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Gary Turner
Michael Davis
Judd Bradbury
Mary Hasan
Racism or Equalitarianism?
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05/01/05 It
really is a conspiracy.
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Some think I'm a paranoid aginner.
It's an appropriate description because I am scared to death of the
results of several truly evil things that have happened to property owners in
several DFW area cities -- all in the name of the "common good" or "economic
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Anonymouse:
Of course,it's a Park Cities
conspiracy.
Tom "Mad Max" Thomas won his
spurs with the PC powerful when he got their HP High teenagers off
"scot" free at a notorious Kaufman County beer bust some years back.
He's been a go-to guy ever since.
Look at the list of Strong Mayor
sponsors - it's a PC rogues gallery.
Vance & Friends bankrolled Laura's
campaign from the git go. Time to cash in. |
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I am more frightened of what will happen to Dallas if
the Blackwood proposal passes, and our serf status to the Park Cities gentry
becomes codified.
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From the beginning of this Blackwood mess, I called it a Park Cities coup d'etat.
When the following information was shared with me, I admit
to a great deal of satisfaction. Sometimes, a woman's intuition is a valid
reaction, and not just paranoia. |
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I
enjoyed Donna Blumer's column printed
last week in the Dallas
Morning News. However, there is one aspect of this that I have not seen
mentioned. That is, what
does Tom Max Thomas get out of all of this?
Tom burst upon the Dallas
scene in the early 70s. The up and coming attorney was into everything,
big in society and politics. Tom Max got into big trouble.
I'm thinking that he was involved in the Sharpstown scandal, but
it may have been something else.
In any case, he filed bankruptcy
and disappeared from view. Blackwood is at least his third wife. She
doesn't seem intelligent enough to me to come in out of the rain. It is
obvious that Tom Max is the author of the proposition.
I am trying to figure out what he
stands to gain from his behind the scenes work. Possibly City Attorney
which would be a drop in pay, but an opportunity for some nice
under-the-table loot.
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Since I don't personally know
the commentator responsible for the above juicy tidbit, it was helpful to get
this follow-up from a real smart man about town who knows everything and forgets
nothing.
You are correct that Tom Thomas
was implicated in the Sharpstown scandal, but
he did not get prosecuted, as I recall.
Over the years, I understand he
has done some legal work for both Vance Miller and Harold Simmons. I
have always believed Vance put him up to the Blackwood project in order
to benefit Laura Miller. I also believe
Vance recruited those who financed the project, not Laura or Blackwood.
You don't hear much about Tom in
legal circles anymore. Perhaps he's looking for an opportunity to
regain some of the attention and notoriety he's enjoyed before.
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Don't you just love it?
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We are about to be Shanghaied by a gang of Park Cities power brokers.
Vance Miller was a mover behind the bond package that is taking our
bond money to build him and his other elitists an opera house.
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It's not just our bond money
that's being diverted from infrastructure needs to build an opera house whose
doors most of us will never cross, but the cost of maintaining the Park Cities
entertainment center will likely be as much as we spend annually on the Meyerson ($3-4 million AFTER all revenue).
You notice the Park Cities Mafia don't want a performance hall built in the
Bubble. It's bad enough that commoners attend college at SMU, but just in
case some "regular guy" decides to attend a symphony concert or an opera in the
future, they want them to do it outside the Bubble. But, that's another
issue.
The issue at hand is the Strong-Arm Mayor
election this Saturday, and Our Mayor's increasingly frequent NO-SHOWS. I
got an e-mail that Our Mayor and Councilman Ed Oakley would be debating on
Martin Birnbach's Sunday afternoon show. Since I needed to be at the
office for awhile and KLIF is AM, I went to their website to listen. They
were promoting a debate between Kirk and Miller, former and current mayors.
Turned out some guy named Ross who has recently moved to Dallas (but he loves
"our city") stood in for Our Mayor against Councilman Oakley. To say he
spoke in platitudes would be the understatement of the campaign.
