Some reasons why I would not vote for Mike Ford to be judge. I would say, incidentally, the same thing if Mike Ford was a Democrat. (And, of course, he did vote Democrat before he switched to be Republican). If any of the current slate of candidates for judge had this shoe fit, that person would be crossed off my list as I consider who would be the best person.

Mike Ford doesn't have an unpleasant personality. But I believe he does not have good attention to detail or followup skills. I think a judge needs to have those.

• Mike Ford is the county commissioner liason for the Somervell County Technology Committee, which is also comprised of the department heads at the county office. He has touted recently as a feature his plans, heading, as commissioner liason, the committee,  for a website that is in flux, at both the Republican Meet the Candidates meeting and in the Glen Rose Reporter newspaper, especially that he would have open records on the county website. However,  the existing website at Glenrose.org was NOT complaint with open records law. And he apparently didn't notice. And even today, when I went to look for updated election information on the county website, the information was WRONG and doesn't contain current and correct candidate information.  Where does the buck stop? With Mike Ford, here's why. He chose to take on the technology committee, rather than the other commissioners or judge, and as such, he is also the person to monitor the IT Department, whose employees report TO the county commissioners. But he didn't ensure compliance with the law on the existing website nor did he do any kind of followup to make sure other critical information, such as about the elections, were correct. SOMEBODY needs to do that, right? SOMEBODY needed to make sure that the IT Department updated  information FOR the county residents as a priority. That SOMEBODY that didn't do that was Mike Ford.