DISD When Will You Stop ?

When will you stop taking the Tax Payers for fools. You have a residency policy
yet you continue to hire people who refuse to live in Dallas ISD. When you hire people they need to move into the District before they report to work. I do not
like paying high school tax in Dallas and paying for people to live in a District that pay's less in tax. Ms. Olson the HR Director is not in a "hard to fill" position there are planty of people in her area (she did not bring HR experience to the job) that would live in Dallas and work. I have never worked aganist a DISD bond election but if the District continues to violate it's own policy I will this time.

DA's Career on the Line!

I support Lynn Flint Shaw and will help her in any way.I support Craig Watkins and what he has done in the DA's office on Justice for All. The DA is now putting his job on the line for a case that could have been handle in another way and recieved the same result. First and formost the charge is wrong, the letter was not a government document because it was never owned by the government if the news reports are correct. The only charge would be forgery of the DA's name and that is a felony. Now they could have filled the correct charge gone to Court pled to a lesser charge as they do all the time and the DA's office would not have taken a hit like this. There are hundred's of nonviolent first time misdemeanor people who do not have 500.00 bail money in jail who would love to have a memo of understanding and go free if it's good for one person it's good for all. I wish Ms. Shaw no harm but the DA must be the same across the board.

Mayor Tom Leppert It Is This Bad!

Mayor, I know you went to City Hall thinking the job working with the Black Councilpersons and Community Leaders would be easy and why not, all of you want a better Dallas. You now know why Southern Dallas is so divided . You cannot get any three Black people to agree on anything. Names are given to you for Board appointments by diffrent black's without any background information or any qualification for the job. Board appointees need to bring something to the table. They do no good if they don't. I know you are having heart burn over this but chew some tums and move on. Stop asking for names find your own, check them out and bring new Blacks on board. Stop paying so much money for not so good advice.

Tarrant County Sheriff Department/ Jail Operation

I had the opportunity to visit Tarrant County Sheriff Department on Thursday and was given a short tour by former Dallas County Chief Deputy Bob Knowles the man known for Dallas County passing all jail inspections. Executive Chief Deputy Bob Knowles, looks very good, he's stopped smoking and doing well in his position with Sheriff Anderson. The people in the building are all so nice they smile the building is bright and open, clean and not filled with people hanging around. I saw equipment that took 5 minutes to fingerprint and take picture even the new eye picture machine.
The eye machine keeps people from leaving the jail by mistake. I ask Chief Knowles why Dallas did not have this, he said we(he and Sheriff Bowles)ask for it every year at budget time and were turned down by the Commissioners Court.
It is a shame that the Dallas County Commissioners Court has caused all this jail mess by not doing what was needed a long time ago. I know for a fact they took parts from the Health and Human Service fire alarm to fix the jail alarm for inspection when I was still working there. The Health and Human Service Building was without a fire alarm when this was done. That Jail alarm has not worked in years. The Commissioners Court is over Jail Health not the Sheriff. They are over the facility not the Sheriff.
It was good seeing Chief Knowles, Stromile is also working in Tarrant County. I did not see him but they said all is well with him also. Dallas County needs to learn from Tarrant County pay up front and you will not need to pay out all the lawsuits Dallas County is doing now. Former Commissioner Jim Jackson was one of the worst on funding for the Sheriff department he's gone but the problems he help create are still there.

Seven Day's Into New Year !

Seven day's into New Year and people are already being negative about one thing or another. I hope we can give the New Year a chance. One City of Dallas employee is mad about the City Attorney advice to the Mayor, that's who he works for! Former City Attorney and now Federal Judge Sam Lindsay was the only one that I knew that told the Council the Law and not what they wanted to hear. Judge Lindsay's answers were the same for everyone based on law. One City employee said Mayor Tom Leppert is turning into Laura Miller when will people give Laura Miller a rest. Mayor Leppert is doing his job and just maybe Laura was doing her . Black people my sisters and brothers in Christ give it a rest. Pick yourself up and make a life for your family.
Please for health reasons let the " blame the man" game go. We need to fix up our areas and make our neighborhood safe. There is so much work that we can do and take back our area.

Make 2008 the year we TAKE BACK OUR COMMUNITIES. Happy New Year!

DHA Audit !

