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Breaking NewsThe state publicly admonished Metzger for "casting public discredit on the judiciary by removing political candidate Jim Phaup’s campaign sign."10:31 AM CST December 3, 2020The video above is from the original February 2018 story.&nbsp;The State Commission on Judicial Conduct admonished former Dallas County Justice of the Peace Bill Metzger last month for trying to secretly remove a campaign sign of a political opponent two years ago.The incident was the focus of .In the 2018 video, recorded at 2:52 a.m., a man wearing a hoodie walked up and cut zip ties holding a campaign sign for Jim Phaup to two metal stakes.The sign was positioned, with permission of the property owner, on an empty lot next to Metzger’s home.Credit: WFAAPhaup, then Sunnyvale’s Mayor, was running for Texas House District 113. Metzger supported Phaup’s opponent.At the time, Metzger denied to WFAA that he removed the Phaup’s sign.“It doesn't look like… I can't tell to be honest,” Metzger told WFAA in 2018. When pressed, at the time, that he would know if he did it, Metzger said: “I haven't knocked it down. I have taken signs down prior that were placed illegally.”The State Commission on Judicial Conduct investigated after the WFAA story and recently got more out of Metzger.In October, Metzger initially told the commission that he was “’unable to be sure’ if he was the person shown in the video improperly removing the sign, and also expressed his opinion that he did not feel this incident cast public discredit upon the judiciary.”But the state commission said that Metzger finally confessed.Credit: Taylor Lumsden“During an appearance before the Commission, Judge Metzger indicated for the first time, that while it was him on video, he did not ‘improperly’ remove the sign from his neighbor’s property, but rather, properly removed the sign from his own property,” according to the .But the state commission concluded that Metzger did “improperly” remove Phaup’s campaign signs and said that “Metzger’s testimony that the sign was placed in close proximity to, or inside the property line of his own property, was not credible.”The state publicly admonished Metzger for “casting public discredit on the judiciary by removing political candidate Jim Phaup’s campaign sign on the judge’s neighbor’s property."Metzger, a Republican Justice of the Peace for Precinct 2, Place 2 in Mesquite, lost the position after handily defeated him later that same year.“We believe the strongly-worded admonishment of former Judge Bill Metzger from the State Commission on Judicial Conduct closes this matter with emphatic clarity and leaves no doubt about the severity of his actions as determined by the independent members of the commission," said Brian Mayes, Phaup’s campaign spokesman.&nbsp;Mayes said he hopes the admonishment shows political candidates that "respectful disagreement" is better than "rash antics."&nbsp;Notifications can be turned off anytime in the browser settings.No ThanksAllow

Breaking NewsThe state publicly admonished Metzger for "casting public discredit on the judiciary by removing political candidate Jim Phaup’s campaign sign."10:31 AM CST December 3, 2020The video above is from the original February 2018 story.&nbsp;The State Commission on Judicial Conduct admonished former Dallas County Justice of the Peace Bill Metzger last month for trying to secretly remove a campaign sign of a political opponent two years ago.The incident was the focus of .In the 2018 video, recorded at 2:52 a.m., a man wearing a hoodie walked up and cut zip ties holding a campaign sign...

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