"Emergency" Argyle Town Council meeting called

[ArgyleVoter]

http://www.argyletx.com/lib/content/def ... Agenda.pdf

Gosh, gotta wonder what that's all about. Could the Council be trying to "Limit" the Mayor's responsibilities? Is it me, or is the town of Argyle looking more and more like DC these days? Ugh. Making a call to Austin and the press next. Someone outside of Argyle needs to know what's going on in our quaint little town.

[JKTex]

No kidding. Maybe some research education to help folks find the criminal records of people running for office so they don't get suckered.

[ArgyleVoter]

No kidding. Maybe some research education to help folks find the criminal records of people running for office so they don't get suckered.

Or the criminal records of those already serving....

[JKTex]

No kidding. Maybe some research education to help folks find the criminal records of people running for office so they don't get suckered.

Or the criminal records of those already serving....

Good point, "now serving".

[ArgyleVoter]

LOL, OK, but you aren't in Argyle. Good luck serving, do well by the voters!

[ArgyleVoter]

Hard to believe that no one in Argyle is worried about the voters being usurped yet again??? Hasn't it happened enough already? Did any of you vote for the 9 mil in bond debt we've incurred with the previous Mayor and Council? Do we have a tax base to pay that back? No.
One Council member when asked about the voters being able to actually vote on Council actions..."Well, the voters trusted us enough to vote us into office...." Does this mean we no longer get a vote?

[honor2bamerican]

I would have to say to the uninformed, propaganda spreading, rumor mongering voters-----

Ignorance is bliss.

Time will tell.

Argyle is on a path of destruction if Mr. Smith doesn't start getting his facts straight and telling the TRUTH.

[ArgyleVoter]

Argyle is on a path of destruction if Mr. Smith doesn't start getting his facts straight and telling the TRUTH.

oooooh, that darn truth thing! Just seems to come up over and over again. Too bad the previous Mayor and Council had no use for it.

[JKTex]

Does this mean we no longer get a vote?

Isn't that why you/we vote for and seat a council? If you don't like your representation, do something about it on election day. Of course a lot of Argyle voters feel embarrassed that they missed the fact that their new Mayor had quite a bit of involvement with the wrong side of the law, and little to no involvement with the town over the years.

Did the voters not vote on bond packages?

[ArgyleVoter]

Did the voters not vote on bond packages?

No, we actually didn't. That's the biggest part of this problem. To quote one council member..."The voters trusted us enough to vote for us, isn't that enough?" It absolutely isn't! Just because I vote you into office doesn't mean you can run roughshod over me and "vote" on my behalf for things I am not even aware of. This bond debt issue, didn't become an issue until some digging was done. Voters would not have even known about our bond debt had it not been for this past election. Sad thing is it seems most are focused on one mans failings as a human instead of a town council's failing of a community.

[JKTex]

That's interesting, enough that I'll dig and learn more about it. However, because you don't agree what the council does, doesn't mean they're not doing their job. It's the voters job to seat a council that represent them. I'm sure for no council anywhere will ever please every voter, but will strike a balance of all voters. The power of the voter vote should keep them reigned in.

It's why I always (until all the circus behavior in the last couple of years) try to vote for council members that I feel will represent a balance of the entire town, rather than just to make me happy. I learned, you can't do that in today's climate because you vote in 1 bad apple that is manipulative enough to sneak that power away from the voters.

I digress. Sometimes the pot stirs too easy.

[ArgyleVoter]

Agreed. Too bad it took trying to unseat the "bad apples" to bring our current unfortunate situation to light.
Disagreeing with what the council does is one thing, throwing our town into 9 mil bond debt with no tax base to repay is quite another.
I've learned over the past few years (after trying to survive with my head in the sand raising 4 children and running a small business) that I need to be more in tuned with our small town politics. Too much going on that we are not aware of.

[ArgyleVoter]

plenty of info here...
http://saveargyletexas.webs.com/
and verifiable.

[Uther]

I just *love* these "big dramas in little communities" stuff. It's better than daytime TV, 60 minutes and America's Most Wanted all rolled into one.

[JKTex]

plenty of info here...
http://saveargyletexas.webs.com/
and verifiable.

Verifiable? Follow some of that "info" and see if your eyeballs don't spin out of their sockets. Talk about lipstick on a pig? They should have at least given the pig a bath first.

I don't have a dog in the hunt, so some of what I read on their page was an eye opener so I followed the links and read the info then compared to what they were claiming. Wow. I'm sure they're betting on people either being too lazy to take it to the mat and actually look at what is supposed to support their claims, or are just too stupid to know better.

For the record, I only drilled down on a few that were pretty serious assertions. They're batting 0 so far.