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Letters for 04-20-2010
Carroll thanks county for its support
I am grateful to the voters of Ellis County and humbled by the results of Tuesday’s countywide election. Thank you for placing your confidence and trust in me to serve as your next 40th District Court Judge.
Our campaign volunteers throughout Ellis County were passionate, dedicated, sacrificial and hard working. They deserve appreciation beyond description. An effective campaign simply cannot be run without such support. New friendships were rooted and old ones blossomed.
I would like to extend my best wishes to Cindy Ermatinger and her family. She can take great pride in having run a strong and clean campaign. Cindy no doubt has a bright legal future.
Kathy, our children and I love living here in Ellis County. To serve the community that you love and the people that you respect so much is truly an honor. My desire above all else is to uphold justice and serve the people of Ellis County to the best of my ability.
Bob Carroll
40th District Court Judge Elect
DPRI appreciates support for IMPACT Ennis
I just wanted to drop you a line to say how appreciative we are of the Ennis Daily News’ support for IMPACT Ennis and our various projects over the past two years. It is obvious that the EDN plays an integral role in developing and sustaining the strong sense of community that is so visible in Ennis; we are truly thankful for the way you have welcomed our organization and our mission into this network through your open arms. And of course, the extras you are able to provide us on our limited budget do not go unnoticed! We owe much of our success in reaching the community with our important message to your partnership.
If there is any way that we can support your efforts or be of assistance, please let me know. Thank you for working together with us to keep Ennis youth healthy, safe, and drug-free!
Shannon Graves
Program Director for Community Coalitions,
Drug Prevention Resources, Inc.
Ignorant Tea Party witch hunt continues
I read an article online this week, at AOL News, where one more writer was running around, turning over rocks, looking for that illusive “racism” in the TEA Party movement. Having gotten involved in political activism within the last year, much to my surprise, I have pridefully attended several Tea Party rallies.
I see no racism whatsoever. What I see are patriotic Americans, scared to death that someone’s trying to take their country away, and deciding, like I did, that we can no longer just sit by and let someone else take care of it all.
The truth is, we are the someone else, and it is up to us to not let it all slip away. If it does, we’ll never get it back, and spend the balance of our days, as will our kids and grand kids, pining for the America we once knew.
What was most offensive in the article I mentioned was that the writer ended by saying “it remains a movement of rote, often anti-intellectual, opposition” (referring, of course to the Tea Party movement).
What he was saying is that the TEA Partyers can only learn by using routines and repetitions without full comprehension, and alluding to that being what they do at rallies. Likewise, he claims that they are often “anti-intellectual.”
What he’s saying folks, is that if you think government should be limited, that we should have a balanced federal budget, that free markets work best, and that respecting the Constitution should be the basis of our governing … we’re dumb.
I guess that unless you’re progressive enough and drive a Volvo, you really don’t get it!
The one thing he did get right, is that we are the opposition.
Proudly, we are the opposition to an administration that has finally scared us enough that they have roused a sleeping giant, and I see the passion of all the conservatives I encounter who will not go back to sleep again.
I suggest to all the liberals I encounter, the radicals I encounter, the Marxists and communists that I encounter, to simply leave, go live somewhere else. I suggest maybe Venezuela or Cuba among many others.
The media continuing to look for racism in the TEA Party movement is just creating a smokescreen. There is no credibility to it. The liberals are grasping for anything, anyway to continue to market their ideology.
Mr. Writer, I have two messages. There is no racism in the TEA Party movement … and we will not stop until we take back this country. And remember, in November we are coming.
Sam Tenpenny
Ennis
