{"id":10781,"date":"2015-08-31T02:32:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T02:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10781"},"modified":"2015-08-31T02:32:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T02:32:03","slug":"welcome-back-mme-tax-collector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10781","title":{"rendered":"Welcome back, Mme. Tax Collector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/randall-county.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10782\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/randall-county.gif\" alt=\"randall-county\" width=\"250\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t happen every day in county government.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, this is the first time I&#8217;ve seen it occur in more than 30 years observing politics and government in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Randall County&#8217;s tax assessor-collector, Sharon Hollingsworth, only <em>thought<\/em> she was retiring this past week. She&#8217;s getting her old job back after the woman appointed to succeed her, Christina McMurray, decided she wanted to return to her old job in the county tax office.<\/p>\n<p>So, McMurray quit the tax assessor-collector job and Hollingsworth is returning to her post &#8212; albeit temporarily.<\/p>\n<p>She still plans to retire and go fishing with her husband. I spoke with Hollingsworth a few days ago when I learned of her plans to retire and she expressed joy at the prospect of getting on with the rest of her life.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s going to wait a little while longer.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Canyon News: &#8220;Randall County Judge Ernie Houdashell said that the court will go back on the search for a replacement for Hollingsworth, thanking her for continuing her service until a replacement can be qualified and sworn in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At least there&#8217;ll be no on-the-job training required for county&#8217;s newest tax assessor-collector.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This doesn&#8217;t happen every day in county government. In fact, this is the first time I&#8217;ve seen it occur in more than 30 years observing politics and government in Texas. Randall County&#8217;s tax assessor-collector, Sharon Hollingsworth, only thought she was retiring this past week. She&#8217;s getting her old job back after the woman appointed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10781\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome back, Mme. Tax Collector<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5412,5413],"class_list":["post-10781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-randall-county-tax-office","tag-sharon-hollingsworth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10783,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions\/10783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}