Voting Part 2

How did I let it slide that we ALSO have an election for school board? I'm not much happier with our school board and their misplaced priorities than I am with our City Council with twiddle dee and twiddle dum that are sitting there.

I have to ask you, do you think it was smart of these guys to have picked "Coach" for our superintendent?I'm not happy that we are spending money upgrading our sports facility when we've have temporary buildings for our educational classes. I'm not happy that our high school has teachers that need to be fired, so that those who want to teach can.  I'm not happy with the way the school board did the dress code (I'm not opposed to the dress code, heck I think it should be tighter, but why wait till the last minute to do it?).  I'm not happy with the moving ACE back to a campus when these students have proven they can not function in that environment and I truly believe personalities with the superintendent that were not in control by the school board was the real reason it's being moved.

These are just a few of the items I can come up with off the top of my head.

Did you realize that the largest portion of your house taxes are for the school board? Off the top of my head I think it's 4x that of the city. And why? Because of bad decisions of the school board!

Gonzales, find the candidates personally if you want to and ask them what do they believe in.  Ask them if they promise to do something about these and any other issue you know of. Worst case educate yourself on what these people believe in.

Pray about the answers you heard.

Then GET OUT AND VOTE! VOTE VOTE! Please, it's at the School Central Office.  Don't wait till election day when you might forget.  Get out NOW AND VOTE!

God Bless
Dennis Nesser

Term Limits

Gonzales Citizens,

I’ve been a citizen of this town for 15 years now, and have watched as our politics in this town has gotten stale and corrupt.  I’ve seen 2 long term politicians be removed from office because of corruption of one sort of another, and with the DA’s mandating that ballots be retained as evidence in an on going investigation, I’m lead to believe there is more to come. I’ve seen senior officials believe they are above the law as they ignore our city charter, and run our budget like your and my money grows on trees.

It seems to me that they get complacent as they sit on their thrones.

I for one am tired of it, and am no longer going to hold my tongue to what I see.  I’ve put up my bulletin board on the back of my fence that has lead to many water cooler conversations over the last couple of weeks. On this weeks sign I call for term limits for our mayor and city council.

I'm not exactly sure what it will take to get those limits placed, but I know between now and the next election I plan on making that happen.  

I want to see new ideas in this town to make it grow respectfully.  I want people from the outside to see us as a gem, not a crooked place.  I want some vision, and our city management has to take the blinders off. 

Let's take a stand together.  If you know how to get something on the ballot here in Gonzales, PLEASE let me know. I don't mind being the point guard here, but I need a starting place. You know that mile starts with a first step type thing.

God Bless
Dennis