Town Council Meeting

Last night was the last council meeting prior to the election. On the agenda was a vote to either accept the ordinance imposed by the petition or send it to a vote this November. Our friends and "good" neighbors from Oklahoma came in loaded for bear. WilliamsStone (Williams and Keystone, one in the same for our purposes) sent a mailer to all residents with a false statement regarding the intentions of the ordinance listed on the petition. They stated it was to place a moratorium on DRILLING, not what it was in reality a moratorium on issuing any type of building or rezoning for the Centralized Contained Facility or CCF. The petition wanted to have the town just wait to learn more info on the impact on such a facility on our entire community and the beginning of the industrializing of Flower Mound. Several of the opponents of the petition were there sporting stickers that were provided by WilliamStone was they entered.

They immediately claimed that those that signed the petition were miss informed, lied to, fear mongers, and overall just not nice people. That drilling was the American way and trotted out copies of the Constitution, told us to stop driving our cars, heating our houses and zoom right back to the stone-age. Us commie Marxist liberals wanted to take their rights away to drill for their minerals. Most was laughable.
The pro petition people were well armed also, stating facts, exposing lies, talking articulately on the issue and trying to beat through their heads they weren't against their ability to sell their minerals. Of course it didn't work.

Most of the PPP (pro petition people) were interrupted by hecklers in the audience or by the Mayor and her henchwoman Levenick for personal attacks. pounding away at the gavel.

I was there to read a statement prepared by Bjorn, that I will publish here, but I wasn't able to stay past the 3 hour mark and a lot of what Bjorn had written had been stated in one way or another by someone. Here it is:

Unfortunately I am unable to attend tonight’s Town Council meeting, but have asked Holly Berg to read my statement.



Another political campaign is coming to a close with less than a week to cast your vote.



When I got involved in local politics back in 2008 I was naive not knowing how much effort it would take to make a difference. Sometimes I even wondered if we as residents CAN make a difference.



Last year’s hot issue was the expansion of Morriss/Gerault. This year it is natural gas. What will next year bring on?



I am not going to preach what each and every one of you have promised to the residents of Flower Mound, but don’t forget we live here as well and I for one refuse to sit by while a slim majority of this council completely disregard the wishes of thousands of concerned residents.



As if that is not enough to I would like to read a paragraph from Mayor Smith’s re-election web site:



In any election you can expect a certain amount of mud slinging and negative press and this election has seen its fair share of detractors making statements about Mayor Smith that are distortions of facts or outright untruths to evoke fear for political gain. To her credit, Jody Smith is a conservative person who has chosen not to respond to gossip, rumor and innuendo that some may have heard or seen. Her intensely positive focus remains on running a campaign that is based in facts and highlights the experience and results gained as Mayor since 2004



It also state Progress, Integrity, Experience. While I am sure you have plenty of accomplishments to be proud of, your Integrity certainly need questioning.



While some of your supporters have blasted Al Filidoro and Melissa Northern I never envisioned you, as the current Mayor would to stoup to this level. At the News Connection debate you stated that you “selfishly” served this town. A simple miss statement. Do you see any TV commercials attacking you for this? You knew very well what Melissa Northern tried to say with regard to FM2499, but you still managed to twist the truth and mislead anyone not fully aware of what is going on in town. Way to go for a few votes.



You owe Melissa Northern as well as the residents of Flower Mound an apology.



What this town need is a Town Council with integrity and that is what Northern, Filidoro and Lyda will bring. And on behalf of the Stopp Morriss team I like to thank Tom Hayden and Al Filidoro for a great job so far.



Sincerely,



Bjorn Vandug



After many hours of public comments and some other issues, including Tom Hayden deferral of discussions of Phase 2 of Morriss Rd until after the election that was quickly accepted even by Steve Dixon (a real shock). They had discussions about the petition and decided they were not going to accept the will of 6000 registered voters that signed and defer it to a November election. Another shocker.

So a few hundred people left even more pissed off and supercharged for the last two days of voting.

By the way, the Mayor had her crack team of henchmen, lead by Councilman Mike Wallace's wife Amy, take down the giant signs at our dear friend and neighbor, Old man Hilliard's air field. I guess her guilt of be accused of being a liar finally got to her. She replaced them with an endorsement sign from our Oil Rich U.S. Congressman and fellow "good conservative" Dr. Michael Burgess. I guess WilliamStone got to him the same way they muscled "good conservative" ex-govenor of Arkansas and Presidential wannabee, Mike Huckabee. Those Oklahoma boys got a lot of loot to award Christmas Gooses to the whole damn Republican party to protect their "good conservatives" like our Mayor, the Teflon stewardess, Jody Smith.

For the record, Tom Hayden and Al Filidoro voted to accept the petition with no election.