My Friend Rufus Shaw

Rufus Shaw has been one person who has always spoke out on issues that most people would not say one word. Rufus knows a lot about a lot of things he has opinions about most things and they are just that Opinions. I respect Rufus because he is well educated and has spent time working for this community. However the development of Southern Dallas is more then just the DCC saying do it. As a former member of City Plan Commission I learned a lot about the problems on WHY the vast amount of land is not developed. The problem infrastructure. South Dallas has no or old infrastructure. Take the UNT campus on the school is tied into the neighborhood lines, there are no water lines on Houston School Road . All the streets and lights,water and etc. at American Airline center was paid for by the City. When developers try coming south the City says we have no infrastructure money so the people go other places. The City manager of past and City Council members did not fund in the South as they did in the North that's the whole story. So let's get busy and get a bond issue for the South Dallas infrastructure.

Cell phones on job !

I have gone to several places shopping and saw employees talking on their cell phones. Why do employers allow this? It is rude and unacceptable in public. I ask the young people to stop talking while waiting on me. They react with anger. Please
stop your employees from talking on cell phones on your time.

Cell phones on job!

Holiday Season

Happy Holiday Season to all readers of this blog. I have much to be thankful for. Last years at this time I was in Baylor hospital with surgery . Thanks be to God I am recovered and doing fine. I have been lazy about Blogging lately because there is so much going on and I have tried to stay focused on Dallas Housing Authority. Just a few things to mention:

1. Dallas Housing Authority is doing well and the Audit you saw on the news this week was the someone that made the news last year. We are in the process of correcting all problems at DHA.

2. Poor Commisoner John Wiley Price ,in the DMN saying" Ms. Lott would not have community support this time" poor angry old fellow he should have been at the Authority meeting Tuesday night the place was on overflow with people who support Ms. Lott.I knew when he was there last year that he was not for real he was there to join the crowd. Poor fellow has drop support for Ms. Lott because I am now on the Board and his hate for me is so strong. When one hates others it will destroy them.

3.Thanks DMN for high on areas that need fixing in Southern Dallas maybe you will get City services. The utility lines above ground has been a long time problem, I was told the resources went to North Dallas on new housing starts.

4. I have tried to get City service in the 4800 block of Spring across the street from the new housing being built by DHA. Councilwoman Ragsdale has also tried to get help, Chaney did nothing in that area because he is one of the bad property owners.

5.I support Dr. H at DISD but he has some major problems the people he hires maybe educated but they have no common sense. Why lie when you know the truth is written
and under freedom of information anyone can get it.Some of the problems are just common sense when looking for ghost employee for example: you have a budget with funded positions in each department all one needs to do is have each person pick up check with proper ID from Ross avenue on pay day. A ghost employee cannot pick up check.

6.Mary S. is a good city manager however I do not know why people get a bonus for doing the job they are paid to do with taxpayers money.

7. Dallas County Commissioners Court is spending money right and left for lawsuits
the Court is out of control.

8.After New Years!

Chief Brown goes to City Hall !

I am always happy to see a person move up and around in a government job because the more you learn the higher you can go. I am not sure if Mary knows what she has in Chief Brown as interim assistant City manager. Chief Brown is a very hard working City employee who worked to earn the respect that people have for him. He is no nonsense and treats everyone the same. He does not talk out of both sides of his mouth and it does not hurt that he is from Dallas, Texas.

Once upon a time and Sharon Boyd will remember this when the City, DISD and others were hiring their interoffice Black professional employee Dallas Black professional could not get the jobs. The powers that be during that time always wanted an imported Black. I have not figured that out just yet, sure was not because of smarts, the Federal government hired some but these other people could not see it.
Levi Davis was one of them he turned out to be very good, Richard Knight, Harry Jones and lots of others were good hires.

Back to Chief Brown Code enforcement will get cleaned up and working now under Brown in fact every department under his direction will become efficient I, had signed up to speak today at City Council about code enforcement but respect for Brown made me cancel I know my concern will be corrected. Congratulation Chief Brown and Happy Holiday to your lovely wife and beautiful daughter.

T.O. Thats My Boy ! Pray for the Sean Taylor

I attended the Dallas Cowboy game last Sunday and to see T.O. in person reminds me of the good old Cowboy days in the cotton bowl. The young man is BAD !

It is hard to be happy for your team when another team has lost such a young smart man. I am praying for the Taylor family.

The young college player shot down at Big T last week has just put me down. What are we going to do in our Communities to stop this madness. The Black on Black crime is taking our young men to the grave or jail.
We must stop this gun happy mentality. Someone needs to figure out what we need to do and we need to do it.

Councilwoman Vonciel Jones Hill ! Such A Flake!

