Election TIme is Here

It's time to vote.  The mud has been slung, some has stuck some has not.  But here's my take on 1 race in particular.

There has been 1 man who has been willing to fight to keep our taxes lower and hold accountable the staff for the money it's spent over the last decade and been consistent about it, even when he was the only nay vote in the group.  That's Lorenzo Hernandez.  He's come out on the short end of the stick time and time again, but he's always voted his conscious not what the 'good old boys' want. 

For years I went to every council meeting and saw how things were going.  I would ask questions and because of it I started this blog.  So many things came under the directions of Bobby O'Neal that were unethical, bad business sense, and so often done for the cronies that supported him with no regard to the cost or repercussion to the city. Just read through the couple of years worth of information here.  I filled charges that magically 'got lost' not once but twice at the DA's office.  In the voter fraud charges the DA admitted there were improprieties but 'had bigger fish to fry'.  And Gonzales, wants to forget all that because he plays in the band at church or because he can sweet talk just fine.  DON'T!!! And I'm not even going back to the criminal records of his youth which were beyond serious.

Look our city is fiscally in a bad place.  We need someone who is willing to say 'no' when that is the right answer.  Someone willing to question everything that comes across the councils agenda and not just rubber stamp it. 

Please, the elections have started for the 3 year terms in district 3 and 4.  Learn the truth about your candidates and GO VOTE!!! We should have 1500 people vote, we'll be lucky if 300-400 vote.  For both races it's important to get out and vote.

God Bless,
Dennis

O'Neal Doesn't like the truth

Some people can't handle the truth can they?  After 7 years of the 90asign.com board up on that fence it was stolen after I reminded Bobby O'Neal of all his failures and scandals.  Less that 24 hours later the board was stolen.  I'm not at all surprised.  O'Neals name was the first on the board and the last.  He can do NOTHING about this blog or the Facebook shares that will occur between now and election day reminding everyone of his antics.

How about his putting in pay for our council members.  As he's going around and telling everyone he wants to get rid of it, he fails to mention is was him that got it put into the charter on his tenure.

How about the raising of taxes to pay for the bloat that started on his watch.  His opponent has many many times  questioned the growth of our city employees.  In typical government only thinking fashion he would rather just raise our tax rates.  Don't get me wrong, our city employees are good people, but we don't have the funding to utilize them and the (not exaggerating) $1,000,000 extra in cost to the city is not acceptable right now.

How about the fact instead of replacing the millions that O'Neals administration blew in our rainy day fund when we started getting oil money, he and his cronies decided to spend every penny....oh and then more to bring us in the red.

The truth hurts sometimes, but bottom line is that this city can't afford O'Neal, and his antics.  Please share this blog as often and far as possible.  People need to remember all the scandals.  Oh and if you see the O'Neal, ask him how many signatures he's gotten at the Heights nursing home and filed for absentee ballots.  Sound familiar?  Some things never change to they Bobby?

God Bless,
Dennis Nesser

O'Neal - I Still Remember

Maybe if we wait a few years EVERYONE in town will forget everything I messed up as Mayor and all the interaction with the District Attorneys office.  Have no fear I have NOT forgotten.

Let me go over a couple of things I so fondly remember about O'Neals tenure.

1) The water system was a failure to plan by city council and any of those on there now.  Mr Windwehen, in July 2011, commented on this, "you failed to plan 7 years ago when this was brought to your attention, so now you have no options but to go outside for money.  If you'd done your job, you would of raised rates then in anticipation of this, and had capitol to pay for it, but you didn't."  See Blog Post

For that entire 7 years want to guess who was mayor of this city? Hmmmm...oh yeah Bobby O'Neal!  The leader of our council.

In doing so Mayor O'Neal lead our city into debt when we had to issue bonds to repair the water system for the first time.  Prior to that we were a debt free city.  Not anymore.  We are millions in debt and I promise it won't be any time soon that we come out of that.

2) Let's run our city like we print money.  Mayor O'Neal not only condoned but encouraged running a $400,000 deficit in our budget.  In 2011 - 2012 budget they started with a negative budget of $400,000.  Now our coffers had already shrunken by over $2,000,000 over the previous couple of years, but 'we have oil money coming' so let's spend it. See Blog Post

3) Let's not forget the support of the worst city manager we have ever had.  Mayor O'Neal tried his  best to keep the city manager that ran our city into the ground financially, David Huseman.  When it came down to taking care of business Mayor O'Neal not only tried every dirty trick in the book to keep Mr Huseman but when he was fired by the council he See Blog Post:
     A) Issued a final payroll check illegally
     B) Retroactively gave Mr Huseman a payraise that was NOT authorized by city council
Who the hell gives someone they fired a payraise?  It was so bad I filed charges on Mayor O'Neal.  The DA's response?  "Well there's something there but we have bigger fish to fry".  It's who you are isn't it? If it was you and me we'd of been in jail, just ask Rev Roach about that.

4)  This doesn't EVEN cover the election fraud scandel, the Museum District, the being VP of a corporation doing business with the city, etc, etc, etc.

I remember Bobby O'Neal and all that he brought to our town.  He's brought the increased cost, higher taxes, debt for the first time, scandals by the score, and the good old boy system at it's best.  Bobby O'Neal was king of the good old boy system for 16 years and wants back in.

I REMEMBER AND HOPE YOU WON'T FORGET EITHER!!!!

God Bless on this Easter Weekend,
Dennis Nesser