"Frankly, it's Wichita Falls"

[RPM 26167]

Wichita County District Attorney John Gillespie has a serious hiring dilemma on his hands.

He told county commissioners on Tuesday a firm he used to search for an assistant DA made 900 contacts and couldn’t find a single candidate who wanted to apply for the position.

“I said is there a salary thing we need to talk about, and they said, frankly, it’s Wichita Falls,” Gillespie told the commissioners. “I love our community. I’m just being blunt with the situation and the legal environment we’re in.”

 

His remarks came as he asked the commissioners to raise the salaries of eight of his assistants to $95,000 each to retain them.

“I don’t think this would fix the applications, but I can’t have anyone leaving right now,” Gillespie said. “I’m just trying to triage.”

Gillespie said law schools are turning out fewer lawyers so there’s a greater demand.

“We’ve been down two positions that we essentially get no applicants for. At a minimum, we’ll be down four by the end of the year, and we just don’t get resumes,” he said.

The grant would cover salary increases through the rest of 2024, but commissioners would have to budget $760,000 to carry the raises through 2025.

Gillespie’s first assistant district attorney, Dobie Kosub, faces no opponent in the November general election and is expected to become 89^th District Court judge on Jan. 1. Another prosecutor is leaving for the military.

Commissioners passed the request unanimously.

[DigglerontheHoof 20950]

[SurlyGator 856]

I couldn't find the GIF fast enough to beat Diggler.  Perfect.

[Bevo 13468]

7 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

Still - "His remarks came as he asked the commissioners to raise the salaries of eight of his assistants to $95,000 each to retain them". Are we talkin' secretaries or assistant DAs?

[InkaUtexas 25270]

Surly lawyers should get together, send their rejects and then we can take over.

[Captainant 27239]

What's wrong with Wichita Falls? It's the finest collection of trailer parks and casino workers south of the Red River!

[RPM 26167]

Think of all the money you could save going nowhere doing nothing.

[mdmost 42683]

Any time I have to go there to see the in-laws, I wonder how it still exists. I guess oil and gas, the military base, and being on the way to Amarillo are about its only qualities to justify still existing. To me, it's the 5th level of Hell. You could offer me a million dollars to live there and I would turn you down. The only benefit would be being just a little bit closer to Palo Duro Canyon and Caprock Canyon. 

Edited August 1 by mdmost

[Deej 76373]

Seems like he should be putting feelers out at aggy School of Law. 

[BurntEyes 5769]

4 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Any time I have to go there to see the in-laws, I wonder how it still exists. I guess oil and gas, the military base, and being on the way to Amarillo are about its only qualities to justify still existing. To me, it's the 5th level of Hell. You could offer me a million dollars to live there and I would turn you down. The only benefit would be being just a little bit closer to Palo Duro Canyon and Caprock Canyon. 

Midwestern State University plays pretty good soccer.

It's all I got, and only because a family member played for them.

[InkaUtexas 25270]

What is there not to love?

Wichita Falls is a city in northern Texas. In the center, the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum honors notable wrestlers and displays memorabilia. Nearby, the narrow, 4-story Newby-McMahon Building is nicknamed the “world's littlest skyscraper.” Set along a bend of the Wichita River, Lucy Park has playgrounds, a pool and a man-made waterfall. The River Bend Nature Center has nature trails and exhibits.

[baboso 6043]

As falls Wichita, so falls Wichita Falls.

[RPM 26167]

I live exactly half way between WF and FW. Growing up there were people that went to FW to party and those that went to WF to party. Never understood the latter. There was nothing to fucking do there. Meanwhile FW had Northside, the University District, Downtown and a bunch of neighborhood shit to do. 

4 minutes ago, baboso said:

As falls Wichita, so falls Wichita Falls.

So fucking close. Go stand behind an RV.

edit: My bad, didn't know the album. I was referencing the movie.

Edited August 1 by RPM

[baboso 6043]

Red draws at the Bar L.

[Parliament 14083]

39 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Surly lawyers should get together, send their rejects and then we can take over.

Wouldn't that be 80% of this board?

[gmr548 16417]

38 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Any time I have to go there to see the in-laws, I wonder how it still exists. I guess oil and gas, the military base, and being on the way to Amarillo are about its only qualities to justify still existing. To me, it's the 5th level of Hell. You could offer me a million dollars to live there and I would turn you down. The only benefit would be being just a little bit closer to Palo Duro Canyon and Caprock Canyon. 

