Steve Cooke for City Council?
Readers have accused me of being whimpy for not dissecting the good, the bad and the ugly concerning this year’s council candidates. I thought it would be boring. But I just realized this guy could shake things up and leave us all begging for more. Oh yeah. Read these fightin’ words.
I don’t know him. But I like the potential column material from what I see here. Go get ‘em, Cooke.
By Merritt Patterson
Apr. 26, 2010 | 2:13 pm | 14 Comments | Comments RSS
14 comments to "Steve Cooke for City Council?"
Go Steve Cooke! Keep asking the tough questions.
I appreciate that you have a web site, stating your positions on other topics, and I like a lot of what you have to say, but would like to know the answer to this question.
While you are explaining your endorsement by Albert Huddleston, could you please explain your endorsement by a political action committee that will not reveal the names of its members or its sources of funding. It seeems to me on its face to contradict the strong ethics and disclosure position you have publicly presented.
Our City is envied across the nation…our taxes never increase. The Mayor and Council have no agendas…they are giving service to the City as a payback, and a labor of love. They spend about 30 hours a week for an unpaid, basically thankless job.
People who move here from cities like plano that buy ink by the bucket are the type of people who give the Park Cities a bad name. Those of us that grew up here, and have roots here, would never refer to ourselves as “Parkies”, or buy into your “snarky” commentary.
Most of us are laughing at you, not with you…and you will see that on May 8th.
Go away.
And I’m feeling pretty confident it’s not people like me who give the Park Cities a bad name. If we even have a bad name. I hate to say it but I’m rubber, you’re glue, bounced off me and stuck on you.
BTW, Zima grew up here too.
What I was referring to is the de facto system in which the mayor and city councilmembers are effectively anointed by the UP Community League, by assent, without any meaningful debate or election. However, I can see how that system might look pretty good to someone who is completely closed off to debate or self-reflection.
Count me in as one of the “You People”. Maybe our taxes would decrease if we didn’t waste thousands of dollars w/o proper oversight.
Your sense of entitlement is awe inspiring. Please let us non-native residents know when, where and how we may be privileged enough to poke our heads out and join your elite citizenry. You actually are the proverbial “Parkie”. How shallow.
Stay classy Doug…
This passage regarding the Bush library was particularly convincing:
“I believe the City has failed the residents adjacent to SMU by not holding SMU accountable for the violations of its employees and students (mostly parking, trash, noise, etc.) and by not negotiating from a position of strength in regards to the Bush Library parking but rather just asking Bush Foundation officials to consider changes. The neighborhood residents that I’ve spoken to feel they’ve been mistreated and lied to by SMU and the ill will they carry because of that has colored their opposition to the Bush Library parking, in my opinion. The City should devote more resources to the enforcement of existing parking and nuisance regulations and pressure SMU to encourage the compliance of its employees and students.”
Merritt, thanks for linking. I hope the dead-tree version of PCP is rounding up this kind of information on all the candidates as a service to its readers, of which I admit I am not one.
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