Texas District and County Attorneys Association Twitter feed Fascinating guy."įormer Williamson County District Attorney, now former Attorney General of Palau Grits for Breakfast "has probably broken more criminal justice stories than any TX reporter, but stays under the radar. Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education "I appreciate the fact that you obviously try to see both sides of an issue, regardless of which side you end up supporting." "Nobody does it better or works harder getting it right" "Scott Henson's 'Grits for Breakfast' is one of the most insightful blogs on criminal justice issues in Texas." "concise, knowledgeable, in-depth and sometimes counter-to-prevailing wisdom" "dude really has a pragmatic approach to crime fighting, almost like he’s some kind of statistics superhero" "I regard Grits for Breakfast as one of the most welcome and helpful vehicles we elected officials have for understanding the problems and their solutions." "Grits really shows the potential of a single-state focused criminal law blog" GFB "is a fact-packed, trustworthy reporter of the weirdness that makes up corrections and criminal law in the Lone Star State" and has "shown more naked emperors than Hans Christian Andersen ever did." Donald Lee, Texas Conference of Urban Counties "Congrats on building one of the most read and important blogs on a specific policy area that I've ever seen" Solomon Moore, NY Times criminal justice correspondent Scott Medlock, Texas Civil Rights Project "I always tell people interested in these issues that your blog is the most important news source, and have had high-ranking corrections officials tell me they read it regularly." "the indispensable blog on criminal justice and law enforcement in Texas" "Grits for Breakfast has done a terrific job covering Texas prison overcrowding issues." Jim Bethke, Texas Indigent Defense Commission " I respect the work Scott does and appreciate his thoughtful and extensive coverage of Texas’s criminal justice system" "the best coverage of criminal justice in the entire state" Grits for Breakfast "is the best blog about criminal justice in Texas" and "as usual extremely fair" Scott Henson is "one of the nation’s finest criminal-justice policy wonks." I shall not be amongst the Global Village Idiots for Obama on November 4th. So, in this case, celebrity endorsements HAVE had an effect on a me, and I dare say a large number of voters just not the one they hoped for. The desperate Mr Howard and the geriatric, senile Mr Griffith have only made me more steadfast in my opposition to Obama. Hard to watch Andy and Opie and remember simpler times faced with the reality of the actors growing up - and quite old - to support someone who in no way stands for what America means to millions of Americans, the media messiah Barak Obama. I for one have lost all respect for Andy Griffith, and not only will never see the Andy Griffith Show the same way, but will avoid watching it ever again. Unfortunately, Mayberry will never be the same for millions of Andy's viewers - the bulk of his fan base. Now, I suppose, the left has fallen in love with Andy Griffith. For forty years, liberals have scoffed at the "hokey, cornball" residents of Mayberry, while working-class folks have seen Mayberry and its' citizens as quintessentially American conservative: clinging to their guns and their religion. And, I wonder how the citizens would respond to a politician's anti-gun voting record? Ah, those were simpler times! Griffith made his fame and fortune with the Andy Griffith Show, portraying a down-home, Southern conservative, good ol' boy sheriff. Nor was the local minister a hate-filled black liberation theologist. "Free speech" didn't yet extend to terrorism back then. There was no domestic terrorist character planting bombs at the Mayberry courthouse, or the Taylor home. After all, the worst they citizens had to worry about was Ernest T's rock through a window. I can't help but wonder how Andy Taylor would have explained Bill Ayers, extreme liberalism, Marxism, media bias, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan or ACORN to Opie. Not many conservatives in Hollywood even those who hail from North Carolina. As a lifelong fan of the Andy Griffith Show, I am disappointed in Griffth's endorsement of Obama, but not in the least surprized. Well, at least Ron Howard admits he's "desperate." He must be: the vast majority of respondents indicate that celebrity endorsements have no effect on their opinion, or how they vote. Ron Howard has produced a pro-Obama ad, and included Andy Griffith.
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