Don't miss the FW Weekly Blotch, and the comments from the actual residents of the city. You know, those that the mayor and council are accountable to.
The thin-skinned hypocrisy and borderline absurdity exhibited by Mayor Mike Moncrief at yesterday’s Fort Worth City Council meeting was extraordinary even for this ethically challenged city leader.
“This council shouldn’t have to sit up here and defend ourselves or try to have to defend ourselves,” Moncrief said.
For years, Moncrief has made a living – a very good living – on the profits of the oil and gas industry. He decided to leave the U.S. Senate and seek election as Fort Worth’s mayor at the outset of the Barnett Shale drilling boom and, with the help of other council members, has ensured the industry enjoys weak ordinances and lax oversight.
In a just world, every council member would have a noisy, dusty, ugly drill site sitting a few hundred feet from their homes. They would lose big chunks of their yards through eminent domain and have pipelines buried there. They should listen to the pounding of a drilling rig all night long for weeks on end and face a steady stream of huge 80,000 pound water trucks barreling through their neighborhoods. They should breathe invisible toxins and wonder what kind of physical problems they or their children will face in the future. They should see their homes’ property values plummet and know what it’s like to be upside down on a mortgage payment.
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Boy howdy! Did the Emperor and his court just realized that their armours have big gaping holes? Ironically, he would not have allowed his whimpy tirade to go on if it came from a citizen. But apparently he's a religious man living by the Golden Rule, except that he and his kind perperts the true meaning into one that serves their purposes: those with the gold makes all the rules, which definitely don't apply to them. They are above the rule/law due to their financial and political power. Wonder if his mother went over with him the part of the Scripture that talked about "the first shall be last; the weak shall be strong..." OR that "PRIDE COMES BEFORE THE FALL".
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