Election in Big D

Check out item number 23, and VOTE for TXSharon!

http://surveys.dmagazine.com/bestofbigd2013-culture

Define Insanity

Doing the same thing and expecting different results.

The Tarrant Regional Water District incumbents have sat on the board for a combined total of almost 60 years. 

In that 60 years, WHAT benefit have they provided you?

A good plan for water supply?  Nope. 
A good plan for cleaning up the river? Nope.
A way to reduce costs?  Nope.

Eminent domain? Yes.
A wake board park and restaurant? Yes.
A billion dollar boondoggle? Yes.

It's time.  "Captain Clean" needs YOUR help.

Early voting starts tomorrow.  VOTE BNK!

John Basham, Timothy Nold and Mary Kelleher. 

Give the citizens THEIR board back. 

Read what Durango has to say here. 

This is it! Prairie to the people!

Prairie Fest starts Saturday morning at 11 a.m. Come on in to the greenest festival in Texas. More than 40 green Exhibitors, prairie tours, live music,  from 10 bands, tasty food and beverage, kids stuff and much more at the most valuable 160 acres in Fort Worth. FREE and open to the public. Prairie to the People!

http://tandyhills.org/fest

Same old dog, same old tricks

The Tarrant Regional Water District just spent lots of YOUR money to put out their board report.  Now, knowing many citizens in the district, we have a feeling they'd be happy with that info being free online, or at the very least, being printed on regular paper with black ink.

Sadly, YOUR elected official don't feel the same, as they printed a 10 page color brochure, promoting the incumbents.  Have you ever seen the incumbents promoted in a Water Report before?  Do you think it has anything to do with the Tarrant Regional Water District election being days away?

Don't be fooled.  Again.  Stop the madness.

Vote BNK starting Monday.  Save YOUR water, save YOUR money.

http://www.flushtrwd.com

YOU only get one.

Don't screw it up.

URGENT: Texans' Property Taxes to Build Toll Roads???

THE GRASSROOTS TEXANS NETWORK

Fellow Grassroots Texans:

Please find below an URGENT message from Terri Hall of T.U.R.F.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD.

PROPERTY TAX TO BUILD TOLL ROADS?

This week, the full Texas House will vote on whether or not to use property taxes & sales taxes to build toll roads using Transportation Reinvestment Zones (TRZs). That means they'll build the road with property tax, but will charge you a TOLL to drive on it - another DOUBLE TAX scheme. It also expands the use of TRZs to fund transit, rail (think street car), even parking lots!

We DEFEATED the expansion of TRZs known as Prop 4 on the Constitutional Amendment election in November 2011 (read about it here), so we can certainly do it again! The senate version of this bill already passed the Senate. Every member of the Senate voted FOR it, so stopping this in the House is a MUST!

It's up to YOU to help us STOP it in the House!

ACTION ITEM #1:

Call your State Representative & make sure they vote AGAINST HB 1716 which allows the use of property tax & sales tax to build toll roads!

>>Find out who your STATE representative is here:

http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/Home.aspx

>>You can email using this formula:

first_name . last_name@house.state.tx.us

(Be sure to eliminate any spaces in the actual email address. Include your full name, address, & phone in all written correspondence.)

NOTE: If Speaker Joe Straus is your State Rep., email him here:

joe.straus@speaker.state.tx.us

He does NOT vote on bills, but controls the calendar and which bills come to the floor for a vote.

AND/OR

>>Call the Capitol Switchboard - (512) 463-4630 (between 8 AM - 5 PM)
 (Give them your zip code & they can connect you to your state rep.)

CLICK BELOW for more urgent
ACTION ITEMS THIS WEEK:

http://GrassrootsTexans.net/4677/Property_Tax_to_Fund_Toll_Roads

The man was right.

Remember back when then Councilman Clyde Picht said the Trinity River Vision would cost taxpayers at least a billion dollars?

And when he said Fort Worth should invest in tornado sirens?

That's what people should be concerned with, their safety and their property. 

So, what does Clyde say about the Tarrant Regional Water District candidates and the upcoming election?

Read his letter to the editor in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 

In a letter to voters, Mayor Betsy Price tried to justify her support of Tarrant Regional Water District board members. She said the district makes sure we "have a clean, safe and adequate water supply." That's patently false.

It does not provide clean, safe or adequate water. Fort Worth and other consumer cities clean the water for public consumption.

Independent studies have shown that Trinity River water contains contaminants that can harm humans and make eating the fish very risky.

The Wall Street Journal identified Fort Worth as one of the 10 biggest cities running out of water
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The water district supports gas drilling on its property in the flood plain and close to lakes. Drilling consumes millions of gallons of water for each well. The revenue is used for economic development, not water resources. The district is scamming the public and needs new and trustworthy leadership.

Vote for John Basham, Timothy Nold and Mary Kelleher.

-- Clyde Picht, Fort Worth