How to Screw Both the Would-be Candidates and the Voting Public
This is the latest post about the Navigation District. A previous post touched on the District's messing with election dates. The attachments are the District's response to my Open Records Request, later changed to a Public Information Act request. Saturday's PILOT carried a letter from Tommy Moore that prompted me to complete this blog. It is quite long and for that I apologize, but it is very important. This should make your blood boil. Also know that I am endorsing Rebecca Johnson as a Write-in Candidate for Tommy Moore's seat. I pray that after reading this latest narrative that you will consider voting for her also. This is what I will read to the District tomorrow morning.
O-P-E-N G-O-V-E-R-N-M-E-N-T spells Open Government. I like playing word games when doing so for
fun. I detest playing them when I ask a
serious question and am answered with a word game. Your letter acknowledged that the
Aransas County Navigation District received my “Open Records Request” and then
proceeded to “interpret” my reference to a “meeting” was of the navigation and canal
commission, thus showing your hand. In
my later PIA request regarding Navigation District leases, you “infer” that I
meant a meeting of the navigation and canal commission I did not request information about a meeting
of the navigation and canal commission as your letter interprets. Your legal name is the Aransas County
Navigation District and it is under that name that I first made and am now making
the request that follows this address. Both election documents were completed under the name
of the Aransas County Navigation District. The name Aransas County Navigation District
occurs 4 times on each document. The
name navigation and canal commission is a pseudonym and not your legal name. It does not occur anywhere on either
document. Mr. Benadum; I am smarter than
that. And frankly, your attempt at
misdirection through wordplay is offensive.
There is no provision in the Water Code for Commissioners to
delegate their authority to anyone. And if
the Commissioners of this Court truly took Texas Open Meetings Act training,
you would be aware that a governmental entity cannot take any
action without a public meeting that is properly noticed and a record of that
meeting, including Minutes is required, regardless of the number of
Commissioners that undertook the action.
Article 62.071 of the Water Code allows the Chairman and one
other Officer to constitute a quorum.
You probably know that. The
definition of a quorum is: the minimum number of members of an assembly
or society that must be present at any of its meetings to make the proceedings
of that meeting valid. You
can take an action, but you do not get to do so in secret, off-book, in the
dark, behind closed doors or any other symbol of avoidance of your duty to the
public. I believe Mr. Barrett’s Adendum
signature is invalid even if the form was not backdated. But here’s an interesting question for
you. If the regular meeting was held on
the 22nd and it was at that meeting that Keith was charged with signing the
Amended form, why did it take 2 days to accomplish that? To get the story straight? Since the dates only need posting on your
website, you could have signed the Amended form on the 22nd and made it legitimate. Keith, I think you got thrown under the bus,
or perhaps that was your way of shining light on this shenanigan.
After I submitted the request on September 12th, I
did some additional research into election related dates. As soon as all Election functions are over in
a given year including any runoffs, the dates for all following year election
functions are set on the official election calendar. They are posted on-line and they cannot be changed. A phone call to Keven Stroud’s office would
have supplied you with the correct dates. The date August 26th did not/does
not occur anywhere on the calendar of election related dates. But you didn’t want the correct dates. This was not a mistake was it, Tommy? No, it was calculated, purposeful, deceitful and
it was dirty. Shortly we will know if it
was also illegal. And the back-dated
Amendment was part of the conspiracy. The first dirty deed required the second. And your veiled attempt to fault Nelda who
left in March is ugly. As I understand
your letter to Mike Probst, you claim an honest mistake. Following that you mention that the District
worked with an election consultant and your attorney. And since you claim by omission that you did
not fill out the form, then either the election consultant or your attorney
provided you with the bogus form. Commissioner
Moore this is on you, you need to resign.
All is not lost. You still have
your “business relationship” with Lydia Ann Channel Moorings, one of the
District’s lease contracts and your sales job with Shoreline Protection Services
Inc. Either give me what I have
asked for, or by default, admit that you deliberately and illegally tainted
this election.
Below is the District's response to my Open Records Request.
This request is made under the Public Information Act, Texas Government Code chapter 552.
Provide the Agenda of the meeting of the Aransas County Navigation District where Commissioner Tommy Moore was approved, appointed, instructed or otherwise allowed to affix his signature to the Notice of Deadline to File an Application for Place on the Ballot. Provide also the Minutes of that meeting, the exact wording of the motion made to accomplish the aforementioned, the Commissioner who made the motion, the Commissioner who seconded the motion and the record vote.
Provide the Agenda of the meeting of the Aransas County Navigation District where Harbor Master Keith Barrett was approved, appointed, instructed or otherwise allowed to affix his signature to the Amended Notice: Notice of Deadline to File and Application for Place on the Ballot. Provide also the Minutes of that meeting, the exact wording of the motion to accomplish the aforementioned, the Commissioner who made the motion, the Commissioner who seconded the motion and the record vote.
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