Thank you.

It’d be a big improvement if this HEB would carry more Central Market brand products as well. HEB does a terrific job sourcing its white label (house brand) products and these offer a definite competitive edge over Wal-Mart’s Great Value products.

I have read the blogs, the newspaper editorials, the political mailers received (yes, I have LIVED in Precinct 3 for 20+ years and I have a “real” address) and attended the LWV debate. I have never been so ashamed of my fellow Hays County residents as I am in this election.

I cannot believe that the residents of Precinct 3 would be so gullible as to even give SB the time of day, much less believe him! Unfortunately, many SB supporters do not live in our Precinct or are Democrats that are getting on the band wagon to see Mr. Conley unseated – only for their own future gain. The funny thing is that SB thinks they are really supporting HIM. He will soon find out different. He is sleeping with the other wolves and doesn’t even know it, YET.

Please tell me how a 47 year old man who has no property in our County, who has never paid a penny of ad valorem tax in our County, who has never even rented a room (much less an apartment or house) in our County, who has no “real” job, who has no past, who lives with his daddy, who has never been married, who has never had children in our schools, can POSSIBLY represent you and me?

Where is the sense in all this? What are the residents of Precinct 3 thinking? We are much better that this SB!!

Deuteronomy 6:18
And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,

SB is, as we say here in Texas, “All hat and no cattle.”

He insulted all teachers by greatly inflating his resume. His resume should read “rare substitute teaching responsibilities within SMCISD.” Instead his resume reads “Consultant to the SMCISD superintendent and administration.”

All hat and no cattle.

His resume reads with NO details except things like “senior manager at supply chain corporation.” It should read “bill collector for phone bank subcontractors”. SB is, among other things, a great inflator of his own resume and of his own importance in the world. He is not, despite his claims, the savior to Hays County politics.

He is, in my opinion, not one to be trusted to write a contract for even a garbage truck route. He would then be, in his own style, “a senior corporate manager and author of all Sanitation Engineers contracts and responsible for the entire environmental clean-up and maintenance of all 5,641 square miles of Hays County, including water rights and all water ways and all highway maintenance (road side trash details) for all 2 million miles of roads in Hays County.”

SB would not pay attention to the square miles (Hays County is 641 square miles I believe) or to the actual miles of highways in Hays County. SB wants to stop all road maintenance anyway, so the total miles listed in his resume is irrelevent to him anyway.

I know. I know. Give it up and relax, Gary. Have faith. Trust the people. I do. I just can not stay quiet until this con artist named SB loses this race for handling MY(OUR) money and then goes back to Turkey to pay his debts owed there. Had I to do it over again, I would GIVE SB the money to return to Turkey to pay his debts there and get back with his “hottie” that he says is waiting for his return.

Thank you for reading. I will keep writing until this race is over.
Gary Smith

May 17, 2012 – 7:19 am
Dear SB One Serious Mofo,

I sat in the front row of the League of Women Voters debate. You talked to the moderator frequently while Will Conley was addressing you and the crowd. You smirked. You did not even have the courtesy to sit with the other candidates, as you sat in the back row with the coward of an army colonel who huddled in the back with you, afraid to mingle with the people and other candidates. Yes, this is crude and blunt. It is crude and blunt because you flaunt all of your lies and ways in front of us all and you dare us to challenge you.

You and the colonel (I still salute his service to our country)are being challenged publicly to come clean, act civil, fold your cards, and go back to Turkey. I am sure that by now you can find someone in Hays County to loan you the money that you begged and pleaded for privately from county officials so that you could “go back to Turkey”.

You know you are a con artist and you are daring someone to catch you. Your kind is obvious to the aware and a threat to us all. And this is not about politics.

Gary

That is good. A preacher and an SB gypsy walked into a bar…

I sat in the front row of the League of Women Voters debate. You talked to the moderator frequently while Will Conley was addressing you and the crowd. You smirked. You did not even have the courtesy to sit with the other candidates, as you sat in the back row with the coward of an army colonel who huddled in the back with you, afraid to mingle with the people and other candidates. Yes, this is crude and blunt. It is crude and blunt because you flaunt all of your lies and ways in front of us all and you dare us to challenge you.

