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Editor’s Note: The following letter is in reference to the February 16 column headlined “Primary Elections Really Do Matter.”
Read more“This is something the county has been talking about forever”, stated Jack Moseley, Commissioner, Precinct 1, at the February 10, 2022, Commissioners Court meeting in reference to agenda item to “Discuss the next steps to be taken in the renovation of the 1881 Jail and Courthouse buildings”.
Read moreEditor’s Note: The following letter is in response to the February 16 column headlined “The Rule of Law v. Rule by Power.”
Read moreThis past week, a residence on Jewell Road in Pipe Creek was badly burned. As one of the first neighbors on the scene, I watched as the Pipe Creek Volunteer Fire Department arrived and began to attack the raging fire. From my vantage point, I observed firefighters who were professional in every way as they worked together and extinguished the fire. They were both efficient and effective as they functioned as a team. The community of Pipe Creek is indeed fortunate and blessed to have these firefighters dedicated to protecting our property and lives.
Read moreLynn Haueter contradicts herself in her opinion piece, Primary Elections Really Do Matter. She is, in fact, arguing that the voters shouldn't have a choice. I suppose that she believes that the Bandera County Republican Party should anoint whoever that THEY chose, because the peasants are too ignorant to make informed voting choices. It is, the committees and unelected party officials, who are "The Swamp" that President Trump spoke of. Ms Haueter should be ashamed of herself for endorsing any candidate in her party's primary election.
Read moreAs the J6 insurrection continues to be unpacked, we see that more than 725 of the Republican faithful have been charged with crimes against the American people. But exactly what kind of faith is it that these Republicans are full of? What is their shared ideological vision and messaging? It’s the fallacy that America is and always has been a Christian nation, that the Bible is on the verge of being outlawed, and that our nation is the last bastion of Christian freedom. In short: White Christian Nationalism. The threat is so dangerous that this week the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty issued a statement strongly condemning it.
Read moreIf one painting could express the horror of war against a civilian population, it would likely be Guernica, by Pablo Picasso. There’s an apocryphal story that while Picasso was in Occupied Paris during World War II, that Gestapo officers raided his apartment. They pointed to the painting, and asked Picasso, “Did you do that?” to which he retorted to each of them, “No, you did, and you did, and you did!” Elections have consequences. When you vote for ineffectual, corrupt, lying, cheating, weasels, simply because of name recognition or the letter after their name, without any thought about the competence of the person himself, and in the case of the office of the President, what foreign despots think of him, you get incompetence meets evil.
Read moreEditor’s Note: This letter originally ran in the February 16 issue of the Bulletin without a name attached, although it was submitted with one. The Bulletin’s policy is to not run anonymous letters and we are rerunning the letter with the proper name in light of our mistake.
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