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THE CANADIAN RECORD
THURSDAY 1 3 NOVEMBER ZDDB
LETTERS
A tribute to veterans
FIRST OFF, I WOULD LIKE to thank all of the vet-
erans who have served our great country.
This Veterans Day I found myself in Pampa. The
traveling Vietnam Wall was there and they had sev-
eral events lined up to honor those who served.
The Travis Elementary Students did a wonderful
presentation for our veterans. It brought tears to a lot
of peoples' eyes. I know those students worked really
hard for this day, and it showed big time. I'm sending
a picture of all 400 of them standing on stage at M.K
Brown.
The main reason why I was in Pampa this year was
not only to see the wall, but to honor my dad. He is a
Vietnam veteran. He was one of the soldiers to do the
21-gun salute.
While I was looking at the wall, I noticed that not
only did they honor the Vietnam Veterans, they also
had other memorials set up for various wars. On these
memorials, they had dog tags with the names of the
fallen soldiers for that particular war.
That made me think of Canadian, and Mr. Miles
Henderson. I went to the name locator they had there
just to see if he had been put 011 there. If he hadn't,
I had it in my mind to make sure he would be. Well
lucky for me, they already had him there. A nice gen-
tlemen even took me to where it was, and pointed it
out to me.
.
I'm writing this and sending the pictures because
I wanted the people and veterans who weren't able to
make it to be able to see how great everything was.
We need to honor our veterans every day, not just
once a year. They are what make America the land of
the free. I cannot thank them enough for the freedom
I have.
I would also to like to thank two veterans who are
in my life: my Dad, Bud Hess, who served with the
Army n Vietnam, and my Grandfather Ralph McGuf-
fin, who served with the Marine Corps during the Ko-
rean War. They both have taught me a lot about life.
Thank you and God Bless.
RAIN SCROGGINS (via e-mail)
EDITOR'S NOTE: The American Veterans Trav-
eling Tribute was on display in Pampa from Aro-
vember 5-11. Among the Texas and Oklahoma Pan-
handle veterans whose service was commemorated
are 122 killed in the Vietnam War, J^O killed in the
Korean War, and U killed in Operations Enduring
Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. —LEB
State Capital
Highl ghts
By U Sterling
MAS PRtSS ASSOCIATION
AUSTIN—America voted and Barack Obama,
the unior Democratic U.S. senator from Il-
linois, was elected the 44th president of the
United States on Nov. 4. The Texas vote went
against the grain, producing a 12-point margin
(55.5 to 43.8 percent) in favor of U.S. Sen. John
McCain, R-Ariz. The ballot's eight other candi-
dates for president received a combined total of
less than 1 percent of the vote.
Voting maps show President-Elect Obama
did something U.S. Sen. John Kerry, the Dem-
ocratic candidate for president in 2004, could
not do in his race against President George W.
Bush. Obama won three of the state's four high-
est-population counties: Harris, Dallas and
Bexar. Travis, the state's fifth most populous
county, produced a 30 percent margin in favor
of Obama. Texas is a winner-takes-all state in
the electoral college, so McCain claimed the
Lone Star State's 34 votes: one for each of Tex-
as' 32 congressional seats and two for its Sen-
ate seats.
John Cornyn, Texas' junior U.S. senator,
held off challenger Rick Noriega, a Democratic
state representative from Houston, to win his
second six-year term. Kay Bailey Hutchison,
Texas' senior U.S. senator, was not up for re-
election this cycle. She has not ruled out a run
for governor in 2010.
Five incumbent state reps were voted out of
office: Juan Garcia, D-Corpus Christi, lost to
Republican Todd Hunter; Bill Zedler, R-Arling-
ton, lost to Democrat Chris Turner; Dan Bar-
rett, D- Fort Worth, lost to Republican Mark
Shelton; Tony Goolsby, R-Dallas, lost to Demo-
crat Carol Kent; and Jim Murphy, R-Houston,
lost to Democrat Kristi Thibaut.
Speaker faces list of challengers
State Rep. and current House Speaker Tom
Craddick, R-Midland, was re-elected to a 20th con-
secutive term for his district. In 2003, when Crad-
dick was elected to succeed Hale Center Democrat
Pete Laney as speaker, the GOP enjoyed a 26-seat
advantage, holding 88 seats to the Democrats' 62.
The Nov. 4 election left Republicans with a two-seat
advantage in the Texas House, wi th 76 seats to the
Democrats' 74. Craddick's hold on the House gavel
ii likely to be tested when the 81st regular session
of the Texas Legislature convenes in January.
Nine House members have filed as candidates
to be speaker. Craddick's challengers, so far, in-
clude three Republicans: Jim Keffer of Eastland,
Tommy Merritt of Longview and Dehvin Jones of
Lubbock; and six Democrats: Pete Gallego of Al-
pine, Senfronia Thompson, Scott Hochberg and
Sylvester Turner, all of Houston, Craig Eiland of
Galveston and Allan Ritter of Nederland.
2 new faces duh in Texas Senate
Democrats picked up one seat in the upper
chamber: Texas Senate Dist. 10 acumbent
Kim Brimer, R-Fort Worth, lost to Wendy Da-
vis, D-Fort Worth. The race for Senate Dist.
17—which includes parts of Harris, Fort Bend,
Brazoria, Galveston, Chambers and Jefferson
counties—is not settled. The winner will be de-
cided in a December runoff between Republi-
can Joan Huffman and Democrat Chris Bell.
Republicans retake District 22
U.S. Rep. Nick Lampson, Cong. Dist. 22,
lost to Republican Pete Olson. This is the Hous-
ton-area seat vacated when former Republican
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay resigned
n June 2006. The district includes parts of Fort
Bend, Harris, Brazoria and Galveston coun-
ties.
Combs reshapes tax division
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs renamed
her Property Tax Division the Property Tax
Assistance Division on Nov. 3. She also moved it
out of her office's Local Government Assistance
and Economic Analysis Division and made it a
stand-alone division.
Combs said the changes reflect a new em-
phasis on helping local school districts and
county appraisal districts comply with proper-
ty tax laws and use property appraisal methods
"that produce accurate results."
Combs also said she plans revisions to the
annual Property Value Study, a measure of tax-
able value of property within school districts
that is used to calculate the amount of fund ing
they receive from the state. School districts and
county appraisal districts that disagree with
the results of the study have a right to appeal,
Combs said, and added that appeals now will
be heard by the State Office of Administrative
Hearings instead of by the comptroller's office.
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