Despite the leadership of county judge Newt Cunningham the Fannin County commissioners appeared all in favor of receiving the long overdue $600,000.00 payment from the Texas Historical Commission. The fly in the ointment of progress is the usual culprit, Newt Cunningham. He has indicted the courthouse project as incomplete. This indictment in all probability is just as valid as the recent last minute indictments that he supported wholeheartedly from his friend and cohort, former District Attorney Richard Glaser. And which by the way were returned for lack of evidence.

Cunningham’s unwillingness to sign the completion document has cost the county just short of $100,000.00 in interest income alone over the past 3 1⁄2 years. It seems that he has harped about the condition of the courthouse at almost every meeting, and used it to belittle and demean our commissioners who were in office during the time of the project.

He has complained that the basement leaked. The basement has leaked for most of its 130 plus years of existence. We can’t control the pressures exerted by groundwater. The leak is cured by the use of an automatic electric sump pump. Problem solved.

SIGN THE DOCUMENTS. THE CITIZENS OF FANNIN COUNTY WANT THEIR MONEY.

And by the way judge Cunningham, I know that you metroplex lawyers believe that us unwashed masses are of a lower stature than you, but there’s nothing wrong with our memory.

And come election day we’re gonna show you!