Drove through it for the first time in a while earlier this year.

Really sad, feels more like the deep south or rust belt than typical small/midsized city in Texas.

[BamaATL 16592]

The bigger issue here is, why can't a guy with the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame in his town not cut a better promo?  

[RPM 26167]

2 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

The bigger issue here is, why can't a guy with the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame in his town not cut a better promo?  

Well...

[cactusflinthead 27588]

FULL-TIME RESIDENT OF WICHITA FALLS

Don’t apply. It’s hard work living in Wichita Falls. Most people would rather be charged by rhinos. Wichita Falls surpasses even Waco as the pits. At least Waco has the Brazos River, the Texas Ranger Museum, and the Lone Star Tavern. Wichita Falls is next to nowhere and all it has is bad weather. Last summer people in Dallas wilted for 36 days under 100-degree-plus weather, but Wichita Falls had them beat by an average of 3 degrees and 17 days. It’s no better in winter—unbearably cold, and it snows. It also blows. The 1978 Guinness Book of World Records lists Wichita Falls as the spot where the highest tornado winds on record occurredo280 miles per hour on April 2, 1958. Barry Williamson, like Wichita Falls’ other 95,007 inhabitants, should get hardship pay. He’s lived there for almost all of his 32 years. “I escaped twice,” says Barry, “only to come back, like most of my friends. We must be crazy. The countryside is drab brown with sickly mesquites, the weather is unbelievable. I’ve tried to kick the habit, but it’s no good. Our city’s motto is “The City That Faith Built.” I have always assumed that it referred to some dark, masochistic tendency in human nature, and that appeals to me, like watching Howard Cosell. If a city could be a person, I guess Wichita Falls would be Howard Cosell, the city you love to hate.”

 

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/bad-jobs/

This was written before the bad tornado of 79.

 

[Post Oak 20174]

1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said:

Surly lawyers should get together, send their rejects and then we can take over.

Surly lawyers are the rejects.

[mdmost 42683]

The best thing about Wichita Falls was lost in a fire in June 2001, Uncle Lynn's Catfish. 

[RPM 26167]

 

[texasdago 7544]

30 minutes ago, RPM said:

Well...

https://www.yellowpages.com/wichita-falls-tx/clothing-alterations

[Dennis Taylor 18643]

1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said:

What is there not to love?

Wichita Falls is a city in northern Texas. In the center, the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum honors notable wrestlers and displays memorabilia. Nearby, the narrow, 4-story Newby-McMahon Building is nicknamed the “world's littlest skyscraper.” Set along a bend of the Wichita River, Lucy Park has playgrounds, a pool and a man-made waterfall. The River Bend Nature Center has nature trails and exhibits.

[David Dennison 18472]

1 hour ago, Deej said:

Seems like he should be putting feelers out at aggy School of Law. 

https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/texas-a-m-university-03179

 

[Deej 76373]

10 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/texas-a-m-university-03179

 

How much did that cost them? 

[huge 3787]

Houston has the same problem.  Frankly.

[RPM 26167]

Quite frankly, I'd move to Houston in a heartbeat over Wichita Falls and it's well documented how much I hate Houston.

[crash_davis 23076]

3 minutes ago, RPM said:

Quite frankly, I'd move to Houston in a heartbeat over Wichita Falls and it's well documented how much I hate Houston.

That's like choosing between between being constipated or having exploding diarrhea. 

[Beau Vine 53838]

What I want to know is what's the fucking purpose of Interstate 44.  

[RPM 26167]

2 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

What I want to know is what's the fucking purpose of Interstate 44.  

Oklahoma escape route.

[Zepol87 9151]

Man after spending summers on the family watermelon farm in Munday and the lumber yard in Rhineland Wichita Falls felt like New York. Those places suck ass

 still never understood how in 1931 the family crossed from Mexico and said yea let’s just stop here

[RPM 26167]

7 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

still never understood how in 1931 the family crossed from Mexico and said yea let’s just stop here

It kept getting worse. Or the mule died. Maybe both.

[Gene Parmesan 3964]

24 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

That's like choosing between between being constipated or having exploding diarrhea. 

