Clyde's Two Cents
A river runs through it. - June 30,2007There's an 800 acre plot of land downtown across the Main Street bridge where our our city leaders want to prevent a disastrous flood and reconnect us peons with our river. A noble gesture indeed. There are a couple of problems that bother me and a few others and that's the price and the necessity.
Now there is flooding just about everywhere in Texas, including a lot in Fort Worth, but son-of-a-gun, that 800 acres is all above water. A lot of folks from these parts might think we are in a genuine Noah's Ark flood but if they take there animals to that 800 acres across the Main Street bridge, they'll be safe from Mother Nature.
But those city leaders want to stop the flooding anyway, and are ready to spend one half billion (and actually plenty more) of our tax dollars to do it. They say they want us to connect to the river but what they really want is to connect to our money. SO! We got ourselves a petition. Yep, we've got ourselves a petition, right here in river city.
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Where's the beef? - June 30, 2007Back in May, a few days before the election, Jungus Jordan's campaign consultant, Bryan Eppstein, with howls of outrage and indignation claimed that I had violated the state ethics code by accepting a campaign donation from one of Fort Worth's leading citizens that was funneled through a third party. As reported in the Star-Telegram (5/09/2007) with plenty of fanfare to help the Jordan campaign, Eppstein claimed that "This is criminal, and it makes the whole process stink."
Who would know stink better than Eppstein? He's the one who contrived a phony issue to make campaign points in the closing days of the election. There's no beef in the charge and he knows it. His toady client, Jordan, said he planned to consult a lawyer and file a complaint with the DA's office in the next couple of days. "I can't stand by as a public servant and let the law be violated," he said.
Well, DO IT! Where are your cajones, boy? Get on down there and file a complaint. I, for one, would crave the publicity that would come from vindication of such a slimy charge.
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