05/28/05  Fantroy is the clear choice for District 8.

As a young Black male who survived the streets, went to college and became a productive citizen, I realize we have enemies in our community like Al Lipscomb who seek to undermine positive change and progress.  They look like me, act like me and talk like me, but they are scoundrels who talk hope while peddling death and destruction in various forms, selling out our community out at every turn for cash in the hand.  People outside the community have no idea how hard it is to succeed under such circumstances.  Not only do we have to deal with outside forces, we have people like Old Al Lipscomb who will sell us up the river for a cheap price the first chance he gets.

In every city, there is an Al Lipscomb, a guy who loves to keep his district or area poor so he can ?champion? their causes.  He sells them a pipe dream while enriching his own pockets at their expense.

A guy like Al Lipscomb usually has high name recognition and does very little to affect change in the area which he represents.

Lipscomb still has no strategy for improving District 8 or Dallas as a whole, and he never will. 

According to The Dallas Morning News, he thinks he ?Stands against the establishment and for the downtrodden.? How so?

Old Al says he can ?connect the dots?.  Huh?  So can we.

Old Al claims he ?understands what the district needs.?  What is that?  Jobs, lower crime, economic development, new affordable housing stock? Where has Old Al been?  Fantroy is delivering economic development and new affordable housing stock. 

Has Old Al seen that since he got booted from office, there has been over $1 Billion dollars in economic development?  And, that?s only what is completed.  Many new projects are on the way.

Even in the Managed News article, the majority of Old Al?s listed accomplishments were in the 1970s?  That was 30 years ago.  They left out some of his key accomplishments:

• Convictions for selling heroin.
   
• Pimping young girls in California.
   
• Selling out the cab drivers of Dallas for a few thousand bucks.
   
• Convictions for Bribery.
   
• Increases in Pawnshops, Hot-Sheet Motels, Truck Stops and Liquor Stores  (all of which are magnets for drug dealing, prostitution, aggravated assaults and murder).
   
• Allowing the Bachman Lake/Northwest Highway prostitution trade to flourish.

 Old Al needs to connect THOSE dots!

I?m surprised Al LIpscomb doesn?t have a campaign contribution from the Dallas Society of Pimps, Prostitutes and Drug Dealers for their increase in revenue streams while he was in office.

Laura Miller was with Fantroy at a recent groundbreaking.  SO WHAT?   Why wouldn?t Fantroy be present at a major future job creator for his district?  Why wouldn?t the Mayor be there? 

The only reason Old Al?s cronies and hired lackeys would even mention such an event is because they never done anything that would require a groundbreaking.   (That?s the sound of me using the fingers on one hand to add up their collective business IQ.)

Old Al is one of the main reasons that the District 8 community was in such a dismal state before the development started.  Has he been associated with any progress in the last 10 or 20 years? 

If it were in his heart to help the community, he would do it regardless of whether or not he was in office.  It?s no coincidence that once he was booted from office, District 8 started to see progress.

If you put a silk hat on a pig, IT?S STILL A PIG.  Under his silk hat, I?m sure that Old Al has under-the-table money from shady Dallas people who hate Fantroy because they can?t buy their way into the system.   I can?t even believe that this race is a runoff.

I?m still waiting to hear what plans Old Al has for District 8 other than bleeding it dry for his personal gain.  Or maybe that comes after he gets his campaign contribution from the Smoke and Mirrors Foundation. 

Don?t be fooled!