Why not call the Prnct 2 Cty Commissioner and ask what he’s doing to protect his district from these thugs? Ask him if he’s speaking to Chief Hurtt of HPD. Ask him if he’s speaking to Dem Mayor Bill White about Houston being a “sanctuary city” for criminals.

2010 is an election year for the Commissioner, who knows he may even stay in town and do something.

As for fortbendconservative, why are you quoting yourself? Isn’t that your statement? Is that logical? Reread my no. 3 & 10 and it will all be clear to you (like it isn’t already LOL).

If we don’t acknowledge the needs of others, their issues soon become real problems to all of us. Name calling and Puritan judgemental-ism does not solve our challenges.”

Are you asking me who I am? I am an oppressed and manipulated taxpayer who is being asked to serve the needs of a bloated vendor feeding frenzy at my own expense.
I would feel safer about crime, if these vendor feeders were made to stop destroying the fabric of our communities through raising taxes and privatizing government obligations. I am Yertle the Turtle and “our backs will all crack!” under this political and economic oppression. Who am I? I am angry! Who am I? I am becoming more knowledgeable about the real criminals in my community. Who am I? I am the bulk of people who have been silent until now.

Once again “I’m appealing to the logical citizens”.

And Bob Hebert (R) doesn’t have any responsibility for that Fort Bend area that you incorrectly label as ‘Houston’. Why aren’t you telling people to call Hebert (R), Prestage (D) (bte, who usually votes with Hebert) and Milton (R)? Stop the games, you are much too transparent.

No further partisanship doesn’t solve the crime problem or stop these driveway assaults and robberies. Pointing the finger at one minority group or another doesn’t either. As the documentation above states we have many culprits and enough blame to go around in this economy. So stop the rancor. And what happened to your repeat claims that everything is ok in east fort bend county? Suddenly the empty sloganeering is gone.

I’m appealing to the logical citizens to call the dem cty prcnt 2 commissioner and demand the existing laws be enforced, and ask what the do nothing dem cty commissioner is doing to protect citizens in Ft Bend Cty he swore to protect and serve.

The dem commissioner is up for election in 2010 where are the reformers?

There are some who don’t need desperation in order to resort to crime. They parade as “conservatives” while they steal from all of us and then hide behind “steeples.”

If we don’t acknowledge the needs of others, their issues soon become real problems to all of us. Name calling and Puritan judgemental-ism does not solve our challenges.

The last two dem mayors in Houston have destroyed the HPD and declared Houston a scantuary city harboring criminals.
Part of Houston encroaches into Ft Bend like a cancer, committing crimes then retreating back into the scantuary of Houston. On this particular thread, the car was stolen in Houston and used to commit a crime in Ft Bend.

Call the democrat County Commissioner Grady Prestage and demand he take action to protect the citicens in Ft Bend. He is up for reelection in 2010, where are the reformers?….silent.

Tabor don’t makes excuses by saying evryone does it. Houston’s scantuary city status is one of the reasons we have a higher crime rate here. Try to stay on topic.

Texas business: Pass immigration reform (From ALI-PAC, see membership below)

06:59 AM CDT on Monday, August 28, 2006

Often, in the middle of a heated debate, people forget exactly what they’re arguing about. But we employers on the front lines of American business cannot forget � we know why the nation must come to grips with illegal immigration. We know that Americans must face up to the reality of the foreign workers we need to keep the economy growing and bring them under the rule of law, for their sake and ours.

We own and run a variety of businesses: agriculture, food processing, hospitality, construction, banking and more, mostly but not exclusively in Texas. And we know, if not firsthand, certainly at close reach, just how much the economy depends on immigrant labor.

It’s not that Americans don’t work hard. They do. But the native-born workforce is changing rapidly. In 1960, half of all American men dropped out of high school and looked for unskilled work; today, less than 10 percent do. Baby boomers are retiring. Fertility rates are declining. Yet every year, the economy creates hundreds of thousands of new jobs that require few if any skills, and in the next decade, we will be millions of workers short.

Not all employers mean well, of course. Some companies exploit illegal immigrants. But most who turn to foreign workers do so out of necessity. We aren’t looking for “cheap labor.” We’re looking for available labor, period � and for some businesses, the choice is to hire immigrants or close shop.

Think for a minute about one Texas sector that relies heavily on immigrant workers: construction. A typical Texas construction worker earns more than $50,000 a year if he regularly works overtime. Employers say they do everything they can to attract native-born workers. But few young Americans want to do hard physical labor, particularly in our climate. And in the less-skilled construction trades � masonry, concrete, drywall, tile � more than 80 percent of Texas’ workforce is Latino.

