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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Sen. Ted Cruz’s re-election bid for a the Texas House of Representatives,
lots of encouragement nationally just dropped out of race for Pres-
Beto, whose name identification neelyll l@gmail.com.
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MARTIN
wealthy Republi-
can Lt. Gov. Da-
most ever for a U.S. senate race.
He lost to Cruz by just 2.6 percent
- much closer than political watch-
ers had predicted, in a state where
no Democrat has been elected to
statewide office since 1994. Despite
his loss, the excitement he created
from the top of the ticket had an im-
pact on several down-ballot races.
A Democrat in Dallas and another
in Houston unseated longtime Re-
publican congressmen. Democrats
flipped 12 Republican-held seats in
DAVE
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tition increased, for both attention
and campaign contributions, and
his standing in the polls and donors
both dwindled.
He was also wounded by an arti-
cle on the cover of Vanity Fair, that
quoted him as saying he was “born”
JoAn Martin is a retired teacher
with five published novels. Reach
her at Josbook@mindspring.com or
at www.josbooks. com.
to run for president. He also had
lots of people urging him to use his
considerable momentum in 2020 to
face off against Texas’ senior sena-
tor, John Cornyn.
and one in the Texas Senate.
After his narrow loss, Beto got
vid Dewhurst in a runoff.
In Washington, the brash new
senator rapidly united the usually
divided Democratic and Republi-
can senators on at least one thing:
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Jay Eshbach
Beach City
How to help bring battleship to town
There is an ongoing citizen-led effort to bring the USS
Battleship Texas to Baytown once repairs are finished. A
group of citizens, led by Jay Eshbach, has formed and
is aiming to persuade the Battleship Texas Foundation to
bring the historic dreadnought to Bayland Island.
One aspect of getting the ship here is to help maintain it
after it is docked. Eshbach and others are seeking pledges
to help with the maintenance of the ship.
This is not a fundraiser, and no money is required. It
is simply pledges. If any Baytown citizen is interested in
making a pledge, they can pick up an application at the
Baytown Sun between 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 1301 Memorial
Drive. The pledge fonn can also be found at www.bay-
townsun.com
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Jerry L. Jones
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Battleship Texas,
drone video shoot
I was privileged, on Saturday, to participate with Rus-
sell Hamman and Peter Piontkowski plus a few hundred
Baytown area residents in the making of a drone video to
present to Battleship Texas Foundation.
The goal of this video is to show just another reason
why the local communities are 110% behind bringing the
Battleship Texas to Baytown!
I was fortunate, on several occasions, thanks to Peter,
our highly talented drone operator, to actually watch the
live taping on his control monitor.
It will now take a week to 10 days to edit all the foot-
age, add (Texas) music to the background and produce a
final version.
I am sure Russell will post the video to his web page
and The Sun will do an article and post the video on its
website.
Plus, I will be giving copies the major pledgers to our
“Bring the Battleship to Baytown,” o they can show the
drone video on the TVs in their lobbies.
Thanks again to hundreds of participants.
Get ready to be impressed.
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Contact Texas political writ-
er Dave McNeely at davemc-
it took several months to come
to the dismal conclusion, but Beto
O’Rourke finally conceded Friday
that his campaign for the Democrat-
ic presidential nomination couldn’t
get there from here.
“Though it is difficult to accept,
it is clear to me now that this cam-
paign does not have the means to
move forward successfully,” O’Ro-
urke said on social media.
“My service to the country will
not be as a candidate or as the nom-
inee,” said O’Rourke, who had tried
to turn a near-miss run for the Sen-
ate from Texas in 2018 into a suc-
cessful race for president.
“Acknowledging this now is in
the best interests of those in the
campaign; it is in the best interests
of this party as we seek to unify
around a nominee; and it is in the
best interests of the country,” O’Ro-
urke said.
Beto’s decision came just hours
before he was supposed to join oth-
er Democratic candidates at a party
dinner in Iowa.
Volunteers were still collecting
voter information and handing out
“Beto” stickers” outside the event
amid a steady rain as Beto an-
nounced he was dropping out.
Beto, as he was called on yard
signs for his senate campaign, and
for president, learned some things
the hard way.
Like, going from being a three-
term congressman from El Paso
running against two opponents in
the 2018 Democratic primary, to
contest incumbent Republican U.S.
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Susan’s mother talked to her about
the “vorce,” but there was a lot she
didn’t understand, but when her
mother ask, “Do you understand?”
Susan nodded, afraid to ask ques-
tions. She wanted to ask, “If you can
get a vorce from Daddy because he
has a new girlfriend can you get a
new girl and get a vorce from me?”
“Now Susan,” Her mother said,
“A girl named Candy will walk you
to school and bring you home. She
will stay with you until I get home
from work.”
‘Battleship Texas
needs Baytown’
My wife Linda and I, above, attended the hugely suc-
cessful Baytown rally at the Battleship Texas Saturday,
Nov. 2.
It was an upbeat fun event on a beautiful blue sky day
with lots of enthusiasm from all participants. Almost ev-
eryone dressed in red, white, and blue, and there were
many flags of Texas and the USA flying in the light breeze
under blue skies.
