Chad Carpenter took the only definite win of the three Kendall County commissioners’ seats on the March primary ballot, taking the Republican nomination for the Precinct 4 commissioner seat.
Carpenter will face off against the only Democrat seeking office in Kendall County’s November election, Kevin Henning.
Of the 2,163 ballots cast by March 2 in the primary election, Carpenter took 1,273, or 58.85 percent, of the votes, making him the clear winner. Carpenter beat out Gary Louie, who took 856 votes, and Patty Walsh Martinez, who brought in 246 votes.
Carpenter moved to Kendall County in 1988 and built and started Comfort Chiropractic. Two years later, the Boerne location opened.
“As a constitutional prolife conservative, I feel like our values and freedoms are being stripped away right before our eyes and our country is at the brink of disaster,” Carpenter said in his election preview with The Star. “The only way to get America back on track is to start from the ground up. This means electing constitutional conservatives at every level of government and place God back where he belongs as the foundation of our country.”
In his election preview, Carpenter identified water shortages, uncontrolled development, increased traffic and resident safety as the key issues facing Kendall County. Additionally, he said an unstable economy could lead to revenue shortfall, with budgeting becoming increasingly difficult to get accurate due to unknown variables.
In efforts to handle growth in the county, Carpenter said the county should establish a new development plan with three categories, including small, medium and large developments.
“As the size of the development grows, the developer should have more requirements because they are creating a larger footprint of change to our county,” Carpenter said. “We need to encourage growth on properties with 3-6 acres and we should do everything we can to stop high density subdivisions in rural areas. Small developments should have the easiest permitting process so individual rights are protected.”
Beyond development concerns, Carpenter addressed issues with flooding problems in Comfort that need to be addressed, saying Waring Welfare residents end up landlocked during heavy rains which he said significantly increases the response time of first responders in the area.
Several attempts were made to reach Carpenter, but he could not be reached by The Star’s Thursday press deadline.
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