As I drive to work every morning heading south on Morriss to the Airport, I can't help but get a little sad when I see them digging up the median on Gerault. It makes me start to think about last year when we spent endless nights at town hall and walking streets talking to people, standing on corners holding signs and trying to get the word out to everyone who would listen. I think about if we had only knocked on 30 more doors or sent out 30 more flyer's or got 30 more hits on the Blog, Steve Lyda would be celebrating a year on council instead of working so hard to get elected. I think about how when we first met Tom Hayden and he came to one of our meetings to hear what we were talking about and he was convinced we were just trying to get the message out to the town to do the right thing and not the thing that was prescribed in a document from 1978.
If we would have worked harder, last year we wouldn't have to be working so hard again this year to get the people elected that have the best interests of Flower Mound people like you and me and not faceless developers looking for big pay days.
Six years ago, I lost interest in Flower Mound politics when I heard a woman that had the developers best interests in mind and they ran out of town a hard working Mayor and council that wanted to be smart when they built. Gone was the scrutiny, gone was the humility, gone were the guts to fight for residents. We ushered in the Jody Smith era of this towns dirty little history of slimy politics. Its culminated now with Smith contributing large sums of money to her "running mates" just as she did last year. She has bought loyalty of her council members for paltry sums, but just enough for the Dixon's and Wallace's and Tasker's and Webb's and Stones and Robinson's and Levinick's to cow tow to her mantra and only reinforce her narcissistic neurosis.
One thing I am not sad about, is the fact that she is headed for defeat and she knows it. This town has finally woke up and will no longer bend to her whims and royalty like behaviors. No longer will she hide behind her "good conservative" "good christian" jingoism's and be revealed as a hypocrite.
If I am wrong and she somehow slithers back into office, I will be more that sorta sad or sorta mad.
I will probably just move.
Keep me as a neighbor, Elect Northern, Filidoro and Lyda.
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It is truly unbelievable what Mayor Smith is doing, lying, twisting words and yet she is saying that she is honest, etc. Give me a break. If she like the OK developers so much, then go live there and live our Town alone. Thanks Mayor Smith for once again listening to the concerns of the residents. We know whose side your on. So how much money are you getting out of this? Tell the truth, since you are running an "honest" campaign.... VOTE NFL tomorrow!!!! Let's take our town back.
ReplyDeleteDear Kim and Bjorn:
ReplyDeleteDon't be sad. Had it not been for your work most of us would have been in total darkness! and besides we have a very fine man on council: Mr Tom Hayden!!!! Mainly thanks to you. Mr Filidoro has been wonderful and hopefully we will have a new council..It is a shame that a Town that had such vision of quality of life will soon become an industrial zone of the metroplex. I am so proud of Renee Doyle she is still out there and at every chance she is in front of the council defending Morriss. I can't thank you enough. I wish to thank all the people who have contributed to the awareness of the excessive proliferation of the wells and the menace that they are. Even if you do not believe in the environmental consequences, the water usage is fenomenal in an area where we just now got out of drought, the drilling will fragilize this clay and "mobile" soil thus affecting foundations and no one will want to live in the middle of a gas field so property values will go down. Sign of the times: It is no longer achievements or decency that are crowned, it is who you know and pay off... The Country was not built upon that principle but what was once a check and balances system is now perverted leading to our decline. Be proud not sad. You all have stood up for your rights and set a model. You have all done what you felt was right not for yourselves but for all. That was unfortunately the American way...
My sincerest gratitude to all of you!!
Sincerely and respectfully,
Isabel Feldman