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Heavyweights dominating in campaign finances
Campaign without a race
Burch reported nearly $13,000 in
contributions, as well as significant
loan activity even though he is not up
for re-election.
His two biggest donors, former
Flower Mound Mayor Jody Smith and
a Westlake couple, Ryan and Amber
Williams, gave his campaign $5,000
this year. A Bedford woman, Deb-
bie Miller, also loaned his campaign
$10,000 in January.
Burch reported some food and
beverage expenses between January
Cindy Brown and Justice of the Peace
candidates Harris Hughey and Mar-
ianne Poer Vander Stoep did not have
semi-annual campaign finance forms
on file with Denton County Elections
Administration.
Semi-annual finance forms filed by
Tim Burch, constable for Precinct 4,
showed his campaign received and re-
paid loans, as well as raised and spent
about $13,000 from January to June.
Burch is not up for re-election for two
more years.
and July, but most of his campaign
expenses were reported as a recurring
payment to his wife, Candace Simon
Burch, and her real estate firm. From
Feb. 1 through July 1, he paid $500 per
month to Simon Burch for campaign
consulting.
According to a prior report, he made
similar monthly payments from Au-
gust 2017 to January 2018, for a total
of $5,400 paid to Simon Burch from
campaign funds in the past year.
The political heavyweights in state-
wide races hold eight out of every 10 of
those dollars.
And while Republicans have out-
raised Democrats nearly 6-to-l overall,
some candidates are heading into the
race without much cushion in the cam-
paign coffers.
Still other candidates failed to file a
form. All candidates and office holders
who are maintaining finance contribu-
tions were required by state law to file a
report on July 15.
As of Friday, County Treasurer
County constable raised
spent $13K despite not
being up for re-election
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By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
Staff Writer pheinkel-wolfe@dentonrc.com
Denton County political candi-
dates are regrouping for the race to
the November ballot with more than
$750,000 in the bank between them,
according to the latest round of cam-
paign finance statements.
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Associated Press
HOUSTON — A man accused of
killing one of former President George
H.W. Bush’s doctors fatally shot himself
during a confrontation with authori-
ties in Houston on Friday morning, the
city’s police chief said.
Joseph James Pappas, 62, was ac-
cused of shooting Dr.
Mark Hausknecht on
July 20, while the car-
diologist rode his bike
to work at Houston
Methodist Hospital.
Authorities have said
Pappas might have
been seeking revenge
for his mother, who
died on the doctor’s operating table
more than 20 years ago, in April 1997.
“It’s a sad day all the way around.
This doesn’t bring anybody back. It
does bring closure to this community,”
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said
of Pappas’ death.
Authorities on Wednesday had an-
nounced Pappas as a suspect in the
death, saying he should be considered
armed, dangerous and possibly suicid-
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Extreme heat and lack of rain has caused the landscape to dry up and turn brown Friday at the Texas Woman’s University Golf Course. Denton County
is under extreme or severe drought conditions. Residents of Denton are reminded there is an annual watering ordinance that prohibits the watering
of lawns from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from June 1 through Sept. 30.
Dry days of summer
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Police found him Friday after a
worker for a local nonprofit report-
ed seeing him around 9:21a.m. near
a community center by a bayou. The
worker found a wallet with an ID that
belonged to Pappas.
Pappas fled on foot to a nearby
neighborhood in southwest Houston,
where he was confronted by a police
officer. Pappas refused to raise both his
hands, keeping his right hand by his
hip, Acevedo said.
Stage 1 is to encourage residents to water
outdoors wisely. Pierce said the first stage was
instilled because of the continued high tempera-
tures and lack of meaningful rainfall.
“Stage 1 is a mandatory, no more than twice
a week watering [and] avoid watering between
10 a.m. and 6 p.m.,” Pierce said. “Our desire is for
our customers to use water wisely, which would
avoid us going to Stage 2.”
Continued high usage of water and decline
in the water supply from the reservoirs would
move the county to Stage 2.
Pierce said Upper Trinity does not expect to
pull back from Stage 1 for the rest of the sum-
mer.
By Zaira Perez
Staff Writer
zaira.perez@dentonrc.com
The Upper Trinity Regional Water District
and the city of Denton have water restrictions in
place because of high temperatures and drought
conditions, according to officials at both entities.
Upper Trinity supplies water to most of the
county except the city of Denton. Upper Trinity
established Stage 1 of the drought contingency
plan on July 19, said Jason Pierce, the manager
for watershed and contract services.
While the Upper Trinity established water re-
strictions through its drought contingency plan,
the city of Denton did not instate its drought
contingency plan.
Instead, the water utilities department for
the city of Denton put water restrictions in place
in June.
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China announces $60 billion list of US goods for tariff retaliation
response to complaints Beijing steals or pres-
sures companies to hand over technology. Bei-
jing retaliated by imposing similar charges on
the same amount of U.S. products.
White House press secretary Sarah Huck-
abee Sanders told reporters Friday that “in-
stead of retaliating, China should address
longstanding concerns about its unfair trading
practices.”
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman had
earlier called on Washington to “come to its
senses” and settle the dispute.
Chinese leaders have offered to narrow
their politically sensitive trade surplus with the
United States by purchasing more American
goods. But they have rejected changing tech-
nology development plans they see as a path
to prosperity and global influence.
There’s no end in sight, and the dispute
could chill global trade and economic growth.
China’s new threat targeting a smaller
amount of U.S. goods reflects the fact that
Beijing is running out of products for retalia-
tion due to its lopsided trade balance with the
United States.
China’s imports from the United States last
year totaled $153.9 billion. After the earlier
tariffs of $34 billion on U.S. goods, about $120
billion is available for retaliation.
The highest penalties on the new list would
be imposed on honey, vegetables, mushrooms
and chemicals, targeting farming and mining
areas that supported President Donald Trump
in the 2016 election.
The new list includes products as varied
as snow blowers and 3D printers, suggesting
By Joe McDonald
Associated Press
BEIJING — China said Friday it is poised
to impose retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion
worth of U.S. imports, including coffee, honey
and industrial chemicals, if Washington goes
ahead with its latest trade threat.
China’s Finance Ministry accused the
Trump administration of damaging the glob-
al economy after the U.S. proposed increasing
duties on $200 billion of Chinese goods in the
second round of a dispute over technology.
“China is forced to take countermeasures,”
said a ministry statement. It said retaliatory
duties of between 5 and 25 percent will be im-
posed on 5,207 products “if the U.S. side per-
sists in putting its tariff measures into effect.”
Washington imposed 25 percent duties
on $34 billion of Chinese goods on July 6 in
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A child browses shoes July 13 at a shop in Beijing. Chi-
na said Friday it is poised to impose retaliatory tariffs
on $60 billion worth of U.S. imports.
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