Bosque County Republican Party

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Playing Monday & Tuesday June 6 & 7

Cliftex Theater in Clifton  7 pm

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Primary Runoff results

AG - Ken Paxton

RR Commissioner - Wayne Christian

Land Commissioner - Dr. Dawn Buckingham

Bosque JP Pct 2 - Michele Valdez

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HQ Reopening from Roof Flood

Open House Saturday Nov. 13

10:00 till 2:00

Great flags & Hats for sale 

First day to file for Office

We have been redistricted from both 

our State & US House districts.

For the 2022 election, we are moved from US Congressional District 25 with Roger Williams to District 31 with incumbent John Carter.

State House District 58 with Represenative DeWayne Burns is redistricted excluding Bosque. We will be in District 13 with 5 other rural counties and the far east democrat voting corner of McLennan. There is no incumbent  so it will be an open seat.

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Documentary to be shown free of charge 

The Cliftex in Clifton

Tuesdays July 13 and 20  at 7 pm.

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Sue Fielden had the pleasure of presenting the Scholarship recipients to the May Bosque Republican Meeting. Congratulations to Ellison Li, Landry Cockrell and Laramie Crockett, each outstanding scholars and young citizens.  

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Republican Meeting Tuesday May 18

Clifton Civic Center 6:30

Sherrod Fielden Scholarship Awards

SREC Col. Jon Ker

with Legislative updates

$5 Hot Diggity Dog Dinner

No reservations needed !

City and ISD Election Information

May 1, Election Polling places:

Meridian Civic Center - 309 W River Street, Meridian Tx - 

City of Meridian Pct 3 & 4

Clifton Civic Center - 403 W 3rd Street, Clifton, Tx - 

City of Clifton Pct 8 & 9

Valley Mills Old City Hall - 107 South 4th Street, Valley Mills Tx - 

City of Valley Mills & Valley Mills ISD Pct 8, 9, 10 & 11

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Congratulations to our newly sworn in County Officials

County Court at Law Judge Luke Giesecke (second from left) swore in newly elected Officials 1/1/21

Sheriff  Trace Hendricks,  County Judge Cindy Vanlandingham,  Commissioner Billy Hall

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County Chairman Janet Jackson, leads protest 

of District Judge Shaun Carpenter

Prior to our former County Auditor, Kent Reeves and prior to our currently elected County Treasurer Carla Sigler, our county finances were such that our bond rating was prohibitive of financing a desperately needed new Law Enforcement Center. After a major financial clean-up by Reeves, we were in a position to pass a bond that, over the life of the payout will save the county over $2 million dollars. We now have a completely modern Law Enforcement Center where county employees are safe and comfortable to work and we have the space availability to house out- of - county detainees for profit.

Not satisfied with the enormous work accomplished and additional tax burden to the citizens to move the Sheriff’s department and Jail to the new facility, our former Sheriff, a few years ago demanded pay raises above that given to county employees across the board. When the annual budget process could not accommodate the requested raises, the current outgoing Sheriff went on a public tirade. His harassment of the Auditor which included sophomoric attacks in the newspaper and on Face book, reminiscent of 7th grade hate mail was relentless. When the Commissioners Court would not acquiesce to his demands, the Sheriff decided he would ignore all normal interaction with the public, including a department ban he instituted on attending in uniform, each of the following annual 9-11 Memorials and Salute to First Responders at the Courthouse. After untold badgering and unwarranted attacks, it is no wonder our very competent Auditor accepted a position away from Bosque County. This has been a noticeable loss to the finally smooth running keeping of our county finances.

The District Judge is by law the person who hires and oversees the position of Auditor, who is in fact, the county Chief Financial Officer. Our newly elected District Judge Shaun Carpenter hired a person for the position without properly advertising for the position or interviewing additional candidates. The person he hired is a forensic auditor who had never worked with county budgets or county bookkeeping processes before. The learning curve according to many in the Courthouse has been long and disruptive. The Auditor has now contracted another forensic auditor to add to her growing staff, a person whose bedside manner would make a dying person want to pull their own life support. Although the county employee handbook states little tolerance for egregious behavior to other employees, this person has been witnessed to yell, badger and pester employees and elected officials in at least four separate departments in the county to unacceptable and actually unbelievable proportions, causing backlogs in their duties and reporting. The behavior of this person would certainly warrant termination under normal circumstances. However, she has been protected by the Auditor and Judge Carpenter with only a reprimand “to not do it again”.