I learn doing the City Council campaign just how deceitful Vonciel Jones Hill was. Prior to the campaign I had respect for her, didn't know much about her but what I knew was OK.
During the campaign I heard her tell lies and she knew they were lies one time at KHVN I ask her during the break how she as a Pastor could lie and sleep at night? Robert Ashly had ask her about her arrest in Atlanta she said she could not remember her charge, but she forgot I knew because we had been to the Dallas News and she told them.She just looked at me. Another time she fail to say she had worked for Dallas County and was fired by a group of Lawyers after she left the City. She had put on her literature she retired from the City but she knew she was fired and that was not the first time, she had been fired from the City before. I am saying this so you know why I write about her, I told her that I would keep the public informed every time she lied or tried to miss lead them. I'm keeping that promise.
Councilwoman Hill sent out a mailing at taxpayers expense on what she accomplished during her first 100 days in office. I will have the mailer posted so you can see it. The Councilwoman is paid $37,000.00 per year to work but she put
attending the Council Retreat as an accomplishment, attending budget meetings , committee assignment, River of Trade coalition, Urban League banquet, met with constituents, Congressional Black Caucus, Taught Court Education(was paid for that)
has nothing to do with City. Added two litter crews to budget big deal. The woman
thinks we are all crazy or she is that shallow that she does not know any better.
What ever the case it is sad for District 5.People getting killed, stores closing,vacant housed and drug houses ,18 wheelers driving up Redbird Lane and more and this woman has identified as an accomplishment speaking at J.L. Turner Legal Association of which she is a member. If she is not doing anything she should not use city postage to tell people about her Social Calander.

Trinity River Vote Is Over ! Let It Go !

The Trinity River campaign was the ugliest campaign since Strong Mayor. People took this vote so personal that it has created permanent enemies Oh how sad for Dallas. This was not a life or death issue. No one is dead today because of this vote. Dallas we must find a way to disagree and still come together. Council woman Hunt has been called demoniac and Mayor Tom Leppart has been called evil just because they believed different on a public works issue. Other Cities have this type contest and join together at the end of the night and announce their willingness to work for the good of the Citizen they represent , but not Dallas. We need a little more Love in our hearts. I hope some healing will come for the entire City. Mayor Leppart
is doing his job, like it or not.

Federal Judge Information

Write to Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn and protest the sealing of records containing name of other people involved in City Hall scandal. If they were involved the Community needs to know.

U.S. District Court
1100 Commerce
Dallas, Texas 75202

Federal Attorney Want's to Hide Snitch's Names !

Call Federal Judge Laney's office and ask him not to grant the Federal Attorneys request to seal the names of the Snitches who help make the Government case in the City Hall scandle. I do not want the names sealed because some of them are Elected Officials and others are former Elected Officials while others want to become Elected Officials. The reason they turned evidence is because they were involved but to a lesser degree and made a deal. The fact remain they did some wrong also and should be punished. I know most of their names but the general public needs to have access to the list if they want to. Also if you attent the trial their name will come up from time to time.

Public Mailer say's Vonciel Jones

On the negro mailer Councilwoman Vonciel Hill has Vonciel Jones as her name if I remember correctly Ms. Hill signed a statement in the city Secretary Office saying her legal name was Vonciel Jones Hill all her campaign literature had Hill now she is Jones. What is wrong with her Hill name surely it could not be that the Hill name is now sullen and she wants to distance her self from Hill. Don Hill is a human and regardless to what the Government says he is innocent until proven guilty. One does not need to treat their friends so shabby. Ms. Hill needs to be careful because she has a license to protect and using a name that is not your legal name is not legal,unless since the election she got a divorce. How can people want something so bad that they sell their own Soul. Be thankful for who you are,what you have or God can take it at anytime.

Back To Vonciel Jones or Vonciel Jones Hill

Vonciel Jones Hill or Vonciel Jones

If you received the latest negro mailer from the vote No group it Say's We All agree!
Sad , again the professional campaign people who happen to be non minority know that the Black/Negro Officials seldom agree on anything, that is one reason we never get anything done so the new campaign slogan is WE ALL AGREE as if that means anything to the Black voters. Black voters are sick of the cross talk but they will respond to
what they believe is harmful to them. Black Leadership will use Laura Miller for most anything against another Black person but they are not telling Black that the same Laura Miller is on the Vote NO team. The Black Leadership have joined hands with Laura Miller to get the vote out. There is nothing wrong with their position but why keep it a secret from the public. It's time they stopped hiding .

What Is The District 5 Councilwoman's Name ?