Chet Edwards For Congress

August 21, 2007

Editorial: Edwards' help still needed at VA

Waco Tribune Herald
By Editorial Staff

If anyone deserves a tribute for working to save the Waco Veterans Affairs Medical Center it is U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards.

He will get it Wednesday when the city hosts a reception in his honor.

But it needs to be more than a tribute. It needs to be a pep rally. As much as Edwards and other allies have done to preserve the hospital, much needs to be done to enhance services and utilize an under-used campus.

In June, a similar reception was held to recognize U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison for her decisive efforts in saving the hospital.

In her campaign to save the VA campus, Hutchison made several important visits to Waco, especially when she accompanied both the VA secretaries on tours of the facility.

She also sponsored legislation to designate the hospital a “mental health center of excellence.”

But no one was as diligent about this task as Edwards. His hands-on efforts helped blunt the proposal to move all of Waco’s mental health treatment programs, blind rehabilitation treatment and geriatric care units to the Olin E. Teague Veterans Medical Center in Temple and to farm its services elsewhere around the country.

November 1, 2006
Endorsement for U.S. Representative, District 17
By W. Leon Smith|CLIFTON RECORD

Perhaps no other candidate in the state is as attuned to his district than Congressman Chet Edwards (D), who is being challenged by Guillermo Acosta (L) and Van Taylor (R). And perhaps no other elected Congressman has focused more on issues and his constituency, with the willingness to forego party alliances, than Edwards. Very much an independent thinker and doer, his votes have reflected the sentiments that have been espoused by both major parties, largely depending upon what he hears from the people he represents.

October 23, 2006
Eagle Editorial:
U.S. House of Representatives, District 17

Bryan-College Station Eagle
Eagle Editorial |

Texas Congressional District 17 includes Brazos, Grimes, Madison, McLennan, Hill, Bosque, Hood, Somervell and Johnson counties and portions of Robertson, Burleson and Limestone counties. This is the second election cycle for this district since the Legislature redistricted congressional boundaries.

October 21, 2006
EDITORIAL: Chet Edwards deserves your vote
By Jerry Tidwell|Publisher, Hood County News

Chet Edwards has accomplished great things for Hood County in the two years that he has represented us in Congress. Without question, Edwards deserves another term and needs and deserves your vote.

Edwards has secured $5.75 million in appropriated funds and sent it back to Hood County to help our community with our biggest and most pressing needs. Here are a few
examples of how our congressman is bringing local tax dollars back home:

October 17, 2006
John Young: Face fresh from the factory

Waco Tribune Herald
By John Young |Colimnist