Local Candidate (Prescott Small) Runs Against Houston Special Interests Incumbent (Bob Hebert) for Chief County Judge!

--As this years election season continues we want to make voting options available to the readers. Please consider voting a mixed ticket this election cycle. We are interviewing area candidates and will share those here as the season continues along with the standard information posts. So far we have talked with Larry Blackmon (R) running against Grady Prestage (D), a developer and incumbent, for county commissioners court and Tom Campbell (R) running against Tom Delay for his congressional seat. We are also backing an alternative area candidate to run against Missouri City developer-backed mayor Allen Owen (this local business professional and community activist will announce soon).

As many of you remember Mr. Owen was a strong advocate for the February '05 vote which indirectly allowed 2700 apartment units into our neighborhood. After the vote it was discovered he had been receiving nearly 60% of his campaign contributions from Houston area developers and the #2 contributor was Larry Johnson of JDC (Sienna Plantation). City ethics complaints were filed against the mayor for not recusing himself in the voting on July 18th which was followed by a JDC developer's strike suit (SLAPP suit) in August against members of this community heading the petition drive against Mr. Owen & the JDC apartments.

If you are following the airport expansion controversy you may want to keep an eye on the Arcola city council races. It has been reported that several candidates are running to take back the current EDC backed group running that town.

From FBNow.com:

"City, County & Community Announcements

Prescott Small Announces Candidacy For County Judge

Prescott Small of Stafford announces his candidacy as the Democratic nominee for Fort Bend County Judge. He said he is running not merely to oppose one man, but to offer new fresh leadership and a new openness to county government.


Prescott graduated from high school with honors and attended the University of Arizona. For the past eight years, Prescott has had a successful career in Information Technology. He works for a Fortune 500 Company in the area of security and anti-intrusion systems. He has worked on projects all over the globe with budgets up to over $30 million. All projects were completed on time and on budget.

Prescott will represent and work hard for the taxpayers of Fort Bend County. Unfortunately, he said, the incumbent “only listens to developers and no-bid vendors to the county who give large campaign contributions.” Prescott promises to never accept money from developers and vendors seeking no-bid contracts, making it clear that this county and its development is not for sale.

Prescott will not use the county payroll to reward political cronies with jobs. He said the incumbent, who claims to be a fiscal conservative, has bloated the county bureaucracy with political patronage for his cronies. Prescott believes we need to give the hard working county employees a well-deserved pay raise. “They deserve it, not the big raises to political appointees and officials,”

Prescott is committed to helping Stafford Mayor Leonard Scarcella bring a light rail system from Houston into Fort Bend County. The incumbent, Small said, “along with his friend, Tom DeLay, have continually blocked efforts to bring 21st Century solutions to mobility. Instead, they do the developers’ bidding.”

Prescott strongly supports Texas’ new disclosure laws concerning conflict of interest and gifts and donations from lobbyists. The incumbent, he said, opposes such disclosures.

Prescott lives with his wife Alex, a lawyer, in Stafford."

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Good luck Prescott!!!