Rick’s post below covers many of the most important points in the Trinity mailing yesterday, so let me just add a copy of the piece and a few thoughts of my own. The mailing is offensive, but equally as disappointing: People who should know better, who have fought the good fight to protect the neighborhoods in the past, are part of this effort to deny us our constitutional right to petition. I feel sorry for them.
So why don’t Dallas’ political and business elite want us to vote? The answer, to paraphrase Hal Holbrook in All the President’s Men, is to follow the money. And the money, I’m guessing, comes from groups who see a chance to make a lot more of it if and when the toll road is built. Why can’t the toll road be moved to Industrial Boulevard? Hmmm. Couldn’t be because the same people who tell us that it can’t be done want to redevelop Industrial after the toll road is built?
Several times during her tenure as mayor, Laura Miller faced petitions to recall her. No one ever spent any money trying to beat them down. Yet, now, with Miller’s term almost up, big money is being spent to stop the Trinity recall petition. That fact speaks volumes all by itself. And it’s a very good reason why everyone, whatever they think of the project, should sign the petition. This is the United States of America. What is so horribly wrong with voting?
