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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 2020
Page
4
Election Day nears and a Baytown reader urges voters to mail ballots immediately. Melissa Mullins notes her ballot mailed Oct. 5 arrived at the Harris County Elections office Oct. 19 and emphasizes the importance of participating with a timely vote.
Voters are urged to back Marga Matthews the final District 6 candidate for Baytown City Council. A 56 year resident and Robert E. Lee graduate Matthews spent 28 years at the Harris County tax office, served on the ballot security board and led the Baytown Republican Women. She supports financial transparency district projects and first responders while criticizing opponents for broad expansion plans.
The piece criticizes U S Sen John Cornyn for a campaign ad that labels opponent MJ Hegar too liberal, contrasting today’s politicians with Texas icons like Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn. It ridicules current lawmakers and urges Baytown readers to vote for Hegar, arguing Texas deserves larger than life leadership again.
A local endorsement urges voters to back Susan Cummings for City Council District 6. The authors praise her intelligence enthusiasm and trustworthiness citing decades at Lee College and extensive community involvement to support her bid to represent District 6 in Baytown.
Transcript discusses a shift in political leadership values from integrity and reasoning to incoherence and falsehoods. It warns that audiences celebrate deceptive rhetoric as patriotism and public discourse, praising elites who practice it while rejecting truth and risk evaluation. Rick Crotts
A Baytown Sun column urges readers to drop labels like weird and instead view others through compassion and biblical guidance. It argues each person’s brain, upbringing, and experiences create different viewpoints and behaviors, and stresses love, respect, and the Golden Rule as the correct framework. The piece ends noting Ginger Stripling, a former Baytown resident now in Mont Belvieu.
Dr. Steve Showalter analyzes Barrett's Supreme Court nomination as a new round in the abortion debate. He notes the Court's current conservative tilt, the limits of Roe v Wade, potential congressional maneuvers to reshape the Court, and the likelihood of a patchwork legal landscape across states.
On this date in 1836 Sam Houston became the Republic of Texas first elected president. In 1934 Charles Pretty Boy Floyd was killed near East Liverpool Ohio. In 1962 Kennedy revealed Soviet missile bases in Cuba and a quarantine. In 1986 Reagan signed major tax overhaul. Ten years ago WikiLeaks released Iraq war logs noting civilian deaths. Five years ago Clinton faced questions in Benghazi hearing. One year ago Taylor testified that Trump tied aid to Ukraine to investigations of Biden family.
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