Look at most major intersections in Milam County and you will know there’s an election coming up on March 3.
It costs money for all those signs and other campaign expenses. Candidates are required at intervals to report how much they’ve received and spent.
The first reporting period expired recently and The Reporter’s survey of those reports, submitted to the county clerk’s office, shows the district attorney race has logged the most spending, so far, while the race for sheriff has garnered the most donations.
Donations or expenditures made after Jan. 15 won’t be listed below, but must be enumerated on subsequent reports.
All the Milam candidates are in the Republican Primary.
DA—The two candidates for county/district attorney, incumbent Bill Torrey and challenger Lonnie Gosch listed combined expenditures of $12,820.73.
That was $7,243 for Torrey and $5,578 for Gosch.
Contributions totaled $6,275, $4,700 for Torrey and $1,575 for Gosch.
Gosch’s report also indicated $860 in loans and $1,895 in credit card expenditures.
Individual donations were listed as follows:
Torrey—$1,000, Robert Tiemann, Adam T. Muery, Dan and Patricia Wimmer, James and Cheryl Walker; $500, Carroll Glaser; $250, Dan Richard Beto; $200, Harry Vowell.
Gosch—$1,000, Benton Watson; $200, Lisa Roden, Robert Gommert; $125, Paula Wood.
SHERIFF—The three-man sheriff race’s reports indicated $14,712 in contributions and $6,330 in expenditures, almost all in both categories by incumbent Chris White.
White’s report listed $12,975 in contributions and $6,104.75 in expenses.
Craig Wise’s report listed $1,259 in contributions and $813 in expenses.
Herbie Vaughan did not list any contributions or expenses.
Individual donations were listed as follows:
White—$3,000, Hilton Culpepper; $2,500, Jack Cook; $2,000, Gilbert and Nancy Roman, Drayton McLane Jr.
$1,000, Bill Torrey; $500, Rob Tiemann, Carroll Glaser, Dorado Oil-David Burg, Bernard G. Johnson III.
$200, Harry Vowell, Mike Zajicek; $75, Ricky Williams.
Wise—$500, Beau McKeon; $250, Michael Gotte; $200, Joe Hollis; $100, Cody Wise.
Vaughan—None listed.
COMMISSIONER, PCT. 3—Incumbent Frank Summers listed $200 in contributions and $681 in expenditures.
Art Neal listed $4,400 in contributions and $6,271 in expenses. Charles Truitt listed $150 in contributions and $77 in expenditures. Individual donations: Summers—$200, Richard Gommert. Neal—$1,500, Robert Tiemann; $500, Bill Torrey, Jerry and Cynthia Jerman, Drayton McLane Jr., Keith McBee. $400, Timmy-Jina Lange; $200, Clayton R. Garrison; $100, William R. Stein III, G. Mike Griffin, Dendy/ Jamie Brown. Also, $1,600 in loans. Truitt—$150 in-kind (signs), Odes Foster. COMMISSIONER, PCT. 1—Incumbent Richard “Opey” Watkins listed $1,200 in contributions and $980 in expenditures. Ricky McCall listed no contributions and $750 in expenses. Henry Hubnik had no contributions or expenses on fi le. Individual contributions: Watkins—$1,000, Robert Tiemann; $200, Richard Gommert. McCall—None. Hubnik—Nothing on file. CONSTABLE, PCT. 1— Patrick Guffey listed no contributions and expenditures of $1,070.94. James Pratt listed contributions of $911.41 and expenditures of $200. Neither listed any individual donations. UNCONTESTED—The Reporter has learned the Precinct 2 constable race, originally announced as contested, has become an uncontested as Kris Stringer is no longer a candidate. That leaves incumbent Charlie West unopposed. Uncontested races in the Republican Primary are:
• John Youngblood, 20th District Court Judge.
• Sherry Mueck, Milam County Tax Assessor-Collector.
• Jay Beathard, Precinct 3 Constable.
• Michael Moehling, Precinct 4 Constable.
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