Better out than in

[NeverMarryAStripper 21780]

In high school we used to drive to Wichita Falls to buy Coors.

[Texzilla588 767]

Unfortunately this is happening across the country as small towns and larger ones lose population. These towns will be like cicely Alaska and have to recruit debt ridden students. My dentist cousin went into the PHS to rid herself of debt and was in Lawton OK for awhile. Her husband was with Texas pardons and parole and commuted to WF.

[CooterBrown 17847]

Man after spending summers on the family watermelon farm in Munday and the lumber yard in Rhineland Wichita Falls felt like New York. Those places suck ass
 still never understood how in 1931 the family crossed from Mexico and said yea let’s just stop here

I’ll one up you. My first ancestor in the US left New York City for Cuero, Texas.

[mdmost 42683]

I once had a nightmare that I was married to my sister-in-law instead of my wife and was stuck with her and her two kids in Wichita Falls. 

[Beau Vine 53838]

1 hour ago, Zepol87 said:

 

 still never understood how in 1931 the family crossed from Mexico and said yea let’s just stop here

[texasdago 7544]

1 hour ago, Zepol87 said:

Man after spending summers on the family watermelon farm in Munday and the lumber yard in Rhineland Wichita Falls felt like New York. Those places suck ass

 still never understood how in 1931 the family crossed from Mexico and said yea let’s just stop here

Likewise, someone has to explain to me the Italian migration to Collie Station.  Clearly something took a very wrong direction and we ended up with the Liucci family offspring. 

[T’Boo Ted Marshall 2721]

John is a HS classmate of mine.  Only recently did I see he was the DA there.  Seems like he has been doing a lot of good up there, but without the Air Force base that place might die.  

Midwestern is mostly full of non-trads from the surrounding communities.  

[Deej 76373]

1 hour ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

In high school we used to drive to Wichita Falls to buy Coors.

Do you actually drive or did you and your daddy pay the Bandit to do it?

[Eskimohorn 5593]

I want a lawyer! Is there a lawyer in the house willing to work in Wichita Falls?

[Chad Fuck 17454]

48 minutes ago, Texzilla588 said:

Unfortunately this is happening across the country as small towns and larger ones lose population. These towns will be like cicely Alaska and have to recruit debt ridden students. My dentist cousin went into the PHS to rid herself of debt and was in Lawton OK for awhile. Her husband was with Texas pardons and parole and commuted to WF.

Lawton is a true shithole.  It's like Wichita Falls, but it's in Oklahoma. 

Terribad.

[HenryJames 65817]

This would never happen in Pampa.

[royiv 9124]

2 hours ago, huge said:

Houston has the same problem.  Frankly.

You sure about that? Or just the legal profession? I’ve spent 25 years in the healthcare industry and Houston has been the easiest market for me to recruit to in my career.

[Homesickhorn 2197]

Dad grew up there, and played at Old High under Joe Golding. I’ve got fond memories of WF as a kid, dove hunting, learning how to catch ground squirrels. My first ever alcoholic beverage was a red draw at P2, when I was 13 years old. Pretty much all I’ve got. Pops disowned his hometown last year when they did away with Wichita Falls High School.

[jimmyjazz 45406]

4 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

Midwestern State University plays pretty good soccer.

I had never been there until my kid got a soccer tryout a couple of years ago.  Blew out his ankle 20 minutes in.  Coach was cool, he said he had a spot the following year after he healed up -- uh, thanks, I think we're done with soccer.

Weird campus.  Very recently renovated in a beat up town.

[Texzilla588 767]

Lawton is a true shithole.  It's like Wichita Falls, but it's in Oklahoma. 
Terribad.

How would you like to commute daily from Lawton to Wichita Falls, deal with shithead methhead parolees all day, then drive back to Lawton, to hear your wife complaining about the bad teeth on the rez and doing nothing but extractions, and the artillery booming at the fort? He often thought about just driving off the bridge into the red river. And do it again the next day and the next …,

[Chad Fuck 17454]

1 minute ago, Texzilla588 said:

How would you like to commute daily from Lawton to Wichita Falls, deal with shithead methhead parolees all day, then drive back to Lawton, to hear your wife complaining about the bad teeth on the rez and doing nothing but extractions, and the artillery booming at the fort? He often thought about just driving off the bridge into the red river.

I would not like.