John Price Needed at work over at Dallas County !

No sooner did I open my paper this morning did the news validate my words. Dallas County does not have test vendor to administer various exams for Sheriff Department staff .The Sheriff has been violating a policy because the List that was maintained to promote from ,has expired and no one is being tested for promotion list they are just being promoted. Commissioner Civil Rights John Price who has picket people for not promoting people fairly.Sit as Chair of the County Civil Service Board and supervisor of the HR Director at the County Dr. Taylor, allowed this to happen. Commissioner Civil Rights, Civil Service John Price has not done his job.

John Price is so busy running what is not his business that he has lost control at the County. People could say we might not like his position on things but he is a good Commissioner well now he's not even that. The extra money the County has to pay monitors for the jail is tax money due to his neglect of the jail for years. He loves Black people so much but he allows Black

people to suffer daily in that jail. We taxpayers need work for that 11,000.00 or so a month salary you take home. Please get busy or leave.

Judicial Ranking

Dallas County Jail phone ! Where is John Price ?

The Dallas County Commissioners Court some years ago found out that they could make money off inmates families so they, with John Price the ring leader cut a deal with a phone company to get the contract and pay the County millions of dollars off of poor working parents and grandparents. When back in the day people would complain he would talk his way out of it.

I pulled some more recent information from some people coming from a talk show they said this man played like he did not know about it and where this money was going .Into the County General Fund. Just fair De lied. The phone company now charges a pay phone charge in addition to the $4.10 they split with the County . Your Commissioner Price sit there and vote on stuff that effect your lives and pocket book but you keep on paying him to mislead you because 20 years ago he picketed. I picked 30 years ago when it was for all the people not just a few people but you hate Laura Miller and Republicans more then you like me and the work I have done for this City. Sad day.

How Can One Man Play the People Who Feed Him?

I saw a very interesting piece of campaign literature on Dallas Arena today. It seems as while John Price and Thomas Jones were playing their robo message to Black People in District 5 saying I was a Republican and telling them not to vote for me. And by the way you did what he ask.The same man that supported Max Wells, a republican and republican Carol Kneeland against a Democrat for Governor,was over in District 3 with Dave Newman a staunch republican asking white and brown people to vote for him. I like Dave Newman and Max Wells both are good men but how can voters continue to allow this man who we pay his salary of over 100,000 dollar per year continue to lie to his people. Clearly he used every weapon against me he also knew Blacks in District 5 still hate Laura Miller so he played that game on them. The sad part is he could have gotten a better candidate then Vonciel Jones Hill who does not have a clue. I finally got the Judicial Nominating Commission ranking list after the election. To the left, to the left.

Please believe me I live in this District and ran for office because I did not want to move but know I don't know. John Price lives in a well kept District he has never lived out here. Oak Lawn to North Oak Cliff that is as far as he has gone. We used to see him over here until Vincent Hall moved.

I have gotten calls from all over people telling me horror stories about Ms. Hill , I told them to late you need to tell it with your vote, I do not want to hear it. I hope soon and very soon Black people in Commissioner District 3 will realize as I did years after that we have a Commissioner who has over stayed his time and the voters do not matter to him. We and I take full credit for mine have created a MONSTER.

How Dis- Honest The Players are with their People !

Open Letter Mayor Elect Tom Leppert.

Open Letter to Mayor Elect Tom Leppert

Tom thanks for the courage to step from your Retired ,Happily Volunteer life to run for Mayor in an attempt to make this a better city. I understand you because that is what I did for the same reason. Somehow along the way I had a track record of doing the right thing for People in my many volunteer positions and I figured that people knew my work and all I had to do was let them know I was running. I had no idea that people who run for all the wrong reasons would go to such lengths to win and busy working folk do not keep up with who's doing what.Time is a fortune- teller.

Tom you are not taking over a Company in the real world, you are taking on a Government Office where people have been for years and each time something happens they create another job, that soon becomes a department and the tax payers budget grows. Doing the campaign Councilman Oakley said the Economic development started with 5 people and now it had 50 but he never said what the net results was with increased staff.When we had the concerns about the street lights being out on city streets they solved it with a new position to monitor lights, I wonder if that position works 8am-5pm , when we had the EPA problem they created a whole new department. You see when its tax money government employees spend until the bank is busted. I hope you will ask questions and encourage the Manager to think out of the BOX.