As a side note which may or may not have anything to do with this matter; it is known that the District Judge would like to suspend the second amendment rights of Bosque Citizens visiting the Courthouse. A notion not popular with many who work there. As one senior elected official remarked “show me a building or school with a gun free zone sign and I’ll show you a building with a target on it.” Coincidently, if the Treasurer was eliminated or moved out of the Courthouse, it is assumed the courthouse would then be completely Judicial and automatically a gun free zone. This would most probably ease the fears of a gun attack on the District Judge who often times has the courthouse Deputy escort him to and from his car upon arrival and departure. Just saying……. may or may not play into the desire to have the Treasurer removed.

We have a new Sheriff about to come into office on January 1 who is respectful of the Commissioners Court and all citizens, which many are looking forward to. As our current County Judge is stepping down December 31, the Commissioners Court will be naming a replacement soon. It is time for concerned citizens to step up and hold the District Judge and County Auditor accountable for all of these disruptions that stem from just one office. Let the workings in the Courthouse get back to normal where all employees and elected personnel are treated with respect and no longer have to endure the castigations from a superior protected by Judge Shaun Carpenter.

Judge Carpenter seems to think the Courthouse is his domain to rule. The Courthouse belongs to the citizens of Bosque county and he is merely an elected person who is only guaranteed another 2 years of his term. Perhaps he should ease up on his ego and simply do what is right.

Janet Jackson, Bosque County Republican Chairman

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 Voting Times and Locations 

for November Election 

All General Election, Times, Places, Precinct map and Ballot names

are under the Election Information tab at the top of page

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        Are you ready to help with this vital election ?

       Please consider helping in one of these very important campaign tasks.

 Deputy Voter Registrar

We must make sure that every eligible voter is registered here in Bosque County.

A Deputy Voter Registrar (DVR) carries voter registration cards with them at all times to have non registered voters fill out and give back to the DVR to turn in. This can be done on an individual basis or at any gathering. Last day to register to vote is October 5, 2020.

Go to this site to study material: 

https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/volunteer-deputy-registrar-training.pdf

After reviewing the easy to follow material, Call the Bosque Elections Administrator, 

Crystal Denman at 254 253 1792 to take the test and get set up. Then contact County Chairman Janet Jackson at 254 709 1187 for registration opportunities.

Phone banking from home on your computer

with RED DIALER

The Red Dialer program is an easy to use system to make multiple calls from your computer to assist in data gathering and increasing voter registration.

 Go to:  Texasgop.org/data-tools

Fill in your information and a data coordinator will set you up.

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Trace Hendricks                                 Clint Pullin

 For complete results go to:

http://www.bosquecounty.us/elections/

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Tuesday November 19th

Sheriff Candidate Forum

Join us as we hear from 3 Law Enforcement Veterans who will be on

the March 3, 2020 ballot for Bosque County Sheriff'

Clifton Civic Center, doors open at 6:30 Forum around 7:15

$5. chili and corn muffin dinner (no reservations, just come hungry)

Forum will be moderated by Brett Voss and Paul Hardcastle

        Clint Pullin               Larry Betik             Trace Hendricks

                 Be sure to VOTE Tuesday November 5    

                 for Constitutional Amendments  

               All voting in Bosque will be at the  

           Courthouse in Meridian 7 am to 7 pm

 For ballot info go to:     https://ballotpedia.org/Texas_2019_ballot_measures

Independence Day Celebration

Join us in Valley Mills as we celebrate Independence Day.

The BCRP will have a float and additional cars in the

             morning parade. Afterwards we  will have a booth in the City Park    

          with voter registration, games for the kids and candidate information.  

           If you would like to help with the booth or float or throw candy to the       

                 crowd ,while riding with our mascot Chad,  drop us a line at:       

Bosquegophq@gmail.com

         2019 off to a great start with our County officers taking Oath.

                From left: County Court at Law Judge Luke Giesecke, JP Jaime Zander,

                   Commissioner Terry Townley, Treasurer Carla Sigler ,Commissioner Ronny

                   Liardon, District Clerk Juanita Miller, County Clerk Tab Ferguson and 

                  County Judge Don Pool.

                    January BCRC meeting, Tuesday 1/15    

                                  Clifton Civic Center 

    The Honorable 10th Court of Appeals Justice Rex Davis

                        speaking on "Trends in Texas Criminality"

                Doors open at 6:30    Dinner served at 7:00     Program 7:30

Make dinner reservations at: Bosquegophq@gmail.com  or leave message at: 254 326 1170

                          Please indicate how many will have dinner ($12 at the door)

                         Pork loin, scalloped potatoes, green beans, rolls and cobbler.