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“It’s Hammer Time,” the popular Facebook Live and YouTube show at MCP.TV, will host a special show on the Fiscal Year 2020 Montgomery County Budget at 12 noon today.Two guests will appear live on the show, Precinct 1 Montgomery County Commissioner candidate Billy Graff and Republican Party Steering Committee member and Precinct Chairman Jon Bouche.Billy Graff is running for Precinct 1 Montgomery County Commissioner.Graff, a resident of Conroe, announced his candidacy for Precinct 1 Montgomery County Commissioner yesterday. Graff served as a Marine before he entered the ministry as a pastor. He served as a Baptist pastor at churches in Beaumont and Galveston before founding and leading a non-profit organization, IConnect Outreach, which has helped families who have suffered from natural disasters.Graff is running for the seat which will open as a result of the retirement of Commissioner Mike Meador who has announced that he is not running again.Since nonprofit organizations became a major issue during the final day of the County Budget deliberations, Graff is an interesting guest for “It’s Hammer Time.” He’s also a significant guest, because he has expressed a commitment to lower spending and taxes, if he wins election.Bouche is a long time resident of Montgomery County. He received his college degree from Sam Houston State University and has worked in the security industry as well as insurance and real estate. Bouche is one of the most prominent realtors in Montgomery County and has become the “go to man” for residential real estate.Bouche is an elected Board of Directors member of the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District, an elected Steering Committee member of the Montgomery County Republican Party, and Chairman of the Citizens Budget Committee.Jon Bouche, Precinct 35 Republican Chairman, Montgomery County Republican Party Steering Committee member, and member of the Board of Directors of the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District.Callers will have the opportunity to speak directly with Graff and Bouche during the show by calling 832.990.9170 during the live presentation.The show will air from 12 noon to 1 p.m. today, Friday, August 2, and will continue with encore presentations throughout the weekend.To watch the show, please go to MCP.TV on Facebook or YouTube. To call in with a question, please call 832.990.9170 during the live presentation.MCP.TV is the brainchild and the network, which the brilliant Bill Brenza, its President and Executive Producer, created. “It’s Hammer Time” airs live every Friday at noon.

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“It’s Hammer Time,” the popular Facebook Live and YouTube show at MCP.TV, will host Precinct 3 Montgomery County Commissioner James Noack at 12 noon today. The theme of the first half of the show is “An Update of Precinct 3.”

The guest during the second half of the show will be Montgomery County Republican Party’s elected Treasurer John Hill Wertz. Wertz will talk about “What’s Up With the Montgomery County Republican Party’s Finances?” Even democrats are welcome to watch the show.

Noack grew up in the Spring area, graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.B.A. in 1994, and has worked in various roles in the financial industry for 17 years. Noack and his wife, Lori, the First Lady of Precinct 3, are raising their sons in The Woodlands. In actuality, they’ve done a superb job with their sons. Their oldest son just graduated from The Woodlands High School and will follow his dad’s footsteps to Texas A&M in the fall. Their youngest son is already a brilliant political philosopher and wise political advisor to his father.

Commissioner Noack actively engages the constituents of Precinct 3 through his Commissioner’s Advisory Council, high visibility in the community, and open door policy. Noack brings a philosophy of fiscal responsibility and hard work to his job as a Commissioner.

Montgomery County Republican Party Treasurer John Hill Wertz showing off some geology in Alaska.Wertz grew up in the city of Alexandria in a foreign land known as Louisiana. He graduated from Bolton High School and then attend Louisiana State University where he receive a Bachelors in Business Administration. Wertz was an oil and gas executive before he retired.

Montgomery County Republican Precinct Chairs elected Wertz as the Montgomery County Republican Party’s Treasurer on June 26, 2018. He is an active member of the Montgomery County Tea Party, where he serves as Vetting Committee Chairman, and is a Republican Precinct Chairman in Alden Bridge in The Woodlands.

Callers will have the opportunity to speak directly with Noack and Wertz during the show by calling 832.990.9170 during the live presentation.

The show will air from 12 noon to 1 p.m. today, Friday, July 26, and will continue with encore presentations throughout the weekend.

To watch the show, please go to MCP.TV on Facebook or YouTube. To call in with a question, please call 832.990.9170 during the live presentation.

MCP.TV is the brainchild and the network, which the brilliant Bill Brenza, its President and Executive Producer, created. “It’s Hammer Time” airs live every Friday at noon.

Montgomery County, May 3 – “It’s Hammer Time,” the popular Facebook Live and YouTube show at MCP.TV, will host Montgomery County Attorney B.D. Griffin today at noon. Griffin, a native of Montgomery County, served as First Assistant County Attorney since January, 2015, under popular County Attorney JD Lambright, who passed away in March. The Montgomery County Commissioners Court appointed the brilliant Griffin, a double-Board-Certified attorney, to succeed his beloved boss.

Lambright named Griffin his First Assistant County Attorney in 2015. Griffin has continued to manage the Real Estate Division of the County Attorney’s Office as well. As the lead real estate attorney for the County government, Griffin has been responsible for legal issues pertaining to roads, subdivisions, ordinances, land use, eminent domain, sales or other dispositions of real estate, and acquisition and leasing of real estate. He also represents Montgomery County in state and federal litigation involving real estate, land use regulation and flood plain enforcement.

