The chingasos have been thrown by The Mayor in her kick-off ad that began airing yesterday. Here is the script:
“Ben Hall wants to be mayor of Houston, but he hasn’t bothered to vote in a city election in 11 years. In fact, Hall didn’t even live in Houston. Just last year he bought a house inside the city so he could run for mayor. When Houston was hurting in the recession, Hall offered no vision, no ideas and no leadership. Now that things are good, he’s back. Ben Hall really wants to be mayor. He just didn’t want to live here.”
Ouch!
Please don’t talk down to me when public funds are involved. Here is from the Chron for subscribers only:
The Harris County School Readiness Corp., a new nonprofit led by business and civic leaders, is calling for a ballot initiative to levy a 1-cent-per-$100 tax through the Harris County Department of Education (HCDE)to generate about $25 million a year for training teachers and buying school supplies for child care centers serving children up to age 5.
Here’s the deal. The group wants us to vote for a tax increase but they really don’t want us involved on how the funds will be spent. Here is what their Chair said:
"We’ve been working to find the right balance of public oversight," (James) Calaway said, declining to talk specifically about details until the proposal is presented publicly to the department’s board of trustees Tuesday.
Thank you very much sir! What the f__k is the right balance of public oversight? Memo to this fella: It should be 100% public oversight! It doesn’t pass the smell test and could very much head to cronyism, lack of oversight, lack of transparency – you get the picture, which is a very cloudy picture. In other words, screw the public. I hope the HCDE doesn’t roll over on this.
How many of the current ‘Stros have more than 20 career big league dingers?
Here is more talking down to us. The HISD Board and the Houston Endowment would like a study done of the Apollo Program. That brought a big F-You from its consultant. Here is what he sent HISD:
I think your school Board is a bit confused about the academic process,” (Roland) Frier wrote in an email to (HISD”s Terry) Grier on Tuesday. “I am not a for-profit organization selling you software or someone who needs a particular result to keep their business afloat. I am a tenured, and chaired, professor at Harvard University. One of the only ways I can lose my tenure is by violating my academic integrity. Therefore, my incentives are very much to tell you the truth about the Apollo results. Physicists, Biologists, Chemists, Economists, and most of the Sciences and Social Sciences evaluate their own experiments. It’s not just common — it’s expected.
HISD needs to tell this fella to go kiss our arse!
The County wants us to vote on redoing the Dome this November but they won’t give us an option of tearing it down. Come on! Give the voters a choice. Here is from the Chron and again for subscribers only:
The Commissioners Court on Tuesday unanimously voted to place a bond election for up to $217 million to convert the iconic stadium into a massive, street-level convention hall and exhibit space, saying residents should take part in deciding the historic structure’s fate.
Here is the part that I don’t get.
If the bond fails in November, Precinct 3 Commissioner Steve Radack said it "would make no sense to me at all" to spend millions of dollars demolishing the structure.
"There’s another day to have another election," he said. "Why are you going to spend $8 million and then tear it down?"
So if it is voted down it will just continue to sit there. Now that is what I call good public policy…smirk….smirk.
CNN Money named Commentary’s ‘hood as one of the best big city ‘hoods in the U.S. of A. How about them apples! We’re right up there with ‘hoods I’ve never heard of like NY’s Park Slope, LA’s Silver Lake, Lakeview in Chi-Town, Mount Airy in Philly, Windsor Square in Phoenix, and Willow Glen in San Jose. Those I heard of are SA’s Alamo Heights, Lakewood in Dallas, and Pacific Beach in San Diego. Ours is a good ‘hood once you get past the congestion on I-10 and Studewood/Heights/Yale.
Great Lisa Falkenberg tweet yesterday:
What does it mean when @tedcruz says abolish the #IRS? Don’t get it. Would the U.S. government be funded on the honor system?
The current ‘Stros with more than 20 career big league dingers are Chris Carter (40), Brett Wallace (25), and Jason Castro (22) of course. That’s why we’re 38-80 and we won one last night in Oakland.
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