DIGG’IN FOR VOTES “ZBRANEK STYLE HUBRIS"

Many times the last six weeks before an election, unscrupulous candidates present voters with all kinds of new information. In the case of Liberty County politics, every candidate we have talked to that has run against the well known “Zbranek family” has observed some common characteristics in their campaign methods.  The kind of "new information" the Zbranek talking heads/clowns provide the public in the closing days of a campaign is typically vicious and disturbing.  Hight and Zbranek's clown/campaign adviser is hard at work trying to salvage these two campaigns.  That last sentence brings to mind an old saying, you cant make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Send in the clowns...

On the ballot in Liberty County this November will be two members of the Zbranek clan and they will be expected by some to campaign like some of those who have come before them. Those family members on the Democratic side of the ballot will be Zack Zbranek, the youngest son of the late 75th District Judge Zeke Zbranek and brother of former State Representative Zeb Zbranek, and Carol Hight, the Brother-in-Law of Zeke Zbranek and Uncle to Zeb.

The kind of campaigning we are being told to expect by people that have opposed them before is “like a dog rolling in the dirt”. And the most descriptive of the statements we heard was “they are infamous for their last minute personal attacks”. We are informing our readers to expect this because it is our opinion that is what we will see, but we are also partially apologizing to the opponents of this very powerful family because we know Liberty Dispatch has focused a great deal of attention on Judge Carol Hight’s very liberal and very bizarre way of managing the peoples’ business in the 75th District Court. Though we have tried to focus mainly on how these people conduct themselves in public office, we know that they are very accustomed to controlling the radio and the newspapers and their public image as well as that of their opponent. We know that our discussion of their conduct as public servants will likely be answered by a “professional consultants” reaching down in his bag of dirty tricks and trying to cover the family’s opposition with mud. Of course, we also believe the usual excuses and justifications will follow the very personal attacks.

A good example of how a consultant will take aim will be to take the clients and the cases of the Zbraneks’ opponents’ law practices and try to portray their duty as attorneys to provide representation to defendants in our justice system as some other than what it is. Notice Liberty Dispatch has very purposefully stayed away from this kind of politics. Recognizing that lawyers make a living defending people accused of all kinds of crimes, liberty dispatch knows information about some of the clients of the Zbranek family and some of the wheeling and dealing that has gone on could be made into some juicy political attacks, we have not gone there. Our reasoning about this very liberal, very partisan family and their law practice is that every single one of those people deserved a defense according to our Constitution. But don’t expect the family to honor our self declared truce in this area.

Those in the area that have had the full "Zbranek experience" have told us to be ready for attacks against opponents families. Among some of the most horrific political attacks we have witnessed from past Zbranek campaigns is... an accusation that one of their opponents adopted five damaged special needs children for some kind of financial gain. That attack of a family with kids that needed love and care instead of public political garbage not only shows the potential for how low Hight and Zbranek could go in the coming days, it shows how little they think of voters’ intelligence and fair play and common decency.

Slick fliers coming in the mail and telephone solicitation are all legal and all possibilities from any of the people campaigning for office, but there is a reason the general public has had plenty of opportunity to read and hear why many of us believe we need changes in the courthouse. We are very willing to debate the topic. And there is a reason the fourth ranked Democratic consultant in Texas has recently been hired by the family and thought to have said, “thirty days is plenty of time for us to win this race.” Last minute attacks with no time to respond is the way people in power retain their power. They try to control what voters think of them and think of their opponents by using such tactics.

We believe Liberty County voters are tired of what we have seen come out of the White House and what we have seen coming out of our local courthouse. We believe any last minute efforts to convince us to embrace four more years of it will only remind us to go to the polls and voice our desire for something different. The balance of the year 2010 will see outsiders come in and try to prosecute some of the people that have corrupted the courthouse, we want to finish what they start. The people of Liberty County deserves leadership we can be proud of.

Note: In unrelated news, Democrat candidate for Liberty County Judge, Ken Morrison is stuffing most every voter's mailbox in Liberty County begging for a vote with his carpetbagging trash. Liberty Dispatch encourages everyone who receives this garbage to use it as an emergency substitute for toilet paper.

Ken Morrison, Kingwood Carpetbagger

LD Comment: Morrison, keep your spam and quit stuffing our mail boxes with your trash!