Griffin, whose legal name is Benjamin Devane Griffin, is a life long citizen of Montgomery County whose family has lived in this area for well over a century. The Texas Bar admitted Griffin to practice in 1984. He also has attorney admissions before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit as well as several of the United States District Courts in Texas.

Griffin is a double-Board Certified attorney in the fields of Commercial Real Estate Law and Residential Real Estate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He became a Board-Certified attorney in 1997. Griffin is also a member of the Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section, the Litigation Section, and the Government Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. He served as President of the Montgomery County Bar Association from 1994 to 1995.

BD Griffin graduated from Conroe High School in 1975. He received a Bachelor of Music degree, cum laude, in 1975 from Trinity University. Griffin’s musical specialty is playing the pipe organ. He is the replacement organist for St. James Episcopal Church where he and his wife, Chevis, attend regularly. Griffin also plays the piano and the harpsichord. In fact, Griffin and his sister donated a harpsichord to the Church.

Griffin spoke fondly of his years at Trinity University, which regularly ranks as one of the strongest liberal arts schools in the United States. “When I was at Trinity, we had the largest pipe organ in Texas with seventy-five hundred pipes and one hundred and eight ranks.”

He graduated from South Texas College of Law, summa cum laude, in 1983.

Montgomery County’s County Attorney is actually a fifth generation public servant in Montgomery County. His great great grandfather, BD Griffin, was the Montgomery County Clerk in the late 1800s. His great grandfather, WF Griffin, was the County Clerk until his death in 1928. His grandfather, BD Griffin, served on the Conroe Independent School District Board of Trustees. Griffin’s father, William F. Griffin, was Montgomery County District Attorney for one term from 1960 to 1964. (Yes, Griffin confirmed that the names “WF” or “William F.” and “BD” or “Benjamin Devane” skip generations in his family!)

Several readers have asked about Griffin’s political views. Griffin regularly votes in the Republican Primary Election.

Griffin said unequivocally that he is “Pro-Life” and that he considers himself “a conservative.” His work has First Assistant County Attorney has shown his commitment to open government and governmental transparency.

While Griffin believes that toll roads “can be a tool used in the proper place and time, it’s a policy decision whether or not to use them.” Griffin confirmed that he agrees with 2018’s Republican Primary Proposition 2 where 91% of voters stated that citizens should have the right to vote for or against toll road projects before government funds or constructs them.

Montgomery County, April 19 – “It’s Hammer Time,” the popular Facebook Live and YouTube show at MCP.TV, will host Montgomery County First Assistant District Attorney Mike Holley today at noon. Holley, a native Texan, is one of the most interesting people in Montgomery County, as he traveled all of the world as a military prosecutor prior to his joining Montgomery County District Attorney Bret Ligon’s Office in 2015. Holley became the First Assistant District Attorney, the second highest position in Ligon’s Office, when 9th District Judge Phil Grant took office and left that position in 2016.

Callers will have the opportunity to speak directly with Holley during the show by calling 832.990.9170 during the live presentation.

The show will air from 12 noon to 1 p.m. today, Friday, April 19, and will continue with encore presentations throughout the weekend.

To watch the show, please go to MCP.TV on Facebook or YouTube. To call in with a question, please call 832.990.9170 during the live presentation.

The following is Holley’s official District Attorney’s Office biography:

Mike Holley is a native Texan who moved to Spring in 2006. Mike started his career in the United States Army as a Military Police Officer in the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas. The Army then sent Mike to law school, and he subsequently became a Military Prosecutor and Paratrooper in the 18th Airborne Corps in North Carolina. Assignments as a Military Defense Attorney in Korea, Japan, and Thailand followed.

Mike was deployed to Iraq in 2004 to be the Chief Prosecutor in the Abu Ghraib Detainee Abuse cases. Following this one-year assignment, Mike served as a Professor of Criminal Law. Mike left the Army as a Major after 13 years of service. He then worked for six years at one of the country’s best private law firms, the Lanier Law Firm, but ultimately desired to return to prosecution work.

For the last 4 years, Mike has been a Felony prosecutor and Chief of the Misdemeanor Division. Mike assisted in the creation of our county’s Veterans Court, prosecuted Animal Cruelty cases and served on the Vehicular Crimes call-out team. Mike spends a substantial amount of his time training new lawyers and law enforcement officers in the County, and he has spoken at various conferences across the state and the country.

Mike graduated Summa Cum Laude from Abilene Christian University and The Texas Tech School of Law, and he has a Masters of Law from the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, Virginia. Mike has been married to his amazing wife, Renee, for 25 years. Mike and Renee have four children.

As the First Assistant District Attorney of Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office, Mike is responsible for the day to day management of the office including the preparation and presentation of the annual budget.

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Ross Kecseg is the President of Empower Texans, one of the largest and best organized grassroots conservative organizations in the United States and in Texas.

He previously served the organization as Vice President of Local Affairs and Metroplex Bureau Chief. He is a native North Texan, raised in Denton County. Kecseg graduated with a degree in Economics from Arizona State University in 2006, with a special emphasis on Public Policy and U.S. Constitutional history.

For nearly a decade, Ross has been active in the Republican Party, grassroots organizing, volunteering for political campaigns, journalism, and as a resource for taxpayers looking to hold state and local officials accountable.