Tom, the 14 people you'll work with for the most part are OK. The Four from the Southern Sector are another story. You have one who sued the City and won.He is full of dislike for staff and will drag them over the coal . You have another one who was removed from the bench twice and is very angry with the Court Services department and is going to give Administrative Judge Robinson hell, she thinks someone was after her and she is Black so that excuses her behavior. She will create the racial tension on the Council. You also have one who will see every think in terms of Black and white and if she does not get her way it will be racism or North vs. South. Then you have one who wants to know every thing and lead the pack, sad part is they will not follow they all want to be on program. You will be OK for August but come September you will see a great revolution and please do not pack you bag and run home. It's called 14-1 and you are that 1. Just wanted to warn you.

Thanks !

Thank you for your vote , love and support . We ran a good "issue based" campaign. Thanks to the many people who voted for the "issues". In the beginning Ms. Hill said she would not do negative campaign, but she did. The sad part is she used the hate message : The Republican party and my friendship with Laura Miller she hung that around my neck , and Black people still hate Republicans and Laura Miller. We will never overcome in this District as long as we preach the hate message . We want the North Dallas Look but we do not vote the North Dallas way on the issue. The North Dallas Democrats voted for Tom Leppert . I wear proudly my Party affiliation and my friendships. I will not forsake a friend or stab anyone in the back for a Vote. I will not lie and do anything to win a Council seat the people have voted and results are in. The next couple of months will tell the real story because snakes crawl over each other.

District 5 Council Race

I know how the Media does it's mind work. In every article about me they tell my life story but they do not tell my opponents . In any other City it would be news if a person running for City Council had been removed from her bench twice. Once in 1987 and again in 2004. She blame

Laura Miller for 2004, but she has not blame Annette Strauss for 87. Arrested in Atlanta for credit card thief, she said on KHVN she did not remember the charge but in the DMN interview and yes I was in the room she told them the truth. The Judge has a long history of not being able to get along with people and if she becomes the Council member of District 5 you will see for yourselves. I have always told the truth regardless if it hurt me or not. What has been hard for me on this campaign trail is how far people will go to get elected. To lie and want to Lead your people is sick and will be the way you run your office on lies. As I have said I want to win but it will not define me, my opponent has never done anything in this community and she

really got high on being a Judge even if it was one appointed by the City Council .That is one of the reasons she had trouble. She took Judge to mean GOD and mix that with being a Minister made her believe she was larger then life.

She said in the paper that 25 years ago when she came to Dallas God told her she would run for Office in Dallas. I guess God knew 14-1 would surely come some 9 years later.

Win, lose or Draw I will continue to work and help my community, my name is in the history books, in the floor of DFW terminal D and in the hearts of all the people I have helped. God has shown me favor by allowing me to live and feel good. VOTE JUNE 16,2007

I Got Letter Not Sure If Question Is Answered !

State Rep. Yvonne Davis wrote an open letter to her District. I got my letter and read it. I clearly understand what she was trying to do in HB 3057 pass an Eminent Domain bill.

I also understand that Senator West attached his bill SB105 onto HB 3057. SB 105 was the bill

giving approval for UNT to start a Law School in downtown Dallas in 2009. I also understand that SB 105 had some trouble from people outside of North Texas and was shot down in the House. I also understand that often times bills are attached to other bills that have nothing to do with one another , but for the greater good of the community. SB 105 was for the good of community. My question to State Rep. Davis is would your bill have died if SB 105 stayed on it?

In all the news coverage not one word of what harm SB 105 did to HB3057. In Rep. Davis letter

all she said on this subject was Senator West took out some wording from her bill and she did not like it. Did she kill a Bill on a Law School that would benefit the greater good of the people because of angry towards Senator West or because it would harm her HB 3057? Could someone please help me understand what it was. If the changes made to her bill did not hurt

the real purpose of the bill then why kill the school. If the change hurt her bill why kill the school that had nothing to do with HB 3057.

There is something wrong with some members of the Dallas delegation and we the people need to know now. The elections are coming up again soon and if the people down there can not or will not get their act together we need to fire them and send some other people. Life is to short for

us to keep being shafted by Elected Officials with broken promises and dreams. Elected people seem to forget who sent them to the job. THE PEOPLE: What Rep. Davis did was not my with my approval. Just one Voters opinion!

