Posted on 09/16/2004 3:59:31 PM PDT by Bronc1
On behalf of our membership the Texas Democratic Veterans Executive Committee is proud to announce that we hereby endorse David Van Os for Texas Supreme Court Place 9. In this endorsement we are proud to join with: Texas AFL-CIO, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Communications Workers of America, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, State Association of Electrical Workers, United Auto Workers, American Federation of Government Employees, Texas Carpenters & Millwrights Regional Council of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America, Texas Working Families Political Action Committee, Rio Grande Valley Teachers Association, Austin Black Lawyers Association, Hispanic Bar Association of Austin, and Stonewall Democrats of San Antonio.
Texas Democratic Veterans was formed June 14, 2002, at the Texas Democratic Convention held in El Paso, Texas. This was at a time that at the Republican Convention Republican Congressman Sam Johnson stated, “Democrats did not think like Americans”. We are proud that we were the first Democratic veterans group to be formed in the entire country. …
Today in Austin, as she was in her past, Texas is besieged by tyrants that seek to undermine her Constitution. The self-proclaimed goal is to exterminate dissent by exterminating those of us who dare oppose them. They divided the Citizens of Texas among themselves, behind closed doors, to increase their own personal and political power. Like the Dictator of years past they undermine our Constitution and thus deprive us of the fundamental political right of Representation.
Our members have served or have seen their loved ones serve from World War II to our current War in Iraq and against terrorism. We recognize and honor our loved ones service to our country by supporting us and by suffering with us for the defense of our country by separation from their loved ones and financial hardships from low pay and benefits. We swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and Texas with our lives. We do not think that this oath ends upon receiving a DD214. It is a sacred oath, rooted deeply in both the American and Texan Character and history.
We now swear that NEVER AGAIN will we allow our honor and our patriotism or the honor and patriotism of our fallen Comrades be questioned and it to go unanswered. We now swear, like our forefathers, to defend Texas and Our Nation from all who would seek to undermine our Constitution and our ideals for their own personal interest or their narrow Partisan Political Purposes and from all enemies foreign and domestic.
We have found in David Van Os an intelligent and able ally and true champion of the people and their Constitutional Rights, especially their right to trial by jury. Like us, David has an abiding faith and love for our Constitution. David will be a tireless defender of both our Texas and United States Constitutions. He will be vigilant in writing and speaking out against the current Supreme Court’s trend towards marginalizing juries and the right to trial by juries guaranteed by our Texas State Constitution restoring to the court a return to the Checks and Balances intended by our forefathers. David’s respect in the legal community can be seen in the fact that David got 48% of the vote to his opponents 52% in a statewide State Bar of Texas judicial poll. He is an AV-Rated Attorney, Martindale-Hubbell peer rating system, highest rating for legal ability and ethics, has been listed in Best Lawyers in America, Woodward & White, by peer review, Labor & Employment Law, since 1986, is a Member, College of the State Bar of Texas, and was listed in Texas Monthly’s “Super Lawyers 2003”.
Born in 1950 in Kilgore, Texas David Van Os gets his fighting spirit from his grandfather, a World War I Veteran and his father a Veteran of World War II. Throughout the state David Van Os is raising the cry against a Republican “good ole boy system” of justice in Texas. …
On behalf of our membership the Texas Democratic Veterans Executive Committee is proud to announce that we hereby endorse David Van Os for Texas Supreme Court Place 9. In this endorsement we are proud to join with: Texas AFL-CIO, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Communications Workers of America, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, State Association of Electrical Workers, United Auto Workers, American Federation of Government Employees, Texas Carpenters & Millwrights Regional Council of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America, Texas Working Families Political Action Committee, Rio Grande Valley Teachers Association, Austin Black Lawyers Association, Hispanic Bar Association of Austin, and Stonewall Democrats of San Antonio.
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To be endorsed by proud Texas veterans at a time when our Constitutional liberties are at stake is a tremendous honor. Veterans of our country’s service are among the most honorable individuals in our society. They swore undying oaths to defend our country from all enemies foreign and domestic. They struggled, sacrificed, and bled on behalf of their fellow citizens. This endorsement places upon me the responsibility to conduct the people’s business in accordance with the high expectations of our country’s warriors for defense and preservation of the Constitution, the freedom, the democracy, and the liberties that they offered their lives to protect. It is a weighty responsibility that I do hereby humbly accept.
David Van Os
He got the endorsement because his father and grandfather were veterans? What about him?
Van Os never served.
Speaks volumes that they were the first-ever Democratic veterans group.
"Today in Austin, as she was in her past, Texas is besieged by tyrants that seek to undermine her Constitution. The self-proclaimed goal is to exterminate dissent by exterminating those of us who dare oppose them."
EXTERMINATE??? Sounds like Burkett isn't the only tinfoil-hat wacko in this group.
Don't worry, there's no way he'll get on the Texas Supreme Court.
As a Texan, I hereby apologize to all FReepers for the continued influence of Texas Rats on our state and nation.
I also thank you for your patience, and assure you that we are working on the problem.
Yep, all 40 of them huh?
What influence? The Rats certainly don't have any influence in Texas. The only way they get any attention is when they flee to Oklahoma or New Mexico.
Has there ever been a Texas politician who's mouth wasn't full of bulldung?
Yes, but thanks for asking.
So Burkett's lawyer is running for Supreme Court Justice. Fascinating.
I know this fits into Memogate somehow; I just can't tell how yet. But isn't Rather's daughter in the Abilene area too? That is where he attended the Democrat fundraiser.
And Burkett is a moderately connected Dimmycrap himself, isn't he?
I read is bio. We were classmates for five years but I don't recall him.
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