Dear Editor,
Living 15 miles out in the country we don’t always hear things that are going on right away. Most of the time we don’t really care to hear all the things and goings on that are happening in town. But sometimes we are made aware of something that is just too thought provoking to let it fly on by us. This past week had one of those things. With the announcement of Cooper Daniel for Commissioner of Precinct 3, we were surprised to say the least.
What Cooper Daniel is doing is legal but it certainly isn’t ethical. Mike Daniels is a candidate who campaigned hard in the primary, then had to face his opponent in a run-off election and won that race, and now has to face even another opponent, a write-in opponent for that position who is just now starting to campaign. It is like the test you take to get a Black Belt in Karate. One of my sons won his Black Belt and it was a grueling test. You start off fighting one person and slowly they add another person until at one point he was fighting over 20 people at the same time. All of them were fresh; my son had been fighting numerous people for a long time already. I feel as if Mike Daniels is fighting for a Black Belt! I’m wondering if Cooper Daniel was “put up” to running for Commissioner because the establishment did not want Mike Daniels to be the new Commissioner for Precinct 3. Why is it that so many people will do whatever it takes to win, ethical or not? Win at all costs, is the only reason I can find for this attitude of values, principles, and honor mean nothing, just so I win. You know—it’s not how you play the game, it’s the winning that counts. The establishment takes on those qualities too when they refuse to accept the fact that the person they wanted to win didn’t. The Washington DC crowd of establishment cronies has nothing on the Freestone County establishment.
Jan Fielden
Fairfield, Texas