You and the colonel (I still salute his service to our country)are being challenged publicly to come clean, act civil, fold your cards, and go back to Turkey. I am sure that by now you can find someone in Hays County to loan you the money that you begged and pleaded for privately from county officials so that you could “go back to Turkey”.

You know you are a con artist and you are daring someone to catch you. Your kind is obvious to the aware and a threat to us all. And this is not about politics.

Gary

SB is, as we say here in Texas, “All hat and no cattle.”

He insulted all teachers by greatly inflating his resume. His resume should read “rare substitute teaching responsibilities within SMCISD.” Instead his resume reads “Consultant to the SMCISD superintendent and administration.”

All hat and no cattle.

His resume reads with NO details except things like “senior manager at supply chain corporation.” It should read “bill collector for phone bank subcontractors”. SB is, among other things, a great inflator of his own resume and of his own importance in the world. He is not, despite his claims, the savior to Hays County politics.

He is, in my opinion, not one to be trusted to write a contract for even a garbage truck route. He would then be, in his own style, “a senior corporate manager and author of all Sanitation Engineers contracts and responsible for the entire environmental clean-up and maintenance of all 5,641 square miles of Hays County, including water rights and all water ways and all highway maintenance (road side trash details) for all 2 million miles of roads in Hays County.”

SB would not pay attention to the square miles (Hays County is 641 square miles I believe) or to the actual miles of highways in Hays County. SB wants to stop all road maintenance anyway, so the total miles listed in his resume is irrelevent to him anyway.

I know. I know. Give it up and relax, Gary. Have faith. Trust the people. I do. I just can not stay quiet until this con artist named SB loses this race for handling MY(OUR) money and then goes back to Turkey to pay his debts owed there. Had I to do it over again, I would GIVE SB the money to return to Turkey to pay his debts there and get back with his “hottie” that he says is waiting for his return.

Thank you for reading. I will keep writing until this race is over.
Gary Smith

He has a history of paying property taxes on all properties he’s ever owned. He owned three homes in Dallas, Spring, and College Station, Texas, over the course of the past 20 years. They have been sold. However you may do a real property appraisal district searc h in each county to verify his past ownership if you wish to.

His family all live in Austin and San Marcos. The family is very close and always has been. Sam’s mom passed away in 2007 of cancer. He of course left his travels and flew back to stay with the family in Austin during the course of his mom’s treatments and for the remainder of her life. He then resumed his travels for the next three years returning to Texas in February 2010.

He has never drawn unemployment. He has no children. He has one prior marriage of about ten years, which was dissolved via an amicable uncontested divorce. He paid his former wife’s way through veterinary school at Texas A & M during the marriage. She is now a practicing DVM.

As to his accomplishments, this information has been made public several times over and is available to those who wish to digest it. During college in Austin, Sam volunteered as a Big Brother to a young man who is now grown with a family of his own. He and Sam remain close and have a genuine bond and relationship.

He graduated from University of Texas at Austin in 1989 with a BBA in Finance and has worked in the professional arena since that date until 2006 when he purposely decided to travel abroad. He was interviewed by the Houston Chronicle in June 2006, three months into his travels. You can google that article for details. There is a photo of Sam in that article for those of you who are concerned with his ‘hair’ issues lol.

You could email Sam with any specific questions. He’s made himself completely accessible to voters at all times. I’ll attempt to post his email and phone number in the next post; as I think anything with a link or hyperlink has to be cleared by the moderator, and I’m still waiting for the links I tried to post yesterday to be posted. You can visit his sam for hays county / about – sam- brannon website for more information and contact information.

I would like to add a congratulations to Sheriff Gary Cutler and the men and women at the Sheriff’s Office for the across the board double digit decline in crime reported in 2011 to the FBI through the Uniformed Crime Reports (UCR). This includes a 23% decrease in total crimes reported, 14% decrease in burglaries, 38% decrease in theft and an 11% decrease in assaults. All of this with a booming and growing population in the county!

In hard economic times such as these, crime rates, especially property crimes, historically go up. It is a testament to the Sheriff’s Crime Prevention team, Patrol Deputies out working our neighborhoods, Detectives solving cases and citizens being aware that these rates are declining. It is really refreshing to see the Sheriff’s Office clicking on all cylinders and people enjoying coming to work. Thank you all!

I’d hoped the sarcasm with which I wrote my post was evident. Clearly, I need to brush up on my sarcasm skills.;-)