Tom Jones does!

Brenda Hughes does!

Mike Allen does!

Guy ‘Bubba’ Walters does!

• August 5, 2025 resuming the Aug 4 Kerr County Commissioners Court meeting – Tom Jones states “I know we are going to be raising taxes here.” SEE VIDEO (2:00 hr mark)
• Commissioner Paces made motion for a NO NEW TAX rate for the budget – shows NO ONE seconded the motion on page 11 SEE MINUTE ORDER
• Proof that ‘No New Revenue’ rate means a tax increase. SEE VIDEO (00:19 min mark)
• This shows that while the tax rate was decreased a tad by adopting the ‘no new revenue’ tax rate, property tax revenues still went up according to the top paragraph off their own budget document:
  “This budget will raise more revenue from property taxes than last year’s budget by an amount of $1,263,921 which is a 3.7% increase from last year’s budget. The property tax revenue to be raised from new property added to the tax roll this year is $718,164.” SEE BUDGET (pg 1)

• Commissioners Court meeting on August 4, 2025 Commissioner Tom Jones promised he would not vote for a budget that increased the county employee pay again if it meant increasing taxes. SEE VIDEO (00:48:40 min mark)
• Here is the vote on the raises August 5, 2025 SEE VIDEO (2:02 mark)  SEE VOTE (pg 3)
• He then voted for the budget on September 8, 2025 that included pay raises SEE VIDEO  (1:00 hr mark) SEE VOTE (pg 3)

• A Kerr County Commissioners Court agenda item for the November 25, 2024 regular meeting includes: “approve a resolution in support of legislative action authorizing Kerr County to collect a Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT).” This is evidence of formal court action supporting legislative authority for a county-level HOT.  SEE AGENDA
• Kerr County’s own public communications later state that commissioners “unanimously supported a 7% county Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT)” for short-term rentals in unincorporated areas, describe how the county framed the combined state+county rates, and explicitly connect the purpose to improvements at the Hill Country Youth Event Center.  SEE ARTICLE  [Orig Link]
• For the “venue tax” component, a court order from the June 23, 2025 meeting records a unanimous vote approving a resolution designating the Hill Country Youth Event Center as a venue project under Texas Local Government Code Chapter 334 and “designating the methods of financing for the project subject to voter approval at an election.” The motion is recorded as made by “Commissioner Jones” (Tom Jones) and seconded by Commissioner Harris. SEE AGENDA 

• An official “Notice of Public Hearing on Tax Increase” for the City of Kerrville states a proposed tax rate of $0.5711, identifies the no-new-revenue tax rate as $0.5335, and lists the “voter-approval tax rate*” as $0.5711 explicitly labeled “*Disaster Rate.” The notice states the proposed tax rate is greater than the no-new-revenue rate, which “means that the CITY OF KERRVILLE is proposing to increase property taxes for the 2025 tax year.”
• The notice records votes “FOR the proposal” to consider the tax increase as Joe Herring Jr., Delayne Sigerman, Jeff Harris, Brenda Hughes, and Kent McKinney, with no members listed who voted against the tax increase. SEE NOTICE
• Local reporting describes this decision as “nearly 8%” and explains the disaster-rate concept as allowing an 8% growth-rate method rather than the usual 3.5% framework for many jurisdictions. SEE ARTICLE [Orig Link]

• Dark sky ordinance: Dec 13, 2022 meeting
• Repeal electioneering ordinance: April 8, 2025 meeting
• 8% emergency tax hike: July 22, 2025 meeting
  Adopted at September 9, 2025 meeting
• Sidewalk signs downtown: September 23, 2025 meeting  Adopted November 18, 2025 meeting

• Town Hall on HOT Tax at Youth Expo Hall, February 2025  SEE ARTICLE  [Orig Link] (LIA was present at this town hall and heard him advocate for the HOT tax as referenced in this article – pg 7)
  “He urged the HOT, stating we have to get it through. ‘It is a big impact on this community for our children.’”  (So taxes are OK as long as its ‘for the kids?’ Taxes hurt our young families, forcing them to consider living elsewhere making the ‘brain-drain’ continue.)

• Expressed support for more county pay raises (even after the current commissioners voted for 4 pay raises in a row, requiring property tax increases to pay for them) at West Kerr Chamber of Commerce Candidate Forum February 3, 2026.
• Stated intention to increase funding for a host of budget items in interview with Louis Amestoy of The Lead, February 16, 2026 SEE VIDEO (00:07:28 min mark)

Flip-flopping on Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS).

• States he was adamantly against BESS during the February 5, 2026 GOP Forum. SEE VIDEO (29:23 min mark)
• Then he stated he was for BESS if it can be done safely  in an interview with The Lead, February 16, 2026. SEE VIDEO (22:13 min mark)  (What!? Lithium batteries at that scale can NEVER be safe!)
• Okay with a Fire Marshal if it can be without full-time employee and done by contract. SEE VIDEO (29:05 min mark). Then flip flops and says he’s not okay with Fire Marshal just to address BESS. SEE VIDEO (22:48 min mark)
• “We can’t tell property owners what to do – they can do what-ever they want” SEE VIDEO (24:29 min mark) (Yes, we can when it is a catasthrophic threat to the entire county! Your property rights end when it put others in danger.)

• The above is a direct quote from written answer to LIA screening question #5 SEE ANSWERS
• (Since the county judge was out of county and was needed to declare a disaster, his absence with no clear chain of command during the early hours of the rescue efforts jeopardized many lives.)

In favor of tax breaks for new businesses and corporate welfare like economic development incentives that lower taxes for new businesses coming into Kerr County, and hurt existing businesses who don’t receive the same tax breaks.

• From written answer to LIA screening question #6: SEE ANSWERS