Priscilla Leal was re-elected this year, but it's hard to understand why she was re-elected when she had a group of intelligent and very well-informed opponents. Ms. Leal seems never to have read the agenda before council meetings and seems to be monumentally mis-informed on most of the issues.
Remember that BOLD FUTURES conference Mayor Cheerleader and all the usual suspects promoted so well this past summer? You know, the one where the brought in several hundred of the City's Best Citizens to brainstorm what we, as a community, wanted Corpus Chrisit to look like in 2020? Well let me share a couple of the consensus points:
If you are going to make any political endorsements, at least make an effort to make an informed opinion. Interview them (you didn't)! Check on their claims ( you didn't)! You know, investigate for the truth like a respectable newspaper. Then, make your choice.
We have bigger issues than the Coliseum.
The current Council has jumped into the middle of a Coliseum quagmire that is sapping energy from them, City staff and citizens when we have HUGE fiscal problems that must be solved. A sales tax short fall of six percent or more, a 75% drop in development and other fees that fund services, lower utility usage and a coming tsunami of decline in property tax revenues has the potential to plunge the city into a giant fiscal black hole that could hold us back for years to come. One realtor suggested that a possible 20% drop in valuations or more may be coming, a devastating fiscal blow to City, School and County revenues.
