“The Fort Worth Report has recently examined council travel expenses, finding Fort Worth City Council members spent more than $167,000 on taxpayer-funded travel in less than two years.”
Less “municipal conventions” in Vegas for Cuck Crain, and maybe we can unfreeze 2-3 jobs, no?
More stuff here:
This is from the Texas Monthly article on EJ Carrion, linked a few other times in this sub:
“His jailing is the latest in an ongoing and intensifying series of battles between activists and the leadership of Tarrant County, a swing county that has long been seen as a bellwether for Texas politics. Though governed for decades by a moderate, business-oriented Republican coalition, Tarrant has purpled in recent years. At the same time, a far-right coalition has turned the local government into an incubator for policies that are often exported statewide, and leaders have used their positions to consolidate power over the 2.2-million-person county. Neither O’Hare nor Ramirez responded to interview requests for this story.
Since O’Hare’s 2022 election as county judge, who oversees the local government, he and other Republican leaders have cut funding to programs aimed at bolstering low-income and minority voter turnout. After Joe Biden narrowly won Tarrant County in 2020, they pushed for an investigation, based on no evidence, into voting fraud, which led to the resignation of the county’s well-respected elections administrator. They have cut or sought to cut the number of local polling places—many of them serving Democratic-leaning voters such as college students or Black residents. Last year, months before the Texas Legislature redrew its congressional map at the behest of President Donald Trump, Republicans on the Tarrant County Commissioners Court pushed through a local redistricting plan that all but ensured they would maintain control of the body and weakened the voting influence of nonwhite residents. Meanwhile, several critics, including a Baptist pastor, have been removed or suspended from commissioners court meetings. Last year a man was charged for defying O’Hare’s warnings that audience members not clap. (The charge was later dismissed.)”
Realize many men cheat -- it's a badge of honor in west Fort Worth, honestly -- so this feels "hollow" to some. I guess the question would become, well... how does one tie "conservative" and "family values" to all this, right? Especially as you attack James T. that way.
Most of Tarrant is clueless morons that just chase the R and three kids. Get it. But ... consider something different?
Will this guy save or fix anything? Probably not -- but do think he would represent something different, and this idea that as a state, we don't just go for Paxton because Trump said so and he has a "R." Paxton was impeached by his own party a little over three years ago. This guy here ain't a savior, but I do think we can do better than Paxton. Right?
I know plenty of white kids in public school that can barely read in 1st-2nd grade. Some of their dads are pretty affluent, too. A few years ago at church, a 8 year-old girl did a Scripture reading, pretty sure she went to FWCD, and she missed about every other word. I don't think "who can read" is the main case for "denaturalize and deport," personally. Happy to be wrong.