State/Local
razos County residents will pick
county commissioners Nov. 8
The Battalion Monday, Nov. 7, 1988 Page 3
By Alan Sembera
Senior Staff Writer
HBrazos County residents will choose
■o county commissioners Tuesday, in
cluding the one in Texas A&M's pre-
ciiu :
Bin the Precinct 3 race'. Democrat W.F.
“Bubba” Moore, owner of the College
Stition Press newspaper, is running
Hainst Republican Randy Sims, who
owns Randy Sims Barbecue House.
■ Moore’s main campaign thrust is that
H’s the only candidate who is willing to
Hork full time at the commissioner's job.
■“My opponent feels that he can run a
Bsiness full-time and work part-time at
the courthouse,” Moore said. “I believe
the job doesn’t need a part-time
commissioner.”
■Moore said if he is elected, he will
sftp down from the newspaper and go to
work full-time at the courthouse.
Hln an appeal for the student vote,
■aore promised to be available 24
Hurs, seven days a week for Aggie
fui tions and fundraisers.
■He said he is the only candidate who
will be able to give all his time to the
commissioner’s job.
HSims said that although he will con
tinue to work at his restaurant, he is will-
im to spend as many hours as necessary
at tlie commissioners job if elected.
■He said the recent hiring of a county
■gineer has taken a tremendous work
load off the commissioners, making the
jol less demanding.
To go along with this lessened work-
fM. he said, he supports cutting the
, .._ . .......^oioner’s salary from about
>l)ui (it in t-1$38,000 per year to $25,000 per year.
rson). ■ ^
ith Big Bird'■Moore also supports the cut in salary.
Ditched voictBSims stresses more citizen partici-
‘ the rlifff.rff.B tlon ' n county government in his cam-
■ • .paign.
o Din UI C0UlJ Hc p r0 p ()SC( j to sct up a citizen’s advi-
rouble squee/rm^, committee to help put together a
it of the Bad "roadmap" to indicate the perceived
i could be exc&as of growth in Brazos County over
n since he k, the next 15 years.
idiead would H"* this, i' 1 conjunction with long-
.. Htge planning, is something that is so
B Beded in Brazos County that 1 don’t
ve it, Batfans-Bjnk wc | laV c had in the past,” Sims
it Roster. 1 slid.
ing mate, unlifl Moore also said he supports long
I ial election,■ n £ e planning and more citizen involvc-
■ent.
Sims has a degree in business adminis
tration from Texas A&M.
He was a commissioner from 1973-76
and was on the Bryan City Council from
1986-87.
He said he also has been a vice presi
dent in the Chamber of Commerce and
has served on their board.
Moore said his qualifications for the
•county commissioner’s office are de
rived from being an independent busi
nessman for the past 20 years.
In the Precinct 1 commissioner’s race.
Democratic incumbent Bill Cooley faces
a challenge from Republican Gary Nor
ton.
Cooley has been commissioner for
four terms, and said he is seeking re-
election because of the economic condi
tion of Brazos County.
He said economic recovery is the big
gest problem facing Brazos County, and
said his experience is what is needed to
lead the county through the recovery.
Cooley said he is a former College
Station councilman, is a member of the
Brazos County Industrial Foundation,
and is a charter member of the College
Station Economic Development Founda
tion.
“I think my background speaks for it
self,” Cooley said.
Cooley said he supports continued
county support of A&M’s Easterwood
Airport, and is in favor of a decrease in
commissioners’ salaries.
Cooley’s challenger, Norton, is a Col
lege Station police seargent.
Norton is the only one of the four can
didate’s in the two commissioner races
that is not for a decrease in salary.
Instead, he said, he is in favor of ex
panding the commissioner’s duties.
This expansion, he said, will save the
county money in the long run.
One of the ways he will save money is
through long-term planning in the com
missioner’s court, he said.
This lack of planning is costing tax
payers a tremendous amount of money,
he said.
He said he also wants more involve
ment by county commissioners in the
budgetary process.
“I believe that we need a system of
checks and balances,” Norton said. “We
need more accountability in our budget
ary process.
“Our budget right now is primarily
handled by a county judge, with very
little input from our commissioners.”
Norton said he wants to implement a
quarterly budgetary review with all
elected officials and department heads in
the county.
Opening up county government to the
people is another of Norton’s major
points.
“One of the first things I would do,”
Norton said, “is try to see what I could
do about moving the county commis
sioner’s meeting from 10 o’clock in the
morning to an evening session ... to
encourage more citizens to participate in
our county’s business.”
Norton also said he would implement
quarterly meetings with constituents in
his precinct and form a citizen's advisory
committee.
Norton said as administrative assistant
to the police chief, he has gained valu
able experience in research and plan
ning, policies and procedures, and bud
geting.
He also headed up recruiting and train
ing and was public information officer
for the department, he said.
Race will decide
future for office
of Brazos attorney
By Alan Sembera
Senior Staff Writer
A local lawyer is putting the office of
county attorney on trial.
