Newly Revealed Documents: The Munford PPT Connection

Below is a blog that I published and then within 
a few hours unpublished just over two years ago.
I am re activating it now.

I unpublished the blog when I got a call from my friend
Gerald Haddock asking me to, as a personal favor,
take it down, because his wife Associate Judge
Diane Haddock was being threatened with being fired over it. 
But since Judge Haddock was later fired over
her husband's opposition to Munford anyway,
I am now putting it back up because
the truth should be known.

One other fact in retrospect:
The organization known as PPT mentioned in the blog
essentially ceased operations immediately after Munford
won the election.

Newly Revealed Documents: The Munford PPT Connection

By

James Scott Trimm

In recent days there has been a lot of controversy surrounding the involvement of Terry Munford and Protective Parents of Texas in the campaign of James Munford (Terry’s husband) for Family Court Judge.

Terry Munford, on Campaign Trail with James Munford.

The sad truth is that we have a candidate for District Judge in Tarrant County Family Court (322^nd District) whose campaign is in collusion with Protective Parents of Texas.  He is endorsed by PPT, PPT runs cover for him, his wife Terry Munford, who is active in his campaign, is a known associate of PPT leaders and in her efforts to keep her husband’s campaign clear of a challenger, has joined in their slanderous attacks on Tarrant Family Court Judges, especially Diane Haddock. 

Had the Munford campaign engaged directly in the same types of dishonest edits and false statements in campaign messages, it would be a violation of Texas ethics laws.  Yet Terry Munford and PPT has smeared Tarrant County Judges in an effort to keep the playing field free of competition for James Munford. 

Terry Munford campaigning for her husband.

Protective Parents of Texas (PPT) is an infamous political organization run by Jennifer Olson.  Olson is a Family Violence Activist who was herself arrested last year for Family Violence.  PPT has frequently and regularly slandered many of our Family Court Judges. This organization has falsely accused Judge Haddock of being responsible for the death of a child, in a case that was actually settled out of court.  They have also attacked judge Wells for her handling of a case that was settled out of court.  PPT has gone so far in attacking Judge Haddock as to make dishonest audio edits in an attempt to make it appear that she said things she did not say.  This is an organization that has even directed its readers to an extremely anti-Semitic website that refers to the Jewish people as “the eternal parasite”. 

Protective Parents of Texas is not a Republican Organization.  In fact, in the same thread in which PPT recently endorsed James Munford, they admitted that they only prefer Democrats, but only endorse Republicans because Tarrant County is too conservative for Democrats. PPT  does not believe in limited government and personal freedom.  They do not hold to core Republican principles, and they do not agree with key planks in the Texas Republican Party Platform concerning parents’ rights, family sovereignty, judicial restraint, and Texas Sovereignty specifically in regards to Texas Family Law. In fact, PPT has begun a campaign to federalize Texas Family Law (in direct conflict with the Texas GOP platform).

PPT Endorsed James Munford

Recently PPT has claimed that they do not endorse candidates, but on September 8^th 2017 they made a statement that any reasonable person would have to interpret as an endorsement.  PPT said “Before you vote or endorse candidates, always do your homework. Luckily for Tarrant County voters, Diane Haddock has an opponent for the 322rd District Court: JAMES B MUNFORD."

Then on September 12th 2017, I wrote a blog recommending that James Munford renounce this endorsement from Protective Parents of Texas.  Just a few days later, on September 14th 2017, I approached Munford at the Tarrant County Republican Party Executive Committee meeting, and we discussed the endorsement and my blog.  At this meeting Munford told me that he could not renounce the PPT endorsement because of “ethics rules” yet I have checked the rules of both the Texas Ethics Commission and the Texas Judicial Ethics Commission and can find no rule that would prohibit a judicial candidate from renouncing an endorsement.

Terry Munford, on Campaign Trail with James Munford.

While PPT regularly attacks many of our other Family Court judges, they go to great lengths to cover up for Munford.  When disgruntled litigants complain about other Family Court Judges, PPT is quick to air their grievances and share their comments.  But disgruntled litigants from Munford’s Court cannot get the time of day from PPT.  PPT does not share their complaints, but simply sweeps them under the rug.  This is not because there are no such complaints about Munford.  In fact there is blog by a disgruntled Berger/Munford litigant, with many comments from other disgruntled litigants, making very similar complaints to the ones PPT regularly shares about other judges (Click here to see it.)

The connection between PPT and James Munford should not be a surprise to most who are politically involved in the Tarrant County GOP.  James Munford’s wife Terry Munford and PPT director Jennifer Olson are known associates.

James and Terry Munford

This blogger has obtained a copy of a signed, sworn affidavit concerning Terry Muford.  This affidavit reveals a conversation that took place between that Affiant and Terry Munford as Terry Manford and Jennifer Olson were standing together.  In this conversation the Afiant reveals Mrs. Munford claimed that Tarrant Family Court Judges take bribes and come to work and sit on the bench drunk. Mrs. Munford also claimed that Diane Haddock had taken a bribe to grant a mother custody of a little girl who later died (clearly speaking of Leiliana). Munford also said that she and Jennifer Olson had taped family court hearings (which is illegal) and that Texas State Representative Jonathan Stickland had essentially sold his votes to Empower Texans! These statements are not only slanderous but are unbecoming of the spouse of a Family Court judge;

Redacted Facsimile of the actual affidavit.

This blogger has verified that the people in question were in fact at the place and time given in the affidavit with the Affiant.  The Affiant appears to have nothing to gain from her statements.  I spoke with the Affiant in a coffee shop for two hours.  She seemed not only sincere, but visibly upset at these things that had been said by the wife of a judge and judicial candidate about Tarrant County Judges and a Texas State Representative.   The Affiant’s account has the ring of truth as well.  The statements the Affiant attributes to Terry Munford attacking Tarrant Family Court Judges and Jonathan Stickland have strong parallels in past statements made by Terry Munford associates Jennifer Olson and Marie Howard.

The statements made in this Affidavit are bolstered by another document recently obtained by this blogger.  This blogger has learned that days after publication of my blog An Unfair Attack on Judge Haddock (published July 21^st 2017), Terry Munford was asked to make  a statement renouncing certain attacks on the Tarrant County Judiciary She was asked to do this to clear the air from the atmosphere of antagonism she had stirred up against the Tarrant County Family Court judges in cooperation with her friends in the PPT.  Munford’s political advisor Craig Ownsby initially agreed to recommend that Terry make such a statement.  In the conversation with Ownsby, Munford was present and seemed to agree by not raising any objections.  However in the end, Terry Munford refused to make such a statement.

One can only conclude that the Munford’s have collaborated with PPT in order to slander the judiciary and keep the field open for Munford’s run for the 322^nd Judicial Court.

Will someone who is not endorsed by PPT please run for the 322^nd Court.  Tarrant County voters deserve to have the choice from which they have thus far been robbed by this unethical collusion.