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Chuck Rosenthal,
District Attorney
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B.F. Kaufman,
County Clerk
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Paul Bettancourt,
Tax Office
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Sylvia Garcia,
Precinct 2
Commissioner
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Tommy Thomas,
Sheriff
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Ken Jones,
Precinct 3 Constable
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devotion to self-creation.!’ News flash:
Presidential candidates tend to be ambitious.
Although they’re coy about it, it’s a good bet
neither Gerth nor Van NatU has spent five
minutes in the woman’s company.
Anybody who can do a Google search can
assess “Her Way’s” basic fraudulence. Let’s
pass over the diabolical pact the Clintons sup-
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City Secretary
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posedly made to succeed each other in a 16-
year .presidency. Historian Taylor Branch, who
supposedly confided this dark secret, calls it
“preposterous” and says the authors never
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WRITE TO US
The Sun welcomes letters of
And finally, although we are Texans, we give
a cheer to our Louisiana neighbors Tor winning
the fifth annual Bayou Bowl Saturday night at
Stallworth Stadium.
The game was a tremendous boost to
Baytown’s economy, and it was a chance for
residents to see some of the best players from
our area and the Pelican State.
Kudos to everyone involved for another suc-
cessful Bayou Bowl.
The Sun encourages readers to submit
their own cheers and jeers. Cheers and
Jeers is published every Monday. Send
submissions to sunnews@baytownsun.com.
Cheers
To the 50 people who were honored on
Cancer Survivors Day last week it the San
Jacinto Methodist Hospital Cancer Center.
All of them are living proof that cancer can
be beaten, and two keys to help fight the battle o <
are early detection and living healthy.
There are many more cancer survivors out
there as well, and we congratulate all of them
for beating cancer and hope that many more
will be able to do so in the future.
To everyone involved in making the much-
needed improvements for Garth Road.
City officials agreed to remove a median
between Independence Boulevard and
Interstate 10 to help traffic flow and install a
traffic signal at Garth and Independence.
The traffic signal will be a big help once the
Kohl’s department store opens. Kudos to all
who had a part in making the traffic improve-
ments possible.
• • •
To the Texas Transportation Commission, for
approving a new flyover connector ramp for
the Spur 330-Highway 146 intersection.
The new ramp will allow southbound 330
traffic to exit to southbound 146 without hav-
ing to go through traffic signals. Kudos to the
state for approving the much-needed ramp.
To Gentry Junior School teacher Jenice
Coffey, for earning state and national honors
for teaching history.
Coffey, who recently retired after 27 years,
won the David DeBoe Award from the Texas
State Historical Association as Outstanding
History Teacher in Texas. She has also been
recognized as one of eight finalists for the
national Richard T. Farrell Teacher of Merit
Award. The winner will be announced
Thursday.
Congratulations and good luck.
Government officials
Federal
George W. Bush,
President
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president®
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Dick Cheney,
Vice President
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Kay Bailey
Hutchison,
Senator
202-224-5922
713-653-3456
Fax: 202-224-07,76
Fax: 713-209-3459
hutchison.senate.
gov/e-mail.htm
John Cornyn,
Senator
As summer begins, the Houston
area is rapidly compiling.disturbing
statistics. So far this year in Harris
County, there have been 14 djown-
ings, compared with nearly 50 last
year... and the summer season is just
starting.
The Baytown Family YMCA wants
to help families stay safe this summer
by providing the following safety tips
everyone should follow before they
go swimming.
1. Never swim alone, regardless of
your age.
2. Always supervise children when
they are in or near the water.
3. Only swim in supervised areas.
4. Only wear Coast Guard-
approved life vests.
5. Floatation devices are no substi-
tute for parental supervision.
6. Have rescue equipment mounted
by the pool.
7. Keep up home pool maintenance
(murky water makes it difficult to
see).
8. Learn CPR.
9. Enroll your child in swim
lessons.
IQ. Adults should learn to swim
' too.
How much water does it take to
drown?
• Inches of water in a bathtub.
interviewed him.
Gerth can’t even summarize
his own Whitewater report-
ing straightforwardly.
Possibly constrained by Van
Natta’s ability to write com-
prehensible sentences, the
book correctly observes
that the Clintons’
Whitewater investment was
financed by bank loans. In
"his original 1992 scandal-
mongering story, he’d limned it as a sweet-
heart deal: “the Clintons appear to have
invested little money, so stood to lose little if
•Standing water on top of a pool
or spa cover,
• Any amount of water that covers
the mouth and nose.
In order to help eliminate these
drownings, the Baytown Family
YMCA has joined forces with Texas
Children’s Hospital and the Houston
Apartment Association in an effort to
get the word out about water safety
through the YMCA’s Water Wise ini-
tiative. Water Wise is a multifaceted
awareness campaign designed to edu-
cate ^community about how to
prevent drownings.
The campaign includes a Web site,
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www.ywaterwise.org, with safety tips
for community pool, backyard pool
safety, beach Safety, boating safety,
CPR and first aid info and swim les-
son schedules.
