyn, has used that record against him, claiming that he doesn’t support the bill at all. Yet Senator Cornyn made a statement on a Youtube video saying he supported the bill, but voted against it because it lacked important details, provisions that give benefits to not just veterans, but to their spouse and their children.

Noriega wishes we would believe that he stands completely against it, simply because of that vote, as he says in his youtube ad, using veterans and servicemen to claim that Cornyn said that “giving veterans benefits will weaken America.” I haven’t found any record of that comment, and if you can show it to me, I’ll believe it, but I don’t see how Senator Cornyn could say something like that. My guess is it was taken out of context, like Noriega’s initial claim.

As for me, I don’t support the GI Bill as it was originally proposed, but I see John Cornyn’s idea and it makes total and complete sense, and I would support it under these provisions.

The Ellis County Observer’s Bill Collier - who is making waves as part of the #dontgo movement nationally - will be a guest on Bobby Copeland’s Ellis County Young Republicans radio show tonight.

Listen live by clicking here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/yrec

Our prayers are with the Libertarian candidate for county treasurer, Cathy Kennedy, who is in the hospital with unspecified medical concerns.

Even though she publicly withdrew from the race earlier this year, her name is still on the ballot. Treasurer Judy Burden, R-Waxahachie, is virtually assured of the election (no Democrat filed.)

But Cathy is a fighter and I know she can pull through this.

It’s hard to find these suckers sometimes, but I had a copy of the infamous and controversial Palmer Post delivered to my office this morning.

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The Ennis Daily News is reporting this, but readers who pull a Google search on former City Commissioner Byron Walker’s past brushes with the law - made available only on this Web site for the most part - overshadow this recent case.

The Waxahachie Daily Light reported on Mark Griffith’s fight against the 40th District Court.

The poll results about Griffith’s actions are over on JoeyGDauben.com.