Can you imagine if you were down at the Liberty County courthouse and you ended up trapped in the elevator for a couple hours with one of the local political figures or officeholders that is involved in the most recent of Democratic Party controversies?
After exchanging glances and nods you might would have been able to have quietly gotten on and off the elevator. But if you found out it might be awhile before you were rescued, you might figure why not ask whatever questions you have.
Say the person you are trapped on the elevator with is Democratic Party activists and District Judge C. T. “Rusty” Hight – would you ask him what it is he believes about sexual offenders that makes him think they deserve amnesty, probation, or a light sentence? Or would you ask why so many cases in his court when they are out of the public eye end up with criminals getting such great deals? Or how about this: “What in the heck are you doing up there in that courtroom Hight? That courtroom up there belongs to the people of this county and why would you ever think we would approve of all of this wheeling and dealing!”
What if you were trapped in the elevator with Rusty Hight’s campaign manager, Liz Beausoliel? Beausoliel’s husband was accused by Janet Harrelson of advising her that her planned future actions in what is now known as the “Harrelson scandal” were legal. Liz Beausoliel herself was caught on video in what is now known as the “Stolen Mail/ Dirty Campaign Tricks scandal”. Would you ask the former Liberty County Democratic Party Chairman: “What were you thinking?” Or maybe: "How did that mail theft work out for you?”
How about if you got stuck in a crowded elevator with Democratic County Judge Phil Fitzgerald and Commissioner Lee Groce and a couple of the men who made tens or hundreds of thousands dollars off of their agreements on FEMA contracts? Or would it even be worth asking any of them a question!
I know what I would say if I were trapped on an elevator with the Commissioners – Groce, Brown, Hunt, and Fontenot. I would not have a question. These men have had more taxpayer money to spend in the last four years and more grants than any other time in the history of our county and they are bypassing the public and borrowing and spending at a record pace (the proposed 2011 budget increases our debt from $13 million to $27 million and spends $3 million of our cash reserves). Rather than a question I think I would stare at each of them and say: “Shame on you! Stop spending money before you totally bankrupt this county!”
And I know what I would do if District Attorney Mike Little was on the elevator. I would first make sure the emergency button was pushed. Little has a horrible track record when it comes to noticing the problems around the courthouse. Unless forced, Little ignores any toxic or problematic scenario outside of his own political scheming and vendettas and he might just ignore that the elevator was broke. After pushing the button I would call someone I trusted on my cell phone and asks them to get a recorder and stay on the line until I was free from Little and the elevator – Little has bragged that he could indict a ham sandwich and I might resemble one of those sandwiches to him. But as far as questions for Mike Little, I can only think of: “When will you be eligible to retire?” or “Why did you become a prosecutor?” Little has lived in a culture of corruption and done nothing. I would hate to throw up while trapped in an elevator so I would avoid any questions that he might give some answer about “keeping crime off of the streets!”
Thinking about all of these characters makes me want to go back and answer the original question: “Can you imagine if you were down at the Liberty County courthouse and you ended up trapped in the elevator with any of these people?” My answer: “I would prefer not to think about it. They have no acceptable answers to the many questions that circle their heads like buzzards.”
It is time for a fresh start here in Liberty County. It is time to cut off the one thing almost every one of the scandals in the last ten years is connected to – the local Democratic Party.
Liberty Dispatch Contributor
16 comments:
You made no reference to the half dozen other scandals the Democrats around here have been involved in. And you failed to mention what you would do if you were trapped in an elevator with that hothead Zack Zbranek. First off who would recognize Zack. He is not Zeke.He is not even Zeb. I mean who is Zack Zbranek that you would recognize him.But then Zack never goes two mintes with voters that he doesn't tell them the reason you have to elect him. It seems he is selling the family package. He thinks you have to vote for him because he is Zeke's boy,Zeb's bro, and Rusty's nephew. So why ask him a a question? I woul just wait to see Zeb or Rusty.
You have made me swear off of the elevator at the courthouse.
There has not been one Republican scandal because there has been no Repblicans. So your whole premise hat Republicans willsaveth county from scandak has no factual evidence. You people are idiots!
The premise is that since Democrats are propagating scandals like rabbits at mating time, and since it appears to be endless, let's vote for those that oppose them and those that will root corruption out. The Republicans. They have good candidates running. Voters in Liberty County will show you they are not idiots in November......
The voters are idiots if they think voting for a party that the worst President in the history of this country led will help our county. Bush lied and got us into war and ruined the economy. Why would anyone ever vote Republican?
Did Bush lie in the Liberty Couty FEMA scandal? The stolen mail scandal? The Harrelson scandal? the Toby Wilburn scandal? Is Bush proposing doubling the county's debt? I would love debating you about what kind of President George W. Bush was and what kind of policies Obama is proposing, but when you have to go that far away from local issues to tell people to vote for local Democrats, you have already lost the debate.
I have watched that Zack Zbranek in court. He is an angry little fellow. Getting overruled and losing cases may be the source of some of his embarrassment, but I am sure he feels he hasn't livd up to what his dad did. He hasn't eve lived up to what Zeb did politically. Both thoe boys will struggle if Uncle Rusty is not on the bench. they have almost always had family to pracice law in front of.
I love Mark Beauoliel. He is so pretty.
Hey the Beausoliel guy. I thought he resigned as an assistant County Attorney to work for an oil company. I hear his ads on the local radio station all of the time chasing hurricane cases.
Beausoliel may look pretty to some and may have faked a move towards an oil company because of the over one million dollars he got in what may seem like a seedy deal to some when he was paid megabucks for a simple referral. I say may because the facts are stll unclear and unreported.
That was a nifty piece of writing. Don't know much about the facts of the whole deal, but it was a great way to paint the picture.
I would hate to be caught going up the stairs with this bunch of crooks, let alone being stuck in the elevator with any of them.
Mike Little maybe able to get Bob Edwards and others chosen for the grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, but he can not lawyer his way out of a paper bag.
just wait until Cleveland's superintendent of schools gets in an elevator with the FB booster club. With one dazzlingly 'brilliant' stroke of the pen, Cowart took the defending district champs to a winless season! That will be a firestorm in an elevator, followed by a need for an interim superintendent.
Cleveland's football record, you ask: 0-4!
With only one score for the past two games. Tonight's was 39 - 6, losing to Brookshire. Following a 27-7 loss, last week to Silsbee.
Ray, have you ever seen a school administrator survive the wrath of the booster club? I'm giving odds.
well I am, as was my father, and his father, before him.
Republicans and Democrats had a chance to clean up Pct. 2 but chose not too.
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