“It’s
an election (year) and anybody with any axe to grind is coming out of
the woodwork.” – Vic Feazell, Sheriff Jeffrey T. Lyon’s
attorney
Hillsboro,
Texas – If it’s not down and dirty, it’s not a Sheriff’s race
in the Lone Star State.
Primaries
both before and after the Reagan Revolution, a happening in which the
world turned upside down and Democrats “boll-weeviled” their way
to the GOP, have the psychological affect of a pagan
house purification ritual. Reading the written record is like
getting down on hands and knees to analyze the patterns of blood and
feathers on the floor.
Consider
the 2012 re-election failure of Hill County Sheriff Jeffrey T. Lyon.
It’s a poor county, a cotton farming community with a small
population situated on the road to everywhere, America’s Main
Street, Interstate 35, an hour south of Dallas and a half-hour from
the Baptist bastion on the Brazos, Waco.
Local
government jobs really, really matter in the scheme of the local
economy. It’s the difference between having plenty – and catch as
catch can.
They
play for blood. It’s as if human souls were on the line.
The
case was as dramatic as a teen-aged temper tantrum, the sizzle on the
steak as bold as allegations of a Sheriff exposing himself to female
employees, routing ambulances across the county to favor one company
over another, and a pistol-waving supporter getting raunchy in a
restaurant.
To read more, follow this link:
No comments:
Post a Comment