Senatorial Candidate Calls News Editor a Liar

He denies alleged frivolity of lawsuit over his son's broken leg


Anyone who ever played on a Little League ball club has done
it. At the end of the game, both teams line up and shake
hands with each other, thanking the opposition for a good
game, win, lose or draw.

There are no sore losers in Little League. Sportsmanship.
Teamwork. That's what really counts.

Right?

Okay.

At a game in Burleson, a kid on the opposing team walked up
and "teed off" on another kid during the handshake ceremony.
He kicked him in the shin so hard it broke both bones in his
leg. Thus began one of the strangest lawsuits in the
history of kids' sports.

We haven't heard the end of it yet.

In the saloon on the old square at Six Shooter Junction, all
was cheerful and cozy ambience. The judges and lawyers had
their say, the voters gave them enthusiastic applause...

And then Darren Yancy walked in dressed in his jeans and a
pearl button long-sleeved chambray Cowboy shirt, pointed-toe
roper's boots and a big grin.

Chairman Randy Gates, a rangy working man with a Texas drawl
and a charming demeanor, beckoned to him, he came forward,
and then Mr. Gates indicated the chair would entertain a
motion for the Blue Collar Republican Club of McLennan
County to endorse Darren Yancy for Senator in the primary
election against Senator Kip Averitt.

The motion was quickly seconded, passed by a unanimous voice
vote of acclimation and he gave Mr. Yancy the floor.

"Basically, you're running against a ghost," he said.

"Yeah, he (Senator Kip Averitt) got on the ballot, dropped
out of the race, then they started this 'Keep Kip' movement,
the newspaper endorsed him this morning and now I'm running
against a ghost," said Yancy.

He asked if anyone had any questions. After a moment of
tense silence, The Legendary spoke up and said, basso
profundo, "Yeeeesssss! I do." The crowd of about 50 Blue
Collar TEA Party activists laughed with nervous anticipation
while Mr. Yancy collected his thoughts.

He took a seat on a bar stool in the middle of a semicircle
of excited friends and colleagues.

"I'll just sit here on the hot seat," he said, grinning even
more widely.

On a scale of one to ten, this slice of reality was better
than a tribal council on "Survivor," a Mel Brooks movie and
a proxy showdown at a shareholder's meeting.

We're talking hostile takeover, here. Put up or shut up.
Hold 'em or fold 'em.

Yeah.

What about the alleged "frivolous lawsuits" offered up
against him in the Tribune-Herald's endorsement editorial of
the ghost candidate, Senator Averitt, as a good reason not
to vote for Darren Yancy?

"They're talking about a lawsuit I filed over the breaking
of my son's leg after a baseball game. We're talking about
the handshaking ceremony, here. I mean, I've got four kids
at the baseball field and all of a sudden, my son got kicked
in the shin so hard he's got two broken bones. Both bones
were broken. We put my son through a year of rehab.

"Many of you have seen the x-rays...We got no help from the
police; we got no help from the sports association."

A lawsuit was the only way to go, the only venue for
redress available. In the end, he got an apology from the
defendants, the City of Burleson, and other officials in a
take nothing judgment, for which he settled, and that ended
the matter.

"It wasn't about money; it was about being able to look my
son in the eye."

As to the notion that he had been invited to appear before
the newspaper's editorial board, "That's a great big lie...I
was never invited to appear before that editorial board."

So, Darren Yancy is running against an incumbent candidate
endorsed by the editorial board of a daily newspaper when he
has said he is not interested in further service as the
State Senator from District 22.

He declared that he has written commitments from a majority
of the County Republican Chairmen in the district should it
come to their being asked to select a candidate.

How about an inspection tour of the power house at Possum
Kingdom Lake?

"Flood the governor's office with phone calls asking him to
pick up the phone and clear it with the Department of
Homeland Security."

jim@downdirtyword.com