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