Trinity Treachery

Just when you think there's a bottom to the slime bucket, new information surfaces exposing how truly evil are some powerful people in this town and the flunkies they send out to do their dirty work -- like Ron Kirk and everyone associated with The Dallas Plan.

In her speech after her swearing-in, our Mayor said we must find a way to buy out the residents of Cadillac Heights. Her supporters in the audience went wild. Most of the council members sat expressionless. You can imagine the expressions city wide on the faces of the ODB and their Trinity Project henchmen like Bill and Mary Cerverha and Ron Kirk.

Our Downtown Betters (the ODB) could care less about the fate of poor Blacks and Hispanics who live in Cadillac Heights. The ODB care about that land -- not the people living there. People die -- land lives on for future ODB enrichment. As the first "Black Mayor", Ron Kirk shamelessly used the residents of Cadillac Heights to deliver the Trinity River Project for the ODB. He called the Project "racial reparations". Instead, the Trinity Project is more racial exploitation.

Several non-profit civic groups in town are being pressured to write letters in support of the Trinity River Project and in OPPOSITION TO A CADILLAC HEIGHTS BUYOUT. For many of these groups, it doesn't take much pressure because their boards are packed with ODB flunkies.

Without naming the group, here's verbiage from one such letter:

The time has come to take that forward step; to follow through on a project that has been on the drawing board for over 20 years and was approved by the voters three years ago, and to make the under-used asset a real focal point for our community.

As you are well aware, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is prepared to begin construction of the first phase of the Dallas Floodway Extension project, a vital part of the overall Trinity River Plan, which includes a chain of wetlands and new levees to protect Cadillac Heights and South Lamar Street. Now, there are voices once again calling for replacing part of that plan with a "buyout" of the Cadillac Heights and abandonment of the levee protection for that area. There is no doubt abut the facts surrounding this approach. The Corps has made it clear that the federal government will not participate in a buyout and that any change in the currently-approved project will likely cause many more years of delay and risk further loss of federal financial support. what's more, it would continue to delay the changes necessary to protect much of the central core of Dallas from a potentially catastrophic flood.

The attention to Cadillac Heights puzzled me because I doubt most of the Board members of that particular civic group could find Cadillac Heights with a map.

Stan Aten:
At first, I thought the idea of anyone building office space in Cadillac Heights to be nuts.   However, there is a federal program that is used to pay for cleaning up polluted land to make it usable for business -- "Brown fields" program.   Is this how the neighborhood will be cleaned up for office development?   I still don't know why anyone would want to work next to a sewage treatment plant but that is another story.
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Jack McAuliffe:
You want us to support an immediate 17% raise for the Mississippi Moron? Yeah, right!
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Leroy Brooks:
I appreciate your thoughts on Ron Kirk. He doesn't deserve to be a US Senator. At least with Victor Morales, you know what you're getting, and I like what I see. His website is www.victormorales.net
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Gary Turner:
A quick note on those traveling City Council members. If they feel as though they must attend these 'expo's', especially in Hawaii, to find new ideas to help better Dallas. They need to resign their seats, and let someone qualified take over. Someone who knows what needs to be done, and how to accomplish the job. Obviously, they don't get it, and should get the boot in the next election.
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Linda C:
Enjoyed The Dallas Observer article! Jim Schutze did a good job of explaining the Cadillac Heights situation to people who haven't been paying attention.
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James H:
I love it! edifying, enlightening! Can you say something positive for the school teacher? Hope he beats Con Jerk...
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Paul P:
     Victor Morales is an idiot. This guy can't buy a clue. As disgusting as Con Jerk is, at least he has a semblance of a brain. We cannot allow this moron to represent Texas in the US Senate.
      My advice would be to allow the Democratic runoff election to play itself out and vote Independent, Green, or Republican.
     My dog would be a better choice than Morales.

There are several "new" people on the Board who were not even members of the organization last year, but they were and are card-carrying ODB flunkies. One longtime board member has promoted the Trinity Project for years, but of late the Board has been evenly split between proponents and opponents. That same board member was always more interested in the channeling of the river and the tollroads inside the levees, not Cadillac Heights.

Until I saw the text of the letter, I assumed this whole project was about getting a toll road to relieve Stemmons. Now, it is clear the real urgency behind creating the exclusive "Trinity Commons" group and disbanding the citizens group working on the Trinity Project was the ODB's plans for Cadillac Heights. Their plans do not include rundown houses filled with poor Blacks and Hispanics.