Good Men Die Young

Today I read that Thomas Houston and Alfonso Jones were dead. I had gotten notice of Thomas Houston but had not on Al Jones. Both of these men were tops in what they did. They were the people that quietly go about their business working and paying tax and doing all that they can to help their people. Al was a business man ,Thomas helped business men they were very good men. Al's wife helped in the business, Thomas wife was very supportive of him. Good family men,

Good Black men dead at a very early age what can we do to save others from the diseases that kill us quick but are preventable. We must pay attention to the signs and eat right and exercise

regulary. I am sitting here now and should be out walking. I think in HONOR of them ,who I cared and respected so much I will get up and walk around my block for both of them.

May God Rest Their Souls. Both will be Missed:

June 16 The Begining or the End !

I have been so blessed to meet so many faithful people during this campaign. So many people who really pay attention to what is going on in this community. They are the backbone of this City and they quietly go about their business, working, paying tax, sharing opinions mostly with each other or their barber or hair dresser. They are the people that make us and sub stain us. The small little church on the corner , you wonder who goes there and one day you stand in line at the grocery store and a conversation starts and you meet a family from that church with the very same wish and desire as the lady at Macy's from Prestonwood.

Then you hear from the so called Leaders and you wonder if Leaders know are remember the people.The people I have met just plain every day people making a living wanting their neighborhood pretty and safe. Jobs closer to home they ask for? Better paying jobs they ask for? Can the recreation center stay open longer? Why did it take four years to build a Skate Park that only cost 200,000 that voters approved in 2003? Why is it taking so long to finish the South Dallas Culture Center? If I invest in the Southern Sector will people support me ?All of the question being ask have an answer the people just never hear the answer. So many things to do so little time.

District 5 Council Race

When I entered the Council race I had been out of the day to day running of a political campaign

for some time. I remembered when it was fun and candidates told the truth or as near to truth as possible. Candidates did not embellish a lie. My opponent sent our a race betting campaign piece and it is sad that in 2007 she is still talking about 14-1. She said I did not support 14-1the election was held and 14-1 was defeated. The Court finally approved 14-1 16 years ago but what does that have to do with crime in District 5? She also has on the piece that I am a Republican well this is a non partisan election so what does party matter,only to race haters. She also said I supported Laura Miller this again trying to push the hate button of the people in District 5, Laura Miller is a Democrat I also supported Ron Kirk but she failed to mention that and also she ,John Price,Kathy Nealy, Demetris Sampson big leader in the Democrat party supported Republican Max Wells Mayor so what is the difference.

What Ms. Hill failed to do is include what she has done to improve the community. What has Ms. Hill ever done other then work for the City of Dallas and bring home a pay check. She had 24 years to volunteer and do something but she did nothing. I hope the voters in district 5 will not be confused by the slick talk and will demand to see a record of work done on their behalf.

Vote smart.Vote for the person with a proven track record in the community.

VOTE Betty Culbreath City Council District 5 June 16,2007

Early voting starts June 4-12, 2007.

Rep.Yvonne Davis-Democrat Dallas Kill Law School

I find it very hard to believe that State Rep. Yvonne Davis killed the UNT Law School planned for Downtown Dallas. The very fact that Senator West had found a way for the bill to pass and she killed the bill on a tech. is beyond reason .

The school would have given so many minority students an opportunity to attend law school and growth of our higher education community . From what I read in the news Ms. Davis said she was not satisfied with some wording in the eminent domain bill. The eminent domain passes any way and she cut the Law School. I live in her district and voted for her and contributed to her campaign, but she did not carry out my wish on that issue. She lost my support and respect because I think she killed the bill because she does not get along with Senator West. The UNT bill was bigger than Ms. Davis and Senator West it was about the need of thousand's of young people in this region. The lost of the Law School is the very reason that Black Leadership is at

the crossroads. When A double minority Democrat lawmaker from Dallas Texas kills a bill

that would benefit the masses we are in critical need of new Leadership. Not one person from the black news media has said anything about it. The DMN had the story in a little box.

