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David Tuthill
Michael Davis
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5/1/7 How dare Mayor
Miller try to thwart citizens' basic right to petition their government?
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Angela Hunt has Our Downtown Betters (the ODB) really rattled.
Why else would they spend a fortune mailing a campaign piece citywide to
warn voters against signing the TrinityVote petitions? These days
when the ODB are upset it's not just Con Jerk/Ron Kirk who takes to the
radio to try to control the unwashed masses. Now, the ODB has
their former nemesis, Laura Miller, out there lying to the public.
She has no idea how foolish and dishonest she looks. She no longer
has a base to rally because we don't trust her anymore, and her new
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got home Monday night, did you have a copy of Mayor Miller's flyer,
mailed under the return address of The Trinity Commons Foundation,
presumably at the 501(c)(3)'s expense? |
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5/1 Stan Aten:
I wonder if the IRS would be interested in this flyer and their
tax exempt status? |
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This is not an issue flyer.
It is an appeal to voters, and that makes it a political advertisement, but
there is no disclaimer:
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VOTER ALERT:
Beware of Petitioners at Polling Locations! |
It is a political advertisement
paid for by a tax exempt organization that is forbidden by law to play in
politics.
Do you know what would have
happened if the Mayor of Farmers Branch and some old has beens had tried to
interfere with the petition collectors who were trying to get a referendum on
Farmers Branch's illegal immigrant ordinance? The Justice Department would
be all over them in a heart beat. I office just north of LBJ, right on the
Farmers Branch line, While they were collecting signatures, I was hit up
outside a drug store by a well dressed young Black guy and a young blonde woman
to sign their petition "to support the ordinance". I asked to see the
petition's verbiage. I asked again if the petition was to support the
ordinance as they said. Oh, yes. -- I then laughed, told them they
were lying and that I lived in Dallas. Even if they were paid to stand out
there and lie to people to get them to sign their petition, they had a right to
be there and doing what they were doing.
I cannot believe Mayor Miller has teamed up with Con Jerk and Donna Halstead to
interfere with a citizen effort. I can believe Con Jerk and Halstead would
be trying to silence public voices, but Laura Miller?
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Have you ever heard of such
desperation? There's no guarantee TrintyVote will get the required
50-55,000 signatures, but it's very possible.
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The ODB and
Mayor Miller know the TrinityVote folks have a lot of support behind them -
citywide. The ODB and Mayor Miller tipped their hand as to their
worry with this expensive mailer. They know it's very likely the TrinityVote
folks will get the required signatures and then some. They wasted a bunch
of money on their flyer, but wasting money is what the ODB does best. |
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In the first place, voters did not approve the current plan. The Trinity
Project was to be a river park with a parkway/boulevard along side. It was
not to be a traffic reliever for I-35. That's not what we voted for or
against in 1998.
The Trinity Commons Foundation, Laura Miller and Ron Kirk know what the voters
want, and it's not a toll road and a multi-billion dollar redo of a sewer
trough. They know the voters DO NOT WANT the Trinity Development Project
at all. That's why they are trying to interfere with the petition effort. |
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5/1/ James Northrup:
Note that there will be no totally secure way to pump storm
water run-off out of the Toll Trough (To where ? )
So, every time there is a hard
rain, the Toll Trough will have to be closed by the Corps as a
precautionary measure. A flooded
section could trap motorists - as could any wreck in any rain storm
- and set up a catastrophe.
The
Corp will make sure that the Toll Trough fills long before the
levees are threatened.
All the
other planned, funded projects are proceeding without the Toll
Trough.
The referendum will put
all that into perspective.
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Why are they calling the Trinity Tollroad the "Trinity Parkway"? It's a
fast toll road, not a parkway. The traffic reliever should be down
Industrial Blvd., not down the Trinity River bottoms.
Mayor Miller and her allies know the voters very likely want to "kill the whole
development project", and a lot of developers, architects and realtors are in a
state of panic at the notion their cookie jar may be taken from them.
Taxpayers don't like the current Trinity Project configuration or the ballooned
costs -- even if Mayor Miller is so proud of it.
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Mayor Miller and Angela HuntErunt
into the studio to debate the Trinity River prject.
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Did you hear the debate on KRLD between Laura Miller and Angela
Hunt?
If the link doesn't work, go to
www.KRLD.com. Laura Miller was so patronizing.
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The host did a good job of
staying out of the way and letting the two women make their case. Still,
Laura Miller sounded like she was tattling on Angela Hunt. She kept
talking about how Angela should be using her energy toward a more positive
position. I am not kidding! Laura said everyone on the council had
tried to reason with Angela, but she just would not listen to people who were so
much smarter than Angela, like Laura Miller and Ron Kirk.
It was surreal to hear Mayor Miller continually referring to Ron Kirk for
affirmation of her side. Ron Kirk is yesterday's news. His only
influence in this town is with the ODB.
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The TrinityVote people outnumbered Mayor Miller's gang at her press conference
announcing the "Sink the Petition/Save the Trinity" effort. Very
telling. Angela and the TrinityVote people could not have bought the
attention that the Trinity Commons Foundation and Mayor Miller gave them with
this ridiculous flyer and that bizarre press conference with Mayor Miller
surrounded by people who despise her. Talk about leaving your rear flank
exposed. |
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| Why don't you volunteer as a signature collector for TrinityVote? As soon
as the May 12 election is behind us, I'm going to do just that myself. |
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5/1
James Northrup:
Mailing a flyer to tell someone to "beware" of a petition is
a great advertisement for the petition. Where
do I sign?
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