The Ellis County Press: Write-in seen as viable threat

Write-in seen as viable threat
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Editor on 10/09/2008 15:04:00


BROWN: ‘NEVER TAKE ANYTHING FOR GRANTED'
The Ellis County Press
MIDLOTHIAN - With less than four weeks until the Nov. 4 election, the sheriff's
race is in full swing.
Write-in candidate Susan Welch-Rodriguez, who paid a $750 filing fee to secure a
slot on the general election ballot, has been busy canvassing towns and meeting
potential voters across the county.
Republican nominee Johnny Brown, who won the March 4 primary and later, the
April 8 run-off, wants to keep his campaign strategy himself, but did take
notice of Rodriguez' campaign that "anything can be a viable threat."
Brown has appeared at numerous parades - often the same ones as his opponent -
and said he will be plastering cities with signs and billboards.
Rodriguez and Brown are both from Midlothian, which statistically ensures
victory if a candidate can clinch that crucial voting bloc.
"You never take anything for granted but I am the one that can run the sheriff's
department best," Brown said.
Rodriguez, who backed Brown's two opponents - Steve McKinney on March 4 and
James Ledbetter on April 8 - said her camp isn't backing down.
"He seems like a nice man as far as I know," she said. "I [would] just rather be
on foot shaking people's hands and getting to know them better. I believe the
county deserves a choice, a real option."