The ultra-gorgeous Kimberly Lankford is resigning, according to today's Dallas Morning News. She was elected several years ago after Vic Buchanon lost his mayoral race to now-Mayor Joe Tillotson. She represents the heavily black District 6 area. I covered Lancaster for eight months for Focus Daily News and loved every minute of it. Even met one of the most honest lawyers anywhere (Thomas Allen), and really fell in love with pissing politicians off via the paper. But it was covering Buchanon and his council colleague at the time, Tim Speaks, that really propelled my interest in doing political reporting.
Anyway, Lankford was the more moderate of the District 6 electorate, though she was a hand-picked successor to Buchanon. Though he's a Democrat, Lancaster needs Vic back. There's a special election in November - oddly enough, Lancaster's next-door neighbor, Red Oak, has a mayoral election then as well to fill the unexpired term of the recently-resigned Ron Bryce.
Speaking of Red Oak-Lancaster...
Red Oak just hired Lancaster's city attorney, Bob Hagar. I don't really know too much about Hagar other than his representing Ferris and teaching me what "objecting to the consideration" of a question was. During a Lancaster meeting one night, then-Councilman Steve Sanderfer threw out one of those parliamentary moves and silenced the entire council chambers. After about 10 minutes of people figuring out what the heck just happened, I made a vow to study Robert's Rules (the original Robert, not Hagar). I'd highly recommend the "objection to the consideration" move to any anti-consensus councilman or elected leader. They're rare. But effective.
Speaking of Consensus...
A good friend from Midlothian recently brought up something to think about and blog about: consensus. The worship of this go-along-to-get-along mentality is so prevalent in today's politically correct, sissified-man leadership. I'm talking about the go-along-to-get-along type of decisions that representatives from city council to Austin to Washington make - the ones that benefit no one. Consensus is the absence of leadership, of what this county lacks. I had been reading a lot of Margaret Thatcher when this friend posed the issue to me to blog about. It was the spark.
Want to know why we in this county are not moving forward? Because of girly-men who would rather get politically sodomized than stand up for what their constituents want; they'd rather take a bribe than speak out. Or, if they're anything like the Waxahachie City Council's lawyers -- the ones sitting on the council -- they'd say and ask absolutely nothing about recent issues with Mid-Way Regional Airport.
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girly-men who would rather get politically sodomized
You. have. been. spending. way. too. much. time. with Trevino!!!
Red Oak hire Robert Hager as their new City Attorney? Aren't Red Oak and Palmer still involved in litigation? How can Hager's law firm serve as legal counsel to both Red Oak and Palmer? Hager's partner, Larry Jackson, is City Attorney for Palmer. Doesn't this violate legal ethics??? Joey - you should contact one or both of these cities and get an explanation.
Why is it you always have to refer to women's looks constantly. You are a repressed sexual pervert aren't you. Perhaps Trevino is your guiding light and hero deep down inside. Maybe you wished Trevino had let you stay at his house instead.
The question of recusal in the Ferris issue was raised by the council already. Get yourself a copy of the audio minutes and hear the explanation by Mr. Hagar in his own words. It's about damn time we had an attorney that WOULD, COULD and DID make a decision without "having to get back to the council" about something.
A nice change IMHO.
Anonymous #4, I am really curious about the response from Hager on recusal. Can you summarize the response that Hager gave the RO City Council? Thanks in advance.
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