From TRWD Board Director Mary Kelleher, on Facebook---
"Headed to TRWD Board meeting. Please pray for the Board to do what's right for the people!!"
To which one of Mary's many friends said---
"Mary, I don't think prayer is going to help. An election? Maybe."
Then another of Mary's friends said---
"Mary is hammering them this morning. What Jim Oliver hired his sister in law? Man Jim didn't want to answer that question. Little defensive. Go Mary Go!"
Nepotism associated with the TRWD? I am as shocked as that cop was in Casablanca when he learned gambling took place at Rick's.
And then via text messages on my phone I learned some of what J.D. Granger was telling the TRWD Board.
(That is J.D. Granger in the photo above, used for illustrative purposes, with the photo taken at another meeting attended by Mr. Granger)
The two text message tidbits of interest are that J.D. Granger told the TRWD Board that "140,000 people had attended 39 Trinity River Vision Boondoggle Events."
And that "We are the envy of other cities."
140,000 people attended 39 events? That is almost 6,000 people per event. Anyone out there see that many people at any of the Boondoggle's events? Anyone see that many people ever floating at one of the Boondoggle's Rockin' the River Happy Hour Inner Tube Floats?
Did anyone at the TRWD Board meeting ask Mr. Granger by what mechanism the Trinity River Vision Boondoggle's vision had evolved into hosting music events, beer parties, inner tube floats and other goofy stuff which seems to have little to do with controlling floods?
"We are the envy of other cities?"
I thought we had retired this embarrassing "envy of" verbiage being associated with anything to do with Fort Worth due to the absolute ludicrousness of saying such a thing.
You in other towns, Haltom City, Richland Hills, Keller, Arlington, Hurst, Bedford, is there anything about Fort Worth that you envy?
Okay, those are Fort Worth suburbs, or surrounding towns.
If towns which see Fort Worth up close can see nothing to envy, how about other towns?
Dallas? Envy anything about Fort Worth? Jealous of the Fort Worth version of the Trinity River Vision Boondoggle?
Oklahoma City? Envy anything about Fort Worth?
Houston? Envy Fort Worth? Austin? San Antonio?
Chicago? New York City? New Orleans? Miami? Los Angeles? Portland? San Francisco? Seattle? Denver? Boston? Philadelphia? Phoenix? Atlanta?
Or even Albuquerque?
Do any of you in big cities in other states envy anything about Fort Worth? Do any of you reading this in other states even know anything about Fort Worth? Other than the town is in Texas and near Dallas?
What is wrong with people in Fort Worth, like J.D. Granger, that they say things like "Fort Worth is the envy of other cities"? This seems so bizarre to me. Who is being fooled by this type propaganda? And what is the point of spewing this type nonsense?
It is all very perplexing. As is the nepotism which hired J.D. Granger.....
Look at Fort Worth's growth over the last 12 years. Now look at where NCTCOG projects DFW's greatest growth to occur over the next 10 years.....Fort Worth (west and northwest to be more exact). The City of Fort Worth continues to grow and it has indeed been the envy of other City's regarding the rate of growth and the quality of developments that are being built and that are being planned. There are over 10,000 acres of land being planned for development in Fort Worth. A breath of new life continues to be breathed into our Downtown and inner city areas (Sundance plaza, Near South, Linwood, West 7th, Six Points, etc) Further, we continue to diversify our economy and draw good paying jobs to the area. Alliance area is booming, the Chisholm Parkway has opened vast areas for growth (and good growth at that!)
ReplyDeleteWhy are you so down on Fort Worth? Per capita, our permitting numbers are unparalleled. Only Houston beats our single family starts, but that is a pure numbers to numbers comparison
Here is an excellent article titled When Water Isn't a Priority that shows the proposed Tarrant Regional Water District general budget for 2015. 70 percent of the proposed budget will go to J.D. Granger's Vision. Almost unbelievable unless you know how people like Granger operate.
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Maybe people will care when water is severely restricted in Fort Worth & Tarrant County and other areas served by the TRWD.
Is there another source (other than the empower one) I can check? Those numbers are so flabbergasting that I'm shocked we don't hear about it as a scandal daily on the TV news! Don't get me wrong, the Empower site seems credible, but they DO have a definite political slant.
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