He’s Not Gonna Get “Real Visible” Until After the Election
Okay, this story comes sliding down the chute from Robertson County, Texas. Roberson County is kinda hidden between the shadows of Huntsville and Killeen.
The current county judge is Democrat Jan Roe. Roe has an opponent in this election who seems to have found an interesting way to win: instead of using teevee or newspaper ads, he’s hired a guy to hand voters the money thereby bypassing the middle man.
The allegations stem from two affidavits signed by a mother and son from Robertson County who claim Charles Ellison and one of his supporters were handing out campaign cards at a Hearne food bank on Sept. 25 and telling people if Ellison won and the card was returned to him, they’d be paid $5.
So the Democratic County Chair filed a complaint with the District Attorney. Now, here’s where it gets weird.
The Invisible DA
The District Attorney is Republican Coty Siegert, who got elected by 292 votes two years ago when the incumbent DA pulled some hanky panky in getting his family members out of trouble.
The new Republican DA has an interesting take as to what his job is.
Siegert said he’s sent an investigator to speak with Ellison and the supporter who’s being accused, but isn’t going to “get real visible until after the election” as to not “hamper the election process.”
Oh hell yeah, let’s not get to the bottom of this and stop it before election day. I mean cutting off a fellow Republican’s vote buying might mess up his whole GOTV effort.
But, things change real fast when Charles Ellison, the accused vote buyer, took a polygraph test and passed it. All of a sudden, hampering the election process becomes way less important.
Y’all, the DA put an epic saga on his damn Facebook page of the legal finding of facts in this case. On his damn Facebook page. (Scroll down to October 21st.) Then, he blames the Democratic County Chair of using the DA’s office for political purposes.
Holy damn cow. He’s accusing her of a crime for reporting a crime. On. His. Facebook. Page. Picture this: “Your Honor, as legal precedence I would like to cite Facebook page 1329456 section “Happy Face LIKE”.
Now I would also like to remind you that the guy who was actually accused of offering the bribe in Ellison’s behalf was not given a polygraph.
Now I’ve got one more interesting part to this story and that’s a guy named Ty Clevenger. Ty has several blogs and seems a tad obsessed with Democratic incumbent county judge Jan Roe. Sometimes he strays outside of politics. He had a blog post about the pants being worn by a junior high school volleyball team, which he calls Spandex Booty Shorts. There is this memorable paragraph.
And that is the problem: parents who adopt the soft-porn standards of our culture, rather than protecting their kids’ right to be kids. (I could tell you what the Bible says about modesty, but most Baptists don’t care about that anymore, much less members of the squishier denominations).
Squishier denominations? You mean like them floozy Methodists?
No, really, a District Attorney put his legal findings on a Facebook page.
Thanks to Shellie for the heads up.
Polygraph results are not admissible in court because THEY ARE NOT ACCURATE. I can lie and pass one; so can anyone.
1A grown man thinks seventh grade girls playing volleyball is “soft porn?” That tells you just about all you need to know.
2Henry … I think you hit the volleyball across the net with that comment!
3You have to admit, that is a pretty unique meaNs of securing votes. Or at least certainly meets the standards of transparency. Would you say he’s kinda making fun of the mentality of his potential constituents?
4Blood test!!! This guy has to have a blood test! Don’t be surprised if he’s on mescaline!
5@maggie:
6you may be onto something. I have spoken at teapartiers and observed they have the attention span of a butterfly and were intent on eating every chocolaty munchie in sight.
So….if someone puts up $5.00 per returned card in the next DA election in that county….you could have Mr. Siegert out of office for about $1500.00.
Wonder how he would react to that…
7So I say that if he does get elected, we forge a zillion of the things, demand payment, then sue if he doesn’t fork over.
8Y’all there is a REASON why it’s also called Booger County! I mean, this is the place where Billy Sol Estes shot hisownself in the back (!) in the good old days when Price Metcalf was the Sheriff. Used to be heavily populated by rural democrats most of whom had ancestors that got land with Stephen F Austin; now that half of Lake Jackson (can you say “Dow Chemical”?) has retired up here and brought their suburban Republicanism with them PLUS 40 years of ‘”ABORTION is EEEEVIIIILLL” so you better vote republican or go to hell’ has been spewed out of all the Christian?Xtian?Churchy? pulpits in the county, we’re not so blue 🙁 AND we’re still even DRY in a lot of places! Also, Charles Ellison has been the Mayor of Franklin for about 25 years. He’s a lot of fun and can still sing, but I don’t think he needs to be the county judge! Mayor of Franklin is about right, a nice retirement job for a c&w singer who was never a star.
As for Ty Clevenger, he was the head of the Young Republicans at TAMU back in the day and specialized in whining and smear campaigns then. Not much has changed; he’s like James O’Keefe without a camera but a law degree instead. He was behind a smear of John Paschall that centered around some estate management issues in Calvert, TX – John lost that close DA race and Clevenger has since been fired by the group that retained him, but IMO the real target was Paschall- fits Clevenger’s modus operandi to a T.
The current crap is really about whether we continue to use the oil and gas largesse to update RoCo and drag it kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Jane Roe is trying to do that; the old boys think everything is jes’ fahn the way it has been since 1898. The current Sheriff likes 9-1-1 with his dispatchers in the SO; everyone else’s 9-1-1 is now in dedicated soundproof offices with dedicated lines, etc, etc, and Jan wants to move them and update their software to state of the art. Charles’ last girlfriend is definitely a member of the RoCo old timers descendents club and has money – lots – since Mama died. I wonder how that figures in to all this? I just don’t gossip enough y’all!
9A “Jane” snuck in there that should be “Jan” – better go get more coffee…
10JJ, Sorry, I stopped at the post on a “non-citizen” voting.
How does this guy get any other work done? Keeping up with all he posts on his Facebook page has to be a full time job.
11Your invisible DA looks like a real young James Carville.
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