There’s been a lot of talk lately about Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg’s fitness for her job, given that she was convicted of drunk driving — the kind of crime she prosecutes others for committing.
Is the Democrat fit to hold her job? I don’t think so, but she’s on the job until the end of the year. Then she’s out.
Now comes word much closer to home that a Republican candidate for Precinct 2 justice of the peace in Potter County has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of assault of a family member.
Rich Herman is running against Democratic incumbent JP Nancy Bosquez. Should he be elected? For the same reason Lehmberg shouldn’t still be DA down in Travis County, the answer is no.
http://www.connectamarillo.com/news/story.aspx?id=1087238#.U_lS6FJ0yt8
Herman says he pleaded guilty to save his family further trauma. He’d been charged initially with a felony, but agreed to the plea deal after it was reduced to a misdemeanor charge.
A misdemeanor conviction doesn’t disqualify someone from seeking public office in Texas. It surely ought to matter, though, whether to elect someone with a criminal record to a judicial position.
I live in Randall County, so I won’t have a say in who will serve as Potter County Precinct 2 justice of the peace. So, accept this view from the proverbial Peanut Gallery: Better to have someone adjudicating cases who doesn’t have such a blemish on his record.
This is the first time I have totally disagreed with you. You need to look into what Nancy Bosquez has been doing for 12 years! I only found out about 3 months ago. She has used her position, in cooperation with AISD to set very high fines on families and students over 17, for truancy and tardiness, which they cannot pay. (Most are in 79107 or 79103) When they can’t pay, they go to jail and “lay it out” as the poor say. In other words, they earn $100 or so per day against the fines Bosquez sets. She is a tyrant against poor families, including refugees and immigrants. During the first 4 mos. of 2014, she set fines exceeding all that she set in 2013. And, she shares them with AISD. I am about to send you some documents that you should carefully read.
And the best challenger you can find is someone with a criminal record? C’mon, C.