Rockwall Democrat Chairman Blasts New Rockwall County News

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Dr. Stephen Taylor, D.O.

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The chairman of the Rockwall Co. Democratic party blasted the new Rockwall County News on his blog July 26 as being ” one of the finest examples of a far right-wing rag as I have ever seen.”

The Rockwall County News changed ownership during the past month and has somewhat changed the format of the weekly newspaper.

Democratic Party Chairman Dr. Steven M. Taylor, D.O., a retired pain management specialist, wrote:

“Just take a look at the editorial page. Before, they actually printed letters to the editor, even ones that were hostile to the status quo in Rockwall. But, now that it is time to get on the bandwagon to get Ralph Hall re-elected, they can’t have any rational debate on important issues or disagreement with his umbilical attachment to anything King George wanted to do.”

His blast continued:

“And you won’t read about Jodie Laubenberg and Bob Deuell’s subservience to Tom Craddick’s agenda. That agenda would be a carbon copy of the one pushed by governor Rick “Big-hair” Perry. You know, the kind of things like taking away from poor kids by cutting CHIP and leaving a million dollars in federal money on the table or giving the saved money to rich peoples kids as school vouchers, or best of all, giving our highways away to a company in

“Debate or commentary on such vital issues to Rockwall citizens has been replaced by commentaries from three (right)

“Keep leafing through and you come to page 6 where the top article is a column in large letters entitled “On Gods Word”. Keep going and all you get to read about is Rockwall kids, more Rockwall kids and Rockwall kids and

Lest he seems too far left, he added:

“I do not object to Born-again Christian theology, the right of right-wing commentators to spout nonsense or Rockwall’s great kids. What I do object to is a lack of fairness or anything remotely resembling

In conclusion:

“You won’t find any questions asking when the county commissioners knew Ray Sumrow was stealing county funds.”

“You won’t find any debate about why the county commissioners couldn’t convince voters to back the bonds for the fancy new courthouse located on the area’s most expensive real estate

“Too bad we have no local published news sources to defend us. I guess we will just have to do it ourselves person to person and on the

Dr. Taylor, we will gladly publish your charges on this blog, our website at www.rockwallrocks.com and hopefully soon interview you in person when we introduce video newscasts on the website! We are interested in providing balanced news and a forum for it.

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