Why's he changing his mind?  Counting chickens before they were hatched?

XTO, which has the authority to use eminent domain to seize land for pipelines, initially offered Yancy $30,000 for part of his property — a cobbling together of residential and agricultural land that has horses, cattle, chickens, a litter of Australian Shepherd puppies and a pond stocked with catfish. He said he was awarded $480,000 during a hearing, but that figure is being appealed and won’t be ruled on until a March 23 court date, a few weeks after the GOP primaries.

So. XTO offered him $30,000 for taking part of his 17 acres for a pipeline. Yancy can't use income from his 4 business ventures for his run for office, has to give up stake in them. And he must not have liked the $30,000 because he contested it, apparently, and was awarded $480,000 in a hearing, which now XTO is contesting. He was planning to use equity from his home for a run, not sure why that has anything to do with the pipeline eminent domain.

What's interesting in this is that since Darren Yancy is going to run for state office instead of federal, he gets to keep his stakes in these various business ventures that involve 2 insurance companies, consulting and renewable energy technology businesses. I wonder why this would be considered taboo at a federal level but not at the state level?

I noticed in the article that Yancy doesn't like Kip Averitt's position on Chips, which is one main position I really like of Kip Averitt's. Another person commented that they didn't think Averitt had made enough of an effort to communicate with residents of the county. I don't agree with that one, Kip Averitt just held town halls in every one of the counties in his Senate District 22. What is amusing is that now these desperate folks, who were trying to paint Chet Edwards as a liberal, are trying to do the same thing with Republican Kip Averitt. Hah, that's a joke. It was a joke with Edwards and it is a joke with Averitt. Think Democrats voted Mr Averitt in? Please.