I wore my brightest red shirt and pinned a sign to the
shirt stating “THE BATTLESHIP TEXAS NEEDS BAY-
TOWN.” I was asked what the sign meant. I said “The
sign could have read “Baytown needs the Battleship Tex-
as”, but that would be inaccurate. Baytown does not need
the battleship to survive and prosper. However the Bat-
tleship Texas needs Baytown to survive. The battleship
has always been moored near the end of a long dead-end
road in a very out of the way location. No wonder there
is not enough tourist traffic to pay the expense of upkeep.
If the battleship is relocated to Baytown at the foot of the
Fred Hartman Bridge, millions of people will be passing
by with a clear view of the Texas in all her glory. Tourist
attendance will escalate to untold numbers, guarantee-
ing plenty of money for the Texas to survive and prosper
along with the city of Bay town.
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ident despite him saying he was
‘born for this.’ I don’t think so!”
almost every night while her mother
drinks her coffee, she says, “Sorry,
Susan, I’m such a pill.”
Susan and her mother still go
shopping in the enormous depart-
ment store and Susan longs to hold
her mother’s hand, afraid that she
will lose her mother. “I will keep
you in sight,” her mother assures
Susan. But Susan notices that her
mother looks away many times
Susan smiles hoping her moth-
er will smile. Sometimes she does,
sometimes she doesn’t. Susan will
never get a vorce. She will find a
nice boy to marry, have children,
a boy and a girl live in a nice, big
house, and know everything so she
can answer all her children’s ques-
tions.
second term.
That was simpler than seeking
the presidential nomination against
more than two dozen - including
a fonner vice-president, and sev-
eral members of the senate he had
sought in 2018 to join.
In 2017, Beto had decided to run
for Cruz’s job rather than re-elec-
FoR
all,
TODAY IN HISTORY
On this date:
In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an un-
precedented third tenn in office as he defeated Republi-
can challenger Wendell L. Willkie.
In 1994, former President Ronald Reagan disclosed he
had Alzheimer’s disease.
Ten years ago: A shooting rampage at the Fort Hood
Army post in Texas left 13 people dead; Maj. Nidal
Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was later convicted of mur-
der and sentenced to death.
In 2017, a gunman armed with an assault rifle opened
fire in a small South Texas church, killing more than two
dozen people; the shooter, Devin Patrick Kelley, was lat-
er found dead in a vehicle from a self-inflicted gunshot
wound.
Thought for Today: “Imagination is the only key to
the future. Without it none exists — with it all things are
possible.”
— IdaM. Tarbell, American journalist (1857-1944)
ever that nominee is.”
Lots of backers renewed
their calls for Beto to get in the
now-crowded Democratic primary
race for Cornyn’s Senate seat.
No, he said through a spokesman
on Friday.
“Beto will not be a candidate for
U.S. Senate in Texas in 2020,” said
Rob Friedlander, an aide to Mr.
O’Rourke.
Upon hearing of Beto’s exit,
Trump couldn’t resist tweeting
about it, rubbing his nose in the ear-
lier Vanity Fair article.
“Oh no,” Trump tweeted. “Beto
if Cruz were drowning, few of them for the presidential race.
would have tossed him a life pre- Beto had trouble staying up with
server. the continually rising threshold of
Beto announced for the Senate on requirements his number of donors
March 31, 2017. He vowed to cam- and poll results required to partici-
paign in all 254 counties in Texas, pate in the Democratic debates ev-
and talk to any person or group, ery few weeks.
And he did. So finally, on Friday, he pulled
He also pledged not to accept do- the plug. He said he isn’t backing
nations from Political Action Com- any particular candidate, saying the
mittees - yet he still raised some country will be well served by any
$80 million from individual donors of the other candidates, “and I’m
across Texas and the country — the going to be proud to support who-
tion. had gone national as a result of his
Cruz, the state’s run against Cruz, decided he’d pre-
solicitor general fer to take a chance on holding an
under then-Atty, office where he’d be one of one,
Gen. Greg Ab- rather than one of a hundred.
bott, had won the After he finally announced for
Republican Sen- president on March 14 of this year,
ate nomination in his campaign raised $9.4 million in
2012 by upsetting the first two weeks. But the compe-
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many questions,
just go and watch
TV. But this is the time that TV is
w
Susan fell in love with her before just men’s faces telling news, weath-
they met her. Such a lovely name - er, and sports -sooo boring. Her
chocolates, caramels, and lollipops, teacher doesn’t like her asking too
Candy was a teenager. Teen is the many questions, Daddy never calls
best age. She could light stoves, use anymore like he promised, and Can-
the phone, reach high shelves, and dy says she is sick of so many silly
open cans, just like a mother. questions.
“Candy is a girl and I am a girl Susan remembers a long time ago
so we belong together. Candy is the when her mother made cookies and
me that I’m going to be like in a few pies and let Susan watch and ask
years,” Susan whispered to herself questions and lick the bowl. Now
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too busy, too crab-
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ly comes home, she
always says, “I’m
exhausted! ”
“Exhausted”
means don’t ask too
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