Southeast Texas Courthouse Tour, June 20-22

David Van Os carries the momentum of his barn-burning convention speech through Southeast Texas, following the Citizens' Filibuster for Freedom in Galveston this Juneteenth weekend. Hear what democracy sounds like by catching David speak at one of these county courthouses:

Tuesday June 20

CHAMBERS COUNTY – Anahuac

LIBERTY COUNTY – Liberty

HARDIN COUNTY – Kountze

ORANGE COUNTY – Orange

JEFFERSON COUNTY – Beaumont


Wednesday June 21

TYLER COUNTY – Woodville

JASPER COUNTY – Jasper

NEWTON COUNTY – Newton

SABINE COUNTY – Hemphill

SAN AUGUSTINE COUNTY – San Augustine


Thursday June 22

ANGELINA COUNTY – Lufkin

TRINITY COUNTY – Groveton

POLK COUNTY – Livingston

SAN JACINTO COUNTY – Cold Springs

MONTGOMERY COUNTY – Conroe

June 20, Tuesday


9:00 a.m. Galveston County Courthouse, Galveston

11:15 a.m. Chambers County Courthouse, Anahuac

1:30 p.m. Liberty County Courthouse, Liberty

3:15 p.m. Hardin County Courthouse, Kountze

4:30 p.m. Jefferson County Courthouse, Beaumont

There will be a reception for David and Rachel with Beaumont area-activists and supporters at the Acapulco Grill, 2050 Interstate 10 South in Beaumont, beginning at approximately 6 pm.



June 21, Wednesday


9:00 a.m. Orange County Courthouse, Orange

10:45 a.m. Newton County Courthouse, Newton

11:45 a.m. Jasper County Courthouse, Jasper

2:15 p.m. Sabine County Courthouse, Hemphill

3:30 p.m. San Augustine County Courthouse, San Augustine



June 22, Thursday


9:00 a.m. Angelina County Courthouse, Lufkin

10:30 a.m. Trinity County Courthouse, Groveton

1:00 p.m. Polk County Courthouse, Livingston

2:15 p.m. San Jacinto County Courthouse, Cold Spring

4:00 p.m. Montgomery County Courthouse, Conroe

I grew up in Woodville (the Tyler County seat). You still have to run as a Dem to win local elections up there.

I have LOTS of friends still there, one who's a county commissioner and works at the courthouse.

I'd be happy to contact folks in town to get a good turnout.

(Be gentle. My first reply on DU.)

I am going to every county in Texas, period, all 254. So Tyler County will not be skipped.

However, when I gave the first list of 15 counties for a 3-day tour to my awesome scheduler-router Kris Graham, I made a mistake and overlooked Galveston County. Even though I will be doing a marathon filibuster in downtown Galveston at City Hall on Sunday-Monday, I still have to appear and speak at the Galveston County Courthouse at the north end of the island. Upon realizing I had overlooked that, I asked Kris to revise the tentative itinerary so as to add in the Galveston County Courthouse on Tuesday morning. This added a county to the list for the 3 days and would have required going to 6 counties on one of the days.

Kris is very good at planning the routes and schedules but 5 counties per day is the most we can do. I asked her to remove one county from the list on the 2d or 3d day to keep it at 15 for the 3 days. The removal of Tyler County was a purely routing and scheduling function by Kris, who is doing a marvelous volunteer job, detailed and intricate, in routing my courthouse-to-courthouse trips. Tyler County will definitely be part of the itinerary on another tour down the road between now and the election. I have friends in Woodville too and am very much looking forward to my visit there. Meanwhile, please feel free to join in at one of my stops at a neighboring county next week.

Thank you for taking the time and trouble to comment. Let's take Texas back for the people.

DVO

:hi:

And may I say you were awesome at the convention! Everyone - this is my friend Tina! Give her a big DU WELCOME!!!

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Were you expecting a :spank: ?
We're the Texas forum, after all.:toast:
Welcome to DU!!!:bounce:

(Uh, that doesn't sound quite right.)

Welcome TxT! :hi:

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

If you want someone to pull for you, there is no better man than David Van Os.

Sonia

Howdy everyone.

David, when I looked at the revised schedule I could tell the route you were taking and could see that Woodville was out of the way.

Anyway, I'll be happy to meet you up there when you can go and introduce you around.

It's pretty easy to know the whole town when there's only 2500 people there!

In Beaumont: Tuesday, June 20 with David Van Os and Hank Gilbert and Democratic activists and supporters at Acapulco Grill, 2050 IH-10 South, beginning at approximately 6 p.m.

And The Woodlands, Thursday June 22: Spaghetti dinner at the home of Nahla Williamson, also beginning at about 6 p.m. RSVP to Peggy Walton at pwalton@consolidated.net or 936-718-7777 for directions.

I'm posting this here because I haven't posted enough to start my own thread yet.

I had to go to Jasper for a funeral today. (The past few days have been sucky, to say the least.)

We're driving back from the cemetary WAY out in the country, practically in Lousiana, on the way to my cousin's house back in town.

The thing I noticed most was the trees that had been uprooted because of Hurricane Rita: large oaks and pine trees pulled out of the ground just like dry corn stalks.

We're driving past this farm that has several large uprooted pecan trees and then I spot the sign by the driveway. It was terribly wind beaten, and only the center part of the sign remained, but it was still there: Kerry and Edwards in 2004.

David's going to kick a** there tomorrow! The people of East Texas are absolutely hungry for his message!

I'm sorry our paths didn't cross, David and Rachel, and I'm awfully sorry that my first visit there in eight years was because of a funeral.

Yesterday was unsurpassed as far as barnstorming goes.

The second stop of the day in Chambers County we made time for lunch with the mayor and the county judge, Jimmy Sylvia -- a Democrat who switched to Republican six months ago (it's a local viability thing and would require more explanation than I can give at the moment). He introduced us to a friend of his son's who's going to Iraq next week (he was in Afghanistan on his first deployment). As we left, he said "I want you to win".

In Liberty County about twenty folks met us at the courthouse, and the same in Hardin County. Media both places included local newspaper reporter, photographer, and radio station. At the Jeff County courthouse John and Suzanne Stafford (local activists) had turned out the TV station, but we arrived about 15 minutes too late to get on (they got a call about someone bleeding somewhere). DVO had an on-air talk with Jack Pieper of KLVI -- a radio fixture in Bmt. for about thirty years. Quite an in-the-closet old liberal.

East Texas is ready to flip, y'all.

Lots of photos will turn up in a day or two.