We're a group of regular citizens living in Zip Code 75081.
We rally around the following five organizing principles:
1. Limited Government
2. Fiscal Responsibility
3. Individual Responsibility
4. The Rule of Law
5. National Sovereignty
If you agree with those principles, you are invited to join us!
By 2009-07-24 03:28:30
have been watching this, and other like-entities, as they receive money
from public employee expense accounts and use it to engage in lobby
activities of their own special interest. Their web site is full of
testimonials about efforts challenging the will of the people.
A group of friends in surrounding communities are composing proposals
for legislation that would remove some of the TOMA loopholes that have
been exploited by errant public servants. I trust that we can rely on
your help when the time comes.
With regard to this TML activity, we need to get legislation that
prohibits the use of public resources, manpower and money for the
pursuit of legislation by special interest groups, such as those
representing the ambitions of the ever-growing population of employees
on the public payroll. They have found ways to use public resources to
On a related note. You should be made aware that the so-called "City of
Richardson Legislative Agenda" is missing the word "employee's". In
Richardson, the people play no role in the composition or approval of
this agenda. It is composed by public employees who then go on to use
public funds for lobby efforts using the name of a disenfranchised
citizenry. By abusing the name of the municipality, they falsely
portray their agenda as that of the people in the community they were
hired to serve.
When coupled with the TML relationship and compared to the TML agenda,
it's clear that the employees are over-stepping their authority. And,
when you consider these same people are currently attempting to change
the (TOMA) rules they already break to be even more favorable to them,
the pieces of the puzzle start to take on a whole new scenery.
The TOMA needs to be revised alright. But in a m
loopholes that have been exploited against the public interest for
decades.
Interesting to note, the TML and its membership are getting caught up in
their misbehavior to the point that they are angry anybody is calling
them on it. They actually believe they are in the right by keeping the
public out of the public business. So, they're using public resources
and attempting to loosen up the already poorly-composed law. That's
just wrong in so many ways.