People ask why I ran for Council, for things like this. We have small minded people who get elected telling all kinds of lies, then get in office and do the opposite. The eminent domain bill had built in protection for homeowners and a court process, even if it did not say just what Rep. Davis wanted why kill the Law school for 2 more years? Why did she not work on eminent domain for 2 more years? Shame on Yvonne Davis for what ever reason she killed the UNT Law School Bill.

Power !

I have often wondered what made people do things that were so out of reason and how they could sleep with themselves. I also had time to reflect on why people that I had helped along the way had such short memories. I have always worked from the heart and all ways tried to do what was right by everyone for the greater good of the people. Maybe I stayed out of politics to long.

I worked so hard at Dallas County Health and Human Service making sure the people of Dallas County were safe and healthy I had no time for politics.

This campaign for City Council has shown me that I have missed out on a new lesson. It is not a good lesson , it's just a lesson. I have never seen such dishonesty , lies to get votes and etc. I told one worker from another campaign that we were not running for a cure to save a life, it's just a seat on the Council without power.

I will continue to run a fact based campaign and hope the voters will understand.

A very wise man said"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"

Do not forget I am in the run-off election June 16,2007. I need your help!

Thanks!

BIG THANKS.

Thanks to the people who cast a vote for me on May 12. 2007. We have another battle to fight.

Stay with me and we will win. Early voting begins June 4, 2007. Election day June 16,2007. Again Thank you.

DMN How About Complete Story ?

I was reading some remarks in the DMN about District 5 candidates and what we had to say. First let me say I faxed a copy of my signed Court Order to the news but they chose to say Betty Culbreath contends she has resolved her issue, they have document in hand that proves it. The News however wants the establishment candidate to win so bad they are miss leading the public. The News stopped short of endorsing her, but uses every trick in the book to help the Dallas establishment candidate running for District 5. They are now making you believe that Don Robinson cannot be seated if elected because of his 1979 offence and they say I "contend" even after they have the evidence.

In the article it quoted Ms. Hill as saying she would use her connection and her professional and personal friend to bring new jobs and development to the Southern sector. That statement in and of it self is a conflict and would cause an FBI investigation if in fact she did what she says. As an elected official to use personal connection to influence business is against the law, and this lady is an Attorney. We are also under City Manager form of Government and Council members are to leave those negotiations up to the manager. It is legal for Ms. Hill as a private citizen to use her connection to help District 5 . I wonder why she has not done that in the 20 years she has lived here. I wonder if the DMN really think that people in District 5 do not have enough intelligence to know that we never heard any thing from Ms. Hill until she was Not reappointed by the Dallas City Council to her Judgeship. I never saw her at the homeowners meeting. I have no problem with anyone running for public office but I do have a problem when the daily news paper continues to write about the District candidates and not tell the complete story.

DMN Editorial Board

There was a time I had the utmost respect for the United States Supreme Court . In my mind they were the last honest branch of Government that the people could depend on. During the real Civil Rights movement I also believed that the FBI was the only law enforcement branch that I could trust. Living for 65 years, I have come to learn by the action of the above groups that they are all political and their Actions are some times driven by Politicians. I was a firm believer in the Media being non bias. One day, my husband told me I watched to much TV and that television sent silent messages through different programing. I did not believe him, how could have I could have sat there and miss the message. I did not want to believe he was that smart. Oh, how hard it was for me to realize that he was telling the whole truth. Print Media is about shaping opinions and so is television. I knew commercials were about buying and selling.

I was one of the people who also believed that Editorial Opinions were based on "fact" and the very best of Editorial staff members, sat around and made thought provoking statements to arrive at conclusions. Well, much to my surprise, I now know that the Editorial Board of the Dallas Morning News can be as Political as my opponent's supporters. Don't get me wrong, I never expected to get their endorsement, because of the "heavy hitters" supporting one of my opponents. I did however, expect to have a fair hearing and analysis from their Editorial staff. To write, that I am the leader of the Dallas Housing Authority, which by the way, was in turmoil before my arrival and is now at peace, then state in the very next sentence that "I have a "divisive and abrasive" nature and would be a poor fit for 15 member council" confirms belief about print media. I have no problem with them writing that I am "abrasive" because most men consider out spoken and direct women to be very "abrasive." But divisive! When and Where?