Meanwhile, sectors like farming, which compete with construction and pay less, often can’t find workers. Things have gotten so bad this year that one Rio Grande Valley farmer had to stand by and watch as $400,000 worth of cantaloupes rotted in the fields because he couldn’t find workers to pick them.

These immigrant laborers aren’t just the backbone of their companies; they’re also the backbone of the regional economy. Out in the Rio Grande Valley, at least a dozen other local businesses � from grocery stores to companies that supply fertilizer and farm machinery � see their profits rise and fall with those of the local farm. And scores of native-born workers would be out of work if the farm closed or moved across the border.

As for construction, Dallas-area school systems alone underwent $750 million worth of construction this summer. According to industry executives, without foreign-born workers, few of those new or renovated classrooms would have been ready when school opened this month.

You hear the same story across the U.S. A relatively small number of foreign workers keeps millions of native-born Americans employed. This, in turn, keeps the economy growing, and we all share in the prosperity that results.

Not only that, but immigrant workers renew and reinvigorate America. They remind us what it’s like to give a job your all. We talk about old-fashioned family values; they live them. And those of us who cherish our faith and love our country can only rejoice at their devotion to both.

As chairmen, CEOs and stockholders, we call on Congress to act � to go back to Washington and pass realistic immigration reform that provides the workers we need to keep our businesses growing.

We understand that this will include workplace enforcement. In fact, we welcome reform that gives us the tools to stay on the right side of the law. The important thing is that this vital part of the economy be brought under the rule and protection of the law.

Neither the immigrants here today nor those we will need in the future should have to live in the shadows. These are good people with good values doing work that we need done, reaching for the American Dream and helping make it a reality for all. As we value the work, let us value the worker � and let’s fix the law so that it serves all Americans.

Signed,

Bo Pilgrim
Pilgrim’s Pride, Pittsburg

Harold Simmons
Contran Corporation, Dallas

Bob Perry
Perry Homes, Houston

Vance Miller
Henry S. Miller, Dallas

J. Huffines
Huffines Auto Group, Dallas

Red McCombs
McCombs Enterprises, San Antonio

W.L. Hunt
Hunt Building Corporation, El Paso

James Leininger
M.D., San Antonio

Phil Adams
Phil Adams Company, Bryan

Bob Barnes
Schlotzsky’s, Austin

Kent Hance
Hance Scarborough Wright, Dallas

Tom Loeffler
Loeffler Tuggey Pauerstein Rosenthal LLP, San Antonio

Louis Beecherl
Beecherl Investments, Dallas

Henry J. “Bud” Smith
Bud Smith Organization, Dallas

Dennis Nixon
IBC Bank, Laredo

Ernesto Ancira Jr.
Ancira Enterprises, San Antonio

Tom Hewitt
Interstate Hotels & Resorts

Tom Corcoran
FelCor Lodging Trust Inc.

Lionel Sosa
MATT.org, San Antonio

Henry Cisneros
CityView, San Antonio

Henry R. Mu�oz III
Kell Mu�oz Architects, San Antonio

Harold MacDowell
TDIndustries, Dallas

Pedro Aguirre
Aguirre Corporation, Dallas

Robert “Buddy” Barnes
Dee Brown Inc., Garland

Stephen M. Pitt
Boulder Imports, Houston

Brad Bouma
Select Milk Producers Inc., Plainview

Wayne Palla
Dairy Farmers of America, Grapevine

Jim Baird
Lone Star Milk Producers Inc., Windthorst

Randy Davis
Greenleaf Nursery, El Campo

Josh Bracken
Nicholson-Hardie Garden Centers, Dallas

David R. Pinkus
Tawakoni Plant Farm, Wills Point

Don Darby
Darby Greenhouses & Farms, Jacksonville

Georges Le Mener
Accor North America, Carrollton

Stevan Porter
InterContinental Hotels Group

John Caparella
Gaylord Hotels

Tony Farris
Quorum Hotels

The carjacking took place in Houston and was used in a crime in MC.

Call or write Dem Prcnt 1 Cty Commish Prestage and ask what is he doing to work with Houston on these crimes. Cty Commissioner Prestage’s district is mostly in Houston (from Post Oak to Fondren and South to 2234. Demand immediate action from dem commissioner Prestage ask him what he’s doing to demand Houston stop sheltering criminals.