Hub Kennady has charged the elected
position of Brazos County attorney with
being out-of-date and inefficient. He has
asked for the death penalty.
County Attorney Jim Kuboviak is de
fending the office. He said it provides
important services to the county, and is
not costing taxpayers extra money.
Both Kennady and Kuboviak are run
ning as write-in candidates for the posi
tion of county attorney.
Kennady, the challenger, is running a
one-issue campaign against the incum
bent Kuboviak. He said that if he wins,
he will work on consolidating the county
and district attorneys’ offices. Once he
did this, he said, he would eliminate his
own position.
Under the present system, the county
attorney’s office in in charge of prosecut
ing misdemeanor cases while the district
attorney’s office is in charge of prosecut
ing felony cases.
One of the disadvantages of having
Candidates compete for local JP posts
By Alan Sembera
Senior Staff Writer
Out of all the local officials who will
be elected Tuesday, justices of the peace
will have the most contact with students,
faculty and staff at Texas A&M.
There are two contested races for jus
tice of the peace in Brazos County. One
of them is for Precinct 7, Place 1, which
is made up of all of College Station, in
cluding the Texas A&M campus.
Justice’s of the peace handle small
claims court and Class C misdemeanors
with a fine of less than $200, which in
cludes minors in possession, failure to
take breath tests and traffic tickets issued
by state highway patrolmen.
In the College Station race. Republi
can George Boyett is running against
Democrat Jim Locke.
Boyett, who owns several local apart
ment complexes, stresses that he intends
to be a full-time justice of the peace if
elected.
“I intend to operate the office myself,”
Boyett said, “while my opponent intends
to to continue his law practice, which is
officed in Bryan, and operate the thing
from afar with a clerk running the thing.”
Boyett said if he is elected, he will op
erate the office from his own property on
Boyett Street in College Station.
He said he has turned the management
of his apartment complexes over to a
management company.
Boyett, who is an Aggie, has lived in
College Station community all his life,
he said. This knowledge of the commu
nity will be an asset as justice of the
peace, he said.
His opponent, Locke, who has prac
ticed law for 10 years, emphasizes the
fact that he is the only lawyer in the race.
“It’s just a matter of fact that you can
do the job better if you have the better le
gal training,” Locke said. “It’s not just a
matter of technical knowledge of the law
but the experience of trying cases.”
He also stressed that his three years as
student legal adviser at A&M helps him
understand the perspective of students.
“The JP court is going to hear small
claims court, which includes landlord-
tenant, and virtually all the student body
has a landlord-tenant relationship,”
Locke said.
In Precinct 4 justice-of-the-peace race
for Place 1, Democratic incumbent B.H.
Dewey Jr. faces a challenge from Repub
lican David Horne.
Dewey is relying on his experience at
the job to get elected.
He said his 24 years as justice of the
peace make him the most qualified.
Horne, who is a car salesman, has crit
icized Dewey for not giving an automatic
90-day driver’s license suspension to ev
eryone who refuses to take an intoxilyzer
test.
Dewey has defended his actions by
stating that each case should be reviewed
individually, and has said that some
cases warrant probation.
In addition to the mandatory license
suspenions, Horne’s platform includes
utilizing community service as punish
ment for small crimes, he said, espe
cially when dealing with youngsters.
two separate offices in charge of pros
ecuting crime, Kennady said, is that
cases slip through the cracks.
“The county prosecution doesn’t know
what the felony prosecutors are doing,”
he said.
Many counties with major cities, in
cluding Bexar, Harris and Dallas coun
ties have consolidated their prosecution
system, Kennady said.
Kennady said the basis for him want
ing to consolidate the two offices is a
study done by the non-partisan Texas
District and County Attorney's Office in
1974, “which recommends exactly what
I’m promoting,” he said.
But Kuboviak disputes the validity of
the study.
“No county since that study came out
followed that study,” Kuboviak said,
“and some counties are even trying to be
come like us.”
Kuboviak said that even if Kennady
became county attorney, he couldn’t
guarantee that the Legislature would ap
prove the consolidation.
If the consolidation wasn’t approved,
he said, then the county would be stuck
with an unqualified county attorney.
Another major reason to eliminate the
county attorney position is to cut costs,
Kennady said.
Two offices cost more than one, he
said, and the county attorney’s position
could be eliminated because right now it
only is an administrative position, he
said.
But County Attorney Kuboviak says
Kennady has not shown how combining
the offices will save money.
“Somebody still would have to do my
job,” Kuboviak said, “and every model
that he’s proposed uses someone to do
my job.”
Kuboviak said that in his four years as
county attorney, he has actually brought
money to Brazos County by going after
$161.000 in grants.
The grants include a family violence
grant, grants to enhance DWI prosecu
tion, and a grant to create a mental health
unit.
Kuboviak also said that vigorous pros
ecution of hot-check writers by his office
has made it easier for students to cash
checks locally.
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