In the 3/13/02 edition of The Dallas Observer, Jim Schutze has a provocative report on what he learned in a meeting with Mayor Miller and the Trinity Project propagandists:

Miller Behind Closed Doors She's cooler and more collected than the harpy you saw in those Dunning ads BY JIM SCHUTZE

. . . I saw Miller's eyes go large when Mary Suhm, the chief assistant city manager, mentioned casually that a private planning group, "The Dallas Plan," is developing a concept by which the neighborhood of Cadillac Heights could be transformed into an office park. A couple of days later after some wrangling, I persuaded The Dallas Plan to show me its renderings.

Sure enough, lo and behold, there it was: a tidy drawing of Cadillac Heights without any houses in it, converted completely to someone's office park development.

You will remember that this is how Dallas "saved" the old traditional African-American entertainment district of Short North Dallas, now called "Uptown." By erasing it. There's your racial justice, Ron Kirk-style. In order to save these minority neighborhoods we have to redevelop them back into the Stone Age.

It looks like the ODB and their shill, The Dallas Plan, are using the people who live in Cadillac Heights to hold the area for future development. They are playing the race card to exploit some of the poorest minority families in Dallas. Talk about cynical!

Read Schutze's entire report to get the whole picture, but something evil is afoot with the Trinity Project with Ron Kirk at the heart of it.

The group's letter cited above uses the off-repeated lie that the Trinity Project "has been on the drawing board for over 20 years and was approved by the voters three years ago". The current Trinity Project is nothing like what came from community groups before or after the 1998 election sham.   In 1998, voters were presented a chain of lakes with sailboats floating in sight of Downtown. Dallas voters did vote on something related to the Trinity River, but not what the Corps Engineers is pushing now -- not what The Dallas Plan is pushing now.

Knowing what we do about mail-in ballot scams and other voting irregularities in recent Dallas elections, we can't even be sure the Trinity Project was approved by Dallas voters, but that's another story.

The Belo family has a big financial investment in land along the Trinity River. Belo is the primary funding source for The Dallas Plan. The Director of the The Dallas Plan has got herself on the board of several influential "civic" groups in town. Beginning to see a pattern?

Among about a million things related to the Trinity Project scam that just tick me off, what annoys me most right now is my missing the Cadillac Heights land deal. It has always been obvious the Trinity Project was never about flood control. It has been just as obvious that it was about roads and toll roads. It did puzzle me why the proponents are so determined to get this thing done, particularly when all new information indicates the current plans will actually cause more flooding and devastation, not prevent it.

Have you ever looked at a situation and instinctively knew you were missing something, something important? Sort of like those "Where's Waldo?" messes? The group's letter and Schutze's report brought the picture into focus for me. It's a land deal.

The ODB have found another way to make Dallas Taxpayers subsidize a project that will only benefit some billionaires.

The Trinity River Project is much worse than the arena deal, which was just a "Bad Deal". What is being done to Cadillac Heights residents is an "Evil Deal". It's just simply evil. No other word for it! Evil is being done to the very victims who are being used as the excuse for doing this Evil Deal!

Now, do you understand why the ODB got behind Ron Kirk?

Con Jerk was perfect to get this Evil Deal done by shamelessly playing the race card. Nobody does race baiting better than Ron Kirk. Can you imagine Ron Kirk actually sitting down to a meal in one of the homes of Cadillac Heights? Not a chance! He knows how polluted that land is where he wants to imprison those people behind a levee until Belo, et al are ready to build their office complex.

If you plan to vote for Ron Kirk in the Democrat's Senate runoff knowing his part in this Evil Deal, please stop reading DallasArena.com. If you would vote for Ron Kirk for anything, you cannot possibly care about good government or honesty or fair play.  If you would vote for Ron Kirk for anything, you cannot possibly care about environmental issues. If you would vote for Ron Kirk -- you just don't care about anything and are wasting your time on this web site.

Ron Kirk plays the race card and the political card so he can carry water for Belo and the rest of the ODB. Vote for him and you aid and abet evil doers, which makes you an evil doer and part of the Evil Deal being done to the residents of Cadillac Heights.

This is not a matter where there are two sides to the issue. This is a clear case of right and wrong, and Ron Kirk is on the wrong side. If you are with him, you are, too.

Anything less than a buyout of the residents of Cadillac Heights is wrong. We let industries destroy their neighborhood. The diminution of the value of their homes was caused by ODB decisions. The proposed Cadillac Height levee will only ensure flooding elsewhere, and that is certainly wrong.

Mayor Miller is right in her determination to find a way to buy those victims out of the hell hole that is Cadillac Heights.

What are YOU going to do about it?