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Why at this stage of the campaign is Our Mayor skipping out on important and
semi-important debate events? |
It's easy to understand why she
stood up the crowd at Friendship West Baptist Church. She knew she would
be working a 98% hostile crowd, but she did commit to be on the panel.
Why did she agree in the first place? Was it for the same reason she
called Terrell Bolton an idiot in front of the press and a civic group? To
aggravate the African-American community and remind her North Dallas followers
how much the Blacks don't like her?
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Despite phone message, DA won't join strong-mayor fray
Saturday, April 30, 2005
by Dave Levinthal & Emily Ramshaw
The Dallas Morning News
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District Attorney Bill Hill
hasn't taken a side in Dallas' strong-mayor fight. But an automated phone
message to local residences is giving the impression that he has.
On the message, a woman's voice says,
"Bill Hill for district attorney." Then a man's voice comes on and asks
voters to defeat the May 7 strong-mayor ballot measure and repeats a quote
about a strong mayor being bad for crime prevention. The quote was taken
verbatim from the Dallas Police Association's anti-strong-mayor news
conference last month.
"Someone has
been disseminating a message under the guise of Bill Hill, and he doesn't
even live in Dallas ? he lives in University Park,"
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Dallas Mayor Laura Miller
withdrew from a debate at Friendship West Baptist Church on Thursday,
reportedly because her 9-year-old son had his final basketball game of the
season.
The more than 600 people who attended
the forum were disappointed. "That's what fathers are for," one resident
shouted.
Dallas lawyer Beth Ann Blackwood, who
conceived the strong-mayor ballot measure, said she took Ms. Miller's place.
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How many other debates has
Mayor Miller attended where at best there were a hundred or fewer suits?
I
attended at least one in the Park Cities. Still, 600 average citizens in
Dallas can't see their Mayor in person. That's just wrong!
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Then again, Our Mayor may be
distancing herself from Blackwood's sinking ship. |
I think our Mayor is reading
the tea leaves and knows the odds of Blackwood's campaign is doomed. She
should have never aligned herself with the Park Cities gang, but then there are
those in the legal community who think the whole thing was a misguided effort to
help Laura Miller.
What if it was a misguided effort to get the City Attorney's job for Tom Max
Thomas (Ms. Blackwood's hubby)? Wouldn't that be just great? We got
from a Council-Manager system to a Strong Mayor system with a City Attorney
who's a Sharpstown alum? If you're too young to remember Sharpstown, you
need to read this little primer:
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SHARPSTOWN STOCK-FRAUD SCANDAL.
Texas went through one of its
traditional and periodic governmental scandals in 1971-72, when federal
accusations and then a series of state charges were leveled against nearly
two dozen state officials and former state officials. ... |
So, here's my question to you?
Those of you who think something is better than nothing, how can you align
yourself with this conspiracy? Those of you who don't like the way things
are going in your neighborhoods, how can you expect to get better service once
only Park Cities residents are the only people with influence at City Hall under
a Strong Mayor system?
One neighbor who has decided he's pro-Blackwood thinks we will have better
police protection under a Strong Mayor system when the Mayor can fire the Chief
of Police. I happen to love our Chief of Police, but so does the Mayor --
at least that's what she says. How can a Strong Mayor system get more men
and women to apply for a job with our Police Department? Particularly when
Our Mayor thinks our police and firefighters get paid enough right now -- even
though Grand Prairie pays their cops more?
It was ironic in the DMN story above about the fake Bill Hill endorsement that
his office would say
"Someone has been disseminating a message under the
guise of Bill Hill, and he doesn't even live in Dallas ? he lives in University
Park," ...
Is that hysterical? This entire Blackwood scam has been a Park Cities
movement, right down to having Wick Allison schilling for them. He lives
in the Park Cities, too.
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When it's all said and done, Dallas residents
will reject the opportunity to become bonded servants to the landed gentry
of the Park Cities. |
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