Say It Ain't So, Mayor Joe!

When Joe Adame ran against the aging Henry "Doolittle" Garrett, he promised a change in city politics. We would no longer be beholden to out of town developers and local real estate power brokers trying to pull the wool over the taxpayer's eyes with more Pie-In-The-Sky projects. Mayor Joe was going to focus our tax dollars and city staff to run the City for the locals, who, BTW, PAY THE BILLS. Candidate Joe also promised a quick & decisive finish to the Memorial Coliseum Melodrama that the former Mayor Doolittle had saddled us with for the past decade.

Now, little more than 6 months into the new Adame Administration, we see the truth, and it ain't nothing like we were promised. Adame, it turns out, had his own agenda for yet another out of town schemer, Brass from the Alamo City. He flip-flopped on his own personal involvement and finally had to recuse himself from the very issue he put front & center during his campaign--the resue of Memorial Coliseum. By a stroke of genius, the majority minority of the council (4 of 9) voted against the Brass deal (4-3), and killed it. End of Brass, or so we thought.

Now, after removing himself from the process and losing his beloved Brass deal, Mayor Joe is jumping back in with both feet screaming "Wait a minute! I only meant I wasn't going to be involved AS LONG AS THE BRASS DEAL GETS DONE...MY WAY!". Sorry, Henry, oops!, I mean JOE, but that's not the way the system works. THE MAJORITY OF THE CITY COUNCIL VOTED THE BRASS DEAL DONE. Leave it alone, Joe and move on. Stop trying to "game" the system, to your own advantage, and allow the City to enter negotiations with the National Swimming Corporation, and get something built that will benefit BOTH the locals and our out of town visitors.

WHAT IS CLEAR NOW IS WE DESERATELY NEED CITIZENS OF HIGH MORAL CALIBRE TO RUN FOR COUNCIL WHO HAVE NO TIES WHATSOEVER TO THE LOCAL REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY. FOR TOO LONG CORPUS HAS BEEN RUN BY THE LIKES OF MARK SCOTT, BRENT CHESNEY, GENE GURNSEY, BETTY TURNER, AND A GAGGLE OF OTHER REALTORS AND TITLE COMPANIES WHO HAVE A DIRECT (CONFLICT OF) INTEREST ON THE COUNCIL. TIME TO GET SOME DOCTORS AND ENGINEERS ON THE COUNCIL.