I say they are not only being disingenuous and contentious they are whats known highly partisan. A trait one often observes from the left.

But then again as I’ve said “its all they’ve got”.

I had a pastor that would say, if you can’t say Amen, you’d better say ouch. So… Ouch!

Quite honestly, you might be right. I did vote for the incumbents last mayoral election. Some of that, I am sure was due to neighborhood scuttlebutt, but some of it was based on what I formulated myself.

I realize she wasn’t part of the election cycle that we are talking about, but I can say that I have been pretty pleased with councilwoman Gary. She seems to have a good head on her shoulders. I don’t think she has accomplished much in her short time in the big chair, but some of that can be attributed to the fact that she is not part of the good ol’ boy network.

And all I ask as a MC resident are 2 simple things:

1. Have ALL the city STREET LIGHTS actually ON & WORKING – EVERY DAY – including the lights (all 2? maybe) at our major INTERSECTIONS – so MC citizens can SEE safely to drive after DARK!

If it weren’t for all the business lighting in MC, our streets would be even worse than they are

2) Could SOMEONE with the City PLEASE get all the traffic signals SYNCHRONIZED on Cartwright? We have asked about this repeatedly but nothing has improved. Terrible traffic management, have to stop at every single light, no matter what speed you drive … does this bother anyone else here ??

You are 100% right. I think we saw a lot of this two years ago. The people that ran against the incumbents were not bad people, but I personally got the feeling that they were running more out of ’spite’ than out of ‘let’s go improve our City.’ Again, just my personal feeling on the matter.

once again not true while my appraised value has gone up by 7%, my taxes in 2006 & 7 went down over the 2005 level, just like the rate did.

The problem mocity is that the community has been dominated by the 2000 solid votes from the old QVGC bunch for so long by playing the divide and conquer game. If you review the county elections data you will see this continues to hold true. Most of the precincts outside of QV went to the opponents last cycle except the QV ones, which as you said, believed the line they were being fed by the Owen crowd and the communications office at the city and one of the major development companies that backs his re-elections on a regular basis. You will hear from their cronies on these threads (as we often do). They are a good indicator of who not to vote for and where the out-of-town special interest funding is coming from. They will hire marketing companies, political consultants galore, poll workers and out spend you 3,4 and 5 to 1, but that spending only produces modest numbers and in recent years turned two seats against their clan.

Yes it is important to be fair to all the city, but when was the QV Fund board ever fair with the rest of the city. It has always been about them. I can understand the back-lash that comes from other city subdivisions but if they want fairness then they need to get more new blood on that council and take it away from the Houston development community that practically owns it and uses the sheeple. Taxes have gone up every year over the last 5 and the rates increased 3 times too. They are feeding a growing bear.

This is the modus operandi (m.o.) of this administration. They put things on the back burner until just before an election and then suddenly things start moving. The ‘if you don’t vote us back in, these projects will go away’ scare tactic comes into play. During the last mayoral election, the word was put out that if the citizens of QV didn’t vote the mayor and his peeps back in, their opponents would likely scrap the entire project. Of course, no one wants to see their community fall into disarray, their property values drop, or something that they bought into sudden pull out from under them. So, the citizens turned out in great numbers to vote the current administration back in.

I have made mention of this before. A candidate for mayor or council cannot eliminate or alienate QV (or any other section of community) from the mix. The voters are strong in Quail Valley. For any of you who are thinking about running, the attack on Quail Valley doesn’t work. We have seen that and it does not work. We all realize that many of the council folks (and mayor) live in QV – get over it. If a candidate is truly just, it will not matter from which community they reside.

‘Obama is a good example of why younger inexperienced candidates do not make good leaders.’

I have never understood why we call elected officials leaders. They aren’t leaders – we the people are. If this country is truly by the people, for the people, then the leaders are us – the common folk, the every day Joe. The sooner our elected officials realize that, the better off this country will be.