Throw the Tea in the Harbor

The city council in CS is out of touch. They implied we were giving half-truths, but please, their attorney says that the citizens of CS cannot do a petition intiative to let us vote? Is he serious and has he read the city charter and the laws of Texas?

The city council say they want to discuss the 'Wellborn Issue' and that we are making the situation too simple. Ben White feels that 'Big Brother' (his words not mine) is better able to determine what is going on.

The laws of ETJ and anenxation are available to everyone on the internet at http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/. Yes, state law gives CS the right to say yea or nay to our voting about our land. But that's not the end. That's the first volley, that's the polite way. CS council wants to play hardball. That's too bad because we wanted to be neighborly. That's why the petition initiative is starting, to give CS residents the opportunity to have their say.

What is their true motivation in all of this? Land? Tax Revenue? Empire building? Maybe it's the fact that Wellborn Special Utility District has water and they don't. Maybe they want to do away with us so they can take over the water district. After all, they tried to take it away and have been turned down by the courts and boards on at least four occasions. All the way to the Supreme Court of the State of Texas. They want somethin, for nothin'. Ain't happnin'.

Or does it all come down to throwing your weight around, being powerful, that gives some folks a natural high? They just like knowing that THEY are in charge, their vote on council matters, they decide the big issues. Give me a break. Some council members have said, boy, if I lived in Wellborn I would do the same thing.

And being a long-time residents of this county, I want to know who wants the city of CS to keep getting larger. Leon. That good time feeling you get when you live in CS, close to the mothership of Aggieland, will dissipate when the city gets bigger. Trust me. Ask the folks in Austin who were lovin' it there in the 1970s. Now it's an urban sprawl of cookie cutter houses and shopping malls.

All in all, this is an odd time (politically) for a small time politician to be acting so imperiously. The US Congress is trampling our rule of law and their own rules to do what a few want. This is making many Americans angry. It's not what they are doing, it's HOW they are doing it. Ditto CS council. Harrumph harrumph.

The antiquated annexation laws and rules need a good overhaul in Texas. In other states, property rights mean something. Let's make Texas a better place for property owners, a place where folks can just be left alone.

Come and Take It.

Doris