There is also a speakers’ bureau
that provides water safety presenta-
tions to the community in English
and Spanish.
The Baytown Family YMCA also
offers swim lessons for children and
adults. Classes are divided into abili-
ty groups, and trained instructors
emphasize personal safety, swimming
skills, endurance and social skills,
while guiding students with praise
and encouragement.
For more information, call the
Baytown Family YMCA at 281-427-
1797, or log on to the Web site
www.ymcahouston.org and click on
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To the 13 high school students who partici-
pated in the United Methodist Action Reach-
out Mission by Youth (UM ARMY).
The students helped repair the home of Ruby
Morgan in Highlands, including building a
new wheelchair ramp for her husband.
Kudos to the students for taking time out of
their summer vacation and learning about help-
ing others through volunteer work.
If you wanted to diagnose the nation’s dys-
functional political press, few episodes are
more symptomatic than the publication of
competing biographies of Sen. Hillary
Rodham Clinton. Headlined by The
Washington Post, excerpted in The New York
Times, their simultaneous appearance illus-
trates the Beltway buddy system at its incestu-
ous worst.
“Unlike many harsh books about Clinton
written by ideological enemies,” The Post
asserts, “the two new volumes come from
long-established writers backed by major pub-
lishing houses and could be harder to dismiss.
Bernstein won national fame with partner .
Bob Woodward at The Post for breaking open the venture failed, but mightJtave cashed in
the Watergate scandal, while (Jeff) Gerth and ‘ ™ -- ----
(Don) Van Natta Jr. have spent years as inves-
tigative reporters for The New York Times.”
By now, The Times’ imprimatur awes
nobody. Besides, Gerth doesn’t work there
anymore. He’s rivaled only by Judith Miller - - -
(of Iraqi WMD fame) for concocting impene- nskler than investlnS cash ? ~ ‘ha‘tke
trable conspiracies from the whispers of Whitewater “scandal consisted all along. . A bucket of water,
anonymous sources. Absent Gerth’s infamous But let’s get contemporary, shall we?
Mixmaster prose, there would have been no Sf*king * cl" Clinton s opportumsm, the
six-year Whitewater investigation and no authors alleiie she never crltlclzed Pres,dent
bogus Chinese spy crisis during President
Clinton’s second term. Nuclear scientist Wen
Ho Lee needn’t have done 278 days in soli-
tary for imaginary crimes. Several news orga-
nizations, including the Times and Post, and
the U.S. government combined to pay Lee
$1.6 million.
Van Natta once wrote about Bill Clinton’s
penchant for awarding himself “mulligans,”
I on the golf course. From his indignant tone,
you’d have thought the president got caught
cheating at the U.S. Open.
So it’s no surprise “Her Way’s” tone is
almost comically negative. Evidently, Hillary
I was a calculating little witch even in the ninth
grade. After the youth minister at her church
took her to hear a speech by Martin Luther
' King Jr., “Hillary remained basically content
to ‘parrot’ the conventional and decidedly
■i conservative beliefs that were deeply held in
Park Ridge,” the Chicago suburb where she
grew up.
i Then in college she went about “selecting a
persona” in a “determined and calculating
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on their 50 percent interest if it had done
well.” •
No, Jeff, they had to repay the bank, with
interest, losing $43,000. ft was of such absur-
dities — did a New York Times reporter really
not grasp that investing borrowed money is
riskier than investing cash? - that the
Whitewater “scandal” consisted all along.
But let’s get contemporary, shall we?
authors allege she never criticized President
Bush’s misuse of Congress's 2002 Iraq resolu-
tion until June 2006. cravenly positioning her-
self in front of a stampeding herd.
Skeptics at mediamatters.org did a little
Google search. Oops! Here’s Clinton on the
Senate floor on Oct. 17,2003: “There are
those of us, such as myself, who voted to give
the President authority. We disagree with the
way he used that authority. ... I have been first
perplexed, then surprised, then amazed and
even outraged and always frustrated by the
implementation of the authority given the
President by this Congress.” -
Say what you will about Sen, Clinton’s
stance on Iraq, and I could say plenty, that’s
been her oft-repeated position for years.
Given their long experience with the Gerth
method, it’s astonishing The Times put the
bogus allegation into print without checking.
Have its editors learned nothing?
At least Carl Bernstein, admits never inter-
viewing his subject. So here’s his take on . .
Hillary’s career at Little Rock’s Rose Law . i
Firm. “The potential conflicts were obvious
and almost unavoidable in a state in which a
way,” that demonstrated “an almost scientific single )aw firm represented the enormously
devotion to self-creation. News flash: wealthy few and maintained close friend-and-
Presidentral candidates tend to be ambitious. family relationships with members of the
political class.” ' ‘
It’s a small city. People do get to know one
another. Most Arkansans like it that way. But
a single law firm? Goodness,, the attorneys
run from pages 38 to 96 in the Yellow Pages.
1 believe 1’11 pass.
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