Well look WHO's back

Richard Connor jumps in the Water Board race.

 Good thing, cause his paper didn't do the best job on reporting.  No mention that the incumbents have received all their donations from their contractors.

The ones they will turn around and give it back to.  Isn't that YOUR money?

And did you notice in the Star-Telegram they said if the challengers killed the contracts it would be devastating.  A real reporter would have asked, To WHO??

Vote BNK tomorrow.

Since when, you’re wondering, is a water board election important to anyone?

Fair question. The answer: since the water board became the vehicle used by arrogant, overreaching politicians and bureaucrats to roll over taxpayers and property owners with the ill-advised, outrageously expensive boondoggle known as the Trinity River Vision.

Unfortunately, in election after election, voters have been content to rubber-stamp incumbent board members or their designated successors in much the same fashion that the board has rubber-stamped the machinations of the Trinity River Vision Authority, the agency charged with implementing the project. It’s time for that to change.

The water board needs at least one new voice, one fresh perspective, one conscientious member who will represent and advocate for the taxpaying public rather than the political and financial interests of the powerful few who have perpetrated the ever-expanding outrage that is the Trinity River Vision.

Seven candidates are seeking three board seats May 11, including three incumbents and four challengers. The top three vote-getters are elected.

Among the challengers, 42-year-old meteorologist John Basham has the best chance of displacing one of the entrenched board members – and the best chance of effecting changes in the way the board operates if he’s elected.

We urge voters to support John Basham.