Things are getting serious in the Trinity Parkway/Tollroad battle: On Friday the 13th, Laura Miller sent a letter to Phillip Jones, president of the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau, immediately removing Angela Hunt from her position as vice chairman of the board. True, Miller as mayor has the right to make and remove city appointees as she in all of her wisdom sees fit. But as Hunt pointed out in a letter to Miller later Friday, Miller has now stooped to the same tactics that she accused then Mayor Ron Kirk of pulling when Kirk (according to Miller) reneged on plans to appoint her to a regional transportation commission after Miller and Kirk disagreed over the city’s role in what ultimately became the Victory development and American Airlines Center. I’m a member of the DCVB board myself, as an appointee of the Dallas Northeast Chamber of Commerce, and Hunt has played an active and supportive role on the board and in supporting the DCVB. And I just don’t see where it’s written that everyone has to agree on everything all of the time in order to work together for the common goal of improving this city. It’s unfortunate now that Miller has literally become exactly what she railed against all those years of writing for the Dallas Observer: She is nothing more than a political hack who seems more interested in her longterm political ambitions and keeping future donors happy than representing those of us who sent her to the city council in the first place.