Does the Editorial Board know how many members are on the Plan Commission and that I Chaired it twice, as well as the DFW Airport Board, Parkland Hospital Board, Southwestern Transplant Board, North Texas Health Facilities Corp. and many others and have never been accused of being "divisive." The Editorial Board may need to define what divisive means. I can count and have never divided anyone or thing. Passed some zoning cases, that had been around for years, got tax for DFW owner cities after 25 years of not getting them at all. So many success stories to many to mention! I could not let this one pass, "abrasive nature" maybe, but DIVISIVE NO WAY!

Dallas Achivers Committee

I agree with the Committee, however I said this same thing in December 2006. I even offer to work for free in March of 2007. Most of the people in administrative positions at DISD or education trained who've been promoted and not trained in the way the real world operates. They go into a job and learn it from who ever was there and nothing changes. A professional manager with training in operations would clean it all out because they know what to look for.

Any professional manager would never allow any package to be delivered COD to the Superintends office without authorization. There are so many things that professional managers would not allow to happen just every day things. I must get back to my City Council race and work see you later.

Good Friend Hard Worker Laid To Rest

One of my very best friends was laid to rest April 12,2007 . She had so much class . All ways on her best. She dressed so nice in the very best. She gave good sound advice and was always ready to hear your problem or what ever you had on your mind. She started out in community service at a very early age so it just came natural for her. We had been friends a while and at a protest downtown one day they needed a person to play piano and she volunteered. I almost fell out she could PLAY. I ask why she had never said she could play? Her reply ! You didn't know?

My first day on the Plan Commission she said "don't worry about anything just watch me and follow my lead and you will be OK" and I was. She was my trainer and nobody knew otherwise.

We talked late into the night about community and world issues. Diane Ragsdale was her sister and a City Council member some time Diane did not want us to worry her.We talked to long on the phone. My friend and I would watch TV together on the phone. We were both sick together back in 2003. I just did not know how sick she was because she never let on. I went by to see her and she was still taking and full of joy and fight. She lost the battle but she fought a good fight.

I will so miss my friend Charlotte .

Being a Candidate In 2007!

I have been involved in politics all my adult life. My very first experience was with Lyndon B.Johnson for U.S.Senate campaign in Austin as a college student. I learned so much from him and how to run a campaign. I participated in other campaigns as a volunteer for the next 30 or so years. I managed John Price's first campaign for Constable we lost by five votes. I worked on Ora Watson's campaign for school board she won and we only had thee workers all volunteers. I then managed John Price's campaign for Commissioner a couple of times. I ran for school board and got 660 votes lost to incumbent Hollis Brasher . I knew my chance was slim but I ran anyway. I was so sick and tired of tax money being spent in Federal Court that I had to get the message out. I won y because the new board approved the request for removal from Federal Court over site.

Back in the day I did not allow anyone to come into our campaign office with gossip about other candidates. I did not allow pulling up any one's signs we had respect for Candidates and their property. We would laugh with other campaign workers offer soda ,water or what ever to help if they had a problem and etc. Never in my life have I seen anything like what is going on now.
When you leave a forum some of your opponents will not speak to you. If you correct something they say it's taken personnel. These are grown adults. I have never see Adults who embellish their credentials and claim retirement when in fact they were not reappointed.
People calling one campaign office to another asking questions, telling lies and all sorts of things.
If these people do this now what on earth will they do if elected? The Black Leadership is in big trouble in Dallas and do I know why. I have been busy minding my own business , at DHA and working this council campaign and my community has been going to hell. There is no trust, people afraid to give you money or use their name for fear of reprisal from certain Elected Officials who support your opponent. But after the election will want all kinds of favors.

I knew when I stood on issues and with different people who have had troubles in the past . I was risking a lot. Many times it was employment but I stood anyway because it was the right thing to do. I put my employment and life on the line many time for causes that helped people and the Community. I am not sorry about any of it but to experience what I am today and see what people are willing to do for a council seat is just unreal. It has nothing to do with helping people it's all about themselves. How could a person decide they would run for public office 25
years ago and not know what the needs would be nor specify what office. It was about what they wanted for themselves not about the people they would serve. Then you have Candidates who have no record of Public Service so they run on other peoples service record and add their names on their support list. I am so happy to have a service track record of my own that my name stands for it's self.
I can stand on my own name. Every place that I have served my record speaks for itself. How Happy I am today that I have a volunteer community service record that voters can be proud of!