As expected, Chambers County’s distinguished longtime District Judge Carroll Wilborn has announced he will not seek another term as Judge of the 344th District Court when his term ends December 31st, 2012. When the 344th District Court was created totally for Chambers County, Carroll Wilborn was appointed by Democratic Governor Mark White to head that new court.
After running as a Democrat since 1983, Judge Wilborn was re-elected in 2008 as a Republican. Like the District Judge Cain who also holds court in Chambers County, Judge Wilborn took his first opportunity to separate himself from Barack Obama.
The good news is the stories we hear about conservative Attorney Randy McDonald’s intentions of running for the 344th District Court. McDonald knows the law well and has many years of legal work that is honorable and that adds up to valuable experience that would make him a good judge.
The bad news is that in a rural county that doesn’t necessarily have a good centralized method of educating its citizens, longtime liberal Democrat Richard Baker is also rumored to be considering running – as a Republican! It is outrageous, but Baker is said to be expressing the idea that he will run as whatever he has to run as in order to win.
Baker ties to the most liberal and proud and entrenched Democrats is obvious to those who know his relationship to the Zbranek family. Baker practices law with the most infamous and heralded Democratic family in Liberty County – the Zbraneks. Baker’s other connection to the Democratic party was his failed effort a few years ago to beat the Republican Chief Justice of the Texas State Supreme Court.
Baker is what is known in Republican circles as a RINO, or a Republican In Name Only. Because of his close ties to former District Judge Zeke Zbranek and recently defeated District Judge Rusty Hight in Liberty County, some voters may be concerned with someone so liberal disguising themselves as a conservative. And they may again be concerned with a court that allows the Zbranek’s gaggle of attorneys to come in and practice before a judge with a possible predisposition to rule in their favor.
Liberty Dispatch is tired of hearing about Democrat lawyers and officeholders who have not made one public statement about the wrong direction Barack Obama, considering switching to the Republican Party. We consider Baker and anyone else who tries this at this late date, a deceiver and a political opportunist. We wish Mr. McDonald the best and know he will win if Chambers County gets the word out.
10 comments:
Hey Baker, just try to run ... You need to take a lesson from your cohort Zbranek.
Richard Baker? Reading the possibility will give me nighmares. He may be anything but a Republican.
I believe this McDonald man has done some work in Liberty. If this is the same NcDonald I remeber, he is one heck of an attorney.
When ultra fanatical Dems like Baker run as Republicans, we need to remind our neighbors of how nasty they were towards us before.
Baker is nothing but a snake in the grass. He is just likie the rest of the Good Ole Boys club he walks around like his sh** don't stink. Chambers county is just as bad as Liberty county already if Baker gets elected that will really close the gap between the two counties and the will be no hope for anyone who lives in either county with all the corruption.
OMG...anything that even resembles Zeb Zbranek is repulsive. Those are two weasels, for sure!
"Keynesian" should probably be a bigger slur than "former Enron adviser." Baker has had his wagon hooked to the keynesian economic theory for decades. Baker has also fought tort reformtooth and nail and it has been the cornerstone of Texas Republicans' reform movement. Baker is a donkey, not an elephant.
I sat next to Richard Baker at restaraunt one day at lunch. He laughed and bragged about making some poor man wait for an extra long time that he had forced to take time off from work to testify. I asked the people I was eating with who Baker was and got a whole slew of reasons to not like him. I would not vote for him even if his conversion to conservative was sincere. He is everything we do not want in politics.
If the voters get to know the candidates in thus race we will see two things. Tea party supporters will hate Baker and love his opponent. Regular Republicans will hate Baker and like his opponent.
Before LD, people like Baker and his buddies stomped Republicans in the ground by using the courts and the media. Many of us can only hope he runs!
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